hehe only a month late 🙂 Honestly never expected Christmas to be that difficult. I am so happy that I got to spend Christmas in Ecuador with my squad, but early Christmas week my family informed me that my mom’s uncle had passed away. Dale, Poppop was one of the people that had supported me on every mission trip I’d ever gone on, and still consistently gave the glory to God. Loosing him made the desire to be home so much greater. I never knew him very well, but many of my family did.
When I found out the only thing I wanted to do was climb into bed, snuggle up, and watch Elf. But I was living out of a tent and it gots cold at night and I didn’t have Elf. The same day I found out about his passing was also my sisters birthday. I felt like I was missing a lot then. I think I’m just confused on the Lords timing, why now? Why did He call Dale home, when I couldn’t be there to grief with my family?
However I know that the Lord is still faithful.
The ministry that we were doing in the mountains was so cool!! In the mornings we would go to a local church and do a VBS type camp and dance and play soccer with the kids. Then in the afternoon we would build cement columns for the foundation of a guest house. The guest house was being built to house future racers. It was so much fun!! we would make an assembly line and pass on buckets of cement. I filled the buckets at the mixer and would end everyday covered in dust and dirt. But I wouldn’t have ministry any other way. One of the large reasons why I loved this so much is because we could immediately see the result.
