Our good friends Rick and Maggie couldn´t let us leave Jinotega without having one more Turkey dinner with all the fixins. Heather and Rob even provided both an apple AND a pumpkin pie. For those of you who haven´t lived down here it will be hard to appreciate the effort to put this kind of dinner together. The last time we had turkey someone brought it down as check on luggage from the states. Imagine what the poor guy working the xray machine at the airport must of thought;) This time Rick was able to find a turkey in the capital. Here you see everyone who partook of the feast. We miss you guys!
Two nights later we had a nice surprise when the whole congregation got together and put on some ´going away´skits and dancing. First up was a young brother who imitated Andrew conducting the Theocratic School. The sister to the left was imitating me interpreting to sign.
Nina, Anielka, and Massiel danced to a song about Jinotega…
and Raquel and Maggie took the lead in a country line dance.
We loved the Mariachi styling of Patricia Caro but only have it on video. We may be changing Blog sites. When we do I´ll upload some videos.
There were quite a few deaf at the party. The brother on the left is Hayder. He goes to one of the sign language congregations in Managua but was in Jinotega to visit his mom and came to our meetings. He was one of the first deaf to be baptised in Nicaragua.
Juanita (in the middle of the picture below) is one of the deaf students in Jinotega. I was the householder for her first talk on the theocratic school. It was the week before we left. Juanita and I were on stage signing the talk while two sisters who know sign were on the front row of the audience translating what we signed into spanish. She´s hoping to be a publisher soon.
Tania, Elio, Nestor, Gabi y Luis…Nos hacen mucha falta. Les esperamos aqui en Telpaneca. Felicidades por las metas que van logrando. Siguen adelante.
