Hola!


I know that I have been silent for far too long and I apologize for that. Let me update you on my life up until this point:

  • I finished language school on the 29th of May. It went very well I learned a lot of words, grammar, verbs, forms, conjugations etc.. It was slightly overwhelming, but much needed. The down side of coming back to the base and living with english speakers is that you loose your spanish if it doesn't get used. I try to get out as much as possible and talk with my Mexican friends here, but unfortunately there isn't a ton of time for that.

  • Summer has started here at GFM and the interns have arrived! I'm very excited about this summer and can't wait to see what God has in store, but now that the interns are here we are very busy. We have 2 weeks of intern training before the first short term team arrives, so we have a lot of preparation and fun times to be had.

Now please let me tell you about how awesome my Lord and Savior is. If you can't tell I'm a little excited about God right now and who he is and how gracious he is to share Himself with us.

God has been teaching me lately to completely rely on Him for everything and trust that what he has for me is better than anything I could ever plan. I will say here that for some reason this is a hard lesson for me to learn, it seems like he has to keep teaching me this lesson of death to self and total reliance on God. I like to rely on myself and others rather than rely on God and guess what? I fail and people fail, big surprise right? Not so much, which is why its frustrating to have to learn this lesson over and over when I should just know it already! Okay, so on to the really cool part, God is faithful to show us things over and over when we turn our hearts and earnestly seek him. 
It says in Joel 2: 12- 
"Even now," declares the LORD, 
       "return to me with all your heart, 
       with fasting and weeping and mourning."
Rend your heart 
       and not your garments. 
       Return to the LORD your God, 
       for he is gracious and compassionate, 
       slow to anger and abounding in love, 
       and he relents from sending calamity.
Who knows? He may turn and have pity 
       and leave behind a blessing— 
       grain offerings and drink offerings 
       for the LORD your God.

Joel 2: 28-30-
"And afterward, 
       I will pour out my Spirit on all people. 
       Your sons and daughters will prophesy, 
       your old men will dream dreams, 
       your young men will see visions.

 Even on my servants, both men and women, 
       I will pour out my Spirit in those days.

 I will show wonders in the heavens 
       and on the earth, 
       blood and fire and billows of smoke.

How amazing is that!! God wants us to seek him fully, whether you have turned completely away from Him, or if you are luke-warm in your relationship with God he wants you back fully! Not only does he accept you with open arms, but did you see that he also pours out his blessing. Not only that, but he also wants to pour out his spirit on us and we will prophesy, dream dreams, see visions, miracles, and wonders! Its right there in the Bible folks and that book is a living book that we can take as promises for today. I expect my God to do the same things he did in the old testament, and the new for that matter, today in our lives. 

Sunday night God was merciful to grace me with His presence and show me that he is everything that I need and that when people fail me its ok because he's got me and in him is all. Today's little girls get taught about knights in shining armor, prince charming and living happily ever after, but honestly that doesn't exist. No man, not even the godliest of men can fulfill that expectation, because they weren't ever supposed to. God is the only one that can fulfill those expectations and exceed those expectations. I've now learned that relationships with others are just the icing on the cake, and that they should never be the actual cake or sustenance in our lives that role belongs only to our God. Let God be your knight in shining armor let him sweep you off your feet and woo you and fill your heart with joy. He is faithful to do it and he will never disappoint.