Nicaragua here we go!

These past 2 weeks have been a little crazy. The week before last week we had 2 other sisters come live with us because they were opening an area and didn't have a place to stay but also because one of the sisters started to have depression and anxiety so we had to keep an eye on her and this past week she went home so that she could get the help she needed. That`s part of the reason I didn't write last week was because of what was going on. I didn't have changes but my companion did and now I have a new comp, Hna Lopez from Costa Rica and man is she Rica. She comes from a very wealthy family. We also had interviews with president this past week and it was once again AMAZING! 

Also, Nidia was supposed to get baptized this past Saturday but didn't because she was scared and had doubts. So we brought over a recent convert that helped her a lot and shared her experience and how she was scared but the blessing after are so great! It was a great lesson! Then on Sunday she came to church and felt the spirit so strong that she cried the first two hymns but then when we sang the last hymn it was "Praise to the Man" she stopped and after asked the Relief Society President about it. Then during Relief Society we sang about the first vision and then the lesson was about Joseph Smith. When we showed up to her house, she told us that she didn't want anything to do with the church, that we were nice and everything but that she can't join a church that ........Well we spent an hour trying to explain everything to her but she wouldn't accept it. I think her sister told her something and the man that she stopped seeing so that she could be baptized. After the lesson we asked her to pray that night and ask if the church was true and then left and I cried and cried and cried. I love that women so much and her saying she didn't want anything broke my heart. I've been rejected before but that was a kick in the heart. 

I've learned that right before somebody is going to do something great, there is always going to be trials, and satan is going to try and do everything to try and get you from fulfilling your potential.

Love you guys!

Hermana Partridge

Hey!

I can only write for a few minutes but I want to tell you guys that I´m alive and being Hna Lider is exhausting but it´s good! This week on Wednesday we have to meet with president as liders and then on Thursday we have interviews as a zone with president. This past week was crazy but hopefully this week Hna Nidia will be baptized and please pray for her! El Abogado came to church and said that he felt so much peace and that´s exactly what he´s looking for! Anyway! I love you guys! Have a good week!

Week of What Seemed Like Miracles!

I love the gospel! This week we were able to help with the Christmas activity and all the little kids dressed up as animals and we sang in the choir! 

On Friday we were walking down the street and this man passed us and stopped us to tell us that he doesn't know how many times he`s read our folleto but he`s tired of reading it and wants to learn more. Turns out he`s an attorney and he told us, "I feel like my faith is low and need your help, I`m confused about what church is true" I was blown away! On Saturday we went over and he basically taught us the Restoration and then we gave him a book of Mormon. We have an appointment with him tomorrow but I`m excited to see what he`s learned! Also Yesterday we contacted a house and a young man let us sit outside and teach him because he told us that he`s catholic but feels like they don't tell them the whole truth and that he`s confused about what church is true. Once again I was blown away and we were able to give him a Book of Mormon. Then on Friday a lady told us the same thing how she doesn't know which church to join. All I could think of is that God is preparing so many people and then putting them in our path. It`s the Lords work and I`m just helping teach and he`s the one bringing them into his fold. I love it! I love it when we trust in the Lord and have faith! 

Today we went to the Volcano and it was really cool but literally really hot. 

Hermana Partridge

My companion looking down into Volcano Masaya! 

We got permission from President to go to Volcano Masaya which is one of the four volcanoes en the world that you can see the lava. It was insane! It was so hot and steam was rising up. 

Our district at the Volcano.

I helped these less actives with wood work for a little bit and for 1 sec I felt like a carpenter. Then I started to think about how Jesus felt when he worked with wood and how he refines us.

Baseball Jerseys

Choir practice for Christmas

I love Nicaragua!

This past week was a good week! Tuesday we met together in Consejo with President and it was so spiritual and he basically told us that we are doing everything according to preach my gospel and he is so inspired! He is one of the humblest people I`ve met! 

Just the other night my companion and I were walking and this woman was crying hysterically and we started walking with her asking her what`s wrong and she started to hyperventilate and then fainted and my comp and I caught her and then a man came and said, That`s my aunt! And so we helped her to this house and her sister came out and was asking her what was wrong but we left to give her some air but it was an interesting moment. So please pray for this woman. 

So last last Sunday Nidia came out of her house Sunday morning telling us that we are wasting out time and that she doesn't want to go to church. The man had come over the night before and now she doesn't want to tell him that she has to keep the commandments. BUT we didn't give up and we went and visited her again and again reading The Book of Mormon and we taught her about the Plan of Salvation and that`s when she began to realize that this was the true church.  Then we started to talk about how we have a living prophet on the earth and she stops us and asks us, "We have a prophet on the earth?!" Yes! and she said, "That makes sense because why would God not communicate to us now through prophets!" And then she came to church this Sunday alone! She started to read some of the talks from Conference and she loves it! Please pray for her that she will have the strength to stop talking with this man!

