As I sit here and write this I am still trying to catch my breathe and call down. I just got out of an one hour salsa class. You heard me, I am learning salsa. You better watch out, before you know it I could be doing it professionally.
All of the girls have been dying to learn how to salsa, so we found a place that gives free salsa classes. We were all so pumped. We go and we are the only ones there, so we think…great we will get to do this and make fun of each other and it be okay if we look like idiots…well about 10 minutes later, to our surprise the class was full. We made the most of it and had a blast. I can´t say that I have it all down pat just yet, but i am working on it. we are actually going for private lessons tomorrow. It is so much fun and if i can get it down it will be even more fun.
So…now I guess I will back up and tell you about my day of ministry that I had. Even though we are having fun learning salsa, we are still having full days of ministry. This morning Friske, Jessica, and I worked on setting up all of our logistics to start the next part of our trip. The race to LA.
After that we were off to the hospital to color Nydia´s hair. When we got there and asked her if it was okay, so said that she had to ask her mom and she didn´t come see her this weekend, so we stuck to just hanging out with her and painting her fingernails. She loved it. Her favorite color for them is white, so we painted them white.
She had alot of questions for us since she is a new Christian and was very head strong about talking to Paul about them. She does not want to change her religion from Catholic. She says that the Virgin Guadeloupe has helped her so much and that she believes in God and that Jesus is the Son of God, but she doesn´t want to stop praying to the Virgin Guadeloupe.
Paul was not with us while she was telling us all this, so we left and later Paul went and talked to her about it all. I think Paul did a pretty good job with explaining things. Just please keep him and Nydia in your prayers as he trys to answer all of her questions over the next few days.
After we left Nydia, we went to the baby room and held babies for hours. It breaks my heart everytime I walk in that room and see all of them laying there in the cribs. They all look like they are animals in a ¨cage¨. Many times that´s how the nurses treat them, so for us to come in and hold them, play with them, and simply take the time to love on them brings such joy to their faces.
Many are in there for malnourishment, some cleft pallet, and other have various deformities. To be able to go in there and love on them as our Father would is such a privilege. There are times that you feel helpless and wish you could ¨fix¨things for them, but thenI am reminded how it doesn´t matter to our Heavenly Father what we look like, He loves them anyway and longs for them to feel His love and for Him to ¨fix¨things.
The Lord has done amazing things in my heart for breaking my heart and giving me His heart and His eyes for these people. At the beginning the hardest part for me was going in there and now the hardest part is leaving. The kids that you hold and have to put back into their ¨cage¨and they cry and cry for you not to leave. That has begun to touch a place in me that has neverbeen touchedbefore.
The Lord is doing such amazing things in my life during this time. I pray that I am able to touch the lives of the people that I come in contact with half as much as the Lord uses them to touch me.
Praise God…He is so Good!!!
