Happy 2012!

I wanted to take the next several days reflecting on my trip to Nicaragua. I've been practicing and trying to find the best way to articulate my amazing experience there and find that writing it out and sharing the experience through pictures would be the best way to do it. So join me in revisiting my time in Nicaragua. I hope that you are blessed by the people, the lessons that we learned, and the experience we had there. I pray that you are moved to pray for the missionary, the ministry, and the people.

Let's start off with a picture of my family in Nicaragua.



:) I miss them

So the reason I went to Nicaragua was...because I could. I had the resources to buy myself a plane ticket to go to Nicaragua and so when my friend Jiah asked if I wanted to go with her, I thought about it over one weekend and told her, Yes! Later I was bombarded with doubts and insecurities about the trip. What could I offer the people there? What's my purpose for going? We were a small team of three (Jiah, Donna, and myself) and we didn't have set plans. If you know me, you know that I'm a planner. A "J" for you Meyers-Briggs people. I like structure, I like plans, I like knowing what I'm doing. But, we had one month to prepare and we did what we could. The three of us held meetings over videochat and talked about potential ideas for crafts, Bible lessons, and supplies that we could take to Nicaragua. I expressed to the girls how hard it was for me to understand what my purpose was for going and they prayed with me. Little did I know how faithful God would be with those prayers. Up until the day we left for Nicaragua my mind was busy with trying to pass a physiology class that I was taking. As soon as I finished that final, I was so overwhelmed with excitement for the trip. We were sent off in LAX by our friends who prayed for us.



Our adventure starts two layovers and 12 hours later in Managua, Nicaragua on our way to the village of Tipitapa :)