This week was rather crazy. Tons of changes happened. Tuesday and Wednesday were fairly normal, but then Wednesday I went on exchanges with Elder De Leon, which was strange because I had to meet a whole new set of investigators and members and De Leon has a very different teaching method than Castro. It was cool though because one of our most solid members here in Somoto, Cristin, went with us most of the day and was super helpful because she was a member and church was held in her house, so she could invite people. De Leon is kinda funny too, he doesn´t have a whole ton of patience when investigators don´t answer the door. After the 5th or 6th ¨buenos¨ he start knocking on the doors and windows or if they had a gate, start throwing rocks at the side of the house. Also he isn´t afraid at all of inviting everyone to be baptized. Even the bolos (drunkards), who always accept baptism, but are impossible to find afterwards because they just roam the streets. Which reminds me, earlier in the week I was walking with Castro and there was a guy passed out in the middle of the street and I looked at Castro like ¨is that guy dead¨ and he just kinda shrugged and said ¨nah es un bolo.. es normal¨. Super sad. I always want to help the bolos, but there´s nothing you can do when they are intoxicated, and they are always intoxicated. Oh and another thing I just remembered. My strret name here is Chele Grandote. Chele is the word they use for gringo here and Grandote means super big. That´s what everyone calls me in the streets.
Anyways, after exchange with De Leon, I went back with Castro and Friday and then we got a call saying that Castro and I would be in a trio with Diaz today, because De Leon was leaving for Managua, due to some unexpected reason. We were all super surprised and sad to see De Leon go. We accompanied him by bus to Esteli, and then he went the rest of the way to Managua solo, and we came back to Somoto, but that whole fiasco took most of the day, so we had very little time and a ton of appointments in both our area and Diaz´s area. Saturday was super rough too because the three of us had to cover the appointments and investigators of both areas, so we ended up doing a ton of walking. Sunday was the hardest day of the mission yet because it was fast Sunday and we had a ton of work to do, to round people up for each sacrament meeting in our respective areas. Fortunately we were blessed with a cooler, cloudy day, because if it was a hot, sunny day I might have died. There was also some sort of festival going on where a ton of young kids ages 2-10ish (it´s super hard to tell because everyone here looks way younger than they are), that all came walking through the streets on a ton of horses and donkeys, it was cool, but I didn´t have my camera. Sacrament meetings went really well and in total we had an attendance of 37, so we will be looking to purchase a meeting place in the center of the city this week, so we can combine the two sacrament meetings and gain the status of Rama. We still have a ton of work to do though because we don´t have enough solid members and even our super solid members have much to learn. Like Hermano Alberto is probably our future branch president, but at church yesterday he began the opening prayer ¨in the name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit...¨, it was a great prayer, but that first bit caught us all off guard. Both sacrament meetings went well, and although it´s challenging being in Nucleo and me, Castro, and Diaz having to give like 15 min testimonies each, it is really exciting to be building up the church from the bottom up.
Next week is looking to be really promising. The new Elder is coming in sometime today, and Castro and I have 5 baptismal dates set up for this weekend!
I don´t have much pictures from this week, but we saved a frogs life, so here´s that. And a picture of our house.
Anyways, after exchange with De Leon, I went back with Castro and Friday and then we got a call saying that Castro and I would be in a trio with Diaz today, because De Leon was leaving for Managua, due to some unexpected reason. We were all super surprised and sad to see De Leon go. We accompanied him by bus to Esteli, and then he went the rest of the way to Managua solo, and we came back to Somoto, but that whole fiasco took most of the day, so we had very little time and a ton of appointments in both our area and Diaz´s area. Saturday was super rough too because the three of us had to cover the appointments and investigators of both areas, so we ended up doing a ton of walking. Sunday was the hardest day of the mission yet because it was fast Sunday and we had a ton of work to do, to round people up for each sacrament meeting in our respective areas. Fortunately we were blessed with a cooler, cloudy day, because if it was a hot, sunny day I might have died. There was also some sort of festival going on where a ton of young kids ages 2-10ish (it´s super hard to tell because everyone here looks way younger than they are), that all came walking through the streets on a ton of horses and donkeys, it was cool, but I didn´t have my camera. Sacrament meetings went really well and in total we had an attendance of 37, so we will be looking to purchase a meeting place in the center of the city this week, so we can combine the two sacrament meetings and gain the status of Rama. We still have a ton of work to do though because we don´t have enough solid members and even our super solid members have much to learn. Like Hermano Alberto is probably our future branch president, but at church yesterday he began the opening prayer ¨in the name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit...¨, it was a great prayer, but that first bit caught us all off guard. Both sacrament meetings went well, and although it´s challenging being in Nucleo and me, Castro, and Diaz having to give like 15 min testimonies each, it is really exciting to be building up the church from the bottom up.
Next week is looking to be really promising. The new Elder is coming in sometime today, and Castro and I have 5 baptismal dates set up for this weekend!
I don´t have much pictures from this week, but we saved a frogs life, so here´s that. And a picture of our house.
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