Elder Lukas Taylor: Sick people and Nicaraguan Kids

It seems like this week everyone that we know here got sick. Even Elder Marquez got himself some gastritis. So we gave probably about 12 blessings this week alone. I have never given a blessing in English, but a ton in Spanish.

This week we had Presidente Poncio visit our house for inspections. We made sure to clean up a bit. He and Hemana Poncio just said to clean out the garbage from the backyard. Later in the day, there were people giving free house fumigations. So we let them do our house to kill all of the mosquitoes. They used a blowtorch looking thing to blow a freak ton of smoke in the house. It was pretty cool.

There is this family in the ward that has a store in their house. And they sell smoothies. They have this really good smoothie of strawberry cookies. They are like Oreos but strawberry. It is giant and only costs 20 coroba (less than 1 dollar). I get 2 or 3 a week. They are so good.

We have an Investigator named Hermano Torres. He is 72 years old and can't walk for long periods of time. And he lives literally as far away from the church as you can live in Ciudadela. So yesterday we used a bus that passes by his house to get him to church because only the Bishop has a car and he was picking up another investigator at the same time.

And that Investigator, Hna Sandra, and her daughter, Tatiana, are getting baptized this week! They are the mom and sister of Roberto who Elder Sanchez and I baptized about 2 months ago! So that's awesome so see! Only his brother hasn't had the missionary lessons now.

Oh ya, when we go to visit Hno Torres, at the bottom of his road, there are a bunch of little kids that yell "MORMONES!!!!" every time we come. Its pretty funny. We gave them lesson pamphlets and they gave them to their parents. And we are now teaching some of their parents.

That's all for this week!

-Elder Taylor