Keep Your Head Up, I Know It's Hard...

Hello my readers :) I am so excited to tell you what God has been doing lately!            First of all, we started the institute! I can’t believe it! The first week, I was like “this is great! I am understanding things and I am so happy!” Week 2, “I can’t pay attention for more than 30 minutes straight! Being bilingual is hard!” Week 3, “Oh my word, we have a week till exams in total Spanish! I AM FREAKING OUT!”  Over each month, we have two classes that are for three weeks, and a week of testing.  Our first two classes were Evangelism and Christian Life I.  They were AMAZING! Definitely encouraged me to get out there to reach people!  For Christian Life, we had to read a whole book (in 3 weeks) and memorize 14 verses, but had the option of doing so in English or in Spanish.  In my mind, of course it will be harder in Spanish, but more importantly, it’s going to hurt me if I don’t continue to practice these things in Spanish.  I was so blessed by choosing to do all in Spanish!  First, I read Gates of Splendor by Elizabeth Elliot (Jim Elliot’s wife), which tells the story in the best way, straight from the diaries of the men, their wives, and just all the inner details that we miss by the movies and word of mouth.  The whole time, it was really encouraging me to be all for Christ! Be all there! Be ready to do whatever He calls us to do and do it with EVERYTHING!  In the last chapter, she noted a quote from Jim Elliot that will ring in my heart for the rest of my life.  Translating it to English, it said, “When you arrive to the time to die, make sure that all you have left to do is die.”  How profound is that?? What this means to me is that I need to always be walking in His will and not waste ANY time so that when He does call me to go home, that I don’t look back and say “oh..I wish I could have done more!”  Relating to me now, I must think that in my time left here.  I don’t want to get on that plane the 9^th of July and leave saying “hmmm. I wish I could have given more.”  I am so happy to say that this past Saturday, I was able to go evangelizing in Buenos Aires, and I got to see the fruit of all the things that God has been doing these past 7 months!  I talked with a women who did not believe that there was a heaven or hell.  In Spanish, I was able to use things that I JUST learned in my classes with her, and God was speaking RIGHT through me! It was INCREDIBLE! She did not receive Christ, but we definitely planted a seed in her heart, and only God may know what happens after that.  I am so happy with that! I really didn’t even want to go yesterday because I wanted to sleep in after our exams and not doing anything, but at 5:00 that afternoon, I was hit in face by God saying “Alright Maggie, see what I wanted you to get up this morning? I had Kristina for you! Thank you for doing this for me! Love you! Keep working! I’m here with you!”  I just love God and all the strange but beautiful ways that He works!

I don’t have much more to say than I have only 2 months left, I can’t believe I am almost done here, but I know that this is just the beginning of what God has for me! :)

One important thing that I want to be completely real with and so also you could pray for something I struggle with day to day.  Coming here, I knew I had to surrender how I look (as in weight), because we don’t have really an option of what to eat, it is just what food is provided.  Missionary life! I knew that coming in, and now that it has happened, I hate it!  If you could pray that I don’t focus so much on that and just enjoy the time I have left because Satan uses that so much to knock me off my feet and makes me want to go home now!  I have to remind myself that I have learned a language in 9 months, I am closer to God than I have ever been in my life, I have survived living in Argentina for 9 months, and I am fulfilling the will of God! Why am I so worried about what I look like??  So please! Pray! I am excited to get home and start living healthily because I am just not feeling well in general (health wise)! :/

Prayer Requests:

1)   Focusing on the 2 months left!

2)   My Spanish, to continue to increase!

3)   My mind of weight and that life is so much more than appearance!

4)   I am helping out with Sunday School and next week, I teach the lesson! Pray for the kiddos and for me to speak with my whole heart!

5)   My parents are traveling here for graduation, (July 4^th, they will be traveling) pray for traveling mercies!

So I Did.

So what a time I have had! Thank you for reading and staying with me! We are almost there!

            As you know, I was planning on going to an orphanage.  Didn’t happen!  I am so happy of how intimate my relationship is with the Lord is right now because I was so disturbed by SOMETHING that after praying and help from my mom, I knew I shouldn’t go! My passion was translating.  I didn’t know what that meant, but I knew that I needed to stay. So I did :)

            Thursday morning comes (I had decided to stay the Thursday before), and I get a text asking if I was ready to leave tomorrow for a week to translate.   I was floored! I was in my mind “YES YES YES!” but I immediately sat up, and put the phone down, and prayed! I wanted to make sure this is what God wanted and if this was really happening!  I felt the necessity to say yes, so I did!

