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A dangerously acute account of 18 months in Nicaraguan Territory.
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(From Dora the Explorer) “Come on Vamanos! Everybody Let’s Go!” “Come on, let’s get to it! I know that we can do it!” Sorry for the Dora the Explorer shout out, it’s just that my companion and I have been singing that song all week because we’re teaching a family with three angelic little girls and they look just like mini- Doras. We are actually so excited for them because they have come to baptisms and church and really want to get baptized! But, we’re still working with the lawyers on the divorce (insert forehead slap here). Just please pray for Pablo, Jassely, Jire, Nelly, and Hillary; that they can overcome this obstacle and become an eternal family pretty soon! My companion and I were going a little crazy this week with the heat, so we decided to join part of the ward cultural show. We just about died of laughter as we sang a duet, a missionary saying goodbye to his girlfriend. She just couldn’t take it seriously, seeing me in a tie and listening to my natural- bass voice (thanks dad, for that one). I think the ward just laughed because it was funny to see a North American white girl do weird things. Now that’s a ward culture night. The video of this drama will be in theatres December 23, 2015, tickets available online at naomibeatty.weebly.com, with a cost of a visit to the Beatty home. As a tidbit of Nicaraguan culture, we listened to a very beautiful frog chorus as we walked home by the river last night. It wasn’t really croaks, but more of honks. I told my companion that they would make some really cool electronic music. Now that’s as natural electronic as you get. I am convinced it would be a big seller. “Natural noises of Nicaragua”, with some laser beams on the cover or something so they know that it sounds like a star wars battle! Just another brilliant idea of Hermana Beatty. We had the greatest privilege ever to help Pablito be baptized this weekend. It was so beautiful and so simple, just like Pablito. What I love about preparing people to make covenants with the Lord is that you really do see the changes they make just to show the Lord that they want to be better and want to repent. Repentance is not easy. It never was and never will be. I love this quote by Ralph Pariette: “Strength and struggle go together. The supreme reward of struggle is strength. Life is a battle and the greatest joy is to overcome. The pursuit of easy things makes men weak, do not equip yourselves with superior power and hope to escape the responsibility and work. It cannot be done. It is following the lines of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.” So, brothers and sisters, shall we look for hard things to do, and thus overcome? Let’s! {Cue Dora the explorer song once again} --Hermana Beatty * I didn't even have to run a marathon to get this shirt!
* Just another day with dirty feet!
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