Author: Adventures

We´ve been lifting 270 bricks that weigh 140 pounds each. We´ve been playing soccer and games in the blazing sun. We´ve been speaking in a language that we mostly don´t understand and rarely form correct sentences in. Yet, even with daily portions of rice and beans, rice and beans, rice and beans– we are living in such joy. God has really created a community in my team, in spite of how many of us there are.   Every morning, I wake up at 6… not being able to sleep because of the fireworks and street noises. I run on the rooftop while learning new bible verses in my head as...

Yesterday we spent pretty much the whole day at our church, La Quinta, in Diriamba. We were told we were going to spend the morning helping out with the childrens´ service. I pictured my days as a child at Children´s Church, where we would sing songs, sit and watch a cartoon Moses talk about the Ten Commandments, and then get lollipops as our parents picked us up. Oh how different Nicaraguan children´s church is! Picture about 30 or 40 little whirlwinds between the ages of 6 and 10 with bubbles, little hands grabbing American cameras, and loud music blaring from the speakers on the...

I´ve been writting in my journal pretty regularly just so I can remember all the  wonderful experiences that I have while I´m here. One morning I woke up extra early to write and I went to the roof of Casa Mateo, the hotel that we are staying in for now. This is what I saw, at 8:18 am the4 sun is already high, birds chirping, the bark of dogs, the occassional crow of roosters echo, cars are buzzing and people working fills my ears. A cool breeze blows across my faceas the sun attempts to warm it. Some of the girls are runing laps around the roof before breakfast....

We split up into different groups the other day, the girls went to the barrios and the guys went to move bricks at the center. It was the first day that we went out to the neighborhoods around the center to just spend time with the people, play some football, or whatever our hearts so desired. There was a group of people hanging out on the curb outside some homes, so we stopped and began talking with them. Salvador, our translator was doing a fabulous job at helping us communicate… however there isn´t enough translator to go around!  The people were so friendly, they brought us...

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...

It´s beautiful here. We´re staying in a really nice hotel right now called Caseo Mateo, and all the people are so welcoming. They invite us to their churches and bible studies at their homes. Some of the people tend to be a little to friendly with all the honking and whistling lol but no worries we stay in big groups.   The kids here are the most precious thing. It broke my heart the first day we arrived when some children ran up to our bus and starting washing our windows and when we gave them three dollars they were the happiest things ever. To us three dollars seems like so little...