This weekend was spent in the desolate and elevated town of Terrabona. We drove about 3 hours to reach this town where we met up with a few other teams that were heading for the same mission. There were two teams from Nicaragua and one from Omaha, Nebraska. The total number of missionaries for this weekend was 110. The drive up the mountains to reach this village was very rough. We were practically off-roading (which Rip was a pro at). After driving up an extremely rocky road and over some rivers (literally) we arrived at Terrabona.
The people of this town had been praying for rain and boy did those prayers get answered! Because of these circumstances we couldn’t work too much on Saturday. In the evening we went to an enthusiastic and lovely church service. Sunday morning was spent at the park in the middle of town. We held a children’s festival with clowns, music, dancing and all. The kids enjoyed it and they each received a bag of goodies to take home! During this festival, our lovely Delanie cut hair in the corner of the basketball court. She did an amazing job at bringing up the self-esteem of these women by making them feel beautiful. At the end of the day she had cut about 15 peoples hair. She worked very hard and we are extremely proud of her! At one point their was another missionary who was volunteering to cut hair but none of the women wanted her because they loved Delanie’s talent and would only let their hair be touched by Delanie. Margaret and Priscilla were there to translate for her and be her personal assistants. It was great.
While this festival was happening, the other teams were painting curbs in the front of the town, planting trees along the road, painting the houses of the local pastors, and evangelizing to the neighborhood people door to door. Despite the oppositions from the local Catholic church (who actually tried to shut our mission down completely) we worked wonderfully as a large group in Terrabona and completed the work that God set out for us.
We planned on coming home Saturday afternoon but the rain stopped us from doing so. Everybody worried that the drive down the mountain would be a bit too dangerous so we stayed back another night. The three of us ended up having our own little church service that evening in our “hotel” room. We shared our Nicaragua testimony with Margaret and had several amazing God moments with each other. After waiting till 10:30 at night to eat dinner, we finally went to sleep at midnight. Most of the girls from the Nebraska team were sick to their stomachs : ( and we prayed for their health.
The next morning our trip ended when we went back to our room to get our bags to leave. Margaret opened the door and casually walked passed a 5-inch scorpion. It wasn’t until Delanie noticed it that everyone freaked out. Priscilla was too busy taking pictures, fascinated by the little monster. She saved the day by taking the scorpion out with a broom. Yay! We drove back to Managua at around 8:30 a.m. and made it safely back home. It was a pretty exhausting weekend but God totally planned for us to be there. Not to mention, the scenery to and from this town was absolutely breathtaking and majestic (see pictures below!).
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