thanks for your letters and everything. Sounds like you guys are doing well. Mom, if you get a chance tell matt goodluck from me.... yeah I will need contact solution soon... And some more floss for sure! Oh and definitely more sweedish fish!!
This week has been a little frustrating at times but also very good. We had a baptism this last saturday but it fell threw the morning of! The girl, her name is lisibeth had something come up for school the day of and could not make it. She will be baptized this next saturday though.. along with 2 other people!! It will be an exciting weekend.
So it finally came... I had to eat FISH!! We were at a members house for dinner and the mother gave us fish. It actually was not that bad, but I still had to force down most of it....
Its been a crazy week because its been a lot different from other weeks. WE had some missionaires in our zone that have gotten sick or have needed help. So we have spent a lot of time traveling from zone to zone switching companions and everything. Its helped me realize how much I love my area, all the people, investigators, everything. Its also helped me realize how close Iv gotten to the people in my area too. I was only gone for a day here and there and it felt like I had not seen any of our investigators for a month!! One of the days, I got to go on splits with one of the zone leaders. It was pretty good, Iv gotten to become good friends with him, he is from idaho. It was also nice because I could ask him some of the complicated spanish questions I had and he could explain them in english so I could understand better. he has been here for 17 months. He also had me try some weird food from street venders. Like one was a green mango cut up, with salt and vinegar sprinkled over it. I tried my best to act like I liked it... and when he wasnt looking I would throw some of the pieces at the dogs in the streets.
We had a really cool story that happen this Wednesday. There were a lot of blackouts that day... which is really dangerous because you dont want to get caught in the wrong streets during blackouts. The spirit was very strong that day, we always seemed to be in the right place when the blackouts came. Later that day, I had the prompting we should go see one of the investigators we had not seen in a week or so. We decided to give it a try after dinner. While we were walking to her house, her house was about a 15 minute walk, a bus driver stopped and asked if he could take us where we were going. This is extremley rare because the buses here are usually on tight schedules and always have tons of people. This driver must have been moving the bus somewhere. The bus, made the trip only a few minutes. We got to the house of the investigator and the lady immediately told us she did not really wanna talk, she had her own church and she would not be needing to talk to us anymore. But then all of the sudden a blackout came! She did not want two young men wandering home in the dark during a blackout, so she invited us in. This opened up a great opportunity to teach her. We were able to resolve some of her doubts and she still wants to take lessons with us!!
This sunday, I got to talk to a one of the very first members of the church here in nicaragua. He was an old man, about 70 and had been a member for 34 years. He helped construct the first chapel in managua. It was super cool to talk to him.. and it wasnt till halfway through I realized I was talking in spanish pretty comfortable with a native nicaraguan! haha.
We visited a member family and they were watching the jonas brothers tv show. I laughed when I saw it was also in spanish. The girl in the family was able to give me the update on everything that has happened in the show since I left! haha.
I love you all a ton! I hope everything is going well!
Love Elder Estoque
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