Tuesday, January 30th - Monday, February 5th

Well I guess I should start writing about what all happened this week.

So Tuesday we started the day off by having lunch. Isn't it wonderful when that happens? Mmm food. Then we went to the Bishop's house to present my companion to him. So we went around in his truck and showed my companion the boundaries of the area. Then afterwards we went to visit a few new members and investigators. Pretty low key just showing him around.

Wednesday it was pretty similar to yesterday. Just showing him around the area. Though in the evening we had a family home evening with the people who give us lunch the Saturdays. Since their family has a lot of less active people. So we did that there to help motivate the family, and to the FHE came a few more families to help out, in all there were around 20 people. It was a fun activity.

Thursday We had our zone meeting in the morning. My zone seems alright. I have had cooler, but it could be worse. then in the evening we had ward council. 

Friday in the evening we went out with a bunch of members to visit a couple different families. So that was nice. Went with the relief society, and the elders, to different appointments. 

Saturday we had lunch then we were going to get smoothies near our house before starting our fast. So on the way there we heard someone calling for us and it was the sister missionaries (since our house is in their area) and they were going over there too so they joined us. I ordered a Mint Lemonade smoothie...I don't know what I was thinking. Like imagine brushing your teeth and 15 minutes later drinking a lemonade. It wasn't as strong as that, but pretty much that. Could have been worse though.

Sunday we had church, and then in the afternoon we had a training for our ward missionaries. It reminded me a whole lot of the MTC bringing back a whole lot of memories. Oh how much we all have grown these past year and few months.

Well that was my week. I hope everyone has a good week too. 

 

- Elder Vogt

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Additional tidbits from Family Emails:

 

* His new companion, Elder Herrera is very cheerful and happy

* Coca-Cola has now been banned in their mission due to one of the Missionaries getting a Kidney Stone

* Had two dinners on the same night. The first one was beans, with kinda like a quesadilla and the second was a ton of gallo pinto (beans mixed with rice) and some meat. At the 2nd dinner there lives a young woman and she and her friend made some churros like an hour earlier so that was dessert.

* The Nicaragua Managua North Mission is split up into 3 multi zone groups. 1 Managua, 2 the coastal, and 3 the north (mountains). He is in the Coastal Zone.

* At their Multi Zones, they get together, listen to a presentation or 2, get some direction from the leaders, listen to people machete others,  do a practice and have lunch. He enjoys them.

* Says the sun is really strong, but he's used to the weather and the heat/humidity don't really bother him at all