The other morning we got the chance to just walk around Jinotepe and see what God led us to. My group had no idea what to do but I felt like we should walk down this one street. After much wandering and doing good things, such as praying for a Mormon Church, praying for a blind man, and visiting a Catholic Church, my group still felt like we didn´t have much of a purpose. We soon stumbled upon an old lady buying something at a store window and we stopped and made small talk, which I thought nothing of. But we offered to carry her bags home, which ended up weighing around 40 lbs, I have no idea how she would´ve carried them (it ended up she was 80 years old).
So after wandering through the streets we arrived at her home and she invited us in and gave us tea. We talked to her in Spanish through one of the girls who is a Spanish Minor in school, discussing her family and life in Nicaragua. After awhile we asked about her bracelet, which she said had different Saints on it. She was Catholic and actually attended the Church we had stopped by earlier. As we were about to leave we asked if we could pray for anything for her and she said her husband had bad hearing and a bad heart. So the two other girls and I held hands with this lady and her husband and each just prayed over them in English, so they understood nothing. But when we were done the lady had tears in her eyes, and her husband stood up and told us, ¨If you seek Him you will find Him¨ as well as ¨We are not of this World, we´re only passing through, so treat it as such.¨ It meant so much to us hearing these as we felt like we had spent most of the morning searching for what God wanted us to do but finding nothing.
We left soon after and she told us how much of a blessing it was to have us and that we should come back. I hope we get the chance too. But as we worked our way back to the hotel we realized that her house was right off the street I had originally felt we should walk down. So after all our wandering God had us on the right path all along.
