I've been having some good thoughts and have a lot to share with you about but I have to quick finish up some work before Christmas, so I leave you with one of my favorite songs during Christmas, I celebrate the day! I pray that you all have a very Merry Christmas and remember the true meaning of Christmas!!
"And the first time That You opened Your eyes did You realize that You would be my Savior And the first breath that left Your lips Did You know that it would change this world forever”
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Our God is the God who Provides
Hey everyone!
Sorry, It's been awhile since I last updated you. This will just be a quick update as I have a lot of work to still do tonight but this is a nice break. Life has been very busy but I thank God for that because I been busy with a lot of support raising efforts and such. This past month or so has been both hard and good and God has been teaching me a lot!
Our God is a God who provides!!! This is SO true and God has for sure been showing me this in my life! Oh where to start...first, overall God has been providing me with people to meet with and share my ministry with, He has provided me enough funds to be able to stay in Ames until May (which is hopefully when I will go to training,Praise Him!!), He has blessed the support raising process not only financially but also abundantly in other ways also! I just can't say it enough...Praise God!!!
Another amazing example of God's providence, was today, my roommates Rebekah Hanson and Beth Boal organized a taco feed to help raise money for my initial start up costs in going to El Salvador, specifically my plane ticket to El Salvador (which is about $800), and wow it was a complete success! We managed to raise through the generous gifts of my Stonebrook family, $1246 dollars towards my start up costs, Praise God!!! I'm in awe of God's providence today and so thankful for the generous giving of my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. I'm just SO incredibly thankful...words can not describe!
There is SO much more to share but I ought to get back to my work ;)
Thank you all for your prayers, support, love and encouragement through out this process! I praise God for all of you.
Sorry, It's been awhile since I last updated you. This will just be a quick update as I have a lot of work to still do tonight but this is a nice break. Life has been very busy but I thank God for that because I been busy with a lot of support raising efforts and such. This past month or so has been both hard and good and God has been teaching me a lot!
Our God is a God who provides!!! This is SO true and God has for sure been showing me this in my life! Oh where to start...first, overall God has been providing me with people to meet with and share my ministry with, He has provided me enough funds to be able to stay in Ames until May (which is hopefully when I will go to training,Praise Him!!), He has blessed the support raising process not only financially but also abundantly in other ways also! I just can't say it enough...Praise God!!!
Another amazing example of God's providence, was today, my roommates Rebekah Hanson and Beth Boal organized a taco feed to help raise money for my initial start up costs in going to El Salvador, specifically my plane ticket to El Salvador (which is about $800), and wow it was a complete success! We managed to raise through the generous gifts of my Stonebrook family, $1246 dollars towards my start up costs, Praise God!!! I'm in awe of God's providence today and so thankful for the generous giving of my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. I'm just SO incredibly thankful...words can not describe!
There is SO much more to share but I ought to get back to my work ;)
Thank you all for your prayers, support, love and encouragement through out this process! I praise God for all of you.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Trust God Period!
Hey all!
I hope that you are all doing well! I know its been awhile since I have blogged, life has been crazy busy. Since I returned from New Staff Training with GCM, I have been working a lot both with my job at McFarland Clinic as well as for GCM. However, last Friday the 5th was my last day of work at McFarland Clinic, so I could devote all my time to doing work for GCM and doing MTD (aka support raising). I'm really excited about being able to devote all my time, but it is going to be a trying process with not having an income, but I'm learning that I just have to trust God period! He will provide for my needs as I trust in Him and learn about what He is trying to teach me through this process.
This week I have been back in MN to do some support raising. This is both exciting but a bit stressful at times. I am excited that I get to meet up with some friends that I haven't had a huge chance to connect with for a couple of years, so its always great to catch up and see what God is doing in the lives of others.
So far support raising is going alright, but not the best. I am at about 8% of my month goal of support that I need to raise for GCM. The first couple of weeks were going well but its now starting to get a little bit harder. This week especially has been really difficult, but I keep getting the "trust me" from Him, so we'll see how he works things out. God has been blessing me in many other ways also and I'm just trusting Him period in all things. I do have to say I'm so incredibly thankful for the people God has put around me during this phase of life in support raising, you are all amazing and thanks for sticking by me and encouraging me through this process!
