Hey! Happy August!
It's pretty crazy that summer is winding down! Things like
that seem to pass by so much faster when I'm not involved with it. The months
pass in a blink of an eye. I gotta stop blinking! haha
Well this was a great week! I still feel completely lost in
my area, but that's ok. It's a good area. If you look up the Masaya central
part, that's where I go running almost every morning. Yeah, I know...that's a
shocker. I'm trying to be a runner again! Haha. One of the other sisters loves
running, so the 4 of us go running most mornings...although the latinas stop
after a lap or two. I'm getting better...I about died the first time we
ran...running and walking are NOT the same!
So some more details about my area...MONIMBO! Yeah...I love
the names of my areas...Miraflores, El Rosario, Diriomo, and Monimbo. Gotta
love Spanish city names!
My house is SO small. My companion and I just bump into
eachother all the time. We affectionately call our room the cupboard. Because
it really is a shed. But it's a functional shed...and the bathroom works, so I
can't complain too much. My companion is so sweet. She actaully talks a lot
like Angel...my BYU roomate. Just really happy and gets excited about things
really easily. It's kind of hard on her to have a 2nd companion already, but we
get along really well. She's already super trunky...so I've gotta help her
enjoy the mission more. But I remember that feeling of desperation when you
think about how long a year and a half is. But little does she know that it's
not long at all.
There are 6 missionaries in my ward...2 elders and 4
hermanas...the opposite of Diriomo! We eat lunch with the hermanas...it's way
fun! As always, we pay an hermana to make lunch for us, but as far as dinner
goes...yeah. What's dinner again? haha. Usually we eat some crackers or
something. I bet it'll be hard for me to adjust when I get home...when dinner
is the big meal again!
Masaya is hotter than Diriomo...and we're in a drought, so
that makes it even worse. Sometimes I carry a little spray bottle with me. Free
fruit isn't as likely anymore. Sad day. But there are TONS of restaurants and
cool places to eat and shop, because Masaya is PURE tourist town. There are 2
markets that sell all the souveneir type things. Oh, but I don't need to go to
the market, because the majority of the members are artisans that MAKE these
things. It's pretty cool to walk into a house and see them making shoes, or
hammocks, or typical nicaraguan shirts. I will most definitely take advantage
of that!
So the investigators are...good. Do I know them really well
yet? Not exactly, but we're getting there! But...we had 2 baptisms this
Saturday! Yay! Hno R and his son, K, were baptized. It went
smoothly. It was so impressive to see how well the ward took care of
everything. SO refreshing to not have to prepare anything...just show up and
everything was ready! I guess that's what it's like in the states? R and
K were both really excited and content. Actually in the morning, R was having second thoughts and we were really worried...but then we started our
fast and BAM! Spiritual magic! Because we visited him again and he was excited
and had his bag of extra clothes sitting by him on the sidewalk 3 hours early.
Fasting WORKS! It's amazing!
So Saturday was also our district leader's birthday...so in
the morning, the entire district went to the other hermanas' house and then
Hermana A called our DL to tell him that her companion was really sick
and needed a blessing...so he came over, but when Hna A opened the porton to
let him in, we attacked him with eggs...as in we literally smacked a bunch of
eggs on his head. Yep. And THAT is how Nicaraguans celebrate birthdays...with
huevos! But we also made pancakes afterwards,so we're not THAT cruel...haha.
But yeah...that's why Saturday was a day of huevos y convenios...eggs and
covenants. haha.
On Sunday, K and R were confirmed. And the cool
thing was that our investigator, E, was sitting next to me, and during the
confirmation, he told me that he wanted to be baptized on Aug. 23rd, on his
birthday! That was an AWESOME experience, since I was watching 2 investigadores
turn into recent converts...while hearing from someone else that he wanted to
be baptized no matter what happened. It's amazing how the Spirit works! The
Lord truly is preparing people...I just need to find more of them!
Love you all!
Have a great week!
Hermana MacKay
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