Author: Adventures

Before I had to come to Nicaragua, I had always had this fear of praying out loud, or praying over people. I would only feel comfortable if I prayed by myself, in my room, and in my head. I always felt that if I prayed out loud or for people, I would mess up, or say the wrong thing, or just sound stupid. If someone would ask me to pray out loud, I would freak out, and just make it as quick and easy as possible. I did not like it at all. During this trip, I feel like God is showing me that I can pray out loud, and theres nothing to worry about. He has showed me the power of prayer, and that...

This past Friday my team and I went to a Orphanage just for girls. Earlier in the week someone explained to us that most if not all the girls in the orphanage are not really orphans. There parents are most probably still alive, but their parents did not want them, so they brought them to the orphanage. After hearing this it made me want to go even more. So Friday we set off to go. After about a 10 minute walk we were there. After a Teacher unlocked the front gate so we could come in. The teacher told us we had one hour to spend with the girls. As we walked through a few girls meet us...

For a while I have not feeling connected with my body or anything. I did not know for sure why so I talked to our translator named Jesse who we call Padre about it. He asked me where my heart was. I gave him that look of what do you mean, where is my heart? It seemed like such a silly question, but then he told me if your heart is not fully with God then what are you doing?We got into this conversation about how you have to live your life either fully for God or not at all. You can fool people but not God… WOW!So as I was praying about it a couple hours later I realized I have not...