Where Did The Time Go???

This past week, Joe Jordan was our predicador, or preacher, for camp and it was a blessing because he is American and speaking Spanish.  What does that mean? That means he speaks slower and clearer than others would!  I was able to listen and comprehend what he was saying and he definitely brought the word! He took the campers through topics about salvation, our savior, and even his return.  I loved being able to see these people narrow in to what he was saying and it resulted in the testimonies on Saturday morning of individual rooms standing up and sharing how God changed their lives this week.  I love listening to them and some are so real with it! They flat out say I received Christ into my life because I knew with my sins, that I couldn’t get anywhere!  Awesome week!

            On Monday, I felt really tired, but had to remember that we were almost halfway done! Two weeks of camp left, then Cordoba, Chile, and Pichi! Speaking of this trip, we leave February 10^th to Cordoba, which is a province in Central Argentina for a few days and will pick up some other WOL people to travel on the 12^th to Santiago, Chile!  We will be helping out the Word of Life Chile for a week or so, which will be awesome! Getting to serve in another country and also see some of our friends from school that went home for the summer! AND WE CAN STILL SPEAK SPANISH! I am really at the point where I will do anything to learn this language! It’s frustrating, to be quite honest, a lot of the time, because I feel like I should understand more than I do.  The Lord is teaching me a lot of patience because I NEED IT!

            Tuesday, in my quiet time, I tried out a new place on campus. I thought it would be quiet and it was for a while.  As soon as I got into it and was spending some great time with the Lord, trucks started driving by, birds were freaking out, etc.  Satan really didn’t like that, obviously!  Later that day, one of my friends who had a trilingual bible and I started looking at some of my favorite verses in Portuguese and Spanish as well.  Anyway, so I started to drift to the Spanish side and happened to go look up Jeremiah 29:11.  Most of you know what that verse is, but then I read the Spanish side and it read (translating) “For I know that plans I have for you very well….” How awesome is that! It just adds a whole other dimension to the verse! CRAZY! I love that the verses are same concepts but in both languages, but in Spanish, and english sometimes, somehow seems to be a little more touching.

            I have been struggling with my allergies here this summer, unfortunately, and its partially because there is no air condition in our rooms and only inside the cafeteria during meal times.  There is no steady heat temp here so the constant “getting nicer outside” to “getting really hot” doesn’t help at all! One morning, I was so backed up in my sinuses, sneezing constantly, eyes itching like no other, I was about to just throw the towel in.  I was about to do my devotions and decided to try to concentrate to see what God had for me that day.  Even though it had NOTHING to do with my allergies, the Word just comforted me, even though I couldn’t read two sentences without blowing my nose!  The thought came to me that it was up to me to let Satan have my morning or to start out my day with the Lord in His word and kick Satan to the curb.  Let me tell you, my morning and my day was great! J

            Looking back on high school, I tell myself so many things like “I wish I would remember this! I wish I had paid more attention here! I wish I would have actually cared about Spanish!”  That wall hit me this week.  We started a lot of heavy duty grammar in Spanish and I just remember saying “I remember learning this is English and hating it! Now I have to learn it in Spanish!!!” Well, just means I have to work that much harder!

            Fast forward to this week, Thursday morning, my friend Abbi and I sang….IN SPANISH! It was AWESOME! I have so much fun! Definitely not something easy to do! Although, the Lord was right there with us! Can’t wait to do it again! There were over 700 spanish speaking people, and here Abbi and I, two gringas. Thank you Jesus!

            ALRIGHT! So I have some news here.  This is blogger reader classified information until more details squared away but……..through the Lord leading me to look around at some schools in Florida for this coming fall, I applied to Clearwater Christian College before I came back to Argy, through a lot of prayer and continued prayer even after it was sent in just to make sure.  As of this week, I was officially accepted! SO if you would be praying WITH me to have the Lord’s provision, that would be GREAT! OJO! This is blogger classified information! ;)

Prayer Requests:

1)   MY ALLERGIES- such a distraction and spiritual warfare!

2)   Last week of camp for the PBBers before our adventure!

3)   Pray for the opportunities that I have (like working at an orphanage over my break before school starts)

4)   CAMPERS! CAMPERS! CAMPERS! J

5)   Health!

6)   The Lord’s for me after Argentina