What a week this has been! We had FIME this Wednesday night and it
stands for (in english) International Festival of Musical Students (Festival
Internacional de Músicas Estudiantes).
The previous week there were tryouts of at least 30 different UME groups
(prayer groups for different countries) that were required to make up an
original song to perform and 10 would be chosen to perform for FIME! (By the
way, its pronounced fee-may, the “i” in Spanish is pronounced like an “e” and
the “e” is pronounced like an “a”) After all 10 performed, 3 were chosen based
on the message of their song and the musical creativity and a few other
categories. 3rd place was UME
Mexico, which was INCREDIBLE! A 3rd
year student here from Mexico and the Lord has blessed that boy with some vocal
chords! Hopefully I can post these videos Facebook so you can hear just a bit
of what I have been listening to the past few weeks! 1st place was UME Africa, which my
roommate wrote the song and I can see why they won first just because of the
musical creativity alone! It was such a
blessing because my roommate has been struggling with some illness for over a
few months now and she started crying when playing cause they were asked to
play again after being announced 1st place, just because the hard
work paid off and she knew God had carried her through all the way! Now, UME Bolivia didn’t place, but they
should have! Cesia, a great friend here
from Bolivia, and that learned English in Florida, believe it or not, wrote a
beautiful song called “El Mensaje de la Cruz” which means “The Message of the
Cross.” I got chills! And I also recorded and have been listening
to it all day! So now I am definitely posting
these songs! (Once I get better internet
in town) I was just reminded of how God blesses people with these talents to
bring glory to Himself and that was definitely seen last night!
This week
has been another one of those weeks that I am left speechless as to what God
has been doing in my life! For example,
today, in my time with God, I asked God to shed light on something that He
wanted me to change so that I could continue to be more like Him. SO my day goes on, and there is something
that is annoying me, continuously, and it wasn’t anything that had to do with
any person and anything around me, it was all in my heart. At lunch, it dawned on me, it was God just
being loud and clear, that’s why I couldn’t get away from it! That is just an example of all the wonderful
things He is showing me!
In bible
class these past two weeks, we have had the director of Word of Life Nicaragua
teaching us and we have been learning about the Life of Christ. No joke, Wednesday, we talked about preparing
for the end times, the tribulation, and things leading up to all of this. What a more perfect time to study this part
of the Word! I literally was sitting there, realizing that God saved this
lecture for today just because of the results of the Election and He wanted to
bring us peace! All of Election Day, I
was praying for the salvation of Obama and Romney, and I encourage you all to
do the same still! Ultimately, all the
issues with our country will come down to Christ and His return, but when this
world ends, we are going to be left without everything, and so will our
president, and don’t we hope for Him to have a relationship with Christ? I do!
So don’t just pray for the restoration of our country, pray for the
SALVATION of our country! Being here has
made my American pride inflate like a million times! Everyone is so proud of their home country
here and that is because there are SO many!
I think there are 34 different countries feeding into this campus! And not just Spanish countries! (France, Germany, Haiti, Romania, Bermuda,
England, and more!) It’s crazy to know
that there are people from the complete other side of the world, not just
hemispheres! But one thing that was very
awesome was to be in UME USA and to have those others students from Equador,
Argentina, and more, praying for OUR country.
What a blessing!
So this week
in bible class, we have been focusing on the second half of Christ’s ministry,
discipleship. We, as believers, are
called to disciple younger believers and to BE discipled by a more mature
believer than ourselves. I never thought
of it that way, but its true! When
Christ was in Gethsemane, He was praying to God saying “Here God! I did what
You told me! I’m giving the glory to
You!” How incredible!!?! He knew what
was ahead of Him the whole time. All 33
years of His life, He KNEW that He was going to die, but He did it to save us,
and He did it so He could glorify Himself in Heaven again! Magnificent if I say so! I hope you are as encouraged as am! But the whole point of the disciples were to
form the church body once Christ has returned to heaven, and the disciples were
to go out and make more disciples. We,
as disciples of Him, are CALLED, not asked, COMMANDED multiple times in the
gospels but to be specific, Matthew 28:19-20.
Christ tells the disciples to “GO ye therefore, and TEACH ALL NATIONS,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost. Teaching them to observe all
things whatsoever I have commanded you, and lo, I am with you always, even to
the end of the world. Amen.” This verse is what compelled me to have a heart
for missions. This verse gave me comfort
in coming to Argentina. This verse, from
Christ’s lips Himself, will always be engraved on my heart. I mean look, He gave us an instruction and
said but wait! I will be with you the WHOLE WAY! If you ask me, I would be….AM running for
that call!
I can’t
believe I am in the month count down! I
will be heading home in 3 WEEKS from THIS MONDAY! CRAZY!
But, I still need to focus! FOCUS
FOCUS FOCUS!
Prayer Requests:
1)
SPANISH! It’s getting better every day! But I still have a long way to go!
2)
Tamara Edwards (I don’t know if any of you know
her, but she is flying to Argentina, really close to me, for the month of
December, to study!) So pray for her travel in that month and for wisdom and
strength for I know exactly what she is going through!
3)
The students going to Haiti in December (Katie
Sirk, Megan and Mike Wheeler, and Tiffany Buelher)
4)
My concentration on these last 3 weeks! I love
it here! SO MUCH! But I do miss home J
5)
Please start praying for clarity on if God wants
me to stay here longer after PBB is over.
Spanish is my ministry and it would help me immensely to stay longer!
But only if that is God’s will!
THANK YOU FOR READING! J Please message me with
prayer requests or just to say hi! Would love to hear from you! J
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