melissabrown - Christmas is around the corner!

   Well it has been an interesting week here in Granada. With Christmas just around the corner the city is alive with tourists and celebration.  By celebration I mean fireworks at four in the morning and big parades at night!
   On Sunday some of us went to Managua in the morning and stayed there at the mall and watched movies and then came back for church in the evening service at Torre Fuerte. IIT was a fun service.  The children put on a skit as well as some of the youth did. Then Annie gave her testimony.

   Monday and Tuesday we had class in the mornings like usual at El Puente.  Our house has a roof on it and it is starting to look like a home! We will be living there after our Christmas break. Monday for our ministry we did an ATL. Tuesday we went and had another meeting at the Casa de Mujeres where we got some more information about the program.  They invited us to come back in January to check out some of the things that they are doing the barrios currently.

   Wednesday we had our last trash pick up and kids program. It was a lot of fun and I think that the kids really enjoyed it. When we are living at El Puente we will be a lot closer to these kids so we will still be able to minister to them which will be fun. I feel like now in the last week of doing this ministry that we have formed some really good relationships with the people in our new neighborhood and the street seems to be a lot cleaner than when we first started.

   Thursday we went up to Managua and went to the mall there to get our visas renewed. It as somewhat of a stressful process because we were cramped in this little room for hours trying to hurridly fill out paper work and keep from dying of boredom! But in the end we got our visas and ate some lunch and it was a pretty good day.

   Yesterday we wrapped up our women´s bible study on the book of Esther. Then for our ministry the boys came over and helped us clean up the house to get ready for when we leave this Tuesday for Omatepe.  I got most of my stuff packed up and I am excited to get moving past all this anxiety. I think that the island will be fun working at the orphanage.

   Well I probobly won´t write again until after Christmas but please be praying for me that I will stay focused in these next few weeks here and saftey in traveling! Have a good christmas.

-melissa

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