Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Monday, April 9, 2018
My 15 and the best gift
March
27-April 2, 2018
This
week was a very crazy week! So if you don’t know yet I got changed out of
Puerto Cabezas and am now back in Chinandega. I have a new companion named
Hermana Dominguez from Honduras and she is brand new from the MTC. She’s really
great.
Anyway,
so my companion and I got to this area and had met some kids that were
attending seminary and church and we began to teach them. But one Thursday they
said they were going to seminary I had told them to come to the activity after
seminary. One kid, Enardo, did come and the other one, Samuel, didn’t come at
all. They instead went to go play soccer. SO the next day we had planned with
our district leader to do their interviews so as we get to Samuel’s house he
comes out with a cast on his arm! He had broken his arm playing soccer! Hahaha
it was kind of funny we all laughed about it because I had told him not to go!
Anyway the good thing is his cast is white. SO on Wednesday when I hit 15
months both Samuel and Enardo were able to get baptized! It was super special!
And
then during General Conference THEY ANNOUNCED MANAGUA NICARAGUA TEMPLE. AND MY
HEART DROPPED. I CAN’T EVEN BELIEVE IT. IM SO HAPPY. I’m also so happy to be
here in this mission at this time.
One
of the best parts of this week was after Samuel and Enardo’s baptism when they
asked them if they actually liked coming to church and they go "if I didn’t
like to come to church I wouldn’t have gotten baptized. If I wasn’t sure of my
decision I wouldn’t have gotten baptized." Makes me so happy to know how
the spirit touches so many people. And then in the conference when they
announced the temple Enardo was so excited and he goes "that’s the temple I’m
getting married in." Enardo is also determined to go on a mission. His
family isn’t member, but they are supporting him so in a year or so he can go
on a mission. I’m so excited to keep seeing their progress.
I
also really love this ward and how much they love us and how much they take
care of us. I LOVE THIS COUNTRYYY.
HAVE AN AMAZING
WEEK!
HERMANA CORTEZ
Monday, February 26, 2018
January 16- 22, 2018
Wednesday, January 17
I realized in my last letter that I said real boring and
that I’m not explaining very well at all what’s happening here in Puerto
Cabezas.
My area is called Lamlaya and I’m about to finish my 3rd
change here. These past couple days it has been so cold in the morning and at
night. When I say so cold I mean maybe like 60 degrees. I already know when I
get home I’m going to die, but I feel like I’ve been in summer for a year so
when a cool wind and rain comes I get so cold.
Anyway, here in Puerto life is a little bit different than
the rest of the country I decided to take some pics of where I live so you guys
can see. The houses here are either made of wood or cement. So when we contact
someone and then ask for their address they respond something like, “Road
Barzenit, 2nd alley tall wood house unpainted” it would be if I told
someone at home my address: behind 7-11, white house two stories with 4 trees
in front. Trying to find an address here is so hard, but it’s fun. One time a
guy told us his house was “tall wood and blue.” On that street there were maybe
20 houses that fit that description so we contacted every single one of those
houses asking for this one brother. We met lots of people, but then at the end
ended up finding that guy didn’t even live in a blue house!
In January there were so many pears. Everyone has pear trees
and they were good red juicy pears. Everyone always gave us some it was really
cool. Then we left for 4 days, we came back and they were ALL gone. The
season only lasted like 2 weeks. So sad. Next time.
The branch here is really something. They are still
learning, but we’ll get there. Last Sunday after people bore their testimonies
we had an intermediate hymn then confirmation and then the closing hymn. Just
went with it, good experience.
Here everyone washes their clothes by hand, even me. For the
past year I’ve had to wash all my clothes on like a board type thing, but here
in Puerto there is no running water. There’s ‘pozos’ of water that people pull
up water with buckets. When we’re working we always try and help pull water for
anyone that needs it. To shower it’s the same. For any use of water one has to
go get it from the hole in the ground.
But the people here are also different. SUPER
perceptive to our message. There is a church here that’s only here so many are
from that church and it’s so hard with that church around. But there are
still lots of people that receive us and are very kind. The members here really
help us in the Lord’s work. They visit and are always trying to do things
right. One brother always asks where our RC live so he can go visit them. Super
pilas. Anyway here the church is like a building they’re renting , but it’s
close to my house! Real convenient to eat lunch in between meetings. Here we go
to church 9-12 then 1-4 and 4:30-5pm. Different cultos but we usually go to all
three and try taking investigators to all three.
Here in Puerto Cabezas I’ve been able to learn a new way of
life. So many things we learned and seen I’ll never forget. I only have a short
time to serve here so I’m trying to enjoy it.
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