Author: Adventures

(All of this happened last week, so bear with me) There have been lots of different things occuring in the last week. Teaching classes and giving service messages, evangelizing to homeless men and playing with kids in Bethel. But through it all, one thing in particular has remained constant. And that is water.   After a church service, we got to swim in a pool in the middle of the jungle. During a group sleepover, we got into a water fight. After giving a service, we drove and sang in a rainstorm. And at the end of the week, we played in the ocean and watched the sunset on the...

  So a handful of you all are still like…so what’s goin on in Nicaragua? So I’ll answer a few questions for ya and see if this helps a bit:):)       Who are you with?   There’s Jacq and Lauren (our lovely leaders). Then the teammates: Kate, Alexa, Rachel, Jennifer, Miranda, Kori, Kaitlyn, Jenna, Tiffany and myself-Grace. We’ve all been thrown together from all over the states (+Canada) and have formed a mini family. And I adore each and every one of them. *there is no significance to the order of the names, that’s just the...

In the future I will show hospitality to others. I can’t do it now. I still live with my parents. The house I live in isn’t super nice. My couch isn’t even that comfortable. Being hospitable is for people with extra money and lots of extra space in their houses. People with “guest rooms.” Before this past weekend I believed this to be true, but my view of hospitality has been changed. And it wasn’t changed by a little old lady. It wasn’t changed by an adult at all. The person who showed me true hospitality was a 14 year old girl. This story begins...