Nicaragua Life

Here Dad is with his study at a coffee shop (that's where they studied that day, the study even bought Dad's coffee!)

Long Story: One early morning one of our neighbors came to our door asking for a ride to Managua (the capital) we get a lot of people asking us things like rides around and money usual their story is for some medical reason, they have a sick family member, they need medicine, etc. and although I'm sure some of their stories are true, we are often skeptical, anyways this guy comes and said his daughter died in Managua the night before and he needed to get to Managua, although we felt bad, we had to say no as always. After continuing to talk to Dad he comes to find out this guy wanted us to not only take him to Managua but to bring his dead daughter's body back!! Our first reaction was of course "is that legal" evidently it is! Later that day we saw this funeral parade going around our neightborhood.

Our sound system has been having problems at the hall, this is how we had to hear the music to the songs one meeting, thank goodness for smart phones!

I guess this somehow qualifies as a bus...

On this street one day the three of us found a study who was working towards becoming a publisher, very sweet, very talkative! She gave us each a mango. Then later we met a sister and her family who lived across the street, she gave us all bananas. They both invited us back to visit many times. Such a nice morning, what happens when you put the effort forth to go out, even if your body wants to stay in bed :)

Service break

We got our JW.ORG sign up!

In this picture you can see us after the third time dad ran out of gas! This particular time we were on our way to Diriamba (15 minutes away) for a study after we ran out of gas we: took a bus to Diriamba, checked on the study, went to a gas station to find out they don't have small containers for gas, went to another gas station for it, and got the same bus back to our car.

Roadwork

Lately the town has been filling in potholes and repaving roads, here are some pictures of the process.

They have way less equipment than Panama!

This guy was using a bowl and his bare hands to fill there holes in with tar! :/

Assmebly Hall

A couple weeks ago dad went to the assembly hall (which is about 20 minutes away) with another brother in our group that goes every Wednesday to do something.... maintenance? cleaning? construction? I have no idea, something productive I'm sure, but the point of this very uninformative post is that there were some very pretty pictures that came out of this excursion

I believe this is from the town where the assembly hall is, Tiquantepe.

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Old betel grounds where the assembly hall is.

Evidently a delicious Nicaraguan lunch.

Beach Day

One month down, only 11 more to go. September went by so fast! At least it did for us, I hope you all had a great first month of the service year. :) On the last day of September we all stayed home, working, doing school work, cleaning, ect. And then in the afternoon we were invited to go with a few from the sign language to the beach.

On the way there Winnie decided she loved me and, despite the fact she grows in weight everyday and feels like a bowling ball, wanted me to hold her.

Guys on the beach were pulling their boat out to sea, which seemed a lot harder than I expected.

Discovered Photos

I have wondered who had these pictures, and today I found them on Sacha's computer, so I can now share with you experiences I did not know I had pictures of (since admit it, you don't like posts with pure writing, I know pictures make everything more exciting!) so I will save the boring picture less stories to tell you when I come back to the states. :)

This is the very winding, hilly road to the laguna, I have never gotten there without  getting lost...

This is a family study we had at our house, I'm not sure if I ever put these on here or not. Here I am Eglon about to get stabbed in the stomach :)

And I'm not entirely sure what this was...

Here is one of our gatherings this one at the Weater's house.

Along with a friendly game of dodgeball

Until we popped both balls on the bogenvilla, but that didn't stop us from playing...

We are entertained very easily...

Also included was some grilled Kabobs :)

Service Pictures

Rainy season has officially started, hopefully.... But this does mean rainy afternoons, which isn't so great for the beginning of the service year! This afternoon I walked to the service meeting and about a minute away it started raining :( but all was not lost! Sacha (one of our group's Danish sisters) has accumulated over the last few months an abundance of pictures, I am now pleased to present to you all. So while I drink my chai tea to will try to share the experience of what it is like to go in service with the San Marcos English Group.

Everyday sighting...

Although I'm not entirely sure what we are doing here, we were in service clothes. In order to get to the service meetings two days a week held kingdom hall in one of the towns we preach in (Jinotepe) we have to walk through this market, which if you searched through you could probably find anything you'd ever need!

Me, Teresa, and Nicole 

Nicole and I 

Micha, Nicole, Me, and Sacha

Ashely and Nicole

Sacha and Teresa