To start with, a few answers to your questions. The chef cooks for 4 of us, it´s usually traditional Nica food, just usually really good Nicaraguan food. He used to work on cruise lines and he´s from the Mosquito coast of Nicaragua. The people from the coast are usually black and speak either mosquito or creole depending on where they´re from (and usually spanish). He and his family speak english creole. I basically don´t understand it. It´s kind of a mix of english and spanish without any grammar rules. They also speak spanish though, and as a rule they understand our english pretty well. They´re a really awesome family that have a goal to go to the temple and the best thing about his cooking is that we get vegetables a lot. But they´re really good. And the frescos they make are always super rico. Frescos are the best part of Nicaragua. When you went to go eat Nicaraguan food at the house of Hermana Arcia, did you eat gallo pinto? If not, you should try it sometime else. It´s basically just fried rice and beans but it´s one of the best things here and I definitely look forward to eating it. And pupusas. And cacao, (that one´s a drink). Sometimes we make food, but usually just on P-days sometimes. We eat in the night after we get back to the house for the day and then we plan for a half hour. So if we finish on time it´s 9:30 before we decide to get something to eat. I´m usually so tired by then, so if it takes longer than 45 seconds I generally don´t take the time. Cause I still need to write in my journal, and get ready for bed before I die for the night and resurrect the next morning. I don´t know if I told you guys this, but every morning except Sunday we get up and go play sports at the church with whoever wants to play with us at 6am. (sometimes people from the ward come, but more often then not, it´s usually just the Elders in our area). But it´s fun, we play basketball and soccer and workout (run and do ladders). We´re all really out of shape... (=
This week was a better week than last. Still didn´t have a family at church, but we had a few investigators and some cool experiences this week. It really, always just seems to come down to having faith that He will fulfill his promises. And the cool thing is He always does. We have a cool district leader that really helped our area out this week, basically sacrificing all his time in his area to help our area out. When he first came to our district I thought he was all about numbers and what we like to call a machetero (I´m not sure the exact translation in English the root word is a machete, basically a person who machetes with words, it´s good and needed at times--think about President Holland, it can push people to change for the better--but bad when used too much). He changed though when he realized that our district really and truly was trying, and what we needed was not a "do better with your numbers speech", it was direction and help.
There was a cool family that gave us a key chain from Nicaragua and made us dinner this week. The dad was ready to give up his bible for the Book of Mormon when he read the BOM title page with us... He´s a little extraño but he makes really cool things and his family is super nice. There were 2 teenage girls that walked in the pouring rain to church with us, happy about it. (That´s really strange because Nicaragüenses as a rule hate the rain). They´re really cool though.
Changes are this week. I might have changes. They usually don´t keep 2 Gringas together for too long so I have a feeling one of us will change areas. I kind of want a latina comp that doesn´t speak English. That would be helpful with learning Spanish, and it would force me to speak Spanish all the time. It´s really easy to speak English with an English speaker... (My whole mission)
I love you all.
Good work Nikki and Dal
Hermana Heather Merrill
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