Some prayer requests: For time management (as I will have to be very digigent in making calls to people and setting up appointments and such), that I would be listening to the things God is trying to teach me during this process, for encouragement through this process!
Love to you all!
Alyssa
PS: Also if you are interested in helping support me in my work in El Salvador and want to know how you can help please call me at763-742-5519 or email me at alyssaraecorbett@gmail.com.
I hope that you are all doing well! I know its been awhile since I have blogged, life has been crazy busy. Since I returned from New Staff Training with GCM, I have been working a lot both with my job at McFarland Clinic as well as for GCM. However, last Friday the 5th was my last day of work at McFarland Clinic, so I could devote all my time to doing work for GCM and doing MTD (aka support raising). I'm really excited about being able to devote all my time, but it is going to be a trying process with not having an income, but I'm learning that I just have to trust God period! He will provide for my needs as I trust in Him and learn about what He is trying to teach me through this process.
This week I have been back in MN to do some support raising. This is both exciting but a bit stressful at times. I am excited that I get to meet up with some friends that I haven't had a huge chance to connect with for a couple of years, so its always great to catch up and see what God is doing in the lives of others.
So far support raising is going alright, but not the best. I am at about 8% of my month goal of support that I need to raise for GCM. The first couple of weeks were going well but its now starting to get a little bit harder. This week especially has been really difficult, but I keep getting the "trust me" from Him, so we'll see how he works things out. God has been blessing me in many other ways also and I'm just trusting Him period in all things. I do have to say I'm so incredibly thankful for the people God has put around me during this phase of life in support raising, you are all amazing and thanks for sticking by me and encouraging me through this process!
Some prayer requests: For time management (as I will have to be very digigent in making calls to people and setting up appointments and such), that I would be listening to the things God is trying to teach me during this process, for encouragement through this process!
Love to you all!
Alyssa
PS: Also if you are interested in helping support me in my work in El Salvador and want to know how you can help please call me at763-742-5519 or email me at alyssaraecorbett@gmail.com.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Update
Hey All!
Wow sorry it has been so long since I've blogged.I don't have too much time right now but I thought that I would give you all a quick update.
Things in my life have been crazy busy but really good. The biggest news in my life is that I have now gone on Staff with Great Commission Ministries(GCM)!!! I'm SO excited for this opportunity!I love that I am going to devote all of my time to full time ministry. I am going to be a full time missionary in Guayabo in El Salvador! God is doing and is going to do some awesome things!! Praise Him!
I just returned from New Staff Training in Orlando,FL. I went there to learn more about developing ministry team to help learn how to support raise the funds needed to get me back to El Salvador. I was there with 13 other new staff. It was great to see the heart and passion that they had for reaching people for Christ! It was a great time or community and fellowship. We had a great group and we had some awesome trainers!
So I am super excited to get this process started! I ask for your prayers through this time. I pray for time management as I will have to be really organized during this process, peace and encouragement.
Also if you are interested in helping support me in my work in El Salvador financially please call me at 763-742-5519 or email me at alyssaraecorbett@gmail.com.
God Bless!
Wow sorry it has been so long since I've blogged.I don't have too much time right now but I thought that I would give you all a quick update.
Things in my life have been crazy busy but really good. The biggest news in my life is that I have now gone on Staff with Great Commission Ministries(GCM)!!! I'm SO excited for this opportunity!I love that I am going to devote all of my time to full time ministry. I am going to be a full time missionary in Guayabo in El Salvador! God is doing and is going to do some awesome things!! Praise Him!
I just returned from New Staff Training in Orlando,FL. I went there to learn more about developing ministry team to help learn how to support raise the funds needed to get me back to El Salvador. I was there with 13 other new staff. It was great to see the heart and passion that they had for reaching people for Christ! It was a great time or community and fellowship. We had a great group and we had some awesome trainers!
So I am super excited to get this process started! I ask for your prayers through this time. I pray for time management as I will have to be really organized during this process, peace and encouragement.
