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Dear , Thank you so much for contributing to my mission trip to Nicaragua. It was one of the most fun trips I’ve ever been on! It was so amazing to see how many lives we impacted and how much the Nicaraguans were amazed by us. Next time you have the opportunity to go on a mission trip to Nicaragua or anywhere else I urge you to go. It is so rewarding. The first working day, in the morning, we went out and handed out food bags with food, toiletries and other useful items. Then half of our team (Including me) went to start building the house that we would work on for the rest of the week. While at the construction site a bunch of little kids came over to watch us and some of us went to play around with them. They were as happy as can be even though they had barely everything. On the second day, after a good night sleep at El Eludante (The organization that planned our trip, where we stayed, and ate), we hosted a soccer “camp” a few miles from the building site. The neighborhood there already had their own team so we played against them at their field for a couple of hours. In the afternoon half of the group and I, went to a nursing home but because there was a mess up in the schedule so we only got to spend a few minutes there. The elderly people there looked so happy when we talked to them about how they were doing and about God because they hadn’t been able to talk to other people about this in a long time. On the last day when we worked in the morning we went back to the soccer camp and had a tournament then, after lunch, we helped repaint one of the buildings at El Eludante. When the others had finished building the house that we started the first day we went to dedicate it to a family there. They were so happy because they were previously living in a shack and so this living room-sized house was huge to them. It was so humbling. The last day we were in Nicaragua we climbed up a volcano then ran down it. It

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