Author: Adventures

This past week has been the toughest week I've had in Nicaragua. I've struggled with my purpose here and if I'm fully letting God work through me. A lot of our team has also struggled with have colds/sinus infections which has been frustrating. I also have found myself not putting everything into my ministry. A common thing I found myself saying this past week is I want to go deeper physically, mentally, and spiritually. I wanted to know all the girls on my team in such a more meaningful way than surface things. I also wanted to know my identity in Christ more than ever...

      I´ve been racking my brain trying to write another blog especially since one of my best friends, Rachel, told me she´s been waiting for me to write more. I start them all off the same only to lose sight of  my report halfway through. So I decided to tell you a little bit more of where I´ve been to understand, even myself, of where I´m at.      This last year was by far the most difficult season of my life. Every obstacle in my life I´d felt I had been keeping under my palms until they finally drowned out my view of...

It's hard.  We live in a critical society. A society that is constantly struggling to be the best, to know it all, and has the need to put incredibly high standards on everything. This society has such high standards that there is a constant fear of being vulnerable or opening up about weaknesses or opinions. We live in a society that is quick to condemn and quick to judge. Examples of this: Models starving themselves to be so thin it is unhealthy. On top of that, photographers photoshop the images to make any "imperfections" into "perfections". The result...

This week we are back at Cicirin and while part of me wishes we could stay in Balgue for our last month, I know that God is not done with us at Cicrin yet. This week, my daily service ministry was painting. My teammate, Trinity and I painted a lot of ceiling and half of a room this week. We jammed out to disney and backstreet boys and got covered in paint (that was mostly me actually) and continued to grow in relationship with each other.   We also got back to spending time with the kids here and having nightly hang outs with them. They really are starting to attach to us and a lot of...