Rural days

 

On Friday Bridget Tiffany and local brother names Eliezar and I went to help a group in a rural territory that was getting served by the CO. We drove about an hour to get to a small town called Pueblo Nuevo and picked up the CO and his wife and a few others and then drove onward to Palagua where the group of 10 are at.

Sisters from Pueblo Nuevo.....I love them.

We went preaching first with the group, the territory is very fruitful! Pueblo Nuevo, the hall that takes care of the group has a massive territory. 80 communities, some have not been preached to in 20 years!

Coffee beans!

After preaching a local family had us for dinner....the area is extremely poor so it was such an amazing thing for them to do. It was a yummy chicken soup with tortilla.

Another local family hosted the meeting at there house. We did the cong book study and the CO gave a nice talk.

 

This is the brothers whose house we were at....Such an amazing story. Most of the 10 people in the isolated group in Palagua are his family. Him and his wife learned the truth 27 years ago by special pioneers. In order to receive his bible study from the special pioneers him and his wife along with there 11 children walked 7 hours one way to the town of Somoto where the special pioneers lived. All this was during a very bloody and dangerous war. At the time Jehovah's Witnesses were under ban. Amazing. To see this humble brother in a homemade wheelchair in his dirt floor house just smile and smile as the meeting was going on was just too much. I felt like crying the whole time! It was like being in a yearbook experience for sure!

Family Nicaragua trip part 3

So here is the last part of our trip - we made our way from San Juan del Sur (south Nicaragua) to Esteli  (in the north about 1 hour from the Honduran border)  and it was about an all day trip...so to start of with we HAD to stop by Tip Top the Nicaraguan fast food chicken stop.

Tita and Tito Tip Top

Our next stop on our trek to the north was a stop in our Mom and Tios old stomping grounds in Masaya to hand deliver some letters from our grandparents to family that still live here.

Friberg girls in Mom's old neighborhood

a quick stop in Ticuantepe to see where the old branch was

And ofcourse the gang had to try McDonalds in a 3rd world country!

drive thru

view from those in the back of the truck on the way to Esteli

 We made it late to the meeting but we were happy to be there....dusty and sleepy, but happy to be with the friends.

After the meeting we were so overly tierd that the only thing I remember is laughing and laughing....goodtimes

Sunday morning service!

Knocked out after preaching

Then after a little rest it was on to a near by waterfall

los chabalos

i love this picture!

the whole gang

our "paparazzi" photo

the water was COOOLD but fun

the walk back to the car

And for the last night we had to party it up good and dance as much as we could

In conclusion the trip was really great....although it was SUPER hard to say bye to everyone, I'm glad that they all had a chance to come and see what Nicaragua was all about. Maybe they'll want to come again? :) I hope so!

Hope everyone is well, Lynette

Family Nicaragua trip part 2

So the second part of our trip was the beach in San Juan del Sur - and the fun just didn't stop!

Our beach house

We had been in the truck all day so we were ready to jump in before the sun went down!

Krista's first pina colada

We had family dinners every night

The boys rented surf boards for a couple of days....and they didn't do that bad!

Probably the best fire known to Nicaragua

Caleb being..............himself

Our sweet off roadin' ride

Monkeys! (careful they started to pee on us)

Tito, Tony and I went scuba diving one of the afternoons....honestly I couldn't have done it with out them. It was a little terrifying but we went down for 2 dives and it was pretty amazing! 

Tony getting all geared up

Pretty pink flippers

That tank weighs a TON!

Tito all ready to go

The 3 of us

Tito coming up from his 2nd dive

Caleb and Tito's long awaited for Corona commercial

Caleb put on a "sea world-esque" show for us....all he needed was a little fishy treat at the end

Ali and I

Will you marry me?

Kids INC anyone?

goofing off on our beach walk

On the day before we left the beach we decided to take a dirt road all the way to Costa Rica....what a crazy adventure it was! SO many times we should have turned around because the road looked like it was going to eat our truck but we made it!

looking to see if we should continue on....

We made it! This fence is literally the border....the guards were cool enough to let us cross for a couple of photos.

In Costa Rica!

But wait....there is more still to come....check out the last part of the trip when we were all in Esteli.

Take care, Lynette