It’s hard, because we’re at a point where my husband has been affected as well, because he works a lot on projects with foreigners, with Americans, and those projects disappeared as a result of this; they’ve gone to their country, because of the same social and political instability that the country has been experiencing. So it’s difficult because you feel a certain weight or burden, in a sense that says, “I have to sustain my house and bring bread home. I have to be a mother, a wife, a woman, to serve in the church.”
But it really is beautiful at the same time, and I say that because with Christ victory is certain. Everything is part of a plan. It also helps you to grow every day, and to be independent and to value everything. And it helps to work on a budget, because now it costs you more. Because only one is providing , and it is not because one does not save before, but because this is a new stage of life, one has to become more thrifty. Because in the past I’ve made a lot of splurging mistakes. I think that happens to all of us, that when we have we waste, and after we say “There was, if I had kept it!” So it’s a very nice time, because there are challenges in society, but it is also a time in Nicaragua of women’s empowerment. Because it is nice to see how the woman brings home the bread and they start their own businesses.
There are many women who have their own businesses, their stores, there are others who are in agriculture. Coincidentally today Brother Curzon spoke to us in church, saying that there are many women working in the banana trees, peeling bananas. And the more they peel and get into the van, the more they earn. It’s a way to bring home bread every day, and it’s beautiful.
That’s why I studied because of that. It’s not a feminist problem, that I liked to bring home money. I feel fulfilled and I like it. I really like it. That is essential in society. It is important that every woman really tries to educate herself and progress, because it is better, then there are fewer problems in marriage. It’s beautiful when you both contribute. If for some reason, such as force majeure, the woman cannot work, because children must be prioritized, the problem of most illnesses are because of force majeure. It is also nice because sometimes the husband cannot carry all the weight, so if one really contributes it is more beautiful. I, currently, feel like a fulfilled woman, quite satisfied. I thank God for all this because I feel that my capacity for service has increased. I am not self-sufficient, but I am on my way to self-sufficiency. I would like that to be the feeling of all Nicaraguan women, because I am Cuban, but I also feel Nicaraguan. I admire the Nicaraguan woman very much because she is a warrior, a hard-working woman. She sticks a basket, sticks a cart, but she brings the bread home.