What's been happening the past month?! A lot. We've been busy with Spanish School and practicing with our yard help and cleaning ladies. It's been a lot of fun, learning new verbs and putting them to use. I feel like I'm to the point of being 'stuck', hoping to get past this point....Caleb is doing really good, he needs to give himself more credit. He wishes he'd know more, but he knows a ton :) He has a hard time with using the correct form, but he gets his point across and he's doing awesome :) So proud of him...
This past week our Pastor Don & his wife Lisa came for a couple days, it was amazing. We have felt so encouraged and Blessed by their trip. God's timing was so perfect. I've been struggling with different things, one thing is the whole church situation, when we had teams there was someone to translate, but the sound system in that church is so difficult to hear in the first place. I haven't been able to understand really anything, the songs we sing are all in Spanish and a lot of times I could figure out what they were and just sing them in English to myself. But not being able to understand the sermon was hard. I felt like I hadn't been to church since we've moved here. I've been doing my personal devotions, but I wanted more...I wanted to go to a church service that I understood and was able to worship in English and have people understand me and being able to understand them as well. It made me miss our home church back in Michigan. I would tell Caleb how I felt and not feeling like he knew how I felt, even if he said he did, I didn't feel like he did. But he was dealing with the same thing.....The devil was putting thoughts and things that didn't belong there in my mind, telling me I wasn't good enough, that I don't need to go to this Spanish church if I don't understand anything anyhow. Caleb & I had a lot of 'heated discussions' about it. I wanted to go to this English church because I wanted more than what I was getting from my devotions, Caleb told me that I needed to read more than what I was reading for my devotions, so I started to do that and dig into His word and having a desire to learn more.....
Than Don & Lisa came and we shared our thoughts and feelings towards our struggles and they encouraged us with different things and it's helped so much. I feel so much better and refreshed. God brings us to these points in our lives to draw us closer to Him, to want to desire to know more about Him and dig into The Word. Since I've had that desire, I've felt so much better, filled. I've struggled with reading, not only the Bible but other books, just reading period. And since January (our Missionary Training in Colorado) my outlook on personal devotions and spending time in God's word and spending time with God totally changed. I'm so thankful for that. <3 I've been reading and not being able to put God's Word down because it's sooo awesome and I want to know more.
Caleb & I have been doing a little mini Bible Study together, that's been a lot of fun. We're growing in so many areas that we hadn't been able to when we were in the states. We've become so much closer. I am so thankful for such a wonderful husband who cares so much about me and wants nothing but the best for his wife <3 He's a wonderful man of God!!! <3
We are looking forward to our 2 teams this fall. One week outreaches, it will be a lot of fun having groups stay here, it's so quiet when people aren't staying here, so I'm looking forward to it. My reallllly good friend Alison comes for one week in November, I'm so looking forward to that, she's been here in Nicaragua before, but not with Students International. So I'm excited for her to see what God is doing here. And than two weeks after she leaves, we had to the STATES for 3 weeks :D I am STOKED for that :D Than we come back the end of December and get ready for a three week outreach. Caleb's best friend Galen and my little sister Kelsey come for two weeks in February and we are beyond excited. It will be amazing.
We had such a wonderful time with Don & Lisa!!!!
We want to THANK our sending church, Firm Foundation Ministries for EVERYTHING. They sent an amazing care package with Don & Lisa and we appreciate it so much. Such a Blessing, we love and miss you all so much and are looking forward to spending time with you all when we get back for a visit.
THANK YOU everyone who's partnered with us, supported us, prayed for us. You all mean so much to us. Blessings to you all <3
Fletcher's in Nicaragua
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