We love our neighborhood. We live in a “compound” with 4 other
missionary families, and they have become a family to us. Their support and encouragement has been such
a blessing to us from the very beginning. We arrived to our new home in Managua
for the first time at 10:00 at night, and by 7:00 the next morning, our kids
already had friends! There are 15 kids
in our neighborhood between the ages of 2-12, and they play together every day,
running around outside and from house to house.
We have really enjoyed the adult friendships too—I (Ruth), being the
crazy extrovert I am, have so appreciated having friends around to talk to all
the time. Andrew and I have a perpetual longing
for a deep community, and have found it here.
We exchange children, borrow ingredients and cars, play games after
bedtime (we are so glad we brought our baby monitor!), ride to places together,
share meals, exercise together, share struggles, Facebook chat each other at night
even though if we talked loudly enough we could hear from one house to the
other, help each others kids with homework, and the list goes on… We are so thankful
to God for providing us with this safe and loving place that has become a home
away from home for us.
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