october 21, 2013

Hello my wonderful and amazing family!!

   It is always so wonderful to receive your letters and funnn!! That was such a crack up! haha! I loved the funny video of the everyone as the monsters. Haha! what a fun time that must have been making the video. Things are going wonderful in the great city of managua, Area Ruben darío. It has been a huge change coming from a people who only speak miskito, dirt floors wood houses eating turtle, to tons of cars, people and members. We have been focusing hard here on working with the memebers and references. Something new that presidente collado has been teaching us is to always where ever we go ask for references. From recent converts to less actives to investigadors. Me and my wonderful companion Elder Fuentes from el salvador had a special experience doing this this past week. We began to contact and we contacted this one door the parents weren´t home but a young man answered the door. we talked with him and invited him to church on sunday, he said he would love to but he has school on sundays, we taught him a quick lesson of the importance of the savior in our lives and invited him to look for away to come to church. Before we left we asked this investigador. oh and hey do you know anyone else on this street that we can go visit and get to know. He answered yes just three houses down there is a young man that invited me to church and he is a memeber of your church. We went down to the next house, to find alex who is a less active but super positive and we started talking with him and invited him to go to church this sunday. He says he will- And then we found there was another family living with him who were not memebers so we contacted them and invited them to church. They accepted and we set a appointment to go back tonight. Then we asked agian he do you know anyone on this street that we can visit and invite to church. He said yes as a matter of fact down the street there lives a family that baptized me that are memebers. We went down there and found out that they were visiting another ward but still active and then we asked them he do you know anyone around he that are members or we can visit. And guess what they said.... YES and we asked is it okay if you went with us right now to interduce us. They said ya no problem and we went to another family of less actives which also has people who are not memebers. It truly was a miracle how the spirit worked through the memebers the less actives and the investigadors that led us to these families. The craziest part was In the morning I was walking and had a impression to contact a house. As I looked at the house I recognized and realized that I had visited a year and a half ago went I first came to nicaragua. Me and my companion contacted the house and no one answered. Now for the crazy part. The last reference we recieved was that exact house that me and my companion try contacting in the morning and we found out that there was a family of memebers who had been praying to the lord for help and they wanted to return to church. This family was baptized by my first companion about 3 years ago, Elder Ventura! We visited with them and the memebers in there home and we could feel such a great spirit as we talked. She said thank for coming for me... I know that god answers prayers becuase he sent you guys here. 

   I am so grateful for the Holy ghost and his continual guidance to thoughs in need. I know that there are people waiting and praying to know what to do and how to make it another day. What brings great hope and relief into all lives is this hope and truth that the savior lives!! He atoned for each of our sins and is always there to help us find the means and ways to live and be happy. I know as we search diligently each day through prayer scripture and doing good acts daily, we will have the spirit and we will be lead through others to those in need. Dad I invite you to go out and contact with the missionaries, visit your wonderful friend that you baptized and ask him do you know anyone that could benefit from the message of the gospel. Does he have any family memebers, friends that live near by? Ask him if he knows any family that has recently had a love one pass away or have a new born baby? I love each and everyone of you so very much and I am so proud of all you guys do. Look for ways to serve and I invite you all to read moroni 10:20-23. It brought a lot of knoweledge to me this past week of how as weserve we gain hope and when we gain hope we gain faith and that faith helps us to act and bring to pass miracles. And that faith that we recieve begins to grow more and more and we gain more hope and desire to serve others and that brings us back to charity which is the pure love of christ. Its a on going process of growing spiritually by service and sharing the gospel with others. I love you all till we meet agian in 7 months, may 13, 2014. I talked with president collado this pastfriday as we were having a conference and I told him my desires to serve and I prayed about it and feel good about the descion to extend my mission one more month to may. I love these people dearly and pray that I can serve then with all my heart might mind and strength- 110% to the end... And what a wonderful day it will be to meet again. In the name of jesus christ, amen.

Sincerly Elder Boyd

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Mark Boyd <southmesa@aol.com> wrote:

Elder Boyd,
Ok right at the front end of this letter I can not take credit for your brothers cards they sent goofily to you I hope you are ok with them and it did not kill the spirit. Things are moving along I am going to see if I can read the book of Mormon by December as a Christmas present. I have been thinking and praying about who else I could helped The Lord with. I hope to have some more people to introduce the Elders to. I have been praying hard for mom and I to make what our family needs money wise to meet our needs it's been had with the economy and the governments bad leaders not helping small business and putting health tax on everyone. I am glad to hear you have decided to extend if you can that means your loving the work. I hope your mission president will allow you to some times they can't because of transfers and new missionaries coming into the field. But we are good with it if you want to. I was reading in Moroni today and I was amazed at how quickly the people forgot The Lord and went sideways what a sad day that must have been for Mormon and Moroni to live threw the was and distraction of their people. Keep up the good work of The Lord he will bless you and this is one of the greatest times in your life you will look back and gain great joy in the labors you have done in the lords work. 110% no regrets.

Love you dad