here’s a little something i wrote this past sunday after my team headed back hp to nono:
sometimes you play mini golf and look at cows and then God is all like “but wait! there’s more!”
that was today.
my team and i headed back up to nono to meet with the family we had coffee with earlier this week but when we got there they weren’t home. so on another adventure we went.
by the house we saw a sign for a meat festival and us being teenagers from the united states currently living off everything carb, we freaked. determined to find this “meat festival” we walked all the way through the small town stopping a few times for directions only to discover that the place with the sign we were at thirty minutes prior was actually the entrance to this meat heaven we were all looking forward to. so we wandered into this pasture like area following a dirt road to the smoke we saw in the distance. our daydreams of all the pork, chicken, and cow that awaited us was suddenly interrupted by a simple “hi!” our group stood in silence for a bit and i’m sure we were all thinking “wait, hi? as in hi! like the english version of hola?” so we proceeded to talk to this young man in english and he alerted us that the meat festival was twenty dollars *cue the sad music* twenty bucks is a lot when it comes to life here in ecuador so the meat festival slowly and sadly faded out of all of our brains as he showed us around all of the farm animals and all of the cows. we spent a little over an hour of exploring, mini golfing, and getting to know him some more and before we parted ways we asked if we could pray with Him, a little startled he agreed. the end of our prayer was met by his tear stained eyes and a vulnerable conversation about his life and the grief he was going through for his dad that recently passed.
this whole situation showed me how God is capable of moving in unexpected ways when we decide to actually take a risk and intentionally keep a Kingdom mindset even on weekends. when we risk for God, He is always faithful in multiplying what we give to have an impact greater than we could even imagine. a truth that really hit my whole team recently is that God doesn’t take off days, so why should we take any for Him? He is constant in love and so should we.
