Not gonna lie, when at the beginning of January I heard I’d be teaching english again, I was dissappointed. I’d heard so many stories of how insane and amazing Guatemala was going to be but teaching didn’t fit that definition for me. I was expecting serious spiritual encounters, not ESL basics.
But was I ever wrong. You see I’ve fallen in LOVE with my ministry. We have the pleasure of teaching at a middle school for students age 12-18. They are the BEST. I have been challenged, loved, and boy have I ever laughed. I have also seriously refined my soccer skills thanks to lunch breaks in the court yard.
These kids are the sweetest, most caring, hilarious people I have ever met most likely. It has been an honor to spend my days with them.
Each week we get the chance to lead some sort of a youth group for all 60 of them and they seriously get Jesus. His love, passion, all of it. They really are fighting for the future they want. The one granted to them as their inheritance by their heavenly father. No exceptions.
Today we got to go on a trip with them. The 10th grade class went to the dump where about 300 kids live and we got to feed them and love on them. I could honestly take a lesson from their bold pursuit of these people. They talked to them, played with them, no room for fear. They were honestly so in their element here.
I can still feel my heart beaming just thinking of the light in their eyes as they chased after God’s children. Multiple layers of dirt and all, it didn’t phase them. They were all in.
I have become seriously attached to these wonderful kids and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to explain properly what they do for my soul or how wonderful they are. These are my people. We can barely communicate but we can laugh and dance and be us with no judgement.
Jesus is SO at work here and I was SO wrong for ever doubting it. My heart is expanded. It now fits all 60 beautiful faces of Colegio CEI.
All this to say, I am so in awe of God’s beauty and the light He has shone into their lives. I’m ready. Whatever God sends me to do, say, be, next; I will. Because if He can use a mess like me and make me shine with joy just from teaching english, theres something seriously worth pursuing.
