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Rainy Season has Officially Hit!

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Okay okay no time this week as usually but here's a couple things for ya.  we had a killer hermanamiento (ward activity) on Thursday.  The people here LOVE to play games. we had relays, a huge bonfire (I'm not really sure why because it was already so hot), and lots of dancing.  and of course food!  We had fiesta rice which is basically just rice with just about anything you want to throw in, including hotdogs, pork, corn and really anything you happen to have in the kitchen. everyone makes this for big events.  The member who made it for the activity brought it in a HUGE bucket. there should be a picture below and it was seriously full to the top. It's literally the size of the stove its sitting on. On Saturday we had a baptism for our investigator Marvin and we're starting to teach his mom the gospel as well.  The first rain hit during the baptism and the lights went out in the middle of it! I was excited to finally get some rain but let me tell ya its ...

Frogs!

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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 con...