Pig on a Leash... and some mission thoughts!

a new fruit... mamon chino

After you bite the hairy skin off, you discover a sweet white, clear fruit.
different, but good... Laurie wanted no part of it :)

This is quite unique in Esteli... a pig on a leash!
Every once in awhile, you see someone walking their pig like they would walk their dog.
Needless to say, the pig was gone the next day... yum!

I don’t have many pictures to share this week so I decided to share a couple things that have been

reiterated to us thus far on the mission.

#1 The spirit doesn’t care which language people speak, where people live, or the conditions in which they live. He is the “Universal Communicator” and will testify of truth whether we are speaking broken Spanish or in the most impoverished home. We have been in some nice homes with cement floors/walls, curtains on the windows, and a bathroom, and in some very humble dwellings with dirt floors, wood walls, plastic over the window, and an outhouse in the backyard. One thing holds true; the spirit testifies and is powerful no matter the conditions we are in or how broken our Spanish is. We both had an opportunity to bear our testimonies yesterday in Spanish and the spirit we felt was almost palpable and believe it or not, they understood what we we're saying.

#2 The Lord always prepares a way when you are obedient and doing His will. When we go into an active or inactive members home we usually begin our message with a hymn and a prayer. The other night we visited a sweet older couple and I asked the hermana if we could sing her favorite song. She chose “I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go.” This song has special meaning for us especially the end of verse one:

But if, by a still, small voice He calls

To paths that I do not know,

I’ll answer, dear Lord, with my hand in thine:

I’ll go where you want me to go.

Although we didn’t have a clear understanding of exactly what we’d be doing, we answered the Lord’s call to serve and placed our hands in His and are now in a small town in the northern highlands of Nicaragua working with wonderful people having great experiences. After reading the scripture in 1 Nephi 3:7, her husband recognized and commented on our willingness to serve even though we had no clue what we were getting into but trusted Heavenly Father to come knowing that He would prepare a way for us to accomplish what He wanted us to do.

Loves to all……Hermana and Elder Koelliker