Week 22 -- Cuidad Sandino

Honestly, the past week has been pretty boring for me as well. But I'm glad to know that at least I didn't miss much with the superbowl. But congrats to Isaac on making the State swim team! It really is cool to see that he's having so much success with swim, especially since he's just a sophmore. By the time I get back, I'm positive he'll be making and breaking state records, at the very least. 

Like I said, not much has happened this week with me. Alison came back from Tippitappa, so we were able to baptize her, and now we're working on getting the mom to church. Umm.... the only other really noteworthy thing that's happened this week is that Elder Martinez and I were attacked by some vagos (street bums) yesterday. We were walking to an investigators house, and a bunch of them were fighting near the entrance to Pedro Juaquin, one of the areas where we work. This isn't really uncommon, so we just kept walking. But then two of them came up, and one of them kicked me. It didn't do any damage, but Eldeer Martinez looked back to basically yell, "what's wrong with you?" in Spanish at them. That's when we saw that four more of them were coming at us with the big flagstones that they use to pave roads. Needless to say, we ran to our next cita. We didn't run into any problems with that for the rest of the night, we just avoided that entrance on our way out. So that was exciting. 

Right now, now that we've baptized Alison, we don't have a lot of people that we're teaching. But hopefully I'll have someone to write about next week. 

As for the beach town that we went to, it was actually a pretty cool place. It's called Playa Gigante, which literally translates into Beach that is Giant. It was pretty cool, eventhough we really didn't get to see a lot of it (as missionaries at a beach, we were pretty heavily supervised). The town itself was pretty cool, from what I saw though, there wasn't much. A few restaurants, maybe a shop. But it was kind of cool, because you're basically in a jungle, and all of the sudden, boom, you're on the beach. There was a couple of places that you could rent out rooms. And there were a couple of houses on the beach too, which were amazing. One had a loft that was open-air, and it just looked like a really cool place to stay. If we ever come out here after my mission, I think that Playa Gigante (or San Juan del Sur, which is supposedly better) is one of the places that I would take you.

All in all, that's pretty much it for this week. As always, I love all of you, and can't wait to read your letters/write to you next week!

Love,

Cooper