I’m sorry I haven’t blogged in
awhile…again. I think I have been less motivated for a few reasons.
1) When things happen now its more of just my life…perfectly normal
World Race stuff, instead of when the same things happened to me
before I thought, “oh man this would be a good blogâ€�. And 2) I’ve
been painting all month with Kige so there hasn’t been a whole lot to
blog about. Nothing crazy or out of the ordinary happened to me this
month. I absolutely love Nicaragua. I know you are probably sick of
hearing me say that about almost every country I’ve been to. But I
really do love it here. The people here have been wonderful. This has
been one of the nicest places I’ve stayed all race. Our hotel, yes
hotel, basically has a little miniature rain forest in it with
parrots and ducks and such. My ministry this month, like I said was
painting with Kige. She is an incredible artist and was finally able
to strut her stuff this month by painting 3 walls and two canvases
both 9ft X 9ft. That’s big. I had the privilege to be her personal
assistant and teach her how to get paint all over her face.
We were blessed with two amazing
contacts this month, Glenn and Lynne. They have their hands dipped in
a lot of different ministries here in Nicaragua and have a huge huge
heart for this place. We also got the privilege to work with The Real
Life girls, Bonnie Pastor Manuel and our amazing translator Carlos
who taught me the song In The Shadow that will forever be stuck in
my head.
Things were going great. Our team had
worked through a lot of things, namely Kige and I. We went from not
speaking a month ago and her wanting to literally kill me every time
I opened my mouth or became visible to her (her words not mine) to
almost inseparable. Our team was doing pretty good but definitely
were still working out some challenges. We found out a few nights ago
that team Love Upstream will be no longer. My team is getting
completely split up and each of us will be on a different team for
the last 2 months. Turns out, all but one of us is going to a team
where we have never had any of our new teammates as a teammate
before. That being said, we all have a new season and new challenges
ahead of us for next few months. I am really bummed that I will not
get to be with Love Upstream for our last two months and finish what
we started, however I know that God has it all figured out. I know
that more growth will come out of it and I will be happy wherever God
takes me. Although I now have more goodbyes to say tomorrow than I
anticipated, some solid friendships came out of this team and I’m
extremely thankful and blessed to have gotten to spend so much time
with them.
We leave tomorrow, Saturday, for El
Salvador by bus. New team, new location, new beginnings, new
challenges, new joys.
Less than 2 months people. Less than 2
months til I get to see your beautiful faces. I CAN’T WAIT!!!
