How many people do you think you can fit on a bus?

WOW! Okay so Nicaragua is incredible and not at all what I expected and

THE HOTTEST PLACE ON EARTH.  After a very long day of travel I arrived

Monday night at 8:30 pm with Elder Holt and Elder Nash from my MTC

district.  Two Elders picked us up from the airport and we drove

pretty far to get to the south side of the mission.  Can I just say,

the drivers here are INSANE.  Anyways we went straight to a little

house and I met another new missionary from Brazil who had just

arrived earlier that day as well. We ate pupusas and drank frescas

which are both the best things in the world.  Also they drink

EVERYTHING out of bags so thats cool.  Tuesday morning we met the

Branch President and his wife at the church and ate breakfast with

them. Then we met our new companions/trainers and then off to work!

My companions name is Hermana Rodriguez and she is from Guatemala and

she hardly speaks any English.  She is so patient with me because I

speak no Spanish and i ask so many questions.  The area I'm assigned

to is Grenada which is one of the nicer areas, however its still very

poor and very humbling. Okay so we jumped in a taxi to go to a bus

stop that would take us to Grenada.  My suitcases obviously weren't

going to fit in this tiny taxi pero the driver decided we could just

drive with the trunk open and like I said the people are crazy drivers

here so I was freakin out a little bit.  But all is well and my

baggage is safe lol next we hopped on a bus and let me tell ya the bus

is NEVER full as long as there's someone that needs a ride.  So we had

a 2 hour ride while sweat dripping from our faces and absolutely no

room to move and wow was it a good time.  When we arrived we grabbed

another taxi to our casa.  Our house is so tiny but i was so excited!

We have two fans always blowing because its so so hot. okay so there's

this chicken or rooster or something next door that just can't be

quiet at 3:00 am in the morning and it's LOUD.  The walls are super

thin and you can hear everything so at first I though it was in the

house!  We has a sink but water doesn't come out and this morning in

the middle of my little stream of water shower that i was beyond

grateful for decided to shut off. I am loving this adventure and I am

finding it quite humorous!  Also the people here are AMAZING you can

talk to anyone about the gospel.  People love to talk about Jesus and

they will almost always invite you into their house if you just say

hello. There are always people outside of their houses at night and

lots of kids and families play soccer in the streets.  There are dogs

EVERYWHERE and chickens and random horses and huge Ox.  The Spanish

can get so so frustrating and i just have to have full faith in

Christ.  I'm learning to trust in the Lord with my whole being because

he has the whole picture and he knows exactly what lays ahead for me

Okay well I don't have much time to email today!  Sorry I- didn't email

last week i had a lot going on with general conference!  Which by the

way was amazing. But I will be here again next week!  Wednesday is my

new Pday! Love you all!!

Love,

Hermana Frank