Also if you are interested in helping support me in my work in El Salvador financially please call me at 763-742-5519 or email me at alyssaraecorbett@gmail.com.
God Bless!
Friday, July 30, 2010
Hey all! :)
I hope that you are all doing well. Life has been good lately and God has been awesome but HE is always awesome! :) I just wanted to give you guys a little update on whats going on in my life.
Well, of course I have been working lots. I also have been continuing my running, which I love to do...I'm running about 5 miles everyday and I'm hoping to maybe run a half marathon in like October. Last week on the 23rd I had to move out of my old apartment, which was a little crazy because I can't move into my new apartment until August 1st, but God totally provided and I have been able to stay at my friend Alexa's apt. because she is gone for the summer. I'm SO stoked though to move into my new apt. I'm SO excited to be roommates with Rebek and Beth and to be across the hall from Sarah, Ruth and Jess (who is a sweet awesome girl I met this past sunday who is transferring from UNI :) It's also my birthday on Monday the second and I'm actually pretty excited!! I'm going to spend half the day up in MN and then I'm going to be back in ames and go out with some of the girls to Carlos O'Kelly's!! :)
In other news, I'm still going through the process with GCM in my application to the one year missionary program to return to ES! I've submited all the paperwork needed and I did the international testing packet which took like 4.5hrs in total. I'm excited to where God is leading me and I'm praying God's will in this process of returnnig to ES for a year! I do miss El Salvador a lot, especially all my friends and the people that I've met down there!
Another thing is one passage that I’ve really been meditation on the past couple of
days is Psalm 145. This is turning into one of my favorite psalms!
It’s so encouraging for me. It really just reminds me of how awesome
our God is!!!
Also another sweet random little tidbit that has been encouraging for
me has been Spanish worship music. I absolutely love Spanish worship
music. When I was in El Salvador one night at La Red we sang from the
inside out (desde mi interior in Spanish) in Spanish and I loved it!
That song as well as Hosanna by Hillsong in Spanish have become my two
favorite songs as of late.
Anyways, I hope you are all doing well! Have a great day!
Peace out!
I hope that you are all doing well. Life has been good lately and God has been awesome but HE is always awesome! :) I just wanted to give you guys a little update on whats going on in my life.
Well, of course I have been working lots. I also have been continuing my running, which I love to do...I'm running about 5 miles everyday and I'm hoping to maybe run a half marathon in like October. Last week on the 23rd I had to move out of my old apartment, which was a little crazy because I can't move into my new apartment until August 1st, but God totally provided and I have been able to stay at my friend Alexa's apt. because she is gone for the summer. I'm SO stoked though to move into my new apt. I'm SO excited to be roommates with Rebek and Beth and to be across the hall from Sarah, Ruth and Jess (who is a sweet awesome girl I met this past sunday who is transferring from UNI :) It's also my birthday on Monday the second and I'm actually pretty excited!! I'm going to spend half the day up in MN and then I'm going to be back in ames and go out with some of the girls to Carlos O'Kelly's!! :)
In other news, I'm still going through the process with GCM in my application to the one year missionary program to return to ES! I've submited all the paperwork needed and I did the international testing packet which took like 4.5hrs in total. I'm excited to where God is leading me and I'm praying God's will in this process of returnnig to ES for a year! I do miss El Salvador a lot, especially all my friends and the people that I've met down there!
Another thing is one passage that I’ve really been meditation on the past couple of
days is Psalm 145. This is turning into one of my favorite psalms!
It’s so encouraging for me. It really just reminds me of how awesome
our God is!!!
Also another sweet random little tidbit that has been encouraging for
me has been Spanish worship music. I absolutely love Spanish worship
music. When I was in El Salvador one night at La Red we sang from the
inside out (desde mi interior in Spanish) in Spanish and I loved it!
That song as well as Hosanna by Hillsong in Spanish have become my two
favorite songs as of late.
Anyways, I hope you are all doing well! Have a great day!
Peace out!
