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Hey y'all. Sorry about that - I meant to post on Monday... But things have been busy.
Needless to say, I've been studying through the book of Acts, superficially of course. I've been observing all the miracles performed, all the healings, and all the conversions.
The cool thing is, though, that Acts lines up with modern day Nicaragua. People here have real demons, they have real sicknesses and have been healed and there have been real conversions. God is so cool, eh?
So, what's happened in the last week (and a half)?
Corey and Ashley went home (sad day) Monday night. We picked up another couple who arrived seperate - Paul and Michelle. Paul is a hoot who is teaching me some things I never knew! And Michelle is from Feed My Starving Children (who I still think is a spy to see what we're doing with our food, haha) who's here for an internship.
On top of that we went to an area in Las Torres where a "pastor" performed a hostile take-over of a school and is trying to throw the old director under the bus because she's trying to keep what remains open. Our ministry is preparing to allow her to bus her students to our compound to study in the morning and bus them back so they have a legal covering -- right now they're not a legitimate school because of the "pastor".
Today we're heading out to another new and foreign area called "Boaca".
This week has been full of traveling, fun, and excitement!
Let me first say that I never thought in my wildest dreams that I'd be going to the peak of a mountain to help share the gospel and change a life. This week we traveled to two different mountains top communities. One called Las Mesas and the other Las Lajas. They're beautiful communities, which are literaly off the beaten path.
On the mountain in Las Lajas, I helped shared the gospel with a woman who took care of every sick person in the community and the mountain. After asking her a few questions, we found out that she had some sort of Catholic background and that she believed that she would go somewhere when she died. That somewhere was not certain. Patrick and I showed her some verses out of Romans and after explainingn the verses and what they meant, we offered the woman a chance to know where she would go once her life here ended. She accepted! And we began to pray with her and afterwards explained that she needed to follow through with the second half of Romans 10:9 so that she would be saved - that the pray of confession wasn't good enough. It is a heart thing.
That's just a taste of what we've been up to. Keep the prayers coming!
Love you guys!
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So it's been about a week so I guess it's about time for a new blog post, eh?
Where do I begin? Lots of stuff has happened this week - for one the Network was being supported by a SUPER unreliable router so it kept crashing and I had to keep fixing it.
Next, Corey, Ashley (interns who are here for a month, blog link here) and I went on a hike out of the compound, and out of Zone 3 allll the way to Zone 4. That was fun. o.O I thought I was going to die. Ha! But no, we took Frank with us as security which... eh.... now that I think about it, I probbly wouldn't do it again because he was a pretty big scaredy cat. And we walked for like 2 hours and finally got to the top of Zone 4, which is at the very top of the mountain. The view was BEAUTIFUL! I have never seen anything quite as marvelous as that -- except for yesterday, keep reading -- and we took a shortcut that Frank "knew" and I fell down the mountain a bit. Let me mention that the shortcut was not on a trail... It was more like cutting through the Amazon Rainforest.... Oh, and with mountains in it. o.O But needless to say we did not have another Buckhorn experience. ;)
Oh and so I am now a cat killer -- haha, no I didn't really kill a cat. I actually just helped to relocate a poor innocent agravating little feline....out of the compound to Xiloa.... The girls who we gave it to were very happy. And so were the employees on the compound.
And last but not least, we went to the chureca of Nindiri and saw a bunch of beautiful children of God who worked there. I'm so excited to see God start a work in that area. We are going to begin bringing teams there I believe. There was a little boy who caught my eye while we were there, too. His name was Eduardo. I don't know why, but he just caught my eye. He had about 10 rubber bands on his right arm that he found in the dump while he was scavenging around. Here's a photo of him as well as a cover for your Facebook profiles:
Please join me in prayer for Eduardo as well as the rest of the people of Nindiri. Thanks, and blessings and love to you all!
I feel a lot better than yesterday!
I was requested to post when I felt better, so here it is! Yesterday I felt pure miserable and couldn't barely stand to do anything. Today, I have a slight bit of congestion, but overall, I'm 100% better.
Thanks for the prayers and love.
Well, I've officially gotten sick.
Today I woke up with a rather sore throat and that has esclated into a head ache, weak body, head spinning and at times a nauseaus feeling.
I'm definitely praying right now for God to make me whole and that this sickness would pass by quickly.
But I'm pretty sure that it's just sinus stuff, no viruses, just sinus infection.
Thought I'd let you guys know so you could pray. Love you guys.