I am officially two weeks into my trip! Half way to go!
I haven’t been able to post anything so far due to the very limited amount of wifi I can get here. But the time I have spent in Costa Rica so far has been life changing.
For the first week & a half, my team & I stayed with a host family (Toni & Rosita). We were located in Los Chiles, living at their farm which is pretty much the middle of the jungle. We spent our time there helping Toni deconstruct a sanctuary that was built in the middle of the jungle. Toni wanted us to help with this for our ministry because he said God gave him a vision of a totally new sanctuary there. It is meant to be built with metal instead of wood, so it will withstand that weather & bugs. So, my team of all girls spent the week taking down the remaining wood & tree stump posts. This honestly was really hard—much harder than I expected. Sweating more than I ever had, using more muscle than I thought I had, with bugs all over everything. But in the middle of this all, the Father taught me so much about Himself. He showed me what it looks like to have nothing—no hot shower, no way to talk to people besides my team, no way to buy what I needed, no cool air, no comfort at all. But in having nothing, I think it was the first time I was forced to depend on Him for my physical strength and joy. Just enough to get through another hard day. There were times I thought I had nothing left to give, nothing left in me to make me laugh, etc. But by the end of the week, I could hear Him speaking to me and telling me “I’m showing you how much you need me physically so you can finally believe my capabilities.”
By the end of our time there, we were able to have our last day in the sanctuary we had been working in, just to pray in His holy space. Despite all the discomfort and weakness I felt, I had never felt more peace in His presence.
