Going home for a few weeks was great and I needed it very much but I am so excited to be back here with the people and a place that I have come to know and love very much. I believe God started a good work here with our team and he is going to carry it out to completion in the next few months. I really believe Christmas Break served its purpose in renewing my desire to come back here with fresh passion to impact lives with Christ's love and see things happen in Nicaragua. Before going home for Christmas anybody who knows me could tell you how much I was stressing out about the future and they would be dead on, and I don't know if its just the excitement of being back here and starting new ministries but this week I have just felt such an overwhelming peace about some of the things I was worrying about; like what I will be doing after this year. Its almost like before and I still feel this way sometimes but now I know its wrong...that I don't have the all the time I need to do the things I want to do but I'm starting to see that the only time constraints that we have are the ones that we put on ourselves and that is what stresses me out.

    Right now I really just want to be focused on the next five months and deciding which ministries I really want to pour into. I really love having the option to be involved with the type of thing that I am passionate about. I have really enjoyed working with the kids down here but God's really starting to show me that I like working with young people around my age. Young Life is one ministry that I definitely want to stay involved with just because of some of the fruit we have already seen from it.

ESL is the other ministry that I didn't know I would enjoy so much but I really have and there are a few ways that I can keep doing that this semester. God has really started to show me that I really enjoy teaching...especially in a class room setting. Sisters of Charity is not starting back up until February but I am looking forward to that because I enjoy working with those girls so much.

    We also have a new leader that came this week and I think we all have enjoyed meeting him and hope that he feels like a part of the team very soon.

God is just so awesome and he has really been showing me that this week in my quiet times. We started a new Beth Moore Bible study in our Girls Bible Study and I really think I'm going to enjoy it. The first week was about us as children of God being the spiritual descendents of Abraham and God wanting to pour out his blessings on us. I think I needed to hear that because sometimes its hard to remember that when things get tough or decisions need to be made. Christ is amazing and I'm thankful for all he has done already and will do in the next few months.