Visiters, Earthquakes, and More

This month was really busy! If my two years go by this fast, I don't no what I'll do!😀 Hope you enjoy the up date!!!
Oct 4 Amber and I went to central park and rode on the bald bus, (a bus with the top cut off that takes a tour of the city), and ate raspados, (shaved ice with dulce de leche).
Oct 6 Cleaned all day, and then a group came from Georgia (miss you all😄). Went to Bible school with two of the girls, so that was really awesome to see them again.
Oct 7 Had orientation with the group right after breakfast, then we girls painted and cleaned the house of an elderly neighbour man, while the guys worked on putting in a side walk. Then in the afternoon we went out to Malpaisillo to be with the rest of the group, hung out and played games. 😄
Oct8 We finished painting the house, then came back and stamped antorchas,(a magazine tract), then we went to the children's home, and took stamps and paper along for them to make cards. Before long they were stamping themselves, then stamping each other, until it turned into a stamp war.  Some the children were just taking ink pads and rubbing them all over people.

After the children's home we had a hose fight, changed, and then went out to eat for supper.

Oct 9 Met the people from Malpaisillo at the bottom of Cerro Negro, and hiked that all morning.

Came back to church had lunch and 2hr. Of Personal time. We had church in the evening.

Oct 10 All the people from Malpaisillo came in again to eat breakfast, then we all went to Central park to get money exchanged, then went to tour the cathedral. That was really cool to see. We went up on the roof, and it was just amazing up there! I was having too much fun and forgot to get pictures, sorry, maybe next time! After that, we split into groups. Our group went material shopping, toured the market, went souveneir shopping, and out to eat.  We all met back at the trucks, then came to the church, quickly changed, and headed off to the beach. The waves were pretty big and it was kind of scary, but fun. We went back to the church, had supper, and played games, (any one want to play steal?😄) the rest of the evening 

Oct11 Kind of a lazy morning. We didn't do all that much, then went to the guys' house for supper and had chicken over the fire. It was really good! We just hung out, and Delmar played a few songs on the guitar.

Oct 12 The group left bright and early. (miss you all!)

Oct 13 Experienced my first earthquake! I was in bed, and Amber came over and told me to get out of my room. I wasn't sure what was going on! Then we went and watched the telephone poles outside our windows shake.. kind of a weird feeling. We can't get out very easily because there are too many doors and locks, so we weren't sure what to do. 😷 Later we found out it was a 7.4..eek!

Oct19 The youth were at our place for the evening. We hung out, played games, and ate food.☺

Oct 20 Out friend Yessenia's grandma passed away... it hadn't even been a month since her grandpa died! It was really hard for her and her cousins, because their grandparents  rasied them, and were like their parents.. Please pray for them!

Oct 25 We took a friend out for her birthday.

She has got to be one of the sweetest girls I know!

Oct 28 Helped to tear down our friend's house, because she wasnt getting along with a neighbor, and she moved just a couple houses down the road. It was a lot of fun, but I have never seen a house with soooo much junk, it was crazy! We found mice, scorpions, and a whole ant farm under a picture on her wall... I picked it up, and huge ants and all of their eggs fell out left and right!😜It took all day to tear the house apart. She even wanted the cement pillers taken out😄... Please pray for Luz and her daughter Tanya. 

Well that was my month of October! Sorry I got this out soo late. Thanks for all your prayers and support- it means a lot! Please continue to pray for the church down here.. We really need it. Don't forget to come visit! God bless! Genessa

Sept first month

Hey you all yea this blog thing has not been going very well... How did my first month go here? It was absolutely amazing! It flew by soo fast! Some highlights were visiting the children`s home, and visiting people.  We visit a lady named Luz who has a daughter that isn`t normal, and there is another elderly couple that we visit. They are as skinny as sticks, but are always praising God for everything. They had a really cute kitten, and they said they would give to us if we bought them some plastic for their roof. Then A few days later we got this adorable baby miniature poodle and named her Pepper. At first the two werent sure what they thought of each other. They still fight like cats and dogs but then the next min they are sleeping beside each other.😃The  first week was just getting settled in, then the next four weeks had school from 8 till 12 in the morning. I miss that, because I made a lot of friends on my half hour walk to school. My teacher loved showing me the different sights of the city down here. When giving directions, you go by the churches, so he took me to tour most of the Catholic churches in our area.  Some of them are absolutely beautiful! Then he would usually buy me a shaved ice or a popsicle. Also, he took me to the art museum. That was cool ...I went to my first vela, or wake... The second week I was down here, one of the girls that comes to church's grandpa died. He was kind of like a dad to her. That was a different experience. Everyone here spends like the whole night just sitting around outside... The third week here, I climbed my first volcano!  That was a lot of fun. I thought I was going to die on the first half, then it got a little easier.  It was sooo cloudy that we almost walked past the crater, but then when it cleared up, it was

absolutely amazing! We could see almost all of nicaragua from up there! One last highlight: Amber took me out to celebrate my last day of school! We went to a fancy resturant. It was really cool! The serving was huge, so we split the plate.

So that is basically what has happened since I've been down here. Please pray for the church here- it definitely could use it thank you all

hey WOW were do i start every thing soo far has been amazing so i got here like 10 mon night the flight paper work and every thing went gr8 sorry iam going 2 b jumping a head i dont have much time... so tues  we went to market kinda just looked around then we went and visited on of the young girls who is a church member here it is soooo anoyying though cause i didnt understand what hey were saying... then i we went to Richard Burkholders for supper i love there family already ...wen we got up late then went to visit a lady that amber know and she made an amazing breakfast for us soo good then we had a Bible study with her... then my favorite part so far is the children's home we played soccer with them loved it then  helped them with there home work it was soo madding i was trying to tell them how to do it and they didnt understand me ...then we went home and got ready to go to church in another town we rode on the back of the truck quite the ride :) any how i need to finish later sorry i dont have any pics yet  

hey every one i think iam finally settled in i would love to tell  you every thing right now but iam running out of time so i just ask that you would pray for me next wk i start spanish school thank you all soo much

wow i cant believe it i am leaving tomorrow where has the time gone ...aaaaaa!!!!! i am sooooo excited:)

Hey everybody I just thought I would start a blog for you all to keep up with me as I serve in Nicaragua as a personal worker.