My time in Ecuador has officially come to an end. I just got to Guatemala about two weeks ago. Since stepping onto the AIM base here I could immediately feel the Lord’s presence and that He is going to do amazing things through me, through my whole squad, and even here in Guatemala.
The last two months in Ecuador have been amazing. After Dunamis we went to a camp called El Refugio for about two weeks. At El Refugio we split into small groups the first week. My group went up into a mountain and took down a treehouse and carried it down the mountain. The second week I helped build a pavilion and on the weekends we all went up into the mountains to machete and hoe out the trails to make them wider and overall nicer to hike through. We also spent a week at Mabe and Fabis house where we took down a small house so that a new one could be built for a missionary family. While taking down the roof, Briana, one of the girls on my team, fell through the roof. Everyone thought that she had broken her back, had a concussion, broken legs and arms, and so much other stuff. After taking her to the hospital she only had a tear in her shoulder, ankle, and a lot of pain in her neck and back.
One thing that I have learned over and over during my time in Ecuador is that I need to constantly trust God through everything. Through the hard and the good times, through people getting sick and being in and out of the hospital, through having 4 people on my squad within a week go back to the states, through saying so many hard goodbyes to people I love, through watching my teammate fall through a roof then being prayed over and completely healed running around just a week later.
Even though we have only been in Guatemala for a short time the Lord has already moved in amazing ways. Since it was Holy week the first week we got here we have not done a lot of ministry but a few days we were able to go out into the streets and do a little bit of evangelism. Within a couple of minutes of being here, Briana was prayed over and then asked to take off the braces on her neck, leg, and arm. She was able to turn her head, lift her arm all the way up, and jog perfectly fine with most of the pain gone. We had also prayed over one of our squad leaders, Katy, we prayed over her leg and hips that she injured almost two years ago on her race. Her one leg was slightly shorter than her other one. We prayed and then they were aligned again and there was no more pain.
GOD BLESS
– Megan
