Training in Esteli

So. This was a crazy week! Well the lastest and greatest is that I get to train a newbie!

 I get to be a mother! Not only do I have the best awesome

daughter ever, but I was also assigned to be the training leader here
in Esteli. (It´s a new position if you haven´t heard of it). Basically
I´m supposed to do divisions 2 times a week to help train the
Hermanas. (Once I get a hang of it, I´ll be sure to let you know (= )
Although I wasn´t really ever told what I´m supposed to do, it´s good
we have a leaders meeting coming up in a week. My new companions name
is Hermana Aparicio. She served a 4 week mini mission in Panama where
she´s from before she came here to Nicaragua. She is so awesome and is
pre-trained. I love working with her and am so excited I get to train
her.  Remember all the girls that were in the airport with us the week
I left on my mission? They´re all training too! It was fun taking a
picture with all of us and all our daughters.

Updates on the families we´re teaching:
Hector and Aleida
They were so ready to get baptized this Saturday. Then I found out
that he was married before. And isn´t divorced, which means he can´t
get married. (There are a lot of couples that "se juntan", or are just
living together. So many times they get married and then baptized to
obey the law of chastity before they´re baptized). I thought they were
clear as far as not needing any divorces, but alas... The divorce
process is 3 or 4 months and longer if they have kids which (I also
found out, don´t know why I didn´t know before, he has 2). He´s going
to go and talk to his wife this week, he´s ready to take the
initiative which is good especially because divorces are expensive as
well.

We also found some other really awesome families this week, the most
noteable family being Jose Miguel and Maria Torrez. They really needed
the gospel. We´ve had some really spiritual lessons sitting on the
cement front porch of a neighbor/friend. They don´t have a house of
their own, and the people they´re living with are of a different
religion and didn´t want us teaching in their house. They came to
church this week (alone!) with all 3 of their kids and said they´re
coming next week. We´re going to have a family home evening with them
tonight.

Our p-day today was really cool, we went to some really cool
sight-seeing spots in Nicaragua. I´ll send pictures next week.

Con mucho Cariño,
Hermana Merrill