San Juan and Grenada

We went and saw Jesus at San Juan

Spent a week in San Juan. A family from Australialand have 'need greated' over there. So we went to help them settle into their new place. Ok well thats the excuse we used, but we just went on a holiday. Nice place but, super touristy, hardly any Nicaraguans which made it feel more like we were somewhere in California . Nice congregation including a monkey, an actually real one. I don’t think he is a publisher yet though. But his study is going well.

Boss man

Enjoyed some amazing surf, and beautiful beaches. I surfed for like 1.73 seconds. It’s cool how deceiving you can be by walking down to the water with a board, looking all pro and stuff. But the coolness kinda dies off rather quickly when a wave of decent size comes that the other surfers float over just wipes you out..... not that that happened to me of course *cough cough*.  I wouldn't call what I did actually surfing, but the water was nice and the floatation device was a good accessory in the water.

Happiness

Then we went to Grenada for the weekend, went Zip Lining on the way.... SO MUCH FUN! So i was superman, batman and sore groin man for a couple of hours that day.

Got a sports massage by a blind dude at a hotel, so that was weirdly cool. There was also an option to get covered in chocolate and massaged with cocao butter, but that sounded a little to invasive for my liking.... and I would’ve got distracted and started to eat myself anyway.

Me surfing.... yes thats right im black now......

San Juan De Sur

But we are back now in Hot Chinandega, trying to get back into routine although couldn’t help but go and see the beach one more time on thursday. At the moment I have Beau doing the maps for me while I write the blog and listen to rain coming down flat out.

Good times greatest hits.

Zach

Stuff and things!

We are out! Thats right we have left! Well we have only gone down the road about a kilometre, but it was a great move. Our previous location was great but now we have the luxuries of a fridge and an oven. The process to move from our old place in Chililandia to “Josh and Cass’s” as it is known was most definitely the quickest I have experienced. After a full day in the Field, we got home at 6pm then we had 45 min to transfer the loads. At 7pm we had a few friends come round for the watchtower prestudy. So offering drinks as really rhetorical because I had no idea where anything was, but a brother brought around pizza so we didn’t die.

The following week however the watchtower pre-study was too good. Once again pizza was still amazing but after a great study and some stellar deep comments from the fellers, at least 90% of us laughed to the point where the neighbours were probably wondering why they weren't invited.

So the new house is good. Of course with any new escapade there has to be a few glitches. One dark and gloomy night Bobo was being the housewife that he is, and decided to cook dinner after some gentle prodding on my part (“Bo, make me food”). He fried the chicken, washed cut and boiled the potatoes and sat it all in a baking dish. After gently placing it in the gas oven he turned the gas on. I then arrived home. The conversation was as follows

Me - “sweet dude you cooked dinner”

Bobo - “Yeah man no worries”

“So what have you made? *opens oven..... sniff sniff* can you smell gas?”

“Que”

“Beau did you light the oven”

“What”

So he had left the oven with gas pouring out for around 10 minutes. Ok so he could have killed the entire population of central america..... but the stupidest thing was when I lit a match shortly after, thinking the gas had gone away. BOOM. The house burned down! .... well that didn’t happen but my ears where ringing for a while afterwards and the whole oven jumped half a foot away from the wall. But hey – death averted! Level Up!!

Drinking Heaps good Coffee

As it is every year, the memorial is a beautiful occasion. All the more interesting in Chinandega, we had it outside in the Kingdom Hall car park and had about 19 new ones attend the meeting. Some of the Spanish congregation had some astonishing results.

Mr Simon Looking like a Boss

ITS RAINING!! Everyone has been waiting for it and its finally come. Though in small portions, when it first started during the meeting i was so tempted to get up and start dancing, but it might have been awkward explain that one.

Other than that went on another Bike trip to Matigalpa with Simon. Drank some amazing coffee and had a ride to Jinotega from there. Anyone who loves bikes had to do this! we have some GO PRO footage, video pending either from me or the 'Simon'.

Bike Break at the Lookout

Few other things have happened, had to have some epic repairs on my bike, chain slider came off... twice... disaster. Not as bad as Beau ruinating his scooter but it was all ok when he got a kiss on the head from a new American brother..... hmmm

Exciting weird stuff ay...

I have noticed quite a difference to the way bible studies react to the truth. After asking a question, instead of them reading the answer out of the book, they close the book and actually put it in their own words and even illustrating points. Its a great feeling to be around a more spiritually minded culture. Plenty of work to do, but plenty of fun to be had doing it.

  - Zach

Volcano San Sebastian over a paddock