This week's post:
OH MY LANTA!! This week was insane! So Sunday night on the 13 we recieved a call saying that Hna Gilbert and I needed to go to Managua to get her Cedula which is like a Visa but Managua is 4 hours away by bus! So Monday morning we got up at 4:30 and left on a bus FULL of people at 5:30 and when I say it was full I mean that every seat was taken and that we were tightly squeezed together standing so I stood for 3.5 hours straight and about an hour into the trip a man offered my companion his seat which was very nice of him. We got to Managua and had to wait 7 hours in immigration for her Cedulla and then took a bus back to Rivas and we stopped to eat at a place and then went to write but the whole day I kind of felt "car sick" which never happens to me but my stomach was seriously feeling weird. So after we wrote I was like "Hermana Gilbert my stomach hurts so much.....I think I´m going to puke" but we still went to work but half way though the night I had to sit down on a curb because I was seriously going to puke and after 2 min a man came up to us with cigarettes and we started to teach him the Word of Wisdom and he accepted a baptismal date and then while my companion was talking to him a girl came up to us and said that she wanted to stop smoking and drinking so I taught her the Word of Wisdom and she accepted a baptismal date and then she told us her cousin was baptized and he´s a less active that my companion has been trying to find for 3 months and then out of nowhere she was like "There he is right there" and pointed to a teenager and we waved him over and we got to talk with him! Seriously it was a night of Miracles! BUT at 8:30 we returned to the house because I was not doing so hot. So I layed down for about an hour and I woke up at 9:30 and puked......I puked for the first time in over 10 years! Let´s just say I´m grateful that it took that long up until now. But seriously I was having some bad diahrea with my companion the day before and the same day so the next day we called the Nurse and she told us to take a poop test. So we went and had a poop test and we both had two parasites. So we started to take medicine after that and I´m doing so much better right now!
Then on Wednesday I hit my 6 month mark! I cant believe it!!! But while we were working we made so many bathroom breaks!
Then
on Thursday we had a Multi Zona and so we had to wake up at 2:30 to go
to Managua and we heard some great things from President about being a
better missionary and how there´s a difference between a consecrated
missionary and a bad missionary. Then at 5 we left and had another 4
hour ride to Rivas and didn't get back until 8:00 and worked for a half
an hour and then went to bed.
So on Sunday we
had three investigators come to church when last week we had 7!! We have to
complete every week with 7 but this week was just 3 and so we were kind
of down the whole day but it was good because they loved the church!
Then we ran out of toilet paper!!! DUN DUN DUHHHHHH! So we used paper
from our notebooks. Let me just say it´s better than using our hands.
Also everyone here is practically catholic. We have this huge cathedral
here and I keep thinking of the movie Notradam.
This
coming week is Semana Santa which is the hottest week of the year here!
Pray for us that we don't die of dehydration because that´s a problem
here because of how much your sweating.
Also why didn't anyone tell me that Snape died!!!? I would have liked to know that! Anyway back to this week.......
All in all it was a good week. My companion is really good at finding the little miracles and tender mercies here and there.
This week is I CAN DO IT!! We need to look forward with a positive attitude
WHY I CAN'T. --> WHY CAN'T I??
Set in stone, can't change. --> Hope, Possibility of change
Change the way you feel!
Love you all!
Hermana Partridge
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