Monday, February 8, 2010

New Pictures!
















I started another study in San Vicente, her name is Maria, sweet girl, she´s about 17 years old or so and she has to stay at home while both her parents work to take take 0f he 102 year old Great Grandma....she can´t really hear, her grandma, but man is that one determined older lady...while Maria and I were studying her grandma got up from her chair, turned and faced the chair, bent down holding the the arms of the chair and used it as a walker to make her way to the bathroom. I asked Maria if she needed any help and she said ¨no, she doesn´t like people to help her to the bathroom, she likes to do it all by herself¨.....and watching her go well she evidently didn´t, she had it covered. I tell you what the method of using the ¨Would you like to know the Truth¨ pamphlet to start bible studies is really working and I have Maria as evidence of that....simply ask the householder out of the 6 questions that the tract presents which one would they like to have the answer to and once selected answer the question with the tract and read one scripture from the Bible directly, then cut it off, tell them you got to go, you have the group waiting for you and well run away...leave them wanting more...I did that with Maria and she imediately wanted to know when I was coming back, ¨When are you going be coming back¨....it´s a great method and if the person is really interested and you will be able to tell by their body language...you can show them and the back of the pamphlet where it shows the Bible Teach book and that this book offers even more and deeper information on that very question that they made....it is functioning very well for me! I was finally able to find my buddy, my study Ishayana, she just started working the a ¨Zona Franca¨ a clothing factory and she works everyday, very hard the only day she has off is sunday and that´s when we have our study...I really like this girly...she was telling me how she used to think before like alot of people saying when something bad was happening to her or she was going through a hard time she´d say ¨oh God is punishing me or making me go through this¨ but througth what she´s learned she knows God never puts people to the test making them suffer through something bad just because he can...she told me that God is love and that he couldn´t do and wouldn´t do something like that to us because it would be evil...¨ I was impressed.... so i look forward to our studies together. What else...me, Cayli and Rebecca another need greater awesome sister from texas are now doing the pioneer assist program with 3 of the young sisters in our congregation....so that´s going to be nice.
The Pictures
the 1st pic is of the waterfalls close to one our territories called San Miguel
the 2nd is a flower at the Bethel here in Ticuantepe
the 3rd is of anda lousia my fave territory cuz it´s gorgeous and shady
the 4rth is where we cross through this beautiful spot on the way to the waterfall
the 5th is the sunset at Pochomil a really nice beach about 2.5 hours away from where were at

Monday, February 1, 2010

a little update

Im sorry I havn´t had much time to blog everyone! Things are going good, lets see some news is that my friend Cayli got her first scorpion bite poor thing, I had a bout of parasites but took some medication and am feeling much better now. I have a weakness for this tasty fried treat called bonuillo it´s fried youka which is like a starchy potato thing its really good drizzeled with honey. mmmmm..... Spiritual news, me and Racquel a student who just joined the school have a talk together, excited about that alot.....have a couple new return visits in Paso Real a territory i had never worked before, I see some real potencial there...using the Would you like to now the truth pamphlet works really good....loving that...oh and changing the subject a lil bit getting a package shipped doesnt take as long as we thought cayli got her´s in only 3 weeks.....wink wink mom hehe.......got to go already! Love everyone, til the next time when I have more time!

Friday, January 1, 2010

some neat experiences

I thought this was cute, my first return visit that i got here is Melatina, i recently went to visit her and now so you have an idea she is probably in her 80´s and still moves about but her knees hurt her bad and has to have an operation on her eyes which she is still waiting to do. I really want her to come to one of the meetings here because she does not live far from the kingdom Hall, she said she would like to go but that her legs hurt her so bad so i told her i´d carry her, she liked that and laughed and she invited me to come back for coffee and cookies and so i did, she wasnt feeling good and was actually laying down resting and got up just to visit me the sweetheart, even though i told she didnt have to because she was feeling bad. So we chatted more and i met her daughter, well i visit her tommorow and im going to ask her to see if she would be willing to go to the meeting if i hired a little moto to pick her up, so the story continues....until next week.

