I'm coming home! Temporarily.

I am SOOOO sorry for not writing since November 9^th! I am a terrible blogger! Things have been so crazy here! BUT GUESS WHAT??? I WILL BE HOME IN LESS THAN A WEEK! LESS THAN A WEEK ALREADY! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT??? I will make this one worth reading since I have been so distant with you all over this month!

Lets see!

Two weeks ago, we had a man from the company called Premier Designs, a man that has been coming to Argentina for the Bible Institute for the past 27 years to teach, but he brought the Word and it was great! Everyday, it was EXACTLY what I needed! He talked about time management, planning, and also how all of these things correlate to our walk with Christ.  I have been forming biblical principles with my counselor and the one that I had to work on that week was why I choose to not listen to secular music, and why we should guard our hearts from certain movies/music/shows/etc.  This all was to control our thoughts and what runs through our minds.  Come Wednesday morning in bible class, what are we talking about?  How we can control our thoughts and how to set boundaries for ourselves as to how to do so!  How awesome is that? I was able to form the principle so easily after that class!  We may not always have control over what goes into our minds but we have control as to how long it stays and what we are to focus on.  Have you ever had those moments when you are talking to God and your mind slowly drifts away?  Not always to bad things but your focus is not God.  That’s normal! All you have to do is simply redirect your focus on Him and be all there.  If you are distracted, maybe stop and get those things that are bothering you out of the way.  That class what my energy for the week!  Every year, he brings paint brushes and gives one to every student.  The purpose of this is to keep in your bible (its very thin and small) to remind you to let God paint His path for you, not yourself.  Let Him take the wheel, let Him draw the lines, let Him have control over your life because in all reality, we will lead ourselves to destruction!  So now I have a purple paint brush in my bible J

            This past week, my counselors Dad and her family was in Argentina and he is a pastor from Pennsylvania who taught us a quick study of Hebrews!  This book is incredible!  It is a great check for us because it was written to believing Jews (what we know as Messianic Jews) that were drifting back to Judaism.  If we ever have a time where we feel that God is moving away from us, we are wrong.  It’s us that is moving away from Him! He is always there! Hebrews talks about the superiority of Christ or the meaning that He has compared to earthly power such as high priests, Moses, etc.  Something that really hit me deep was that every one of the 17 verses we have to memorize by Friday, is just a statement proclaiming either how we can make it successfully, how we should be living our lives, and encouragement to us about what the Word, and who Christ is for us.  Its absolutely incredible!  I enjoyed this class very much and he taught it in a way that we could quickly tough the deep of the book and still get a good grasp of it!

            So remember, all you followers that have read from the beginning, when I was counting down the weeks till I left to come to Argentina, and remember when I finally got here, I was counting how many weeks that I had been here? Then how many till I came home….well guess what. It’s less than a week now! In 5 days, I will be in a plane, coming home, to you all, and I am SO excited! I have been pretty good on holding back the waterworks for a while, just because there has been so much to do, but yesterday!!!! I couldn’t help it! Everything made me tear up! Reading His word, talking to my roommates, just thinking about home!  My roomies quickly reminded of how soon I would be coming home, and I just kept saying still! I miss them! I want to go home!  Now don’t get me wrong, I LOVE IT HERE! I really do! I just miss home as well J I never thought I would miss Florida, especially the first month I was here because of it being the end of winter, but I do! The weather is finally steady here and it feels great outside, but without air conditioning in class and in your dorms, summer will be rough.  I promise to myself to keep a joyful and thankful heart and that is what I will do!

            I am so thankful for all the wonderful things God has done here, all the wonderful things He has provided, and just all the work that He has done in my life alone!  Word of Life is absolutely an incredible ministry to be a part of and I can’t wait to be a part of it for this whole next year! These three months flew by but at the same time, they felt like three months!  I love how I have this awesome opportunity to come to a different country to worship the same God that I do in the US, learn this beautiful language and be involved with the Spanish culture directly!  I am also thankful for the Spanish ministry that my church at home has because when I go home, I can continue to hear spanish spanish spanish instead of hearing english, which WILL hurt me believe it or not!  So heads up! If you speak Spanish, please talk to me in Spanish!

            Anyway, I am so excited to come home! And I know that the month will fly by as well so I am going to jam everything into these four weeks! Including Navidad (Christmas) and Año Nuevo (New Year’s) and spending time with everyone!

Prayer Requests:

1)   Pray for me to hear from God whether He wants me to stay longer (complete first year in August through December of 2013) 

2)   My flight home!

3)   That I can use my time wisely in December!

4)   That I can continue to learn Spanish! It gets better every day but I still need that surrender daily!

5)   Preparing the hearts of the campers that will be here in Enero (January) for the six weeks of six different groups of campers that will be hearing the word! (**Last year, over 650 people got saved alone in the camps!)

6)   Lastly, for keeping my Spanish over December, its more crucial than you think!

THANK YOU ALL FOR PRAYING! I will continue writing blogs until I am completely done with WOL and for a little after so you can see the affects that will continue on my life!  I can absolutely feel your prayers working in my life through the comfort that God gives me! I promise I will be more persistent with my blogging. J CANT WAIT TO SEE YOU ALL!