December 19, 2016
Hello Family!!
The subject of the email is a lie. It just rained all week. Usually in December it never rains but I guess the weather changed things up this year. Apparently it's destroying a lot of the winter crops here.
Ummm I'm trying to think of what happened this week and it's pretty usual. We studied, and ate, and worked, and taught, and walked, and walked, and walked.
It definitely doesn't feel like we're super close to Christmas... I mean we have the tree and some decorations in the house but out on the streets it's not that Christmasy. Every once in a while we come across a group of people singing to Maria and blowing up really loud fireworks. Actually one evening there was just this random fireworks show that had real fireworks like we're used to in America. And the show lasted like 10 minutes and had a grand finale and everything. We never did figure out who lit them off because it came from a fairly poor neighborhood and we didn't see any big event over there.
Getting people to church this week was a definite struggle because it rained all morning yesterday. When it rains the Nicas really struggle getting out of bed to do anything productive. The attendance was way down for the normal members as well. Next week will also be a struggle. Christmas eve here is the bigger holiday so that night everyone will stay up until well past midnight partying and lighting off fireworks and burning stuff. So for Sunday we'll see who actually shows up. And then it'll be even worse the next week on New Years Day because church will start at 8 in the morning instead of 10. Pray for us.
Grettel almost made it to church yesterday. We had her up and dressed and we were walking with her to church but she had to drop something off at a member's house first. Well when we got there she decided to just stay and cook with her all morning and wouldn't go to church. That was sorely disappointing seeing as she was the only person that we even had a chance of taking to church yesterday. We went back to her house last night and had a good lesson though so she's still pretty positive, just had a bit of a stumbling block.
We've been teaching this family, Roberto and Areceli, but they've been really hard to find lately. The lessons we have are good but they're few and far between. Also Ricardo left to work for 15 days in Matagalpa so he didn't go to church.
Ummm, I finished Jesus the Christ again. It was even better the second time. Apart from reading the Book of Mormon I'm going back through the whole missionary library to read everything. I'm almost done with Our Legacy.
I made a Christmas parody:
Walking through the rain, in a pair of worn out shoes, on the streets we go, getting rejected by Catholics (sorry I couldn't think of anything that rhymes with shoes).
Well, have a great week!!!
Talk to you on Sunday!!!!
Love,
Elder Smith
Answer to Merrill's question about fruits in Nicaragua: Fruits here generally have their seasons but you can still find almost all types of fruits all year (just not necessarily as good as if they had been in season.) IE lemons and mangos are all year, but there are more mangos in around Feb and March. Right now Papaya is in season. In june/July Mammon is in season. Bananas and Platanos are all year. There's other fruits like granadilla, calala, pitaya, melocoton etc that have their seasons but I don't really know them.
Answer to Merrill's question about fruits in Nicaragua: Fruits here generally have their seasons but you can still find almost all types of fruits all year (just not necessarily as good as if they had been in season.) IE lemons and mangos are all year, but there are more mangos in around Feb and March. Right now Papaya is in season. In june/July Mammon is in season. Bananas and Platanos are all year. There's other fruits like granadilla, calala, pitaya, melocoton etc that have their seasons but I don't really know them.
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