HI!! So we leave Costa Rica in about a week and I couldn’t be more exited for Ecuador. Ive met a lot of cool people in this country but someone who has really touched my heart is a lady named Lupe. She comes to our woman class at La Cometa and is one of the funniest people I have ever met in my life. She’s is fully of joy. The first day we met her was hard because we don’t speak the same language and I am SO bad at Spanish. Thank God for google translate because it’s really helpin me get by. I somehow managed to tell her that I have taken 5 years of Spanish but am somehow still this bad. She could’t help but laugh at this fact and continued to make fun of me (in a nice joking way obviously) for the rest of the time we knew her.
At the beginning of out class, she would come a lot and I always looked forward to seeing her. The more we talked the more I learned about her life. In my very broken Spanish I learned that she had a son with disabilities who had gone to be with the man upstairs just 4 months ago. She had spent ALL of her time caring for her son and did’t have much of a life of her own. Now that she had all this time on her hands, she had no idea what to do with it. However, every time we saw her you could tell how happy she was to be out spending time with other people.
When we asked her about her week she would say it was good but she is still very sad about her son and misses him a lot. She would pull out her phone and show us pictures and videos of him and tell us he was her baby. However after admitting how sad she was, she would immediately tell us she was also filled with joy in knowing that her son was with Jesus now. She knew he was safe and thriving up in heaven with His father. The Lord is the ultimate comfortable and you could visibly see the overwhelming comfort that He gives mi amiga Lupe.
I’ve said this before but we’ve had a lot of his ministry the past 3 months with kids and I never really click that well with kids. I have gotten a lot better and started building relationships with them but most of them can’t talk yet so I can’t make much of a relationship anyhow. Lupe was the first person I’d met at ministry who I felt really built a relationship with. We only saw her a handful of times but the amount of joy and laughter she brought me was HUGE. The last day we say her was Tuesday morning, expecting to see her later that day after she got her nails done. However that never happened so we left not with a goodbye but a see you later. We talked about seeing her again either in Costa Rica or in the states but regardless if that happens, I’ll see her later in heaven. I can meet her son and we can catch up on what she’s been up to.
Im pretty sure she will never ever see this but just in case, Lupe thank you for making me feel seen and loved and showing me how to let the Lord be my comforter. Thank you for trying to get me to understand Spanish even though I probably never will and thank you for making Tuesday just a little bit sweeter. You are the greatest. It’s nice knowin you!!
