Hello dear friends. We have returned from the lovely city Terrabona! We are all exhausted. Some of us have been sick the last few days, so we are glad to return to Masatepe, which is where we will be working for the rest of the time.
Our hotel rooms are filled with giggles because we are so tired that our words tend to come out jumbled. At the moment we are wondering at how very different the two cities are. Being to Terrabona certainly gives one some perspective. It is difficult for me to describe. But we have agreed that after visiting Terrabona, it feels as though we are at home here in Masatepe. It is such a luxury to have a bathroom all to our selves in our room. Wonderful!
But I feel I should tell you about what we actually did in Terrabona. There were three groups that we broke into; painting, evangelism, and the children’s festival.
The painters were continually frustrated by the torrential rains. They painted the inside of the resident pastor’s house while the rain persisted. And when the rain stopped they painted the outside of houses and street curb.
The evangelism team consisted of many Nicas from Masatepe, who joined us for this leg of the journey, and our team traveled with them in pairs. The first day we watched as the our Nicaraguan friends proclaimed boldly to the people of Terrabona that God loves them and that they were special to them. We went into houses and prayed for the families that lived there. The second day we were encouraged to speak ourselves.
At the children’s festival, we dressed as clowns and had a dance-off. There were puppets and we played games. And at the end we lined the children up and gave them each a small bag of stuffed animals.
All of this was really successful. The people were very open and receptive. I believe there are a couple of good stories about people giving their lives to the Lord that I will attempt to bring to you in greater detail later.
There was, however, another fourth group that formed. Several of us caught some sort of sickness while in Terrabona. Most of us are feeling better and have mostly recovered, we would appreciate your prayers. Pray especially for our leaders who have worked very hard in close proximity and late nights for us sick people, that they would stay well.
As a team we are enjoying each other. It is a joy to be around my friends. And it is wonderful to watch them all interact and laugh about slaying bugs with Paul’s pillow. Thank you so much for praying for unity in our team (and your continued prayer!)
Today we are putting on dance and art clinics for the kids. I will hopefully write you more about that later. Updates may be coming a little more regularly now that we are back in Masatepe.
So if you would pray for our team’s health. Unity within the team and also with the Nicas we are working with. And continued focus among us, that we would not forget our purpose here and not forget to seek God for the little ways that we can help those around us.
I hope you will forgive me for this abridged version of our stay in Terrabona. Perhaps later I will obtain more details, along with the time to write them.
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