I could never have planned the awesome ways in which God would bless my heart this month. I feel honored and loved to be here because He could have chosen not to call me and keep me where I was at. That's not God though. If you call, He answers if you step out He provides and if you push through the barriers of fear he blesses you! I am still in awe of all that I saw and experienced here this month! I'm gonna sum it up quick since there is so much! It's in no particular order either just as things came to mind! Dogs everywhere, random fireworks going off at all hours of the morning, day, and night, men drunk passed out on the streets (1 of which we prayed for, fed, and brought home to his house), women in beautiful skirts and blouses, baptism at the local pool, mountains and a spectacular view
, tacos (gringas) from the street vendors, a classroom of shy Jr highers (and the rest of the school) that ended up working their way into my heart
, putting on a VBS program and using the flannel graph, testimonies of God healing and working, crowded market places, with people wanting to sell you their stuff, icecream and frozen bananas, living in community with L squad, tenting, handwashing my clothes at 5:30 in the morning, hour long van rides
everyday with around 20 other people sitting on top of each other and its legal! Deep worship, awesome teachings, Spirit convicting and moving, vulnerabliltiy, throwing used tp in the trash, worshipping with a Spanish church loudly!
Ministering to men in the prison that may be innocent, visiting an orphanage and having pizza and a dance party with the kids then listening to them tell us thanks! Corn taller than houses, paco our adopted dog, staying in the mountains and roughing it! Rinsing my hair in the river so refreshing
, kids joining us for smores, painting the clinic
celebrating a birthday with a 22 yr old girl that had never been sung to in her life! The outhouse, truck rides,
truck rides in the rain with a tarp over our heads! Manu our driver that witnessed us praying for random people, Agape in Action the place we stayed for the month, Sally, Erv and Sarah
and the way they took care of us! Jess and Denise, Miguel the boy I met in the hospital on the last day, skyping and texting friends back home, trying weird foods, plantanes, tuk tuks (taxis), smiling people saying hola, trying to speak Spanish, planting macademia nut trees,
new friendships, spikeball in Guatemala! Finding a random basketball court and playing with some Guatemalans, The fun experience of strange guys coming to our place to make announcement to the whole mountain with a loud speaker and microphone at 6:15am! Random singing especially on the back of a flatbed or in an overly packed van! Resting for a weekend among volcanoes and on a lake
getting extra time with theLord, having perfect peace that I am right where God wants me, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, the realization that you all are praying for me and the overwhelming joy that I get when I remember that! Thank you!
