So to be honest I’ve been avoiding this post because I just dont know what to say! We’ve been here for over a week! It’s going by to fast.  We’ve been having a great time.  However, I’m not gonna lie, I had a rough day Monday.  I am so thankful for my husband and a God who love me no matter how much I dont love me.  At church on Sunday they sang How He Loves Us…in Spanish! I love hearing some of my favorite songs sung in Spanish.  The songs are so powerful and here I am in a poor place with poor people and they are singing these songs worshiping God the same way I am no matter what language it is it’s the same worship! That gives me goosebumps! God is so awesome!  Ok…updates! One day last week…idk what day (I had to get a watch so I would know what time it was and what day it was) we wanted to go on a hike out side of the compound.  We are staying in Pochocuape which is basically a mountain with 4 different zones.  We asked where Pochocuape starts and they basically said “when the road ends and the dirt roads up a mountain begin” So The compound is in zone 1.  So on a hike we went, Corey and I and the other intern who is here for 6 months Abe (His Blog is here).  Dont worry we had a body guard…Frank.  Who lead us on a short cut that at one minute he said he knew…and then the next he said he didn’t…yeah oh yes did I mention that this short cut was NOT on a trail…and we almost fell off a mountain?!? jk…kinda.  Anyways! We walked all around and everybody was happy to see the Gringos. We ended up walking to zone 4…which is at the top of the mountain…yeah. Where we ended up was a little community that did not have running water, they have to go down to the bottom of the mountain to get some water and take it back up the mountain.

This is a house near the compound.

The “trail”

When we got back the workers at the compound were making dinner, we were hanging out with them so they let us have some, it was very good!

The rest of last week was filled with settling in, cat fun, a fun trip to the airport to pick up the couple that run the compound, a trip to Pizza hut, facebook and website work (like our page www.facebook.com/siofnica) House Hunters International in real life, anddd Spanish learning.
This week we have gone to give out medicine to an older lady outside of the compound that has a horrible case of shingles…Corey and I both have had shingles so we know how painful it is.  This lady is unable to speak, so she couldn’t tell her family how much pain she was in.  Patrick (the guy who runs the compound) was sent to see what was wrong with her, because of him she was able to get the right medicine to help her with her pain. After, we went to visit a feeding sight. We walked around their community and visited with some of the people.  A few months ago Patrick had helped a lady who was very very sick.  He wanted to go visit her family and see how she was doing.  She invited us into her home and we got to hear her AMAZING story, she was basically on her death bed, but because of Patrick and his AWESOME ministry the work he does in Nicaragua this beautiful woman is now recovering and is almost fully functioning.  Her story was very inspiring.  We went back today and recorded her story. I hope to get that video up to share soon.  As soon as Patrick told her that churches in America were praying for her, she started crying because she was so happy! She is great!
After we recorded her story we went to one of the dumps.  This dump has people working there with their children to find food IN THE DUMP!! We told them that they were going to be one of our new feeding sites.  It’s so cool to actually see Patrick in his everyday life.  See the lives he’s changing, see the smiles on the peoples faces that he gives food, and medicine.  Have I mentioned that the organization we are helping not only feeds 40,000 people a day, but they run a christian school, they have a medical clinic on the compound, and they go out and visit people and supply them the right medicine they need! I have seen with my own eyes everyday I’ve been here Patrick and SiofNica save lives!

I am so blessed to be apart of this! The best part is that when he goes out to feed people or help people he makes sure that they know that he is there in the name of Jesus. I love every member of the SIofNica team, I feel like we are part of a family.  They are my brothers and sisters!

Oh! the Sunsets are beautiful here!

Last night there was a black out, so instead of being all mad that we couldn’t finish working on the website and check facebook and all that fun stuff we took our chairs outside and star gazed, it was soooo beautiful! Check out this picture Corey took.
I’m sure I’m leaving something out, but whatever! If I think of anything I’ll just add it to the next post Keep praying for Corey and I, the missionaries, and all of the people here in Nica!

Here is a short tour of the whole compound. Should give you an idea of what everything looks like.

We’re finally in Nica! It feels so good to be here. I was super stressed out yesterday as soon as we got in the airport I started stressing out like crazy! When we got off our first flight I calmed down a lot! Corey said I was pretty pale when we were in the Atlanta airport. I just realized that this was happening, I was about to go out of the country for a month, I said goodbye to my mom, and I was going through security (which is stressful on it’s own), and I felt like I was going to be sick. Of course it doesn’t help that I wasn’t getting enough sleep the week before and that night I only slept for like 4 hours. As soon as we walked into the Managua airport it was a big relief! Just the smell of something familiar calmed me down. It’s strange because I’m still a little uneasy, but that’s ok! It’s so familiar but so unfamiliar at the same time. I am not ok out of my comfort zone, I’m already a really shy and quiet person, but being out my comfort zone it’s like doubled. I say it’s ok because earlier I was almost desperate to read my Bible and spend time with God, because that’s familiar and I was desperate for something familiar. I have never had the feeling of being desperate for the comfort of Gods word. That makes me excited, one of my goals while being here is to make quiet time a habit I have a rubber bracelet on my arm that says “make it a habit” to help remind me to spend time with God.

That is something I would ask people to pray about. One thing that has made this unfamiliar and makes me a little uneasy is the fact that I miss my Nicaraguan team! The group of people that came with us those 5 days in July. It is not the same at all! But their are some great people here that are already making it feel like home.
Today Corey has spent most of the day working on their website, we’ll put a link to that up, once that’s up. The place we are staying is also a school. The school is actually on break right now, they wont start back until February, so they have a lot of supplies piled up and they will be getting some more supplies before school starts. So I spent most of the day doing inventory.
everything I had to inventory!

We also got to go grocery shopping for the week. We went to two markets, one was very similar to grocery stores in America, and the other was not. The weather isn’t that bad actually today it was pretty windy and cool. I went outside when it got dark to watch Corey play soccer with some of the workers, and I almost needed a jacket!
I plan to keep this updated with pictures, and I hope video! So look out for that. Keep praying!

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Here we come!