Day of traveling :(

So sad to be saying we left Managua early this morning.. but happy to say we had a very great flight to Atlanta and we are currently waiting for our connecting flight to Indy. We want to personally thank all of those at home who have been praying for us and our trip to go successfully. Our trip couldn't have been better. We had wonderful weather, the best company, and the greatest hospitality.
We met some of the greatest people in the world, filled with God's love and who truly had servant's hearts. We will miss everybody so much, but if we didn't come back home and share what we have learned, what would the trip really be for? Personal gratification?
God wants us to learn from our trip and bring home to Indiana with us. The thing that we learned the most and want to immitate most is God's love. The people we worked with had so much love for us, yet we had just met them. They also had so much faith in the Lord, and they all were in very extreme cases of poverty. We have so much, all of us, back home. We have beautiful homes, shoes, clothes, and we never go hungry, yet we still think we need more, still worry about seemingly insignificant things. We are so richly blessed beyond words by God. He has provided us with so many talents and so many resources. They aren't ours. They are God's.
Our challenge for ourselves and for you all at home that have kept up with our blog and our trip is to think about all that God has truly blessed you with. Give thanks to Him and listen to the calling He has for your life and what He wants you to do with those riches He has blessed you with. We are all called to love like Jesus. What does that really mean and more importantly what does that really look like?
The sense of community the people of Nicaragua possess is unreal, unlike any other that we have been a part of before. Nobody cared about what clothes we were wearing, how our hair or makeup looked, if we smelled or not, what shoes we were wearing. Our personalities and hearts were what they were most concerned about. We were offered the best seats in the house, offered the best things they could give us. They wanted us to know how appreciative they were that we were there helping, building, working along side of them. A overturned bucket might have been the best chair in the house, but it was always offered to one of us. A homemade ring or bracelet might have been the best gift they could have given us, and it was offered to us. Remembe what you have to share, what you have to offer somebody, even a stranger?
Where has our sense of community gone to? Why are we so close off, so private, so uninviting to people we do not know? Aren't we all children of God?

Thanks again for all the support and prayers. We love you and are excited to share our stories, our pictures, and our changed hearts with you.
With much love and many blessings,
Your Northview West Lafayette Nicaragua Go Team :)

Stay tuned for pictures :)