I’m in Honduras! It’s been awesome here. When we landed here I felt an overwhelming feeling of peace. I felt like I was at home, this is where I belong. I’ve never felt like this towards Honduras but it just feels right. As I flew into Honduras God told me, “I am going to let you see these people as I see them.” I got on the bus and just looked out the window the entire time. I was in love with the culture already.
First day in Honduras took my first bucket shower! Was not bad at all. It felt so refreshing to go get a bucket fill it up with rain water and shower away! We got to work out to insanity so taking a freezing bucket shower after felt so much better. I even got a neat little set up for my living quarters. I have a mosquito net over the top bunk which is where I climb up and down each night. It is actually very peaceful at nights and I sleep like a baby.
First day of ministry, our team got to experience the most beautiful, divine appointment. It started off from going door to door to do a questionnaire on single mothers who needed support. One house in particular showed me what this trip is all about. The other half of our team was waiting outside of the house so it isn’t overwhelming for the people to see a bunch of gringos (which is what they call all of us haha). We got called into a house to pray for this elderly lady which it lead our team to meet a beautiful soul their son named Louis. (spelling) As the father to this 22 year old man opened up the door to a bedroom where Louis was laying helplessly. He could not speak, look around, or function properly. As we began to ask question we found out Louis had brain damage from doing drugs. When I fully got to see Louis I stood next to him and immediately my heart was breaking. Louis has been a mute for about 8 years, he couldnt look into our eyes or move. He just laid their hopeless. As a team we began to pray, our prayers lead into singing worship music in this little tiny room of a house that had barely anything in it. As we began to finish up I felt like it just was not time to leave. I asked the translator to tell Louis something for me. I felt and overwhelming feeling come over my body and began to weep. I put my hand on Louis’ cheek and held his hand and told him Jesus loves you so much, He did not forget about you. YOU ARE HEALED! I am claiming this mans healing and I am walking by the faith Jesus gave me to heal the sick and bring them into the light. We got Louis mother and father to stand in the room with us as my team members sang a worship song in Spanish the mother started to sing along, it was a touching sight. The mother and father laid their hands on Louis as well as we all stood in agreement for his healing. We got Louis to stand up as we began to pray and sing over him again we kept believing Louis was going to speak as he hasn’t in many years. We began to walk Louis out of the door into the back yard and prayed for him again. We did not give up. I know Louis is healed, I know he will speak and when he does speak he will call out Jesus and know that he is his healer. Just because we did not see Louis speak today does not mean he is not healed, We are just waiting for the manifestation to begin. Right before we left Laura (on my team) told him she loves him, we saw a small smile and he moved his eyes and looked at her. We saw some progress! It was beautiful. As a team we will go visit him as much as we can before we leave Honduras and bring him flowers.
After this all happened, God began to show me that this is what it is all about. This is real. It doesn’t mean I need to rescue everyone and bring them to Christ personally. This is about being the love, the Love of God. I am not here to do good deeds and do some projects here and there, I am here to leave an impact and to be bold by stepping out and walking in the authority my savior gave me. When times get hard which it will, to press on, dive deep and get my encouragement from The Lord. Because doing this was not easy, It was hard to see, hard to take it all in at once, but my God is a big God and I am beginning to see just how much He really cares for his precious people.
