Hello friends and family!
Although it has only been two weeks since I left, it feels like i´ve been gone for months! One thing I am beginning to remember about traveling is that the internet works much different and goes much slower than at home! There are many pictures and stories I want to share with you, but I won´t be able to access some pictures until the weekend. So for now, I will fill you in a bit on what God has been doing in my heart!
This week we have been continuing some of our training in Palenque, Mexico. We have phenomenal speakers that we get to hear from all day and time to journal and spend time with the Lord. We are all aware what a huge thing we are getting ourselves into, so the time to reflect and prepare oursleves for the journey ahead is much needed!
We have been focusing a lot on learning what it means to learn to die. I will be honest and say it has been a painful week! But I wish you could be a fly on the wall at one of our meetings. Our group is exploding with passion, healing (Both physical and emotional) and we are starting to shed some of the emotional layers we have been carrying with us for years.
Personally, God has put to death a part of me that I have carried with me for years. And today we were talking about how as sons and daughters of God, we are able to have Christs inheritance!! What an awesome thought. Because of my new found freedom, I am confident in the fact that I believe God has given me the keys to unlock the hearts of prostitutes and children involved in sex trade. This has been a group of people that have been on my heart ever since I volunteered with Emmaus Ministries (an organization that works with male prostitutes). I have known for a long time that God has wired me to work with these people and have been excited about encountering opportunites to just hold them and love on them.
With some of the freedom God has granted me, I feel empowered to move forward on this. So I need your prayers! I will be intentionally seeking out the down trodden. And I am pretty scared. But God does everything on purpose. I can´t wait to share stories with you in the future of how he uses this in my life!
There is one picture I can share with you. It is of my second family. They have become my life line. And as you can tell, we are all a bunch of goofs.
Love to all!!
