Guatemala has got to be the most beautiful place I have ever seen. We are only in month 2 of our year long journey and there are many times that I still pinch myself asking if this is really real. I’m waiting to wake up any minute now…then I realize that it is for real and that the LORD had chosen me to be here and how lucky I am for Him to choose me.
Though we are bruised up pretty bad from being hit so hard with the attacks from the enemy, we know that the attacks would be zero if we were not exactly where the LORD wanted us to be. We are still fighting and putting Satan under our feet. Please keep us in our prayers as we are anticipating the joy that comes in the morning.
We have had a great debrief and relax time while in Panajachel and Antigua. We have gotten to eat at an amazing Thai restaurant. I have got to have chocolate croissants that I have missed so much since I left South Africa and we’ve had time to sit and rest in the LORD.
After Paul’s ATM card was stolen and all of his money taken, he was pretty bummed out, so we decided to take him to McDonald’s to cheer him up. This kid loves McDonald’s more than anyone I know.
After that, Abner took us walking around the city of Antigua and we got to see all the sights that there are. This place is incredibly gorgeous. Would we expect less after all the places that we have been? No…there are many times that we look at each other and feel bad for where we are and the beauty that is around us, but then we are reminded that the LORD called us here…to this place and we have to be faithful, so here we are…being faithful. (I mean, someone has to do it…hahaha)
The coffee house is incredible. We couldn’t possibly ask for anything better. We are in a great Christian environment, surround by people that speak English, (which is a very nice change) and the ministry opportunities that are around us are incredible.
During our free time, we sit and chill at the coffee house… we play cards, sit around with the guitar and worship, or have story time with a cup of white mocha. …I know, I know, we are on a mission’s trip and we are supposed to be ministering.
We have been ministering. You can have “off” days and still minister. Yesterday we went to visit the hospital where we are going to be ministering and we ran into two girls from the blue team. They had brought some people from Panajachel that needed medical care. An elderly lady that was very sick, a couple with a baby with a cleft pallet and a lady having a “bad” pregnancy. We were able to sit and pray healing over them and the baby. The doctors were not going to let them in, so we prayed for the barriers, the strongholds to be broken and for the hospital to let them in.
We had to leave, so never knew if they got in or not, but ran into the girls again today and they said that the doctors were seeing them today…Praise the LORD. They had been turned away once already, so the LORD definitely used the prayers to break those walls. (look on blue team for more info)
We felt the LORD had called us to rest for a while, so that’s what we have been doing. Our scheduled days of ministry and going to start tomorrow and we can’t wait. We are expecting the LORD to do amazing things through us and in us. We are expecting miracles, healings, salvations, signs, and wonders. The LORD has told me that if I expect…it will happen, so I am expecting.
Keep us in your prayers and intercede for us as the LORD does amazing things through us.
Thanks for going on this journey with us. I hope that you feel you are here with us.
Meet Abner and Alex…they live at the coffee house
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