Week 17 -- Cuidad Sandino

As much as you may have had some mishaps in making your King's cake, I'm still extremely jealous that I didn't get any. But things have been going well here in Sandino, so that's made up for it, I suppose. This last week has actually been pretty good to us. Elder Elison and I have been working our butts off, and that work has started to pay off. We were able to bring six people to church, and, good news, Ruth got baptized! It took a fair bit of work, both on our side and on hers, but she finally decided to get baptized. It was a huge answer to our prayers, and I'm extremely glad that I was able to be there to experience it. And even better, I was the one who got to baptize her! All in all, it was an awesome experience. 

A person we're teaching right now is named Henry. He's a pretty cool kid, sixteen years old, like Isaac. We were contacting a street, just knocking (or rather, yelling BUENAS really loud) at every door. We get to Henry's house, and he's at his fence, and we start talking to him, but because it's a bit late, we just tell him about church, and he seems interested, and says he'll go. We stop by again, a different day, and he says that his siblings can't go that week, but they would the next week. And his mom too, if she could manage. And Henry did end up going, and his siblings seem really excited as well. It looks like this mught end up being a really cool family.

And now I'm running out of time, but one thing that was hilarious that happened last night is that one of Elder Copeland and Seneca's investigators didn't end up going to church because his neighbor told him that Mormonism wasn't true because we make blood pacts with vampires.

.... Yeah, we weren't quite sure where that one came from either.

Anyways, that's been my week! As always, I love all of you, and if anyone ever emails me and doesn't get a response, I'm truly sorry, I don't get a ton of time to write. But I always read them, and I always love them! You guys are awesome!

Love, 

Elder Hopkin