Nicaragua Mission Trip
Hello Everyone , So, finally, here's an update on my trip to Nicaragua . I've been wanting so much to write this! But it's hard to know where to start. The facts: From March 3-25 myself and 10 other students/faculty from here at Souls West went to Nicaragua for a mission trip organized by Share Him. The first impressions: Getting off the plane = getting hit by the humidity! (A foreign concept in Arizona ). The reality – we're really here! But the realization also quickly hits that I probably should have started cramming for Spanish before I got on the plane…. The site: There were eleven of us from Souls West speaking in different churches surrounding the city of Matagalpa . Matagalpa is a nice mid-sized city in the mountains of Nicaragua. We really enjoyed walking to the little markets to buy fruit etc. For a mission trip, we really had nice accommodations. Yet housing for the locals tells a very different story. Every day, I would travel to my church for a...