            I got the info I needed, told my family, Micah, and asked them to pray for strength! I soon realized that it was going to be the SAME exact week that I was here last year, frustrated because of the language barrier, and was waiting to see what God was going to do in my life by bringing me back here!  I was enamored with that thought of what God has done in this year!  I was ready to go! I knew God had been working up this whole year for this week, and it was an awesome feeling!  I was scared, but knew that He would be the one speaking through me! It was now Friday, I was packed, we had to leave, so I did!

            14 hours later, back in South Argentina, I woke up to colder, yet beautiful weather, and I was in Neuquen, Argentina.  We were there to rest for a little and then go door to door ministry, inviting people to an event.  I happened to be with the mission pastor from the church that came down, scared out of my mind, but reminded myself we are just translating to get people to come to a service.  That afternoon was AMAZING!  It was so much more than just an invitational, there was a man named Daniel, that thank the Lord we had a native from the area that he talked to him for the most part, but was very hard on the outside, looked very disturbed and just very closed off.  After a conversation, using the Evangecube, he came SO close to giving his life to Christ. We came to the part of the cube where you can choose Christ, or you can choose eternity in hell.  His eyes were set fixed on the hell portion, the fire, the eternal suffering.  He did not give his life to Christ that moment, as far as we know, but a seed was DEFINITELY planted!  The first day of my trip last year was the worst day ever! It was what started to break down my wall of God’s true will for my life.  The fact that all these amazing things that God were all in one day, and I could help facilitate it, WHAT A GREAT FEELING!  We had to return to church, and with a splitting headache cause I had never spoken so much Spanish in my life, I walked away with a smile because of how in awe I was with God in that moment, so I did. :)

            More great things happened in the week, I could feel my spanish increasing rapidly, and so of course, Satan started to bring in the battle.  I was reminded this week of how beautiful mercy, forgiveness, and most of all redemption is!  It was Wednesday, I wasn’t in the greatest mood because of the distractions Satan had drawn in, and we were visiting schools.  After translating for some of the students all morning, we are close to leaving and so I sit on the stairs to rest.  A girl comes up and sits next to me, starts talking to me, and asks for me to tell her my testimony.  In my mind, I say “God, is this really happening? God! Open her heart and give me the words to speak!”  Now, I had never lead anyone to Christ by myself in my whole life.  I have always been in groups, but never had been because of my direct words and testimony to anyone, remember that. It was loud because everyone was talking and so she asks to go into a classroom, and it literally was like God giving me this opportunity on a silver platter.  God said to me “here you go Maggie! This is to make up for how you acted yesterday!”  So we continued to talk, she was very receptive, and through God using me to speak to her, she received Christ! HOW AWESOME IS THAT! I was over joyed! I stopped for a minute and was like “are you sure? Do you really meant it?” because I was just so floored how fast God moved and just the fact that He used ME! Of all people? Especially after all the things I have done, He still wanted to use me!?  I was so ecstatic!  After we left, we were on the bus, and the missionary that was in charge of the ministry we were working with was proud of me and he reminded me that even though I’m not perfect at Spanish, when I let my heart speak and I lay everything out about my life to someone, God uses you in BEAUTIFUL ways!  He told me to not hide behind the language, just let my heart speak to the person.  That was so true, that was exactly what happened!  God gave me a huge reason to smile, so I did :)

            We finished the week and I was just so happy and blessed with what He had done in this week! What’s even better is that there were so many other great stories from all the other students that came!  I was so blessed by this mission group that traveled this way and will be eternally grateful!  I honestly believe that this past week was one HUGE reason why God brought me down here!  He worked all the way in April of 2012, to prepare me for the same week in April of 2013!  It’s incredible!

            We started the institute this week! Crazy to see how time flies!  It is going to be awesome but please pray because homesickness is setting in! But I will continue on, because my return home is a lot sooner that I think! So I WILL! :)

Prayer Requests:

1)   The people we reached in Neuquen.

2)   The bible institute! (For understanding, and retaining for tests and LIFE)

3)   Homesickness! It’s one of the worst illnesses!

            

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Hello my sweet followers!

                Please, sit back, maybe grab some water, tea, or mate J and read the recap of my life the past few months!

