MISSION WORLD

Well, today is the last day of team ministry for us. Yesterday we went to a little town just outside of Managua to hold two fiestas and a service, and today we will be doing the same thing again. Tomorrow we will (hopefully) be going to Masaya Volcano with the team, where we will get to actually go to the top of the volcano and look in, and then do some shopping and such.

We have not gotten to visit Masaya (the meaning of which you can gather!), so I hope we’ll be allowed to go.
We can’t wait to come home on Tuesday. Our last few days we will get to rest, so it will be a nice wind down from the trip. We will be staying at the Robinsons again when Terry (who we’re staying with) and Paul (another intern) leave for Honduras sometime this weekend. We’re glad not to be going back to Honduras, because I was having a lot of problems with my asthma while I was there. Hopefully we will get to visit Sisteo’s (Terry Steiden’s favorite restaurant here) and The Tavern (Lucila, one of our translator’s, family’s restaurant).

Also, Monday is a holiday here- some sort of Catholic religious day to honor Mary, in which the kids basically trick-or-treat. Should be interesting, from what I hear. Maybe they dress up as the pope or something.

Well we will see you all in just a few days- we keep talking about what restaurants we are going to visit when we get home, and all the things we want to cook. Most of all I think we both just want to take real showers in warm water and then get out and sit in the air conditioning.

Love you all and miss you!

Shanna & Dallas

well, today was a very long day. activity began at 8:00 and continued without stop until around 11:00. that’s a.m. to p.m. as you can imagine, running on minimal sleep we are exhausted. we drove for a total of around 5 1/2 hours today on a school bus that looked (as do all u.s. buses turned Nicaraguan public transportation fleet members) as though a mariachi band with a penchant for all things Walt Disney and/ or brightly colored were given charge over its Centro American makeover. on a brigter note, there were a lot of salvations, most notably a couple hundred teenagers at a secondary school (a.k.a. high school) in Ticuantepi. our trip is drawing to a close, with only one more day of actual planned ministry if that makes sense. Friday will be spent, among other things, travelling to Managua in order to get the teams to the airport (along with their 100 pieces of luggage, most of which are adorned with ominous orange hangtags bearing the caution: HEAVY), driving, driving and driving.

with more than 20 people staying at this house alone, all of whom use a single computer, it is difficult for me to communicate in as much detail as i would like, so there must be fill-in-the-blank conversations at a later date. for now, i’ll just say that we are doing well, seeing numerous souls won for Christ and missing our families and friends. we love you guys. more later…