Ok, sorry about the cheesy title but you know I've been waiting for an opportunity to use it ever since moving to Kansas. So anyways, it's been a long time since I wrote last and needless to say, a lot has happened since then.
The last time I wrote we were in Texas and I was giving my testimony the next day. It actually went really well! I ended up having to change it 3 times in the end and it was completely different then when I started. I talked about my fear to experience joy and how I've been overcoming that fear these past couple of years. With all of the changes I made, I know God must have had a reason for me to say what I did at that specific school. Yeah, it turned out really good.
Blitz overall ended up being great! I thought it would be fun and stuff but I wasn't expecting to like Texas as much as I did and I definitely wasn't expecting to grow like I did. I grew a lot! Two of the big things God taught me about were boldness and having a voice. It's impossible to explain how God worked in me and how I've grown but just trust me when I say a lot happened on Blitz.
So after Blitz, we went back to Texas for a little over a week and then we left for Honduras! Once we got to Honduras we drove about 5 hours to a small town called Yamaranguila where we worked with an organization called Mercy International. Mercy is an incredible organization that is strategically reaching not only Honduras, but the world. If you're interested, you should check out their website www.beyondmercy.com to learn more. It's really exciting stuff. Anyways though, while in Yamaranguila we helped the missionaries there put on a huge yard sale, we laid a concrete floor, we went on some prayer walks through the town, and we put on a VBS for several of the local kids. We also went to a nearby town to a squatting community called the Invasion where we got to love on the kids and do another VBS. I think the Invasion was my favorite place we went.
After a few days in Yamaranguila, we went drove another 2 hours up to a village in the mountains called San Pedrito. It rained the day we were supposed to leave so the muddy roads ended up delaying us 2 days. When we were finally able to go, we had to do it in shifts over 3 days because we had to take trucks rather than our vans in order to get through. I ended up going on the third day which meant that the next day we would be hiking even deeper into the mountains. So, that next day our team split up into two groups and we hiked out to two very remote villages up in the mountains. I went to Santa Maria which meant a 5 hour hike through the rainforest. It was an incredibly beautiful hike but unfortunately I was really sick which made it kind of miserable. Up in the mountains my team put on another VBS as well as a lice clinic and we laid a foundation and floor for a house. I learned some huge lessons on rest and prayer while I was up there because since I was so sick I was unable to do a lot of the ministry. God revealed to me the truth that prayer really is the backbone of ministry and that I don't actually have to be the one doing the ministry to have an impact. This was a huge lesson for me!
After two days in Santa Maria, the team hiked back out to return to Yamaranguila. I got to ride a mule out of the mountains because I was sick. I can't even describe to you how beautiful that mule ride was. It was a wonderful and quiet 3 hours just spent with my Abba. Anyways, after a couple more days of ministry in Yamaranguila, we headed out to debrief. We went to the beach so that we could relax and reflect before coming back to the US. It was such a great time! The second day we were there I got baptized in the Caribbean. I've been praying about getting baptized for over a year and a half now so this was a really sweet moment. It was even better because there were 8 others who got baptized so we got to all do it together.
Yeah, Honduras was really, really great. It definitely had it's hard moments, like being sick for 10 of the 17 days, but I wouldn't change anything. God taught me a ton and I grew a lot closer to him and to the rest of my team. And it definitely got me excited about what God is doing in the rest of the world outside of Kansas.
So yeah, that's about it. I'm on spring break now for a couple weeks but I'll try to put out another update once I head back to Kansas. Thanks for reading this! Bye!
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