Hello Family!!
Another new day indeed. We are here in Jinotepe, Nicaragua going back and forth from here to Diriamba to minister. We have been here for a few days now…somewhere around 5 days or so. But more about that later. I wanted to share some pictures with you of some of the other things we did while in El Salvador. Hope you enjoy them…
This is a Friday night with Silvia and her family celebrating her mother’s birthday. This was our first night here in San Salvador, El Salvador. Victor, the guy in the white shirt, Silvia’s friend, picked us up and brought us to the restaurant. Little did we know that this was only the first of all the acts of service Victor would do for us.
So this is day two in El Salvador. They thought that after so much traveling we needed to take a break and have a little ‘R and R’. So once again, Victor picked us up from the Tica Hotel, we had all our beach going things, suits on and ready to go. We made a day of it. Afterwards, we went to the arcade at Multiplaza Mall. Intially we were searching for bumper cars, which they didn’t have. I saw this boxing game and thought…’I think I can take him!’ So I slid the game card through, my round started and we were at it. At first he was hullin me out, but then I got my left hook in. Shoot…the right control didn’t work…so all my shots were left hooks. By the end of the game I had nearly won, but my time ran out. As tempting as it was to put the coin in to finish the game, I could not. I had sustained muscle failure from all the repetitive left hooks. When I woke up the next day, I couldn’t pick up anything heavy or flex my left arm. From my elbow to my wrist is where most of the injury was sustained…but in my mind I was still the winner. HA!! Looking back it took about 1 week for my arm to completely heal.
I talked all that noise about how I would eat some frog…you know, try it out, see how it tastes. But when we got to the food section of the market…I looked at this frog meal and couldn’t do it. I think it was because of all the leg action…I mean…look at it. Look at the feet.
But I hear it tastes like chicken…and since I know what chicken taste like I decided I would take their word and leave it at that.
Another day at a different beach–Playa El Tunco. At this beach the waves were coming in big, and they were crashing down hard. The tide was rising…the surfers were doing their thing and I enjoyed it all. I was standing on a rock that later was submerged when I took this photo. Heather and I were fascinated by the rocks, the waves and the beauty of the creation of God!
Look at it!! I had so much fun…not necessarily in the water…I didn’t really get in. I did get my feet and legs wet when the waves came rushing in, but I wanted to enjoy the black sand, the blue sky, and the fresh air.
Here is Puerta Del Diablo. The very top peak up there is where we climbed 225 steps to get. To look out and see the tree covered mountains, the lake in the distance with the volcano behind it, and a small city like gathering of houses in the valley was amazing. We carefully walked back down the steps and went up another 129 steps on the other side where there was a cave like area. From there you could get a different perspective of this beautiful area. This is where I took the photo from.
These were our last moments with Victor…I mean this dude catored to us. He expressed infinate patience with us…especially when He would take us to a store to get a few items. For some reason it took us forever to come out of the store…looking at things that we knew we were not going to get, picking it up and putting it back down, going back to the first item after looking at 5 different items, forgetting one thing once we got through the checkout…ya know…silly things like this. We had so much fun with him and his mother. She was amazing as well. Whether you were hungry or not, you were going to get food when you went to her house. One day, upon walking into her house, I guess I had some sweat beads upside my head. She rushed to the refrigerator and got a bottle of water out and gave it to me. She insistantly told me to drink it. So I opened it up and drank it. The reality was, yes it was hot, but I had just opened a bottle of water in the car, drank some, left in the car so I wouldn’t forget it. Of course, she didn’t know this, but this just goes to show you her amazing hospitality towards us.
And finally, this is me opening up a gift that Victor gave each of us. In my last blog, I wrote about how I have a family in El Salvador…the Chavez family. After these days, I now have two more families. Victor and his amazing mother is now a part of my family as well as Silvia and her family.
So this is only a glimps of what we got to do and see while we were in El Salvador. We came to minister and to bless and we did, but in turn we were ministered to and blessed abundantly by the people. Nothing like love, and nothing like knowing that the Spirit of God is with you in the midst of it all!!
I hope you enjoyed the pics!
Be blessed!
Enjoy The Journey!!!!