                We had planned on going to Chile, but God turned those moments into something much greater! Two weeks later, we left for Pichi Traful! You all have heard of the Andes Mountains, right? Well they are mainly in Chile but they end up in South Argentina and so there we went! Word of Life owns a hotel in the mountains and even though the drive there is about 20 hours, it was so worth it! The fact that I was driving through the land that you see in magazine stories, billboards, textbooks and foreign vacation sights! Most of the drive was flat plans, but then gradually grew to plateaus (which are super cool, never seen in real life), rolling hills, and finally beautiful and might I add HUGE mountains with animals and lakes and one giant mountain with a huge snowcap on it! How could you drive through there and NOT believe that we have a wonderful maker? It’s impossible! If you don’t see that, you must be sleeping!  We finally reached our destination, got off the bus, and it literally felt like it was some hidden land that people come to rest and stay for safety! (Obviously that is not the case but that’s what it felt like)  Our friends from school that worked at the summer camp there all summer coming running to the bus, everyone with huge grins our their faces, and just a heart to serve us in these upcoming days.  The days consisted of hiking in the Andes, visiting beautiful lakes, rivers, and resting sights.  Pictures are to come, I am just waiting to get my computer back! But I was just so happy to be there!  Now, at school, its very hard to find a true “quiet” place to be.  In the middle of the week, the Lord just prompted me to go sit outside, seeing how we were surrounded by mountains and beauty.  I sat outside and began to pray.  I realized that this was a gift from God because I literally could not hear one thing move, not even everyone inside!  It was such a blessing! It was a bit chilly so I went back inside and sat by the fire.  We left a week later, drove through the night, got back to school, washed our clothes and later that night, ventured on to another unknown land, all in the same day!

                The next stop was Uruguay! What was so funny about the border was that we didn’t even have to wake up, get checked or anything.  Lucas got up and brought all of our passports, we were checked, and we made it to Uruguay!  Once we started to wake up, the sun was rising and we made it to Blancarena (white sand), which was the campground we were going to stay at for the week.  So this camp was a little different scenery, we were at a beach! The water was the river that separates Uruguay and Argentina (for the most part cause we drove), but it is possible to take a ferry all the way across! Although, the place we were was surrounded by NOTHING and NOT ONE PERSON around, and we were at the wide part of the river where you can’t see Argentina.  On Wednesday, we went into a place called Colonia which you can tell by the name that it is an older city, where all the old factories of Uruguay were from years ago, the ports for commercial things and the ferry to go to Argentina, and touristy things! We did not see much of Uruguay but just being there was nice because it made me feel like I was at home, the warm sun, the beach, wearing my bathing suit all day, just simply beautiful J The last day, we headed to two different beaches, and the second being a huge tourist and world known landmark (to some people) called Punta Del Este, or East Point.  It’s almost like a Uruguayan Miami beach type of place.  Lots of high rises, places to eat, shop, walk, and a huge beach! What is unique about this beach is that there are fingers coming out of the sand, as if someone was holding the beach and sand in their hand.  It is a big tourist attraction and people pay thousands of dollars to travel to this place and we just traveled a few hours north for a week to just chill!  We were all just so at ease and relaxed because of the two weeks we just had! 

                We got back to school and started out last week of Spanish class ever!  It was a bittersweet thing because yes I am very excited being the end of the second third of my time in Argentina, but at the same time, our teacher Laura, she is like our mom, and she has poured SO much into our lives! We are going to miss seeing her every day and spending the time!  I can’t believe how far we have come but definitely content and happy where I am!

                I had mentioned earlier that I was going to an orphanage for our week break.  Two days before I was supposed to leave, God said “STOP! Listen! Do not go!” I was not sure exactly what that meant but after prayer and wisdom from Mom and Micah, I knew I was to stay.  My mom had asked me in our conversation “what is your passion? Because if it’s not to help those kids, then do not go.”  I realized that it wasn’t to help the kids! It was to prepare to translate! Staying here and practicing more Spanish and translating back and forth, was what I was to do.  After I made the decision, I realized that I would not only be able to work on my Spanish but I would also get the rest I need before the Institute starts and I get back to the early morning/ late night schedule, but also I am able to meet with the wife of the church I hope to do ministry with on the weekends this semester!  We have been trying to get together for a long long time and now we can!  I know there are more things that I will see that confirm my decision but I am very content and ready to keep going!

