During the last two weeks of ministry in Nicaragua, I got the privilege of working with the cooks in the kitchen and it was truly an experience of a lifetime. They are some of the most amazing women I’ve ever met with so much knowledge and deserve to be loved on every single day.
We started out with helping them with dishes and chopping up vegetables, as none of us knew each other’s language.
It started to become comical with the language barrier, but somehow, we were still able to communicate and figure out what each other was saying. They started to teach us how to make the meals, how long to fry plantain chips, how to say certain foods in Spanish, and how not to burn the plantain chips (because we did that a lot….)
We also led bible studies a good few times a week for them and it was so eye opening. We learned just as much from them as they did from us and the presence of God was so amazing. We even got to teach them how to make chocolate chip cookies because they had never heard of them nor ever made them before, so it was very cool to teach them a thing or two after everything they’d taught us. We even taught them how to lick the bowl, (hints the name) and they called us loco but we know they enjoyed it too.
So basically, the kitchen ladies stole my heart and kept a piece of it in Granada, Nicaragua. I will miss them dearly and I hope to see them again one day! Until then, “Adios, and Dios es Amor!”
