Picture overload!

This post will mostly be pictures. Maybe tomorrow I'll get chance to post some of our recent service experiences and talk more about CO visit. If you follow poet879 on Instagram then you've already seen a lot of these pictures!

First, we went to the beach a couple of weeks ago, and on the way we stopped in at Casares to see how the finished Kingdom Hall looked.  A couple of pioneers live next door so they let us see inside it too. We had the privilege of working a couple of times on this construction project so it was nice to see it all finished.

Then we spent a lovely afternoon at the beach in La Boquita. We went with our friend Caleb, his parents and our fried Cherub who had just arrived from Indianapolis the day before.

Our lovely lunch at the beach - fish complete with eyes!

It was a really relaxing, lazy day!

My friend Cherub, one day in to her Nicaragua adventure.

The gang. We missed Brenda - she wasn't feeling well that day

We stayed until the sun set.

We had CO visit and Cherub stayed with us for the week. The visit was really encouraging, maybe I'll write more about it later. It was fun introducing Cherub to Nicaragua. She has a blog too if you want to check it out - http://www.querubina.org/my-blog.html 

She took some cool pictures out in service that I have been posting on Instagram. Here are some of the shots she took of our territory.

Amongst these pictures are a couple of me with my bible studies. And the big group shot is the pioneer meeting with the CO. We have 8 regular pioneers and a big crowd of auxiliary pioneers, quite a few of whom were at their first ever pioneer meeting. It was very encouraging indeed.

Pancasan is the name of a neighborhood in our territory, and also the name of our congregation. And there is a picture of me crossing my favorite bridge in our territory!

In the middle we are with the CO and a family whose house we were invited to lunch at.

I love this shot!! I was showing Isaac the story of Abraham going to sacrifice Isaac. He didn't know the story of his namesake. He seemed to be pretty interested in it!

Saturday afternoon we had the privilege of having the CO and his wife over for lunch, along with a few others, and at their request we made pizzas! We also discovered that our CO plays guitar and sings pretty well!

CO chillin' in the recliner!

Pizzas galore!

This Saturday that just passed, which is usually our short day in service, we ended up being in Masaya for over 12 hours. Charley went to help on a project at the Kingdom Hall trying to get the water sorted out because the CO's water tank keeps emptying out and he has no water. He was going to help for a couple of hours, but it turned into an all day affair. But the CO has water now, so all is good!

About 4 brothers throughout the day dug that whole tunnel by hand! And the further they went, the deeper the water pipes got! Charley has blisters all over his hands.

We also went to Esteli, about 2 1/2 hours north of here, to drop Cherub off. She's going to be there, enjoying the cooler climate, for about a month. I didn't take a lot of pictures, and those I did take were out of the car window, but here's an idea of how hilly, and pretty it is north of where we live.

We decided these were rice fields, because in dry season everything else is brown as you can see in the other pictures!

And to finish off, some more random pictures from field service that I've taken over the last week.

My youngest bible student, Anai, on her wheel swing!

Public witnessing table on Friday. That lady in the blue skirt is reading the Good News brochure.

Nicole was rather engrossed in the brochure!

Walter Jr couldn't figure out how to get that shirt off his head!

Well, there's your picture overload. Hasta luego friends!