Hello all,

I have just gotten back from an amazing weekend at Ometepe island. I will hopefully post more about it tomorrow but it involved kyaking, hiking volcanoes and watching a magnificent waterfall. However right now it´s not my trip that I want to tell you about but a ´small moment´ that occured this evening.

I have already been blessed with many wonderful experiences in Nicaragua, and although these experiences are great I have found that it truly is the little things that make me feel a connection to this place and the people here. This evening I was talking with my mom on the phone and she was asking about whether there was a church that I could attend here. I explained that Nicaragua is predominately Catholic and that although I would like to attend a church service in some of the gorgeous buildings here, the language barrier might prevent me from doing so regularly. Well God obviously doesn´t agree and I was proved completely wrong moments later when I got off the phone and walked down the stairs. As I reached the bottom of the stairs I began to hear ¨this is the day the Lord has made¨ being sung across the street (in spanish of course but luckily one of my only spanish words is dia and the tune is easily recognizable as one I have sung in church many times). So apprently there is a Church of Christ right across the street from my house! I´m not sure how I´m going to figure out what time they meet but hopefully I will be able to scrounge up enough spanish to join them next weekend. Anyway just wanted to share that with all of you, I am constantly humbled by how God works in our lives ! It is a blessing to have moments here where for a second it doesn´t matter that I don´t understand most of the spanish spoken around me or that I am a gringo, but to truly see that we are all one in Christ.

Buenos Noches