Let the journey begin, I’m back home in Guatemala.
The truth is that it is not home, I have no idea where I am, but the worst is that I have no idea how to move in the city without a car. People didn’t understand why I wanted to come to Guatemala in my race, and to be truthful for a time, I didn’t know myself. I just knew that it was what God wanted me to do; after praying about it, I heard God’s voice telling me that the people that he was bringing to my life in this squad were going to change me, they were going to help me heal from the past; but in this first couples of days here in Guatemala, I had been able to see another reason of why God wanted me in Guatemala.
First, people in my squad are all different, everyone is unique in their own way and everyone has something that is going to help me grow as a Christian and as a person. Each one of the 40 something people in my squad has been changing my life in a short time, imagine after 9 months! God is really using them to change me. My team of six ladies that I really love, each one of them is unique and special and I will be able to grow learning from them. They are a blessing in my life.
Second, at the beginning of this blog, I told you how lost I am in my own city and how I have no idea of how to move in it without a car, which let me tell you, is a really big challenge. I’m getting to know a completely different side of my city, one that I never really saw, I knew it was there but I never care. I never did something about it even though I knew I wanted to do missions, I never did something for my city I was focus on the mountains and the villages, and I never thought of the city as a place of need. Now I understand that’s the real reason of why I am in this ministry, that I am with the people that I am.
I am working in Guatemala City, with Street Revolution Ministry. One of our ministries, and the one that I got to do last Friday, is as simple as going to the street at the bus terminal and sing and play with the boys that were in there. They live there in the street, literally, their bed is in the side walk. We spend two hours playing UNO with them and singing in Spanish and English. Two of the boys that we met are Gerson and Cristian, they were playing with us and were very happy talking with us in Spanglish; we play like 5 rounds of UNO, while Claire was playing her guitar. After a couple of Uno rounds, we started to sing in English one of our favorite songs from training camp; they LOVED it and because they know a little bit of English they understood what we were saying and started to sing with us too. Then we decided that we could do some parts in Spanish, so we did! and they were super happy. Reina joined our group and add some new parts to it. I had never experienced something like that, it was a moment full of joy and hope. While we were doing all of that, some of them were getting high and that broke my heart, that changed my heart for these people. Before this week, I had never care about working with youth, that wasn’t in my heart I only wanted babies and little kids, but after watching the reality of the Guatemalan youth, after being there, after seeing their smiles while we spend time with them, my heart changed and now I want to dedicate my time here to this youth as much as I want the babies and little kids.
In just 5 days God has blown my mind in so many different ways. He has made me cry, made me laugh, and made me see the reality of life through His eyes. I feel blessed for being in the place that I am, with people that I am, I know that God has huge plans for us here in Guatemala and I can’t wait to see it and to share it with all of you. I would love if you could pray for my team as we work in the streets every week , pray also that the people that we encounter is touched by God.
Love,
