Monday, February 12, 2018
We went to the hospital with Sister Joyce and her companion. Her companion had a doctor’s appointment and Sister Joyce was learning how to instruct
missionaries who have doctor’s appointments. She learned how to order a
payment guarantee, how to check in for a doctors appointment, where to go for doctors’ appointments, and
how to get medicine at the pharmacy. It was a morning well spent.
I went to the bank and shopped. I bought sister Bell red
roses for Valentines day. She got me dark chocolate kisses.
Joycelyn Poncio left for the MTC in Mexico today.
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
We had our office meeting today. I worked with Elder Vaides
on the house inventories. He has been calling all the areas to update our
inventory. He found needs that had not been reported earlier, such as broken chairs,
mirrors and closets. Sister Bell instructed Sister Joyce and Sister Poncio how
to order a payment guarantee. They ordered one for a follow-up visit for one of our missionaries. We then took Sister Joyce, Puac and Fersola to their house. I had to get
4 chairs, a table and the last fan. I will give those out tomorrow at the multizone conference.
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
We had our last multizone conference in Managua for the
Bello Horizante, Villa Flor and Las America zones. We played our reverse
Jeopardy game. We did it in the cultural hall because we were too rowdy. We
shared our testimonies as we did in the other zone conferences.
Thursday, February 15, 2018
We installed smoke alarms at Rene Polanco, La Fuente, La
Catorce and Ciudad Jardin. We then picked up the Helbergs at 2pm and we headed
for Selva Negra, north of Matagalpa, for our last excursion. The Helbergs had
not been there before. We arrived about 5:30, just as it was getting dark. Sister
Bell and I stayed in a little Bungalow.
We ate dinner and then played 5 crowns. Michelle won, and I lost. The Helbergs
were in the middle. I had a hand of 272.
That hurt…
Waiting for dinner
Home sweet home
Friday, February 16, 2018
We left Selva Negra about 11:30am. We drove over the
mountain (my favorite road in Nicaragua) to Jinotega. We met Elder Hodges and
Garcia at the Church. We had a package for Elder Hodges. Then we went to lunch
at El Tico in Jinotega. We then drove home, getting home about 5pm. It was an
enjoyable little excursion. This will be our last little excursion here in
Nicaragua. We are happy and sad about that. We have enjoyed seeing and
experiencing the various beautiful locations in Nicaragua. It has helped us
love this country even more.
Saturday, February 17, 2018
We had a good day. We started in Trinidad. Michelle said
that Maria Clara had a good lesson. While she was teaching, I was across the
street installing a smoke alarm in the missionary’s house. After lunch, we met
Elders Ponce and Carico in Condega. We picked up Edgar and went to a small
neighborhood outside of Condega to visit Edgars mother and sister. Edgar was
baptized over a year ago. He has not been very active since his baptism. Today
however, he was back to his old self, friendly, engaging and interested in the
Church. We gave a lesson about the Plan of Salvation. Edger and his mother had
a lot of questions. We enjoyed the lesson.
Sister Bell and I talked with Freddy
and Virginia about family history. We helped them begin to collect information
about their ancestors in anticipation of their upcoming trip to the temple. We
then attended the noche de hermanimiento. After which we drove to Esteli and checked
into the Hex.
Sunday, February 18, 2018
We attended Church in Somoto. Pueblo Nuevo came because it
was an area conference broadcast for all Central America. We had 64 attending;
29 from Pueblo Nuevo, 2 from the District (Pres. Herrera y Pedro Castillo, the
District Secretary), Sister Bell and I and 31 from Somoto. We barely had enough
chairs. We heard talks from Elder Achoa, Sister Eubank, Elder Christiansen and
Elder Cook. Elder Achoa and Elder Christiansen talked in Spanish, but Sister
Eubanks and Elder Cook talked in English. For some reason, the translations
didn’t begin until half way through Elder Cooks talk. So Elder Charette got up
and translated. His Spanish is excellent and he did a wonderful job. It was especially
hard to translate for Sister Eubanks because she talked fast.
Elder Cook talked about the importance of helping the missionaries
in the missionary work. He also talked about the importance of family history and
temple work. Afterwards we counted tithing money and Sister Bell and I drove to
the homes of Azaria and Sadia. We first went to the house of Azaria Perez. She
had been sick. We had a nice visit with her and her mother. I was concerned about
her because she had been called to teach Institute several weeks ago, but so
far hasn’t taught a lesson. The Elders have been teaching Institute, to the few
2-3 that come. Azaria is also the Primary President and has started a new job. So
I was concerned that she was overwhelmed. We found that she was sick and the doctor has told her to stay home and rest. She told us she received an email from President Poncio, telling her
that he read her conversion story (I had sent her story to him to read) and was hopeful he could visit with her next
time he is in Somoto. She also received an email from Sister Linda Reeves, from
the General RS Presidency, asking out how she is doing. They met when she was in
the US. We found her spirit and desire to serve strong. I was relieved.
We then went by the President’s house. We had not seen
Hermana Alaniz for several weeks. She was not at church today because she didn’t
want to leave the house unprotected. We had a wonderful visit. Sister Alaniz
and Sister Bell love each other and were so glad to see each other. After our
visit we picked up President Herrera and Pedro and dropped them off in Esteli on our way to Managua.
It was a long, full but very satisfying day.
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