Adventures in Nicaragua: Parasites, rats, and grease oh my!

Well this week has been interesting. Monday we went to Jinotepe and played games
in the chapel and then we walked in the rain all the way to this Chinese place which
is the first time I've eaten Chinese in over a year! It was actually pretty good!
At first I was worried because Chinese in the United States is sketchy but Chinese
food in Nicaragua....SUPER Sketchy but it was just Chinese rice and noodles with
chicken. Tuesday we found out who was going to have changes and we got the call
and ....My companion Hermana Naumu and I are staying together another change!!
This is our third change together! There`s something that God wants us to learn from
each other or that he wants us to do. Then on Wednesday, I finally took a parasite
test and turns out that Hermana Naumu and I both have parasites........I don't know
what round of parasites this is but it`s probably the 5th round.

So one of our converts Socorro this little old lady thought Hermana Naumu was leaving
and before we got the call we went to her house and she had made us food! We had
just come from lunch and she pulls out a huge plate of gallo pinto with cheese and
chicken and maduro frito! And she looks at us and says, You guys are going to eat it
all! My stomach hurt so much after! HAHAHA! It was hilarious!

Then Friday it started to rain HARD! While we were eating lunch it started to rain and
then we left in the rain and I had to make a bridge in the street with huge rocks just to
cross the river that was there. So my hands were so dirty! Then we get to Hermana
Socorro`s house again, soaking wet and we sit down and we start talking and she says.
I made some beans that I put in a blender with a TON of butter! I want to you guys to
try some!¨ She then proceeds to bring out a pot of beans and say Pruebalo! I said,
But my hands are dirty and she says, Que me importa, Pruebalo! Which means that
doesn't matter to me, try it! So I put my finger in and ate it! Then she says, I want you
guys to have some with maduro frito! She then proceeds to bring out two plates of this
bean stuff and fried plantains that are sweet and fried cheese! I hate fried cheese! It`s a
cheese here that is so nasty and they fry it which makes it more nasty! So I ate greasy
cheese with greasy plantains with greasy beans.........we basically ate grease! It was great!
I definitely need to start running or something or I`m going to have a heart attack Haha!

Then Saturday night was crazy! I hear this screaming and I run into the bedroom and
there is this HUGE cockroach in the mosquito net of Hermana O`Donnal. So Hermana
Vasquez and I tried to get it out but it took us a little while while Hermana Naumu and
O`Donnal screamed in a bed together. THEN! I was like we can get it out with this sticky
pad that I have under my bed for bugs! So I look under my bed and there is a huge rat
stuck on the sticky pad......and it was alive! So then we had to kill the cockroach and then
we had to kill the rat.....it was a crazy night. That was my second rat that I`ve killed here
and it probably won't be my last.

Albeniz is doing good, he`s going to get baptized this Saturday but please pray for him
because he`s going through hard times right now.

DORISSELL CAME TO CHURCH!! Your prayers worked! She came to church! I was
happier than a bird with a french fry when I saw her walk through those doors!

Larry didn't come to church and we don't know why so please pray for him!

I love you all so much! Have a good week!

Hermana Partridge