Mon, December 20, 2010
Hola mi familia!!! Im still alive!! Nicaragua is crazy!! But I love it here. I hope things are well back home.
So I made it here ok. The flight was long but good. There were movies going on in front of every seat, so it was kinda hard to stay focus and not look at the screens. So eventually I decided the best idea was to sleep! our first day was pretty laid back. They drove us around, we met the mission president, then took us back to the mission house to get some more sleep. Then the mission present took us out to dinner to this place called Tacontento... it was like mexican food really good!! Driving here is crazy! The missionaries have this nice toyota truck, and they just had all of us new kids jump in the back. There are no speeding rules. The police men only pull you over if you are illegally parked or on a cross walk or something. And you will love this... Honking your horn is a courtesy! haha so everyone drives with one hand on the wheel, and the other on the horn, just honking to let everyone know you are driving by them.
Currently I haven't been assigned to a companion or a zone yet. They just paired us up with some elders that are in the city. We get our assignments and everything on Wednesday I think. I got paired up with the zone leader, Elder Availa, he is a native from Honduras. I am extremly lucky. Most of the other elders were paired with two new missionaries, and I have one all to myself. He has helped my spanish a ton. In just a couple days, I have learned tons of words. The nicaraguans here are very hard to understand, They never pronounce the last part of their words...ever. I am catching on though. I’ve been extremly lucky. Since I was in intermediate class, I have been able to catch on a little faster than the other new missionaries.
Teaching here is amazing. So amazing. I have only known these investigators for a couple of days but I love them. We are in the really poor parts right now. Most of the families we teach live in these houses with dirt floors, concrete walls, and a shack over their head. Oh and a whole lot of bugs haha. One lesson, we got to sit on a bicycle seat. It was really cool because I got to invite some investigators to church, and then got to actually see them at church the next day.
Church was a lot of fun. Everyone is really nice and trys to speak slowly for us. I went with elder availia and his companion, so there were just the three of us in the ward. (the other new missionaries went with their missionaries to their wards, There are actually a bunch of wards in the city of Managua). The speakers were really hard to understand. They have sunday school classes for the adults, and then a separate one for converts. for the converts class, the missionaries play rock paper scissors to see who does the lesson. Luckily I did not lose haha. The best part of sunday was, the elders played a trick on me and told me they wanted to show me something in one of the rooms. I walk in and it was the primary!! They sat me in front of the whole primary, and had me answer questions and share a spiritual thought with the kids. The kids were awesome, but speak spanish really really fast haha. At the end, one of the boys came over and gave me this little plastic toy spaceship. He was so cool. His name was Juan.
I look forward to talking to you on Christmas! Love you!
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