Frogs!

Hola amigos!! this week has been so dang good!  Multi Zone was amazing and so so spiritual. Somehow I understood every word that was spoken and that was for sure a miracle and blessing because I really needed to hear the uplifting words of our mission president, his wife, and the other missionaries.  We traveled about 2 hours so we had to leave our house at 6 am and the church they held the meeting in was the nicest building Ive seen here in Nicaragua.

On Friday my companion and I helped one the memebers, Hermano Seysa with his work.  He and his family make shoes everday to earn a living. It was so fun to be able to serve him and leaarn something new! It's hard to get jobs in Nicaragua so many people come up with their own ways to make money, often selling food in the streets and just about every other house on the street is a pulperia (store) everyone sells what the can make or really anything.  Anyone that has a freezer, freezes blocks of ice in bags and containers and sells it to their neighbors who don't have one.

This week we had divisions with the hermana leaders and it was so so fun.  The area I went to was right on the beach and closer to lake... which means mas BUGS. wahoo and tons and tons of dead sapos (frogs) in the streets. and the wierdest thing is, some of the dogs here like to eat and literally lay/roll around in the dead frogs. seriously guacala!  I am now having nightmares about these nasty frogs ahhh BUT the beach is beautiful and it is so green all around.  

At one point while we were contacting we were in a very "fachenta" rich area (compared to other areas) and we weren't having any luck because most of the people with more money are strong Catholics.   but we kept walking and we saw a man sitting in front of his house and he looked a little sad. He wasnt wearing a shirt (most people dont) and  I noticed he had a large scar across his stomach.  we approached him hoping to lift his spirits and share our message.  after we introduced ourselves and began to get to know him, we found out he had just had surgery and was very close to death. He told us he wanted to find peace in his life and have happiness in his family. We shared with him our purpose as missionaries and told him he could find peace, happiness and many other blessings through the gospel of Jesus Christ.  As we shared our testimonies the spirit was so very strong. Afterwards he said he believed that the Lord had performed a miracle in his life and he said the reason he was still alive was because God wanted him to meet us, the missionaries. Wow at first i was worried we weren't going to be able to feel the spirit or even hear each other because he lived on a busy street and it was loud and kids were running in between us. but when we prayed and invited the spirit and focused our attention on him, the spirit took over.  i'm a little sad I won't be able to teach him again because this was during divisions but I'm so excited he will be able to learn more from the missionaries!

Okay here's some pictures of the giant pigs we met at the farm, which are way bigger than this pictures shows.  Also here in Nicaragua they have like bird fights and its kind of horrible.  This litttle chick will be trained to fight when its young and when it gets bigger itll fight.  Its horrible because they put like spikes on them and then they fight eachother to their death and then the winner can eat the other bird.  and its a way big thing here.

Okay sorry for not responding to all the emails! hey I was terrible at responding to people back home too wow but I will try my best thanks for all the love and support!

Con amor,

Hermana Frank