Well... How to start this off... I´m here! It´s been a whirlwind this past week and a half. This is the first chance I´ve had to sit down and blog so sorry for the wait. I´m currently getting used to living in Nicaragua. I´ll admit it feels weird to say it like that- ¨Live in Nicaragua¨. But I´m so excited to see where these months are going to take me! I´m currently learning how to use this keyboard I´m typing on- it´s totally different from ones in America but it´s simply just another adventure :)

Training week was good, although I´ll admit at first I didn´t neccessarily want to be there- I just wanted to go down to Nicaragua right away. But the week really brought our team together. Obviously, there´s only so much you can learn in one week about each other while still getting sleep at night and we definitely learned alot. We had team building exercises- an obstacle course, an activity called the spider web (we had to manuver under and over string in between trees- defintely not as easy as it sounds), we had drime (miming a drama) training... And we continued to learn about each other and come to appreciate God in every aspect of our lives. There were speakers every day talking about a range of topics- from spiritual warfare to how to share our life stories.

After the week in Gainsville Georgia- we headed to the airport to catch our plane to Houston TX and then eventually Nicaragua. As we were headed to the airport, because of the recent hurricane in TX we had no idea what would actually occur once we got there- we could be rerouted, or simply delayed, or not fly out at all. But God was gracious and knew how excited we were to get down here and allowed the airport experiences to go smoothly.

So here I am, in an internet cafe, still trying to get used to the humidity :) The girls were blessed with a great house- we have electricity, 4 bedrooms, rocking chairs, FANS, even a washing machine with clotheslines. We´re totally aware how blessed we are with it. The 5 guys on the team have their own house too- it´s not furnished right now, simply beds and a simple table and chairs, but the leaders are working on getting them fans and a broom (those were their main two requests). This is only our 2nd day here, we´re still trying to get into the swing of things. We met up with the missionaries down here last night and they told us some of the ministries we´ll probably be helping with down here (of course I can´t remember them right now, I´ll let everyone know as time goes by).

Thank you so much for everyone´s prayers! Already God is working down here, the guys went to a men´s bible study this morning and 3 men were saved! God is good!