After a wonderful time of being with friends and family over
the holidays, we are settling back into life in Nicaragua.  We moved into our new dorm-style house
behind El Puente, which has been great to be closer to a lot of our ministry.  Seems like we always have kids to greet
us when we come out our front door. 
Our first few days we relaxed and moved into our house, and yesterday we
worked about 5 hours in the yard, cleaning up from a lot of the construction,
hauling tree branches into our bonfire area, and picking up trash.  Something exciting that greeted us when
we got back was that they are putting pavers on our street! After years of
saying they were going to, they are finally doing it.  I wonder if this will change trash pick-up at all since it
is no longer a dirt street.  Hopefully
people will take better care of it since it looks so much nicer.

Next week we are going to be nailing down the logistics and
details of what the next few months are going to look like.  We will be choosing particular
ministries and essentially making an internship out of our hours of
service. 

There have been some changes in the structure of our
leadership team as one of our male leaders has felt called back to his
home.  We are getting a new leader
in his place and I, as well, am stepping up into a leadership position.  I am excited about what the Lord wants
to teach me through this transition. 
Please pray for our team as we seek out where God wants to use us in
this city. 

I'm excited to be back and would love your prayers, as
always.  Thank you for reading! I
hope you are having a wonderful start to this new year.