My passion for missions started after my first mission trip to Managua Nicaragua with my family in 2006. We stayed at a mission compound run by the Buzbee family.(You can visit their website at www.ohearts.org) While in Nicaragua we worked in a community called La Chureca that is located in the Managua dump. Around 1,200 people live in the dump. Each family earns $3 on a typical work day by searching through the trash looking for recycle. In the dump we helped pass out lunch at Colegio Cristiano La Esperanza, the school in the dump. We also held Vacation Bible School in other small towns around Managua, went on prayer walks, and built a home for a family who lived in the dump. We were also able to visit an amazing lady named Ruby Temple. There aren't really any words to describe her. She was a very small lady with a very big heart for people and an AMAZING relationship with her Lord! We visited her at her brightly decorated home outside the dump and enjoyed singing praise songs as she played her blue guitar and sang with all her heart, a Bible quiz competition between boys and girls, and an intense time of prayer. She had each family come up to her together for prayer and then she would anoint each person with oil and pray for them individually. Sometimes she would grab one of the leaders in our group and have them pray for someone. She would tell them "I want you to pray for this person and whatever The Lord puts on your heart to say you has to say it." For a few people she had a special word. When she prayed for me she anointed me a second time and told me that God was going to do something great in my life. I don't think this trip really effected me until after I was home and able to process what all I had seen and done in Nicaragua. I decided that I would save up and work hard to be able to go back the next year. It turned out that no one I knew was going to Nicaragua, but my Aunt Mandy encouraged me to join her and her youth group in Honduras which I did.
