Elder Lukas Taylor: When it Rains, it Pours

That is all too true here in Nicaragua. When the rain starts, it starts hard. It is weird, because the houses and churches have tin roofs. So when the rain is falling you can't hear anything. And since most of the streets are dirt, when it rains, the streets turn to mud. And it rained 4 days this week!

Yesterday for church I went on splits with Elder Martinez to a nearby city called Cristo Rey. The ward building is just a house made up of 2 bedrooms with the wall broken down between them. There was only 1 light and 1 fan in the very hot building. And they used the 25 chairs there so we stood in the back for sacrament meeting. But the good thing is that I saw one of our investigators there. During the 3rd hour, the rain was so hard that we just stopped church and went home because we couldn't hear.

On Saturday, we went to a baptism that the other elders had. And on the way back we were squished onto a bus with about 70 people. We were all so crowded!

I also tried 2 new fruits on Saturday. One is a red fruit that you break open and eat the white insides and the other is this purple plant that tasted like lemonade.

Speaking of fruit. We have a mango tree above our house. And every once in a while, the mangoes will fall on our metal roof and make a HUGE BANG!!! It is really startling sometimes. And the other day, we went to lady that makes us lunch everyday. She put out this cheese that is really nasty. It was in the shape of bread, so I took a huge bit and almost lost my lunch that I had just eaten!

There is this one guy that really likes North Americans. (White People) He came up to me and just gave me a really long and awkward hug. But hey, its better than those people who like to yell Gringo at me all the time!

This Saturday is the baptism of Geovany. And I might get to baptize him! Ill let you know. With 3 more next week.

That's all folks,

Stay in school!

-Elder Taylor