This past month was pretty awesome I must say.....I had been thinking about how this month was going to be the first Birthday *away* from my family. Every year for the past I don't know how many years, my twin and I and our parents have always taken us out for our birthday. Well this year was obviously going to be *different* because I'm in Nicaragua. So Friday October 11th (day before my birthday) Caleb said that our head cook Ruth was going to cook me lunch, I thought, ok COOL :) That morning I had worked with Micro Finance working with the cucumber plants, so I came back to the base around 11:50am and needed a shower. I seen that Maggie and Austin & Jill were in the office which is nothing abnormal, so I just carried on, I thought "oh cool, maybe their having lunch with us''. So I showered and 10 minutes later Nate came and knocked on our door, I'm thinking GREAT, it's lunch time.....Soooo myself and Caleb (I'm leading) walk into the dining hall and I glance over to see MY MOTHER & FATHER standing in the SAME dining room I was in. I couldn't believe my eyes, and of course me being emotional, bawled. My parents came to Nicaragua to surprise ME for my BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!! Never ever in a million years did I ever suspect anything like this would ever happen.......I knew before we left the states in April that my dad probably wouldn't ever make a trip to Nicaragua just because he's always said he's not interested, which I was ok with. But I still thought about it in the back of my head, *how cool it would be if my dad came sometime* well.....IT HAPPENED :D :D :D So I got to spend my 25th Birthday with my parents :) It was a wonderful weekend and they were here from Friday until Monday morning.....We had a lot of fun with them, took them to some of our Ministry Sites, went to the Market...It was awesome for sure :) So grateful they did that....GOD IS GOOD :)
Caleb & I finished with Spanish Classes and are now working full time in Ministry Sites, I've been jumping between Social Work, Micro Finance and a little bit with Water Filters which is where Caleb's been...It's been a lot of fun, we get to use our Spanish (of what we know, which isn't a whole lot, but hey, we're trying).....Building relationships with the people we see everyday. I love it. I love Nicaragua and all the people here. The little girls in Social Work in a community we go, give the BEST hugs & kisses......They greet you like they haven't seen you in years, every time, never fails :) It's awesome.
NEXT month we head to the States for three weeks, soooo looking forward to it. Seeing our close friends and all our family <3 It will be awesome :) My really good friend Alison is actually coming here next Saturday for one week, it will be a blast. I've been looking forward to her coming for a long time now :) So Blessed she's making the trip out here :)
THANKS to everyone who's been praying for us, supporting us financially. We appreciate it sooo much, it means so much to us. We love and miss you guys tons. Looking forward to seeing our FFM family too!!!!! It will be so good Worshiping with our home church :)
My dads story about what\who *changed* his mind about coming to Nicaragua :)
**Here is the rest of the story of how our trip to Nicaragua came about. Many of you know that over the years I have always said I have no desire to go visit the mission field, even though I supported those who would go by taking them to the airport, I have lost count of the many trips that I have made to Indianapolis, Chicago, Detroit, and Toledo airport's taking those who were willing to go, I guess I thought that was all that was required of me. And even when my own daughter and her husband moved to the mission field I still said I will probably never go even though I supported them 110%. Over the years some of you have strongly encouraged me to go visit but of course I would not! Never say never right? lol. Sept 22 Lowell and Cheryl Troyer visited our church, standing in the foyer before the service started Cheryl looked at me and said you really need to go visit Caleb and Krista and surprise them!! I have heard that statement before but this time something was different, I immediately began to feel the walls come tumbling down, I sat in that service and tried to figure out what just happened..... By that Tuesday I told Norma we are going to Nicaragua in 18 days!! What a shock that was!! We told only a few people of our plans, what made the trip even more special was we were able to surprise Krista on her 25th birthday!! So I guess the moral of the story is no matter how high we build the walls God can and will them down!**
Just a few pictures from this past month
Blessings to you all!!!!!!!!
Fletchers in Nicaragua
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