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So many amazing things are happening this month and I will tell about all of them but I need to get some things off my chest first.

I never understood Jonah before, I thought he had to be one of the DUMBEST people on the planet.  God used him in such a mighty way but all he could think about were his own frustrations.  

That is me in Honduras so far!
Jonah’s city was Ninevah, mine is Rio Colorado.  God is using me to spread His Kingdom and rescue people from darkness and yet I stand frustrated over little things like Jonah and his leafy plant.

Except, I am not frustrated with the city, it is bringing me extreme joy.  Let me set the stage.  Every morning I wake up around 6:30am because I went to sleep by 9pm since we don’t have any electricity.  The sun is shining and I step out of my tent to this

Some amazing women of our church cook three meals a day for us, wash our clothes, and show us around the community.  

Life couldn’t get any better right!?

And God is using me! Three days a week we go to different schools and get to teach the bible then we bisit families around the schools.  The majority of people here are Catholic and they don’t have any bibles.  We go into the homes, visit, and share the gospel.  Last week, each day my team did this one person prayed to accept Christ.  When we told Pastor Pedro, our contact, he said “this is why you are here, one soul a day.”  How cool is that!?

It gets better!  One day we went to a house and met Santos, when I asked him if he had heard of Jesus he said no.  I told him all about Jesus and he accepted Christ.  God is using me to spread his kingdom to people who have never heard it before.

And yet I’m frustrated, it makes no sense to me.  Yes there are some reasons, but nothing that compares to what God is doing.  One thing that has frustrated me is that my iphone was lost.  Back home that means I don’t have a phone and is annoying but on the World Race it means I lost my camera, calculator, currency converter, translator, alarm clock, music, flashlight, calendar, and my pictures and videos.  It has taken me a few days to grieve the loss.  Also, being the only married couple and living in absolute community with five other people bring their own challenges and frustrations.  But I don’t want to be Jonah! Yes frusrations will come but I want to give them to God and hold onto the amazing things He is blessing me with.
 

An amazing wife
A great group of people to live life with
A wonderful ministry
A beautiful place to live
All my needs provided for
Being used by God to bring his Kingdom to Earth.
 
Please be in prayer for me, for my attitude and perspective, and for my team as we evangelize in Rio Colorado because the enemy is at work here too.
 
By Jay Dannelley