This is a blog from Nicaragua that I didnt get to write… 
On our 30 minute walks to the internet we kept seeing this beautiful little girl with dark skin and blonde curly hair. She wasn’t from around here, but her and her mom lived right down the street from the internet cafe. Slowly our team began to create a friendship with them and then we invited them to our thanksgiving lunch. They were so excited to spend time with people that spoke they’re language! She opened up to us and told us her life story and God totally worked through us to share God’s love with her. She was so encouraged and invited us to come over one night for a bon fire.
The night of the bon fire I was trying to decide if I really needed to go. I was super tired and there was a group of people going, so they could definitely still witness to her ~ but as much as I didn’t want to go, I felt like God wanted me to, so I went. When we got there there were chairs around the fire and then a hammock and my friend Rachel and I jumped into it since we were both tired. Then our friends boyfriend came out and introduced himself. You could tell he kind of felt awkward because everyone was speaking english and he only spoke spanish and he was just standing there. I felt bad so I randomly asked him if he was a christian.. (Now I’m fluent in spanish, but the words I seem to trip over the most are the words about Christianity, because when I was younger I never had to use those words in spanish..) But God gave me the words and this conversation just flowed! He said that he wasn’t beacause he’s seen alot of people say they are and then not live it. He said that to him thats making a mockery out of God and even though he’s not a Christian he takes that very seriously. He knows that Jesus is the way, but he just wasnt ready to give up all his ways to live for Him, but one day he hopes he gets to that place. He then shared some of his pianful life story and examples of why he feels the way he does. Then I shared with him that I used to be one of those people that claimed to be a Christian but didn’t live it. I explained to him that I really THOUGHT that I was a Christian, but in reality, I had no idea what that meant. I thought that since I had experienced God and new that Jesus died on the cross for my sin that I was automatically a christian reguardless of what I did. But then my beauiful rescue story came in where I TRULY learned what it meant to be a Christian, and why its so worth it to live for God! And now I’m a Christian that still isn’t perfect, but I live out my faith and I am continually seeking Him. He thought about it for a moment and then said that he had never thought of it that way. He was also encouraged and surprised that I spoke such good spanish, he told me there was only 3 or 4 words out of the whole conversation that he didn’t understand. I told Him that it was totally God, because I usaully struggle with those words and it was also God that we even had that converstaion, because I almost didn’t come. “God is pursuing you,” I told him, and a big smile covered his face. I challenged him with one thing in the end~ Ask God to prepare your heart to surrender it to Him, because the Bible promises that if you ask it will be given to you and if you seek you will find. He said that he had never thought of doing that before, but that it was such a good idea and that he was going to do it! He said I know that God brought you here and we had this conversation for a reason!
It was so cool to have that conversation and know that God was speaking through me. My spanish has never flowed so well before, and I was saying words in spanish that I KNOW I didn’t normally have in my vocabuallary! I pray that a seed was planted in both of them that night and that God continually brings people along their path to water that seed so it will grow!
