Day 2 - Nueva Vida and Mural Painting

Today's post comes from one of our team members, Ian Viera! ENJOY! Below is the mural he and his sister painted at Hogar De Fe!

Day 2 Another successful day in the books! Today was another beautiful day in Nicaragua, a beautiful but long day. We started our morning off with a tasty breakfast from the Casa Bernabe cooks and then immediately hopped on to the bus to head off to our first day in Nueva Vida (New Life). We were first greeted by pastor Guillermo with a warm hug and a huge smile. It didn’t take long for us to jump into our first project of picking up trash with some of the kids. Throughout the couple of hours we were there more and more kids came out to hang with the team. Every direction you looked there were kids smiling and laughing. We then helped hand out meals for the kids lunch and I got to experience my first feeding center. It was an easy adios knowing we would see them tomorrow so we hopped on the bus and we were off to our next destination. We made a quick stop at a church called Verbo Nuava Vida where we ate lunch and toured the facility. After our tour we headed back to Hogar de Fe to finish up the murals. It was pretty cool seeing the kids that we just saw the day before run up to our team ready to play! The project that we were working on was to paint encouraging murals for the kids to look at each day. Some of the team painted while the others played with the beautiful kids. Their energy is motivating! Knowing what they have been through and to see them this happy is just proof to Gods love. Saying adios to this group of kids was sad knowing that we won’t be visiting them again but we all know that there are many other kids that deserve to be shown love. It is off to bed now, another awesome day in Nicaragua is just hours away! -Ian