So this is just a really big update that I have for all of y’all. This past summer I worked at a summer camp in Austin Texas called Camp Balcones Springs. This camp had Christain Values but most of the counselors and staff did not love the Lord. This was an extreme challenge for me but the Lord was faithful to me. For such a long time I felt as if I was fighting all the counselors and staff to keep gossip away and for us to love our kids with a heart that desires to serve the Lord. I was so exhausted all the time because I was constantly pouring myself out to my kids and the other counselors and not too many people were pouring into me. But through this, the Lord taught me that he is not going to abandon me in the dessert he has called me to. He sustained me for the whole summer and kept my hope and eyes on him.
One thing he taught me in my time there was that I was not there to be liked by my kids or by my co-workers. I was there to serve the Lord. That meant that I did not aim to please the world but I Amed to please God and praise God that he has shifted and continues to shift my desires to match his. Sometimes I would question myself because people around me were not liking or agree with me but the Lord gave me confidence in what he has called me to do and not what man sees pleasing. He gave me his word to base my life off of and not what worldly people said.
Working with kids was so much more challenging than I thought it was going to be. My patience was constantly tested and I simply didn’t have the wisdom of how to work with specific people and kids that I have never worked with before. I was always calling upon the Lord to provide me with wisdom and patience with the people God had put in my life, and he delivered beyond belief. I can believe how many times he gave me the ability to listen instead of yell. He showed the power of listening and loving people through patience.
Praise God for all the ways he worked through me and worked in me this summer. It was truly one of the best summers of my life and I am so thankful for it and how he moved down there in Camp Balcones Springs.
Since about three days ago I have followed the Lord in a step to Minnesota to study and a Christain University called Bethany Global University. This school specializes in missions and is totally focused on Jesus which is such a blessing. The transition for me has been kinda rough. I knew nobody coming in here and am struggling to find a good community. If you could be praying for hope in my life. Hope in Jesus and that he will not abandon me to this place he has called me to. Pray against the enemy in my mind saying that I don’t belong herein that I am going to hate it. Pray for revelation and growth in my life here. And pray that the Lord would only let my mouth be allowed to speak when he wants to say something through me. Pray that the Lord would use me and that I can serve him and love his people in my allotted time here.
Thank you so much for my support and for your prayers. I’ll keep you updated but I’m pretty sure ill be moving to a different blogging platform sometime and this spring I will be going to Guatemala for the semester to do missions there.
