Author: Adventures

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...

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...

I feel so blessed to be here.  Change that…I AM blessed to be here.  The people in Jinotepe have so much love to offer, so many stories to share, and life to live.  Families are a big thing.  Everyone is out at the same time, mingling with each other, selling their goods, or whatever it may be.  Mangos are also everywhere.  Literally.   There’s a lot of trash on the ground, you can’t throw toilet paper down the toilets, and there are practically no traffic regulations besides staying on the right side of the road.  Also everyone...

Yesterday we were able to go and spend time with an extremely impoversished group of families that live together and are some how all related one way or another. They live very close to the Youth Center and we were asked to start outreach so the parents would feel comfortable with allowing their children to come to the Youth Center when it is up and running. As we were walking back to the Youth Center, one of the young boys of that family came with us to hangout. His name is Marlon, and he is about 11 years old. As I followed behind him and a few of my teammates, I was...

I am in Nicaragua! Life has been full of all sorts of newness and change. I am learning more and more every day of how little I am on my own and how great God is , alone!   Toay I went with a few teammates, to walk around the city and pray. Praying specifically that God would show us where He wanted us to go. We had the most awesome opportunities and situations today,  Amazing “only God” planned incounters.   The people here are so open and welcoming. They invite you graciously into their home, feed you, and are eager to try to understand English. ...

Today we were walking the streets of Jinotepe in small groups. I was with Zach, Elizabeth, Jessica and Ashley D. Towards the end of our journey we were invited in the home of a man named Fernando. He has a daughter (at least I think she is his daughter, gotta love language barriers). Anyway, she is mentally handicapped. She is 24 and is super tiny and cannot speak. She also has pretty intense physical problems. Fernando is missing one leg and also has another daughter who was recovering from surgery and in pain. I spent most of my time praying over Gabriella. Specifically that God would...