6 weeks more in Malpaisillo

Over the weekend we had 3 baptisms. And we had transfers. I will be staying 6 weeks more in Malpaisillo with the same Companion Elder Ramos.

Till Next week

-Elder Taylor

Hours and hours of missionary work!

Bean Soup (sopa de frijoles) it has like eggs, and bell peppers and things like that

Cool Sunglasses courtesy of Pink Eye

A Week Long Nicaraguan Party

This past week was quite interesting.

On Tuesday we has district meeting in Leon. Our phone had been having problems so we got sent a new one by Hna. and Elder Bell the senior missionaries of the mission. And they gave me my first Rice Krispy Treat in over a year, so all was well in the world.

On Wednesday, Nicaragua was celebrating Independence day. And one of the traditions is to have all of the students do a celebration March. All of the schools in Malpaisillo, (and in Nicaragua) had all of their students get dressed up and join the celebration. There were bands and a whole bunch of stuff. I am gonna try to send a video to show how it was.

And later that night the party started. And it didn't end till last night at 4am. It was crazy.

We had planned 3 baptisms for this past week as well. But on Thursday night, one of the girls that was supposed to get baptized with her mom and sister got sick. She has leukemia and when she got sick it got bad really quick, so they went to Managua to get better medical treatment. They still haven't come back from Managua, so we will just have to pray and hope that they come back soon.

At church, we only had 11 people. But this week we are gonna work hard to get a lot of people to church. 

Next week are transfers. I think that I will stay here at least 1 more transfer with Elder Ramos. But we will see how it goes.

Till next week!

-Elder Taylor

How many Nicas does It take to find a fork?

The answer is 3. You need 3 Nicas to find a fork. Just in case you were wondering.

This week as pretty good. We had district meeting in Leon on Wednesday. It was pretty good. After the meeting, Elder Sevilla (who was my 2nd comp, but now is my district leader) came with Elder Herrera and us to Malpaisillo to do baptismal interviews for 3 people that are now ready for baptism. We played a little bit of baseball with a few kids after lunch. And the 3 people passed the interviews and will be getting baptized this week!

On Thursday Malpaisillo was celebrating 81 of years of existence. It was a giant 3 day birthday party! The party actually started on Friday, and lasted till Sunday. Every night there was music blasting in all parts of the city till 4am. It was crazy, and there were so many people out in the streets celebrating. It was a good event and I think that the people here had a good time.

On Friday we the AP Elder Campbell (who was my Zl in Jalapa) work with us all day. In place of the interviews that we usually do each change, we worked with a leader. So we got Elder Campbell with us all day. It went pretty well. Nothing out of the ordinary. He bought us ice cream so all is well.

On Sunday we had 16 people at church. A little less than last week, but still a good turn out for this area. The high dude that usually comes from Leon to lead the meeting came late. So it was back to the Jalapa days and I got to lead the meeting and preside. I also led the hymns again and taught Gospel Principles. It was pretty good.

That is all from this week. We should have another week long party this week cuz Nicaragua is celebrating its birthday this week as well. So I will keep you updated on how it goes

-Elder Taylor

 A breakfast that I had once upon a time. A drink called Cacao that is like chocolate milk. And a food called Sponch

Kittens in Nicaragua

This week was full of kittens. On Wednesday we went to the far away part of our area called San Poncho. It is like 40 minutes walking to get there. We have a family of members there, so we go like once a week. On the way back we were kind of tired of walking, so we took a sit on the side of a bridge. While sitting there, we heard the mewing of tiny cats. We looked down in the dry river bed and there were 3 kittens there just chillin. We took them out of the river bed and we took them to the lady that has a lot of cats. Of the 3 that we saved 1 has been adopted. The other 2 are there to stay it seems like. They are named Maylor and Marge. They are pretty cool.

On Saturday night we were visiting when the same lady that has a lot of cats called us and told her that one of her cats was giving birth. So we headed over to see. the cat has 3 kittens. (she says that she will give them all away) There are 2 black and 1 orange one. 

On Sunday we wanted to have at least 20 people at church. So we left early to get the people ready to go. We walked to church with with a family of a mom and her 3 daughters. They are 11, 9, and 6. While we were waiting outside for them to get ready for church, the 6 year old named Juanita, she was sweeping the leaves from in front of the house. And when she had to go put on a dress she said " sorry I must go and get changed, excuse me" (But in Spanish) It was pretty funny. She speaks like she is way older than 6 years old.

At church the whole stake presidency was there, which never happens. But it was good cuz we met our goal of 20 people at church with 22 people. And we had 8 investigators at church as well. There was also a really old dude that was almost dead like 2 months ago that made it to church for the first time in 3 months now that he is healthy. It was a good week at church. I even led the music.

That is all for this week, peace!

-Elder Taylor

 The kittens and us on the way back from San Poncho