Volcan Masya

This is one of my favorite pics, its the outline of a brother against the sun going down and smoke of the volcano...crazy


So one of the coolest things i have ever done is climb around on this volcano, we went with a really fun group and it was totally worth the sore legs the next few days! Here are some pics from Volcan Masya. We also toured a bat cave....which was cool and scary and really really dark, I took pics but they look boring so i'll spare you.

ready for the bat cave


Our tour guide for the bat caves giving us a pep talk

 

English Assembly

So as promised we have pictures from the English assembly and what we did while we were there. We had an absolute amazing time and had the chance to meet some really great people from all over the world that are serving here in Nicaragua....here are some of the pictures from that trip:

  Inside the assembly hall 

Isaac, Laura,Danielle, Alicia, a missionary couple named Watson's and I stayed at a families house for the assembly - we all had such a great time!

I met the sister in the middle Stacey McClure in Spain 5 years ago....small world 

One night Danielle, Alicia, and I had the chance to have dinner with Ted and Betty Watson who are an amazing missionary couple. They had a really great interview about being the longest serving missionaries here in Nicaragua. To be able to hear thier experiences and ask them anything about Gilead and missionary work was such a treat, I'll always remember it!

We bonded immediately with Pascale and Gulio Lanny from Scotland, they were assigned to serve on the island of Ometepe in Lake Nicaragua a week after we were assigned to Corn Island. Us "islanders" have to stick together. We all really want to visit each others island to see what it is like.

These sisters are from Japan - it was really cool to speak them and having our commen language be spanish. And their accents were really cute.

Bridget and Alethia, whom we met at our spanish convention in Minnesota, it was really nice to see them here too.

This sister Mical is super hardcore! She lives in a little house in the mountains somewhere by herself. And she has 27 bible studies. 

This is Mel, she is actually staying the week with us here on the island and we are having a blast with her. She has a very unique assignment in business terr. in Managua. Super cool girl.

So those are some of the super cool people we met....

Well, thats all for tonight. Thanks for not forgetting us here on Corn Island!

Ok, we are back and in full force. We were having some technical difficulties uploading some new photos on the blog but I think we got the bugs worked out.

So, I would like to introduce our new roomate.....( drum roll please ) Alicia!!! Say hi everyone! We picked her up in Managua the night befor we had our english assembly and special meeting for forigneers here in Nicaragua. And she has been awesome ever since.

Here is an update of the places we have been / people we have seen / things we have done.

This is us in the tract work, Desiree ( the sister that stayed with us for a month ) Laura, Isaac and a sister from the mainland Teresa. We walked about half the island that morning and now we are waiting for the bus - which was CROWDED! But atleast we did'nt have to walk back.


Alot of times we have to have the meeting in the dark because the power will go out and we don't have light. So we will have a meeting by candle light. We have become experts at holding the bible, flipping pages in our book, and balancing a candle, all while not starting a fire.
Danielle reading a scripture by candel light

Even though the construction is over on our new hall we have LOTS of work to do befor we can have a dedication. Just keeping the weeds pulled on our grass-less yard is a chore and a half. On this sunday afternoon we had a good turn out. 11 of us in total! I'll introduce everyone. From left to right.
Carla, Carliani, Claudia, Margarita, Hirenia,Domingo,Danielle,Alica,Me and Laura. We all had dirty hands that showed our hard work

Ok so I think that is all for tonight. I'll try to upload more again soon, like the english convention, climbing a volcano, and preaching on Little Corn Island. Much love to you all, thank you for keeping us in your prayers! - The Girls

Service Stuff

Hey guys,

so we thought we would show you some photos and tell you some stuff from our hours ... many hours in service. The tract work is going really good we have the tracts in spanish english and miskito. We have almost worked the entire perimeter of the island and Danielle and I have memorized a short presentation in miskito. We will need to get it on video in the mean time here it is in written form.

Naksa - Hello

Nahki sma? - How are you?

Yang nini Lynette - My name is Lynette

Naha wauhkataya pain yaba sa - This is a special tract

Naha dukyam sa - This is yours

Baibil kam wal aisi kaiks - You can read it with your bible

tinki pali - Thank you

yu wala - See you another day

Pretty cool right? - ( that's not part of the presentation )

Our biggest service group since we have been here! We all had a great day!


Typical house in service

A little boy talking a bath while Danielle talked to his mom

Some kids reading the mags after we left them with the parents.

Danielle and I taking a rest on a rock. It was hot that day!

Well we wanted to upload more but I think that's all for tonight.... Love you all!

One whole month!

Wow we have been here one whole month now on the Island. Time sure does go by fast, thanks to everyone who has emailed and called, it really means SO much to us! It makes it easier to be here when we know that people are rooting for us back home.

Here is the Pizza we made last Sunday, its beautiful right? We were so excited about it, Danielle Laura and I made the crust at 6:30am so it could rise. We were going to take pics of ourselves eating it and how excited we were but we got so into the eating part that we forgot about the photos. oops.

We have a girl from South Carolina staying with us for a month. Desiree, she has friends that were here on the island. Her friends sent a nice package for the friends here... we are about to eat some candy...that's why we look so excited!

This video just shows how hard it rains here, and how annoying it is if your clothes are hanging outside.

Beach and latest thoughts

My last post of the day will be about the beach. Isaac Laura Danielle and I went to the beach on saturday after a long week in service and it was sooo nice! check out the pics!

Hello Beach!
Dont you want to come!?!?!

I love this pic of the 4 of us....just hanging out at the beach...

We have made a couple videos about our life here on the island so far....not to exciting but i'll post them anyways.

Corn Island

Here we are ready to board the boxy plane to Corn Island! It was a beautiful flight because you fly low enough to see the landscape. This was our ticket...so offical looking
Our boxy plane that kind of reminded me of a bus with wings
The water is so clear and blue and really warm!

The day after we got there we did service/look for a house around the island. Just a normal view in service...we had NO idea that we could live here... at the kingdom hall

This is the brand new Kingdom hall on the island. This is the side that faces the street. the little window on the left is our bathroom window. It took 5 months and they only had 12 brothers from a construction group from the branch to finish it. EVERYTHING was done by hand.

This is the back side of the hall the meetings are held in the middle part and the window on the right is our kitchen window.

It looks like its in a jungle.....this is the view we wake up to every morningThe literature counter in our kitchenKitchenBedroomTableBathroomHere are some service pics from the past 2 weeks

THANK GOODNESS I brought my little wellies!! I have worn them tons for service and working around the hall!It been really wet here and the roads get super muddyIsaac preaching along the beach

The wonderful Isaac and Laura, they are the special pioneer couple that live on the other side of the Kingdom Hall and have lived on corn island for 3 1/2 years. Yeah they are pretty much amazing.little naked kid outside his house right on the water

local fishermen
This is our grocery store... Masaya - we buy most of our food here Our washing machine...our hands. We are learning to rough it