Nicaragua

The Mormon church is pulling the remaining 158 missionaries from Nicaragua because of ongoing violence and deteriorating conditions in the Central American country

Meanwhile, to claim the country was somehow more civilized when I was a boy or Grandpa was a boy is ridiculous.

It's one thing to care about helping people that are in need. It's yet another to get out of your comfort zone and actually go do something about it. Jonathan Tripp and his family recently made a humanitarian trip to Nicaragua to assist people who really needed a hand. They came into our studios to share what they encountered.

Public service is a broadly defined set of words.  We often think of elected politicians and the people volunteering in soup kitchens.  There are also people who take up missions-of-mercy.  One of those is Twin Falls’ Dr. Jonathan Tripp...