Week 11 - Cuidad Sandino

 The entrance of our house 

Our kitchen (that sink doesn't actually work....)

I really am sorry that my emails have been... less than spectaclar. But I promise that I will try to do better. I will ask that everyone realizes, though, that I am in fact sitting in a very, very hot room paying to use a computer with a keyboard that has keys that doesn't work, in the middle of the slums of a third world country. That doesn't give me an excuse, but still. I feel like I deserve a little slack :)

As for me, there were two interesting things that I can remember this week. First of all, I got my first baptism! His name is Freddy, and he's this older man who lives right next to an Evangelical church (of course, so do most of us, but that's beside the point), and I actually got to be the one who baptized him. It was amazing. Then the other one, which is slightly more humorous, is one of our contacts was kind of crazy. First, she asked me if I ainted (dyed) my hair. When I said I didn't she said she wanted to marry me. When I said no, she asked if I was afraid of her/Nicaraguans. When I said no, she asked me to marry her again. It was fun. We left her with a amhlet about the law of chastity. Super fun. And our investigators right now are awesome. We have about 8 baptisms lined up for this Saturday. One of them, Mauricio, we're actually getting him married to his wife tomorrow. His family is amazing. He has three kids, Brittney, Kenneht (not a spelling error), and Jazeth. They all love the gospel, and honestly, the only reason we're not batizing the wife is because she's never home to teach. But they're always asking for more scriptures to read, more things to learn. Like I said, great family. 

As for one of the "extras," I'll try to cover one of those a week. The woman that fixes our meals is named Virginia (or mamá, as she likes to tell people). She has a fairly large family, whose names I'm still learning. We haven't seen her in a while though, because her daughter just had a baby, who is having health problems. 

Anyways, I'm out of time, but I hope that letter was a bit better. I love you all, and I can't wait to hear from everyone again next week!

Con amor, 

Cooper