A few photos from Mission 42 in Nicaragua

Watertown Daily Times | Morristown woman makes mission trip to Nicaragua

Watertown Daily Times | Morristown woman makes mission trip to Nicaragua

Mission of Hope in the Nica Community

 A Grateful Family!

Nurse Anna, Elizabeth and Barbara

Mision Esperanza

I just returned from Nicaragua this very evening...and, well, I just have to touch base. I don't know if I have ever felt such profound sadness, helplessness and hope in a single moment, a single day or any period of time in my life as I feel right now and since I boarded the plane in Managua... to leave, el irse... I had twelve hours of travel to feel all of these things...I had a moment when I felt paralized...walking from the plane to exit the airport in Jacksonville...there was a pull...a pull back to Nica.
Of course, I was very anxious to see my daughter and share my experience. Of course, I wanted a hot shower and the comfort of my bed and my stuff and to read all my emails and just breath.  But, I am not ready to leave Nica and I am ready to return... October cannot come soon enough. I know exactly the location of my heart.   So many  hopes, dreams, plans...prayers...
The mission team I spent the last week with were amazing in so many ways...I will be forever rooted in Mission #42 and to the wonderful people....the companions I shared this experience with and blessed to continue onward with the vital work that needs to be done... siempre!
I will elaborate a bit more later, but I just had to get some of this emotion off my heavy heart.
I love all of you and you are all in my prayers and always will be. Sister Debbie...you have way of capturing the heart of the matter and of the people you touch.
Blessings,
Anna

Leaving for the short mission

Ok. I am leaving for the short mission to Nica tomorrow night. I am hoping that I will have some good stories to tell and many photos to share. I am not sure of the projects that we will be involved in yet, but I am sure it will be an adventure. I am very excited to meet the Nica team with North Country Mission of Hope and will also be meeting at least one of the Doctors with the The Jessie F. Richardson Foundation based in Oregon. We are hoping to start discussing the development of a home visit program with the elderly. The JFR foundation has been working with the elderly in Nica for over ten years, so I am sure they have a wealth of information to get us started. I am thrilled to find such great resources for my long term mission.
I really should get packing!
Chao for now, anna

All my Docs in a Row!

I hope everyone had a fun and injury free 4th of July!   I am officially getting ready for Nicaragua now. Just a dozen or so documents to notarized, apostilized, photo copied, get the photo copies notarized... send all the docs to the consulate and wait for them to come back and have them all copied once more and get ten copies of my passport and ten sets of passport photos and .... well I am there!

Ah, I cannot wait to meet the Nicaraguan team of volunteers and take a ton of photos to post. It will be nice to journal about my experiences there and not just my preparations here.

Also... thank  you for your prayers!

Chao,  Anna

Independencia feliz y seguro día!

I really like the babel translator. See it on the left of the posts here. I hope it will encourage my spanish speaking friends to visit more often!

   The fireworks started last night... I believe I will stay in and study this holiday weekend. I have many prayers and prayer requests from friends, family and followers of my blog and facebook. I feel really honored when someone asks for prayers. I suppose I never thought about it that way before. I know that I often ask for prayer and feel a comfort knowing that people do follow through.

As always,
Blessings
Anna