                So March 15^th had come around, a day to recognize my 19^th year of life and it could not have been better!  It started with on March 14^th with my teacher making me a cake and then that night, after I had finished with my work, I went back to my room and was not allowed into my room.  I had seen a balloon on the door and just had a big smile on my face!  So we brought in the 15^th of March with another great cake and by watching The Vow. That morning, I woke up to a rainy, cold day, but I was still excited for the day! I got to breakfast and my boss for work had made banana pancakes for me and the people I work with!  Lunch time came around and I had been waiting for Lucas to come back with my packages because he had gone to Buenos Aires in the morning.  I get a call and he said to me is normal “I  have good news and bad news…” and then I see him with two packages in one hand.  He says to me “Good news, I got your packages.  Bad news, (as he holds up a Starbucks bag with a muffin in it) the coffee didn’t make it!” I WAS FILLED WITH JOY! The day was just getting better and better! I now had my lovely packages and my love from my family back at home!  As I was taking things out, Kara comes up (fellow PBBer) and said “I will take all those for yeah” for all the decorations for a party.  I wanted to keep everything a surprise so I just told my mind to stop figuring things out!  So some girls and I went to town that afternoon and got ice cream to celebrate and I get surprised with not just that, but a dulce and peach waffle, a mocha, AND A COKE LIGHT!  I was in heaven! But my stomach was definitely full!  Later on that night, I had a meeting planned with my counselor, and it ended up being a surprise party with her and my girlfriends! They were standing in a semi-circle and opened up to Micah being on skype to be at the party too!  I cried of course, but we just talked and talked and talked, and ate more cake!  I was so happy with the day and just reminded of how awesome God was to bless me all throughout the day!   Just when I thought the party was over, the next night, after dinner, while skyping with Micah, a friend from work comes over and says “can you hang up the phone” very nicely and I looked over to see that my boss had put together another party with cake and coffee!  I honestly can say that this had been the best birthday of my life!

Last but definitely not least, I miss home!  Being away for the second birthday and just being gone for this long, is hard!  My family went to the Kari Jobe – Chris Tomlin concert and I FaceTimed for a little.  When Kari Jobe started singing, I started crying because of how much I miss home! But then the song “You Are For Me” started playing and with the chorus, “I know that You will never forsake me in my weakness…”  I realized that is was God just reminding me “Maggie! You are here for me, I am going to take care of you like I have been from the beginning!  Don’t worry! I love you! You’re learning Spanish! You’re preparing for ministry! Keep going! You got this! With me!”  You would never believe this, but once I calmed down and kept listening, Kari Jobe started second verse, but singing it in spanish.  I was just floored.  I just knew god was there and He was just giving me another reason to love Him and feel His presence….and cry. J  

I am just so happy to be here and I am so thankful for all the love and prayers from back home!  I couldn’t do anything without Christ but also without you all and the support that is evident!  So KEEP GOING! WE ARE ALMOST THERE! Thank you J

 

 

Prayer Requests:

1.       The orphanage, kids, even though I'm not there!

2.       My Spanish.

3.       Ministry to be a part of on the weekends.

4.       THE BIBLE INSTITUTE and SPANISH BIBLE CLASSES!

5.       Strength to finish strong!

Another Page Turned

Okay so I am really sorry for not keeping up with my blog but I promise, this will be worth it! This is will go over EVERYTHING that has happened within these past few weeks!

Camp was definitely more interesting than I expected! I didn’t work with the campers, I didn’t work in the food lines, but I worked in Vestuario.  Vestuario is where all the supplies for games are made, all the outfits and costumes, all the stage set ups and so on.  There were good days and bad days but I was really thankful because there were not many people who could speak English, which pushed me to speak more Spanish! That was a huge blessing because I really feel that my Spanish as increased since I started! It’s getting easier to listen and its getting easier to respond more calmly.  I get so nervous sometimes and I don’t know why L I guess that comes with time! And look at this! I even sang a Kari Jobe some IN SPANISH with one of my friends! I was so nervous but it was an awesome experience and we got to sing it twice! J

                I honestly have to say that the last few weeks were preoccupied with thinking about serving in Chile and traveling and all that fun stuff! Although, there was quite a turn of events.  

