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Nicaragua: Timid Thoughts

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It's  Monday night , day 5 into my medical mission trip to Nicaragua. I am pretty darn tired but I feel like I have to document some of my thoughts before the emotions fade. The trip started out with meeting the team in Atlanta. It was kinda like any typical awkward meeting for a large group of strangers, people were polite but pretty much clung to the people they knew. For me, this was Anita, Mryna, and Megan. It was so nice seeing them after so long, and catching up with them made the time fly. On the plane ride to Managua, my real adventure started. Anita and I were seated next to a missionary pastor on his way down for an annual gathering of missionary pastors. Not exactly sure what the details of his current trip were, but it was clear within a few minutes of talking to him, that spreading the word of Christ was his mission in life. As he settled in to reading the Bible for the rest of the trip, and I looked around the plane at the mixture of missionary pastors and medical