1st Day of Invitation Work

First day of the invitation work for the assemblea Nov 12-14. Unfortunatly Brie and I are not going to be here for the assembly but its great to help with the work!

It was super HOT here today - the sun felt like it was 2 inches from my scalp.... But with a big group in service we covered 4 territories. It's nice because the assembly is here in Esteli so its easier for people to come, and lots were excited to here about it and seemed very positive that they will attened.

Hope all is well with everyone and your scalp isnt burning :)

       Lynette

Laguna de Apoyo

Wow - I don't know if I have been to a more amazing place before! While the Cox family was here a bunch of  us took a trip to Laguna de Apoyo which is basically an old volcano that fell in and left a super deep clean lake of mineral water. We rented a beautiful house that was colonial Spaniard style and held the 11 of us more than comfortably. Here are a few pictures to make everyone so jealous they will come and visit:

the whole lake is surrounded by lush hills full of wildlife including howler monkeys

View from our room - can't beat waking up to that!

main living area

outdoor patio

Kyle being spiritual and reading his magazine

the infinity pool and lake - the water was so warm. Along the shore are natural hot springs that keep the lake really warm

Well I hope that was sufficient to get some of you guys down here! ( you know who you are...)

Love to all!    Lynette

English Convention and Family

So we've been pretty busy the last few weeks. We got to go to the english convention for all of the need greaters here in Nicaragua and it was amazing!! There were about 450-500 in attendance except for Sunday when we had over 600 for the drama. It felt like a tiny international convention, there were so many people from all over the world. Most of the brothers that had parts were missionaries, or special pioneers, or members of the branch committee and they all had super cool accents! : ) It was definitely an amazing experience and I am so glad we got to go!!

Lynette with her little friends from Bluefields. She was super excited to see them since she knew them from when they had their assemblies in Bluefields.

Some of the friends we made at the beach-Griselle and Chelsea, it was so nice to have gone on our beach vacation first because we got to know some cool people and then had friends at the convention instead of not knowing anyone!!

Me and Adina

Sarah-from England, Meaghan (who now lives in our house in Esteli), Me and Lynette, Chelsea and Bonnie

The couple on the left is the missionary couple in our hall-Ajah and Arturo, and the couple on the right are missionaries in Chinandega-Lucas and Lucia

2 fleshly sisters we met at the beach, Tammi and Stacy

Our romantic roommate dinner :)

Everyone started singing kingdom songs after the special foreigner meeting we had on Monday

My family (sister, brother-in-law, and 3 nephews) arrived on October 2nd and we've been busy ever since!! Its really nice to have some visitors, even though we've barely been here a month!

Walking to our territory

kids preaching

Oliver showing us the beautiful landscape!

We hiked to a waterfall that is in our territory in Esteli

 We have had so much with Jason, Leah and the boys, next post will be our trip to
Laguna de Apoyo! Can't wait! - Brianna