                Sunday night.  The night before the last week of camp. We are all saying goodbye to all the friends we had made and were packing all of our things on the bus.  Our leader calls us out for a quick meeting so we can wrap things up.  Funny thing is while we were waiting to get everyone together, a girl jokingly says “watch, he is going to tell us we aren’t leaving till tomorrow…” So we get all together and we were told that there had been quite a big storm in the mountains and had cause twenty mudslides around the border that we needed to cross, over the course of the three previous days.  We had a missionary driving in that area and had to hold off a few hours to get a call from him to tell us if it was okay to travel up that way.  A few hours pass and Lucas tells us that we are staying the night and will meet again in the morning.  So all of us, just taking our overnight bags to our rooms that we didn’t not look forward to going back to, and we all eventually go to sleep.  The next morning, we meet and are all waiting to hear info on when we are leaving and what we have to do before we leave.  Then the big boulder of disappointment hits.  “The Chile portion of the trip is cancelled and so is the camp that we were going to help out with…” WHAT? God, what are you doing?...We all had those thoughts!  After getting the bad attitude out, talking with my mom and getting things resettled into a new room with all the gringas, I truly realize that we are not leaving.  I realized we had to stay for kids camp.  I realize that we are going to have to be here for another week.  What the???  My mom encouraged me to remember that God obviously has something greater for us here in Monte.  I said that I really want to know what exactly that was!  You know what?  Even though they have been pretty much all personal reasons, not as a whole group, I definitely have seen what we were  meant to stay here.  I will tell you in number form J

1.       Obvious reasons, He kept us safe from being in a mudslide! Saw the damage it did and was really thankful because some people in normal size cars were stuck for days waiting to get lifted by helicopter!  Another natural reason, I heard from a friend that her family lives in Chile and she told me that there were multiple earthquakes in that time.  Go figure! Coincidence, I think not!

2.       Okay so this is where it starts getting cool.  So if you remember, last semester I took pictures of a missionary couple who were engaged and my counselor’s family.  After that, I asked God to use this gift of taking pictures as a ministry and for HIM to use it!   Another missionary approached me this week, who is from Word of Life Romania, and asked me if I could take a video of her to send for an even that they are having there this weekend.  Random but I was like sure! Then another missionary wife asked me to make hers too! I was walking to her house to do so and it came to me that this was an answer to prayer! God was using me with this camera to help not only missionaries here but to help people all away around the world.  How cool! If we would have been in Chile, this would not have happened!

3.       Another prayer request of mine was for God to start preparing me a ministry to work with, someone to minister to, someone Spanish preferably so that when I come home, I can continue to speak and really just to keep growing!  You know sometimes when you are continually praying about something specific and you don’t see anything for a while, you just don’t always have your head up to really see what’s going on until it hits you in the face!  There is a girl back at home whom I have been friends with for quite a few years, but never really got super close to, but she is Cuban and I had just messaged her a while back just to see how things were going.  Well after conversation over a few weeks, I had been helping her with something and I totally came to the realization that this is the “ministering” God had given me to do right now!  How awesome though because when I get back home, I have a good girl friend to speak in Spanish with! God is so good! It’s incredible how He works and I LOVE being the one that He uses!

4.       Lastly, I have had some hard times here fitting in with our group of Americans.  But this week, I realized that when something goes wrong, it doesn’t mean it’s the end of the world!  It doesn’t mean that I can’t keep going! In 1 Corinthians, it tells us that we are ambassadors of Christ and even though all these girls are believers, I am still in charge of my own heart and still in charge of representing Christ with my own life! How am I showing others here that I have Christ in my heart if I am bitter every day because something didn’t go the way I wanted or how am I representing Christ if I hold grudges or am careless of how I say or act.  Christ has given me multiple reasons to sing and have joy and I AM the one missing out if I choose to not be joyous and have a good attitude about my daily life.  1 Corinthians also says that if someone has wronged us, it is our responsibility to forgive, not to be forgiven, and if we don’t forgive, it’s only hurting ourselves.  You know, I just really love the bible!  And in these past two weeks from being here, I have been so comforted by the Word because God knew that I had to get to a certain point in order for these things to really catch my attention that I needed to change.  I realized that His purpose for me here is not to make more friends with Americans and just get caught up in more drama, but to come here, learn Spanish, learn immense things from His word, and continue on to do His work.  Paul was so right, I AM the one missing out if I don’t keep my head up to see all the wonderful things that God is doing, not just my little problems that can be so easily forgiven and forgotten.

All in all, I am so glad that God kept us here.  I can honestly say I have grown closer to Him in this time and He continues to bless us because we are headed to Pichi Traful this Saturday.  It’s a beautiful Word of Life owned Hotel that is located in the Patagonia Region of the Andes Mountains.  It will be cold but from what I hear, “magically breath-taking.” And then!! Drum roll please! We come back for a day, turn around, wash and pack warmer clothing because we are going to URUGUAY!!! AHHH! J  I am so excited to see what God plans to show me there and thank you for joining this journey with me!

 

Prayer Requests

1.       Safe travels to Pichi and Uruguay.

2.       My heart and attitude would reflect Christ at all times.

3.       Future ministries and people to be involved with here and in Clearwater.

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