Tuesday, April 25th - Monday, May st

Yo I might as well start writing a nice weekly email about now.

So I´ll start with the first part of the week. We had to wake up at 5:30am so we could go to the hospital in the morning then we did nothing the afternoon, then we had to go again in the evening at 7. So yeah that was the first few days.

Thursday was the day for my companion to go home. So we went to a multi zone conference there in Managua and I stayed put there as my comp headed out. I was with the Zone Leaders in Bello Horizonte (like the office zone with all the office people and such) and had a good time. Everyone loved my impression of a random mother while we were doing teaching practices. Then that night I went out with elder Nonu (from Utah) and chilled the night with them there at the ¨mansion¨(assistance's and secretary and ZL house there) I really enjoyed my time there, and the people who live there (6 of em) are all really cool.

Friday I got to Matagalpa and worked with a member...... but yeah so I´m in my house now. It´s kinda small but not too bad. You have to walk up a really steep hill to get to it. But I´ll get used to it.

Saturday we had a baptism so that went well, and Sunday went to church like normal. Then they had to do numbers, and we had to help free some sisters, who forgot their keys in their house and closed the door, so were locked in like a staircase between their house and outside.

Then today we played soccer, and chilled, and we all ate out as a zone. And now writing. So yeah that's my week.

Haha yeah I know a little words compared to last week, but oh well. Love you all. Remember to keep being awesome.

 

- Elder Vogt 

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Additional info from some of the family emails:

* When asked "How are you feeling these days about your Mission and being in Nicaragua?" He replied with "The days are going good! I´m loving talking to the people and all that. It is going good. Soon it will be over and I´ll wonder where it went."

 

* Well I moved from San Ramon (in the zone Matagalpa) to Matagalpa Matagalpa. So it's the same zone, just like a 30 minute bus ride from where I was with Quinonas. San Ramon was so beautiful and if I get back there I will take some pictures! Matagalpa is nice and clean tho - so that's good.

 

* In this new area, I am fed Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner each day by people

 

* I'm in a trio with the Zone Leaders here in Matagalpa - Elders Fankhauser (from Utah) and Mendez (from Honduras). I've only been with them for 2 days but they seem pretty cool.

 

* I have a bed to sleep on but it´s on the floor haha. Their house is like the smallest zone leader house I've seen. Usually the ZL houses have room for like 5 missionaries, but they only have room for like 2 here, so we are making some ghetto stuff, like my closet is made with an extra mattress, and a fridge with a bar on top. so yeah haha. 

 

* This new area is like only mountainous. So man it's kicking my booty, since I did like 3 weeks without really any moving around at all - haha But Yeah, I'll build up the calf muscles, and burn off that hospital food!

 

* Hey sorry Mom. This computer has the problem as about half the computers here I've used. It can´t read my memory card. I don´t know why that is. But I can´t send pictures here. Maybe I´ll be able to next week if we use a different cyber. I know you enjoy your pictures, but I guess we´ll see what we can do. 

While we were bummed that no pictures were able to be sent, the Mission President posted some pictures from the Zone Conference to Facebook and we found a few with Elder Vogt in them (included below)...