Monday night we go to the park to play basket ball and just hang out at the park with whoever is around. We have discovered that an incredible bunch of teenage guys meet here and do break dancing. A few of us walked up and sat where they were dancing and watched. As the night went on they started including us ..by the end of the night a few of us were up trying to learn some simple steps. Of course i failed but i had millions of fun!! For the last 2 weeks we have been there and trying to learn some steps! These young men have huge talent and a passion for dancing – they light up the whole place! They have a place in my heart – my heart goes out to teenagers – it is not easy at that age and i wonder what it must be like being a teenager in guatemala? I bet it is a whole lot different from growing up in Sco Every tland! These guys are a joy to be around and i think to myself if they had Jesus then how many lives would they impact? Probably very many!! I believe a group of guys like this could impact a place like puerto barrios!!
Sadly i have not been able to communicate with these guys the way i would like. Yes we can dance together and laugh together but to actually have a conversation is very difficult!! Normally Hilda would be with us and she is so gifted at speaking to everyone she meets and she truly connects with people! Hilda was there last week and i noticed that when all the guys left to go home this one guy called Jeffrey stayed by himself, Hilda spoke to him for a good half hour. I am not sure what was said but i could see deep thought going through his head. Last night when we went the same thing happened, everyone left and he was the last guy there. He just sat himself. I wondered why he never went with his friends. Hilda was not with us so she was unable to speak to jeffrey 🙁 this made me so sad and i got very frustrated with myself because for the first time communication was a problem. I tried asking him some things and he just smiled and shrugged his shoulders ( he didn't have a clue what i was saying). My friend pricilla came over and sat with me and she noticed him sitting and said to me " i feel like he wants to talk" and i said " i know" but none of us were able. I went home feeling so unsettled, useless and uneasy – i feel like ether he was in need of wanting to talk to someone or wanting to know more on what hilda had shared with him the week before or i think there is maybe something that keeps him from wanting to go home. Whatever it was i feel useless that i was unable to know or Ask him 🙁 I keep wondering to myself "what can I do to try and communicate?" We have one more week there with these guys and i am hoping that some how i can communicate so that i can make an impact and show the love of christ! When i got home that night i started to pray for these boys- pray that there would be an easier way to communicate!
Thursday night came and it turned out we were getting to go to the park again which was great and an answer to prayer because a great way for more communication with them is getting to go back again in the same week! We went along and everyone gathered in to where the boys were dancing. Started out like any normal night then before i knew it communication started to happen – more dance moves wee getting tried out and pictures being taken . We started having conversations with them – having fun with them. It was the best night we had with them and i really feel God broke all communication barriers down and brought us together! We managed to get their facebooks and we even gave them a lift home in the van lol – we sang worship songs in the van and they sang along with us- Was a fantastic night and i thank God that we got so much break through! I cant wait to get back there on monday night!! Jeffery was not there so I hope he is there on Monday to see if we are able to speak with him as well.
Please friends and family pray for these young men. Pray that connections will keep being formed through this ministry, that more teams will come and plant more seeds into these young guys lives! Pray that amazing changes in their hearts will take place and that they will long to seek more of God! Please pray for Jeffrey – I have no idea what is going on in his mind or why he hangs around to the last kick but God knows why so pray that we can reach out to him. My heart goes out to these guys and my prayer is that they don't need to go through the struggles of life that many guatemalan teenagers have to go through! I am praying that they will be the new generation for Guatemala!
