This month, this place. What have I even done this month? So much. And it’s been awesome. The kids, ministry, the food, being able to see my parents, hiking up a volcanoe, there has just been so much that has happened.
Being able to see my parents was so wonderful. It was around 10:30 at night, and I heard all the other racers running to the front of the hostel. I walk outside the door, turned my head to the right and saw my mom and dad. My heart! After 8 months of traveling and waiting for those hugs from my mom and dad, made the wait so worth it. My week with them was so great. Hearing their hearts, hearing about their past 8 months. It is so different talking to people and communicating with them over email or FaceTime, verses spending hours and days with someone. The communication is so different. I was with them 24/7. My dad and I dug a pit together, we rode horses on the beach together, my mom and I held hands and talked for hours, we had a coffee date, we all hung out and talked about God, the Bible, I loved spending time with them…it was so awesome. Honestly, just what I needed. It was really awesome to see how much the Lord has done in my life, and they could see it also. I was very encouraged.
And then hearing what the Lord has been doing in their lives, and seeing how much they loved pouring into others and each other. I love my family. I love my parents. I love their hearts for the Lord and loving other people. I have such a beautiful and rich inheritance.
When they left I was so sad. It’s crazy to think I only have a short time till I see them again, but our week together in Nicaragua will always be one of my favorite weeks. Our ministry for that week together was in the morning we would either do construction, prayer walking, cleaning around the area, working at the school, or at a woman’s house doing more construction. We had such a fun week together. When hey left I cried, but I look forward to seeing them soon.
So even after our parents left, that was what we continued doing with our new teams. So yes, during that month there was another team change. I am back on a coed team which is also very different than how I have lived the past 4 months being on all girls teams. But I am excited to see what the Lord has in store.
That month I befriended a family. A mom with two sons. They would invite me over in the morning to ride their horse and to hang out. The two sons were five and thirteen. The five year old informed me that he didn’t like girls his own age, but older women. Haha! He was precious.
The mom and I became good friends, she would pray for me, I would pray for her. I was so grateful for them in my life during that month. A couple days before we were going to leave Cicrin and travel on to Honduras, I was suppose to go to their house and say goodbye. But I didn’t. I didn’t want to say goodbye. But the morning we were leaving the Lord told me to go say goodbye. So as I started walking (they only lived a 3 minute walk away) and I was praying over my time in Nicaragua. And when I started walking up the little hill to go to their house, I started crying. They run out to say bye, and as I was hugging them goodbye, they started crying also. She asked me to come back to Nicaragua, and I told her to pray for God to bring me back. And i would pray also. I said my final goodbye and walked away crying.
That family made my month so worth it. It was a divine appointment that I met that family, that God brought them into my life.
The month of Nicaragua was so filled with love, hugs, tears, lots of rice and beans, and a whole lot of prayer. Thank you all for your love, support, and prayers! I have loved being on the World Race, growing closer to the Lord, preaching and teaching His Word and displaying His love through word, action, and faith. By far one of my favorite months on the World Race.
