February 19th:
Hooray, my dear friend and sister in Christ Ally arrived today!!!!
We hit the ground running. I just read her blog entry for her first day here, would you just take a look at this:
by Ally:
Nicaragua :) "I am here in Nicaragua now! I had a great first day..filled and overflowing with crazy adventures. I went to the orphanage with Andrea and met the children, I think that I already fell in love with half a dozen children:) Then we went out to lunch with this family that was visiting from Colorado and who wanted more info about the orphanage, then we met up with this guy named Eli who runs a tutoring/feeding program for young children who don't have anyone at home to help with homework or money to buy their school uniforms...then he took us into the city dump and we got to meet some families that pick cans out of the trash to sell. And see a missions school that is in the middle...it is crazy that there is a small village of people that live in the dump filled with trash and smelly fires everywhere. It is a hard life for these people with not much hope. (see earlier blog entry on "La Chureca.") After that we went to a Christian school and visited a friends daughter...we hung out there until they had youth group and spent time worshipping and praying with some pretty on-fire kids! And on top of it all we prayed for several people along the way....and got pulled over by the police for not having all of out lights on even though it was not even dark yet...they just saw a chance to be paid off, which we never give into. All in all it was a great day filled with chances to meet new people and see God moving in different ways. We'll see what today holds:) " Ally
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