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Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2017

Last month I got to go home. By home, I mean Texas, although I’m getting more and more confused about where exactly home is.

I returned with a welcoming from comforting family, friends, and honestly, food. During the month I was in Texas I got to celebrate Jas’ graduation, birthdays and Mother’s Day all in one trip, reminding me how blessed I am to be living in a country that can look and feel like its own planet, but is a 4 hour direct flight to DFW.

Spending time with people who know me and love me (and with whom I can speak to with ease in my own language) is extremely filling. I am still blown away by the unconditional support of all my friends back home. Whereas when my co-workers return home, the majority of their supports give a quick-fire round of questions on  the status and progress of the work being done for the ministry, for me everyone back home was first and foremost asking how I was doing, my spiritual and emotional state, and out of that came questions of what the work has been like in Nicaragua.

Part of my trip to Texas was work. Beto’s Company is our non-profit that handcrafts beautiful purses, accessories, and home décor to provide ethical work for Nicaraguan artisans. And although we raised $30,000 last year in a start-up fundraiser, we need reoccurring business to keep the company going. So I drove like a mad-woman around Texas visiting coffee shops and boutiques to try to find retailers of our line of products. Although not surprising, it is ironic how God used the skills I had developed during my direct sales internship from college in such a parallel way.

After meeting some truly incredible people, we are delighted to say that you can now buy Beto’s handcrafted products in 11 locations across 3 states! We will have to keep up the sales in order to set Beto’s up for long-term success, but we are happy with the inspirational people who believe in us.

I love Mr. Beto (pictured here) and the rest of the Nicaraguan team here, and that it is why it is so important to me that the business is a success.  It is also the reason why when I my plane landed back on Nicaraguan soil, I had internal dissonance of  not knowing if I had just said goodbye to home, or returned to it.

 “Where we love is home-home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes

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