First full day

Hello! Ok, this is Emily, and I wanted to tell you a bit about our first day. We went with a man named Perry that is 75, and from North Carolina. He has started a ministry that now had 250 feeding programs feeding children 3 to 5 days a week. We went to the compound they have built that houses ministry groups, feeds locals, has a school, and a church where they train pastors of each feeding ministry. He has to go check on these feeding locations regularly because the men sometimes decide to get greedy and then don´t feed the children. Please imagine the weather here with me if you will... imagine the hottest day you´ve ever had. Now add 97% humidity. Now add jeans and work boots. Now add a shuttle with no AC and the smallest windows ever. Now add traffic with leaded gas smelling the place up. Once we left the city it was these terrible washed out dirt roads. This is their rainy season, so about 5 o´clock it seems to start pouring like our strongest storms!

We went to the Managua dump today which was very sad. I just can´t imagine a life without hope or relief from the heat and flies. Flies everywhere! Skinny dogs and pigs and horses living with them, and horses with carts in the same traffic lane as the buses. The buzzards are always circling here, and the men are picking through the trash right behind the trash trucks looking for any recycling to pick up and turn in for money.

The government is actually attempting to help relocate many of these people by giving them a tiny plot of land and a few pieces of wood and tin to build a house. So, believe it or not that seems like a really great option for them.

We have met several other people ministering in Nicaragua already at this hotel. Never so thankful for a shower in my life. I got in with my clothes on and rubbed soap all over them to kill any parasites or weird germs that may be traveling on them. It´s hard to understand why I am so priveledged. I have done nothing to gain a nice house, a car, and an education. Thank you God, and help me to never grow ungrateful.