Its a chilly 29 degrees here on a snowy January day, here in Ohio. Yes, I admit I am like hundreds of others out there, I am fighting the winter blues. What did I do about it do? I broke down and went tanning. :) Yes. some of you may call it a death trap, but I see it as a 10 minute get away from the hustle and bustle of the cold yucky outside world.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Cowgirl Love
Cowgirl love.. I am in no way a fashion expert (that would be my sister!)
Anyways, like I was saying I am no fashion expert, but I am a firm
believer in wearing my cowgirl boots with almost any outfit.
Cowgirl boots: Hand me down :)
Friday, January 21, 2011
This Journey called life...
Where am I suppose to be on this place called planet earth? and What am I as a Lady, and follower of Christ really suppose to be doing? .....I at one point of time thought I had the answer to these questions. Yes, I thought I had everything all figured out, but what is the fun in that? I have come to learn that the plans you make and try to follow are not usually what God has in mind. Six months ago, if you would have ask me "What are your future plans?".. I would have rattle off something such as "I am attending college, and working towards my BSN!"... Is that what I am doing at this current moment? No. And to be honest i'm completely at peace with that. Sure next month may be up in the air, but I am working and figure it out as I go, Plans to attend school again are on my list of things to do in the future, but so is roping the moon.. & yes if you are wondering, i did attend college for a semester.. but realized that was not really meant to be on my agenda.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
I will never be the same.. The End.
This morning i woke up to the sound of a down pour. It continued to rain throughout the morning, leaving it very damp but not as hot as normal! Danae has not been feeling well, there have been a few other on the team who have been a little under the weather.
This morning we went to another market, we only got about an hour to walk through it. This market was defiantly made for tourist. It was clean, and lots more of suviner type gifts.
This afternoon we got the opportunity to go to another school, There were about 300 kids they said.We got to perform our everything skit, that seemed to be a big hit. I got to play frizbee with some of the kids. The kids are so full of joy and you can tell they enjoy laughing at us when we try to ramble something off in there native language, some of the team members played soccer. Everyone knows how to play football down here..
My low today was that my camera broke, but thank goodness other people have there camera. I feel like i'm starting to smell like it down here.
Tonight us girls, just stayed in our room, and just talked, it was good for our class. We are all pretty tired, so its an earlier night to bed for all of us. As we fall asleep we can hear the thunder and watch as the lightening lights up the whole sky. Its beautiful.
Day 8. Friday, May 21 2010.
This morning we talked about passion, it was interesting to see what everyones passion was in our group. I have attended school with most of these kids sense first grade, and this trip has in some ways made me see some of them in a different way.
This morning we went to a village that was located on a side of a mountain/hill, to be completely honest I could not figure out which one it was a mountain or a hill, but I do know that some parts were really steep and some of the paths were very tiny. We split up into smaller groups, and took laundry baskets with rice and beans and walked from house to house passing out the items and offering to pray with the house hold. It was amazing to see how people live, and how they make things work... it was so eye opening! Roberto was in our group, He is one of the translators on our team, his English is very good. Roberto was a lot of help for me today, not only in translating but in answering a lot of question I had about the people and the culture and certain things we saw and heard.
While passing things out today we can upon a house were a girl was, She picked a flower and gave it to me.. The flowers down here are beautiful. I went around carry this flower, after we had visited a few more houses one of the Nica's working with us took the flower from me. I was confused, and turned to Roberto. Roberto went on the explain that the flower the girl had gave me is used as a drug, a drug that when taken often makes people go loco or loca in my case. The Nica's found this was funny and continued to call us loca the rest of the day.
One house we stopped at today, invited us into there tiny house to pray for the mother of the house that was sick, she was laying on the only bed that was in the house, Our group of 5 could not all completely enter the house it was that small, there was no running water, no electric, and a dirt floor, it was hot and there were fly's flying around this sick Womens body... How could ones heart not sink? We prayed for her, and the family, said our goodbye and moved to the next house. As I walked away I knew that was something i would never forget, and that i would probably dream of it for days and maybe even weeks to come.. Dirt floors, Dirty children. Sick people.. Its amazing some of the living condition i have seen that human beings can actually live and survive.
This afternoon we went back to Sandigo, which is the school we were at yesterday, But today i played a clown, so much fun. Miss Mariposa, Miss butterfly was my name. Never thought i would have so much fun as a clown but i did & what was even better is the children loved us.
WE all have a lot of expectations before we left for this trip, i think some of us were very narrow minded and already had the mind set to judge, but God has really been at work with our team this week, and it will be interesting going back home and seeing everything, and watching how everything will play out. Kings Castles has really been a great encouragement this week, and really pushed some out of the comfort zones.
Tonight we hung out with Kings Castle, what a great group of brothers and sisters in Christ.
Day 9. Saturday May 22 2010.
Today we got to sleep in.
This morning we went with the orphanage to a Volcano. Very neat to look down into it. A lot of smoke, hard for me to breathe after the volcano we went out to eat. At lunch we sat with Our two translators, Martin and Roberto, they answered a lot of questions and were able to translate for us at our table with the Girls from the orphanage.
Everyone is talking about how they are ready to go home, Sure there are people that i miss back home, but i don,t want to leave. There is so much to be done back here, My heart is not ready to leave..Americans have it so good back home, but until you have seen streets lined with garbage and dirty little faces trying to beg from you, the sick lay in things they call homes, they will continue being selfish. This week I've seen house made of cardboard, i'v seen unclothes children, there is unclean water, and if you are lucky enough to have running water and toilets they do not always flush, Some would think we are on two different worlds.. people down here are just trying to survive .. How could anyone want to go back to America? My heart with never be the same...
Tonight we went to church with Kings Castle, There worship is unlike any other, I have chosen to believe that worship in heaven will be like that of what we heard tonight. After church service we went to pizza hut. WE have really got close with most of the kings castle group and our two translators Roberto and Martin, they are all such a huge blessing in our life. Before the night was over, they were shooting spit balls at each other, Los Monos. (what monkeys)!
Roberto Gave me a bracelet tonight, He gave me his bracelet so that I can wear it and think of him. This way I won't forget him or any of my friends back in Nicaragua. I don't want to leave, this could easily become home. There all family, My brothers and sisters in Christ. This would be the last night we see Kings Castle. Holding hands in the pizza hut parking lot we sang How great is our God & Open the eyes of my heart Lord, in Spanish and English under the star lit sky flashing with flashes of lightening.. We said our goodbyes, knowing that we might not see each other again till we reach heaven but promising to stay connected with email.
As we drove through the city for one of the last times, I had a hard time processing all my emotions on the bus. ... I don't want to go back home, is all I could seem to process as we mad our way through the city, I felt I wasn't ready to go home.
My heart hurts, Its torn between two completely different worlds that are some how seem to be located on the same map. .. I will be back i repeat to myself over and over again, I will be back.. this journey is not over.. There will forever be a place in my heart that is tender for the people of Nicaragua.
Day 10. Sunday May 23 2010.
This morning i couldn't help but tear up.. My desire of always wanted to do missions was confirmed this week, as I walked and worked on the streets of Managua. The verse I keep going back to was Isaiah 6:8 Than I heard a voice from he lord saying, "Whom shall i send?" and "Whom will go for us?" And I said "Here i am Lord, send me"....This after noon we went zip-lining, it was a lot of fun. I was so thankful that Roberto was able to go with us today! I got to spend one last day with him! This evening we went to the orphanage and played games all secretly not wanting the day to end..
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