After a struggle of a month, I was ready. I was ready for something new and exciting but what I found was even better.
My team and I headed out of Honduras for our travel day. We are about 7 hours into of bus ride and its time for boarder crossing. I am kind of upset I have to get off the bus and take my bag through customs. Drama queen right?!? I had just gotten to sleep and did not want to get off but I did anyways. I grab my oversize bag and drag it up the ramp.
Suddenly I am overwhelmed with something I cannot begin to describe. I see ladies selling whatever they have and they are smiling at me. No one is trying to force me to buy anything they are just letting me know they have it. I rummage though my bag to find a few cordobas that I had from the last time I was in Nicaragua and buy a bag of mangos. I am enjoying my mangos as I head through customs. Customs didn’t even stop me they just told me to go ahead.
Then I jump back on the bus, but not before buying another bag of mangos for the rest of the ride. As we ride to our new town, it just feels right. I am drooling out the window just dying to get out. The beauty that surrounds me is incredible.
We get dropped off in Chinendega and hop on the back of a tractor-trailer. A bottle of cold water was handed to me and we were off. New month, new people, new ministry, new days to see the Lords work.
We get to our ministry site called the project. I about faint. A bed, running water everyday, fan for each bed, little women who cook my food and clean the bathroom. Now that it is time for dinner I head over to the kitchen to find a little woman named Anitonia. I look at her a little nervous and wave, “Hola!” She looks at me and grabs me in a big hug and says, “Hola, amiga! Hola, mi amor!” In that moment I knew it was going to be a good month.
This month has been amazing. I have felt loved from every person I come in contact with. I am in love with Nicaragua and everything about it. Ministry has included helping build a house for a widow, preaching, singing during our traveling church and helping run a clinic.
This month does not come without heartbreak. Countless men, women and children are dying from a kidney disease. The cause is unknown but it affects men who are working in the sugar cane fields more often. It breaks my heart to hear these peoples stories, to hear stories of the widows who’s husband has died from the disease and its even harder to see the young orphans who are my age without a Dad.
So I pray that there will be answers about this disease. I pray that the corrupt government will start to have a heart for these people. I pray for more people to fight. Fight the fight that seems never ending. Fight the fight for the people I love so very much.
If you could not tell from this blog Nicaragua has stolen my heart yet again. The people rock my world day in and day out. They love me so much and so well. I love them just as much.
Nicaragua I love ya!!!
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All my love,
Mols
