Nicaragua in a Nutshell..
..if you can even do that. These last few days have been crazy to say that least. We had a long, sad goodbye to Jinotepe. I can honestly say that Nicaragua changed me far more than I thought it would.
Especially this girl, Esther.
She was always the really feisty one out of all the kids, like throwing things and never doing what all the other kids were doing, and she was really shy to most people. My whole team of 6 got really close to her family, as a whole they broke our hearts a lot. It's a really rough situation going on in that house, and we spend a lot of time in prayer over them. I love her, so much more than I could ever convey in a blog. I pray she really knows how much she is loved, and how precious she is, and how beautiful and desires she is by her Daddy.
On the last week we went and cooked a meal with that family and it was seriously one of my favorite memories from the whole time we were there, it was so humbling and it was a huge step in going deeper with them by breaking bread. Jesus is so good!
It was a really hard, long goodbye the last week we left. I have been having the hardest time writing a 'wrap up' blog of Nicaragua because every time I try to write one, I just can't seem to find words to convey what it was really like there…truly living as a part of the community with these people. I really loved them, and I will miss them so much. Gosh, even now it's so hard to put into words what it felt like leaving them!
We spent our last 3 days (& my birthday!) in San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua for debreif.
It was so nice and so needed to be able to sit and process all that happened in Nicaragua and to also be able to prepare for all that is coming in Thailand. That being said, after traveling for 3 straight days, I am officially in Thailand!
So many things are changing, and I have to be honest I am so excited about them! We got new teams, and all three of the teams are splitting up to do different ministries in separate parts of Thailand. My team will be traveling 12 hours tomorrow to go to the northern province of Chiang Mai and our ministry will be with Abba House!
You can read more about the ministry here: http://abbahousefoundation.com/
I am beyond excited to go there and partner in that ministry. I feel the presence of the Lord so fresh and sweet right now, I am quite literally bursting with joy! Jesus has been breaking my heart for this country for a while now, and being here it is only breaking more.
I'm sorry for how choppy this blog may seem, I'm pretty jetlagged at the moment. But I wanted to give you guys and update of everything considering I haven't done that in a while, (my apologizes).
Sawatdee Kha!
