“On the behalf of American Airline I would like to thank you for choosing us today and welcome you to Nicaragua.”
Wait. What did she just say? No way that this is here already. I was just having my phone interview like yesterday.
Nervous, a touch homesick and clueless I stepped off the plane into my home country for the next three months. The air was so humid that breathing felt like sucking a chunk of strawberry from a shake up a straw. My eyes on a constant swivel making sure everyone had all their luggage and making sure it stayed that way too.
A bus belonging to the church pulled around. This bus wouldn’t exactly meet USA standards took us through Managua, up into the mountains, and finally back down into Jinotepe. While riding, I looked out the windshield to see nothing more then a wall of fog and five feet of the yellow line separating the traffic lanes, at least when that line was there. That bus ride though is a perfect representation of how I am trying to approach this trip. Don’t worry about seeing the entire road rather just focus on the five feet ahead of you. This is an entirely different mindset then I have had in the past, but maybe that is one area God wants to work on during this trip.
After our nice little trip through the foggy roads (or lack there of) of Nicaragua we arrived our home for the next three months. It is a rectangle building with two big bunk rooms for girls and boys, a room for the Pastor Luis and his family, a kitchen, and two rooms that are for Carlos and Elvis men that work here. There is a church behind the building that has about 60 members. If you check out the video you will be able to get a little better feel for out home. The surrounding neighborhoods are not the type to take a midnight stroll through, but during the day the people are open for a game of soccer or to try to hold a conversation with their new foreign visitors.
My team and I have been getting introduced to out new home over the past couple of days so I don’t have any reports to share about the dead being raised or sick being healed yet. Stay tune though because God is here. His presence is evident in the everything the people, the plants, the wildlife and more.
The step has been taken and I can only see five feet in front of me. I can hardly wait to see what the next five feet hold.