Also, Holman that can't walk, is doing ok, but he`s scared of his catholic mom even though he`s 36! Please pray that his mom`s heart will be softened! 

I have to go but I love you all! And mom and dad, please don't post pictures of me on facebook..please, thank you!

We went to a old jail called Coyotepe and we took a picture as Zona Masaya!

Hermana Hussey and I inside the jail that`s underground.

Hermana Partridge photo bombs the picture.

Merry Christmas soon!

This week is going to be short! Sorry everyone!

My investigators in Nindiri are amazing! 

We have one named Holman who got into an accident 3 months ago and had to have surgery on his leg and is now in a wheelchair because he can't walk due to surgery. He accepted the Book of Mormon and has started to read it. For church he didn't go but later that day we had the devotional for Christmas and we passed by to see if he wanted to go and he comes out and his eyes are all red and his voice sounds awful and he`s like, Hermanas I`m so sorry! I couldn't go because I didn't wake up on time and I`m sick!" We told him about the Devotional and he was like, "I`m going!" and even though he cant walk and his mom was trying to talk him out of going, he went! That is so rare here in Nicaragua! He was sick and cant walk and he went! People here if they have a head ache or a fever and they automatically say, "I can't go, I`m sick" but the thing is they can go. 

Then we have Nidia. She is a 60 year old women that is helping a 75 year old man commit adultery. She knows what she`s doing is bad but the man had paid for her kids education for years and she feels indebted to him. She broke down crying our first visit and prayed for forgiveness, then that Sunday she came to church! Please pray for both of these people because they really need help feeling the spirit and receiving a confirmation that these things are true! 

I love you all and hope you all are doing fine! I hope it`s snowing because it`s hot down here! Merry Christmas!

Hurricane, Earthquakes, and Cockroaches o my!

I had changes! Now I`m in Zona Masaya in Nindiri! All my mission it's been hot! I've been in the hottest areas in my mission and now I`m here and it feels so cold, people are like, "it`s so hot out today" and I`m freezing! My new companion is Hermana Ramos from Honduras! She`s so cute and shy but man is she blunt and real with people. I love it! I`m also living with two other sisters, Hermana Hussey (She came with me to Nicaragua) and Hermana Calderon (the daughter of Hermana Hussey who is in training, she`s from El Salvador). Our house is probably the nicest one I've had in all my mission but it is full of cockroaches! These little cockroaches, there are hundreds of them!

This past week on Monday we woke up and had a cleaning fest and while we had a cleaning fest I decided to make smoothies, a member let us borrow her smoothie maker. So I put in the bananas and then the yogurt and milk, then I went to put in the oatmeal and I start to pour it in and I see a few cockroaches! I tried to get all of them out. I thought I had gotten them all out so I made the shake and we started to drink them when Hermana Ramos pulls half a cockroach out of her shake! She looks at it and says that bugs have more protein than chicken. It was hilarious! So we drank our cockroach filled smoothies and then as a Zone we went to a lagoon that is near by! Also, we live right next to a volcano! I've lived next to volcanoes all my mission and this one is so cool because it`s active! At night I was looking at the sky and this one part was dark red and it`s because the lava is shining out of the volcano onto the clouds reflecting and every day smoke leaves from it! 

Tuesday I went on divisions with Hermana Hussey to Masaya and I went to the hospital in Managua with another Hermana because she has a lot of pain in her sinuses and had an appointment. While her comp and Hermana Hussey worked in her area. Then we came back and I worked with Hermana Bullock and her daughter Hermana Lopez. It was pretty fun!

Then Thursday we got a warning about a hurricane that was about to hit Nicaragua and we had a earthquake the same day! Thank goodness that the Hurricane didn't hit this part of our area but in other areas it rained a ton! It only rained a little bit here.

I have to go love you all and Happy Thanksgiving!

 Above the volcano with the sun setting.












Cockroaches and more. This is only a few of the sticky pads that we have in the house.

It`s not temple square but it reminded me about it. Here is a little park that is near us.

          Just in case it erupts.

The Lagoon

Las Hermanas de Zona Masaya at the Lagoon!

                    Me, Hermana Ramos, and Hermana Calderon

I´m in Nindiri! Zona Masaya! I had changes! I miss Naumu!

My new companion and I! Her name is Hermana Ramos from Honduras! I have a Katracha!