1 change down, 11 to go!

Hello to Everyone! How goes it?! I hope all is well with everyone and thank you for you emails and fun stories! I never tire from hearing from all of my friends!
First, I asked for recipes last week and lots of people asked me what was available to buy, so I will respond! I am so stupid to think that you would just know! We do have pretty much all meat, but we are not allowed to eat pig of any kind. They have ground beef and stuff like that, and it is fine for us to eat. They have pretty much any kind of veggie of fruit, but we can´t eat berries of strawberries because you can´t get them clean enough for us to eat. Bichos, bugs, might be hiding in the cracks. They have all kinds of noodles and of course, rice. So yeah, just send me whatever stovetop recipes you can. Sometimes canned foods are more pricey, but still send recipes!
I still have bichos, which are bugs or parasites, not to be confused with worms. Worms are more serious to deal with, I think. Thelin, my compie, has had bichos like, 6 times, worms once, and the beaver feaver one. That is when excrement gets in the water, which only happens in Santo Domingo or the coast. You usually don´t get beaver feaver, so if I do go there, I will be extra careful! Anyway, still have my bichos but am going to take a test tomorrow or the next day. I am moving fast now because of what happened to my friend, Hna Larsen. She had bichos with me, even before me. Anyway, the day of changes, that night she was throwing up like every five minutes, which is not a usual bicho thing. She finally called the mission nurse, they took her to the hospital, and learned that her bichos were eating her intestines! She had to stay in the hospital for two days! And Ecua hospitals are not fun! They had to slice her arm to put in an IV! They don´t know what they are doing! So, don´t worry, I am going to take care of myself this week!
Now to my subject line: We have what is called changes every 6 weeks, where you change comps or sectors. Well, nothing happened to me! I am still in Solanda and still with Hna Thelin. I am happy about that and now that we are pretty much over our sicknesses, we are going to have an awesome change! The whole, changes process though was filled with anxiety, because you never know what is going to happen! Our DL called us like, 9:30 at night and told us we were staying together, so we were estatic! Then 15 minutes later, he called us and told us we didn´t have our changes yet and that teh first ones were a joke from our ZLs, not funny! We didn´t end up finding out until 11 at night! And, because of our Zls little joke, one elder that they told was leaving was all packed and everything by the time he found out the real changes, and taht he was staying. Not a nice move by the ZLs!
We didn´t have the Lovato´s baptism this past Sunday because their daughters were sick. We rescheudled again for this Saturday, and hope everything goes according to plan. We are also teaching Juanita. We hadn´t seen her in so long because we were sick, and then she had family issues, so we finally met with her on Friday after not seeing her for like 3 weeks! She was so standoffish at first and quiet. You could tell she didn´t want us there, but by the end of the lesson, she was participating and volunteered to say the closing prayer. She said how grateful she was to have us back teaching her again so that she could have that feeling with her again. You could just physically see the change taht the gospel had on her. She is going to get baptized on Mar. 15th, along with her little sister Alejandra who is in our English class.
So, my bro in law gave me some advice on what to do if I get called on the spot to give a talk in church. I thought that was funny since it is what happened yesterday at church! I never gave the one talk I had prepared, and I debated whether or not to bring it with me, and I thought, well, just in case. Then, at church, the ward mission leader comes up to Thelin and was like, we need you to talk. She was freaking out because she had nothing prepared. I was like, I have mine with me, so I gave it. I was so nervous that the first minute or so was probably a bunch of gibberish, but I calmed down enough to speak and did okay. It was about love and missionary work. I guess I did okay because a few people came up to me and told me what a great job I did, and Thelin says that never happens. So moral of the story... Always have a talk withyou on hand!
I figured taht maybe I should include a little culture in every email. So, culture of the week: They put popcorn in their soup. Not crackers, but popcorn. It is acutally pretty good.
I love you all and keep up the emails! They make my week! Miss you and until next time!
Hna Kaylee Sorensen