I have a study who has been studing for some time now, i kinda picked up the study from those that had studied with her beforehand and she has the goal of becoming a unbaptized publisher, which is great, she´s 16 years old and well i study with her on weds, well when we sat down to study and i asked here how things were and how her day was - the first thing that she wanted to tell me was that she had an opportunity to informal witness, she was able to explain to someone and show them from the bible that only a certain amount are going to the heavens and that the other group that serve Jehovah will live here on the earth...i was impressed and proud...she is applying what she is learning.

There is a territory that we work that is absolutely gorgeous, anna lousia is what it´s called, so my friend Cayli has a study there it´s about 1hr and 20 min to walk to her study and then there is even more beyond that. Well we were walking there one day and we see this old granpa with his shirt off so we greet him but he doesnt respond, i was thinking oh no maybe he doesnt like witnesses of something...so finally he says to us your Jehovah´s witnesses? yes we say. He asks us if we have the magazines because he enjoys reading them and we pleased that pull some mag´s out and he hands us some money, wow, because we can tell he doesnt have much, he also asks us if he can have a bible and that someone had promised him one the big referece bible because his eye sight is worsening and so we told him we were going to get one for him but that we didnt know about the big one because it takes time to order one and so we promised to visit him the following week and bring a bible an the new magazines, so we did and he generously gave us 20 cordobas as a donation for the bible and was very nice and we also met his grandchildren who were very respectful, we were very impressed, the boys name is Roberto and the sister is Guadalupe, I´m so bringing them a bible story book. When me and Cayli were heading back from her study and we passed by there house again we waved and said Adios, and passed by then we hear from behind the little boy Roberto yelling something to us but we were too far to hear and we were already running late to lunch with the circuit overseer, but we had to know was he was saying, she we hurried back and he tells us i just wanted to say that i hope it goes well with you or Que les vayan bien it´s like saying goodbye or save trip back to where were going.....we thought that was very sweet of that young man he´s only 9 years old or so and so we gave him a hug and told him we´d come back soon.

Monday, December 21, 2009

Rodger




Meet Rodger. He is our doggy, we must have picked the dirtiest dog in all of Nicaragua. We have cut his hair twice and removed fleas and ticks as well. He loves to jump on you with his muddy paws, however he is sweet and playful, young and is not in any form mean. We like him. There you go mom theres a pic of him, can i bring him home with me can i can i...

mas fotos







Here´s some foto´s of when we went to the english assembly. The two tall blonds are fleshly sister´s serving in I forget the name of it, sorry but they are awesome and from Canada they stayed at our house when for the assembly because they are farther away from the assembly hall than us. And the sister with the green shirt is in our congregation, her name is Terrista, sharp girl and is only 13 years old! So i just decribed the last foto. The middle foto is of a couple that is from sacramento ca!! Cinnamon and Pablo! Mom tell sister Head that i met them in Nica. I visited there congregation in Casaras. Great couple! The very first foto is of me and cayli, Giovanni and Andreas two brothers in our congregation, and Amy and Mari or Anita, two biblestudies, actually i think Amy is an unbaptized publisher...we all went to the assembly hall cleaning before our assembly! Then we treated the girls to lunch in the city at the galleria, that´s always fun.

1 picture!

Finally i downloaded a picture, sorry to everyone, i dont know what happened to the other 7 i posted, it is pretty slow to download. Anywho this is a picture of a road to one of our territories, i think this one leads to San Miguel. We see cows a lot. In fact me and a sister almost got rammed by one, i think it was a bull that was scary!!

Monday, December 14, 2009

I finally downloaded pictures!

Check these pictures out thanks to everyone for being so pacient with me! Little story for the road, so i went to my 4th assembly this time with my congregation here, and come to find out my return visit in the city of Diriamba that i like to exchange my money with - Ramon was there. I ran into him sunday at the assembly, in fact he saw me first and well he was pretty happy he gave me a big fat kiss on the cheek - he is an older guy but yeah that was pretty funny! The drama at this assembly was great too! We all had biblestudies that came to the assembly and for sunday 3 full buses from our territories, that was great!