So things have been going pretty well here in Ciudad Sandino. Last Wednesday, we all, as a mission, went to a place called Playa Gigante, because as a mission we achieved more than 2,060 baptisms. It's basically a huge beach (implied by the name, it literally means giant beach), where we ate hambugers and hotdogs, played games, and listen to basically two things that President Russell told us as a mission. First of all, he told us that our goal for baptisms is 2,600, which is crazy, but definitely achievable. The second part I'll tell you a little later on.
This week we've been teaching the Cornejo-Lazo family. Basically, the missionaries talked to the parents about 20 years ago, but all of the sudden stopped coming by. But now we're teaching them, and they're awesome. All of the children are grown with kids of their own, and they all love the church. Blanca, the mother (now grandmother, I suppose), hasn't been able to go yet, but really wants to. It's kind of a struggle getting them all to church, because it means wrangling four children all under the age of eight, but it's worth it. Again, great family.
As for what I eat, we have lunch every day at Hna Virginia's house, and for breakfast and dinner we fend for ourselves. For breakfast, we'll generally make a PB&J sandwich or something from the bakery around the corner, and for dinner, sometimes members or investigators will feed us, but generally we'll eat sandwiches or eggs. And Tang. a lot of tang. They basically have any fruit flavor you can imagine of tang here. It's awesome. We shop at a place called Maxi Palí, which is basically walmart but smaller and more.... Central-American, I suppose. My favorite snack is probably caña, which is sugar cane. you just buy them at little stands, and you can get three pieces for about 5 cordobas, and you just chew on it. It's great.
Housekeeping: For my birthday package, all I can really think of at this current moment is maybe a couple of ties, and beef jerky as always. I'll try to think of more stuff this week. But make sure that if you send any kind of food that's not factory sealed/airtight, to put it in a ziplock bag. Otherwise the humidity and heat destroys it. Ooh, that's another thing. Gallon-sized ziplock bags. good quality ones are hard to find here. And now, the other thing that President said, that might not make you too happy: Because the Latinos are now staying in the MTC for three weeks instead of two, my departure date was moved back. I will now be coming home on September 7, 2017. So that happened.
Anyways, that's it for this week! I love you all!
Love,
Cooper
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