el 4 de Agosto

another month! what?!

this week, i promised photos, so i will try and do the 

best i can!

the first one. his name is jose. and he's my favorite 

little vejito (how you kindly call him an old man). 

he calls us his little angelitas, and we try and visit 

him once a week. he's been a member for about two 

years, and still has a lot of questions to learn about 

the book of mormon. cute man has some weir beliefs,

 but i love him!

the next one, this is maryuri. she and i share a birthday, 

the first of many sister missionaries to visit the house 

to share one! what a privilege. her grandma made us 

lunch and it by far, was one of the best i've had here 

(even compared to sister gladis!! shhh, you didn't hear 

me say that!)

this was my birthday lunch... yumm!!

this past wednesday was an adventure. let me 

explain. almost two weeks ago, my eye started 

bugging me. bad. it felt like i had something in 

my eye, but it wasn't coming out by itself. we 

tried rinsing it with saline, to no avail, and i just 

kind of tried to deal with the pain. last sunday i 

talked with sister russell at our branch conference, 

and she and her nurse/appointment maker, made

 me a doctor's appointment in managua on 

wednesday. the doctor looked at my eye for three 

seconds, said "o, yeah, you have plastic in your eye. 

let me take that out for you. let me get a needle." 

he scrapped it out, and out came the tiniest little 

piece of plastic i have ever seen. he proceeded to 

but some medicine in my eye, and give me the 

world's largest eye patch. he told me i couldn't 

blink my one eye, so i had to stay the afternoon 

in the house. but, there wasn't another option, 

but got to work in the evening, so away we went! 

all the little kids were quite amused at my eye patch, 

but thankfully on thursday morning i was able to go 

to managua again and have it removed! thank you 

random doctor man!

sunday was a struggle bus, but we are working on it. 

completeing with our six investigators in church is 

proving to be really hard, but we will do it, if it's the 

last thing i do here in granada!

we had a zone activity today, so here's a picture of all 

of us! the matching shirts are the companionships!

my favorite person this past week... probably

 hermanita claudia. she's one of our investigators, 

soo adorable, who wants to be baptized, but her 

mom doesn't want to give us permission. prayers 

that she and her daddy and mommy can talk and can 

give us permission to make that covenant with our 

Heavenly Father.

most significant tender mercy... the power of a fast. 

i am holding out for the blessings i know we can receive 

after a faithful and worthy fast. a fast brings miracles, 

especially here in the mission.

a most favorite scripture: john 9:25

::Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing 

I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.:: 

through our faith in christ, we may be brought to the 

light that is our lord and savior, jesus christ. to have 

that personal relationship is something we should all 

strive to have, something that we have to have in order 

to be able to have that light in our lives.

goals: work harder, pray harder, strengthen my 

relationship with Him.

yo se que vive mi salvador

hermana graves