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Que Ondas
Sorry its been awhile since I've blogged! So here is just a short update of the ongoings in my life! Things have been going well since I returned from El Salvador. I can tell you though that I miss El Salvador, specifically the people SO very much!!!!! It has for sure taken some time to get readjusted to being back in the states and working full time. I really miss people speaking Spanish all the time. I also miss playing Futbol!!!
In other news, as some of you may know. The last Wednesday I was in ES I sat down with Victor, Silva and Christina to talk about my future and ES.As some of you know I have been praying about possibly going down to ES longer term and that was one of the reasons I wanted to go to ES for an extended period of time this summer. Through out the trip God kept confirming it, so I talked with Sarah and Christina about it and then met with Victor and Silvia about the possibility of me coming down to ES for at least a year through GCM's one year missionary program. So since I have been back I have began this process by doing the application. It is a very detailed process and it takes some time, but Lord willing I will be accepted into the program. I truly feel like this is where God wants be to serve. God has put a huge passion and fire in my heart for the people of El Salvador! I want to serve them and love on them and share with them about what Jesus has done for us, so that they may come into a relationship with Christ. So I ask for your prayers through this process; it would be greatly appreciated and such a blessing! I also ask you to pray for the people of El Salvador, that they would come into a relationship with Christ!
Well, I've gotta peace out!
Dios Te Bendiga!!
Adios Amgios!
In other news, as some of you may know. The last Wednesday I was in ES I sat down with Victor, Silva and Christina to talk about my future and ES.As some of you know I have been praying about possibly going down to ES longer term and that was one of the reasons I wanted to go to ES for an extended period of time this summer. Through out the trip God kept confirming it, so I talked with Sarah and Christina about it and then met with Victor and Silvia about the possibility of me coming down to ES for at least a year through GCM's one year missionary program. So since I have been back I have began this process by doing the application. It is a very detailed process and it takes some time, but Lord willing I will be accepted into the program. I truly feel like this is where God wants be to serve. God has put a huge passion and fire in my heart for the people of El Salvador! I want to serve them and love on them and share with them about what Jesus has done for us, so that they may come into a relationship with Christ. So I ask for your prayers through this process; it would be greatly appreciated and such a blessing! I also ask you to pray for the people of El Salvador, that they would come into a relationship with Christ!
Well, I've gotta peace out!
Dios Te Bendiga!!
Adios Amgios!
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Te quiero El Salvador mucho!!
Hey Peeps!
I'm writing on my last day here and actually its already Sunday here. I'm really sad to leave El Salvador...I really do love El Salvador, primarily the people. I've built relationships here that are going to be ever lasting. I can't wait till I come back.
The past couple of days I've mainly chilled and hung out with Victor Raul and Silvita. I also finally finished the missions website. I'm really going to miss hanging out with Victor Raul and Silvita :(
As some of you may know God has really put it on my heart to possibly come to El Salvador for a longer period of time and so on Wednesday morning, Victor, Silvia, Christina and I went out to breakfast to discuss my future in El Salvador. After talking with Victor, I've decided to apply for the 1yr missionary program through GCM!! I would deeply appreciate your prayers!! Then I said goodbye to Sarah(she was leaving to go to the States that night). Then I just hung out the rest of the night with Victor Raul and Silvita. Thursday I ran some errands and did some other stuff. Then we had my going away dinner with the Turcios family and Christina. We went to this nice Mexican restaurant and sat outside and there was this guy playing saxophone(Alexa I totally thought of you right away!!) It was SO great, I've been SO blessed to be able to stay with this family...I'm going to miss them a lot!!
Friday I finished up the missions website and ran my last couple of errands that i needed to run and finished helping Christina move into her other room.
Today, Saturday, was a great day!!! I speechless, God has blessed me SO much with all my friends here! I went to lunch with Luis and Gloria and then walked around Galerias for a while and then went to La Zona(which is the youth ministry). That was such a good and encouraging time, Jorge gave a very good message on becoming a influential leader. It was also a sad time because I had to say goodbye to people :( Then we left to go to La Red! La Red was chivo(this is awesome in Spanish slang)!!! They put up a sweet going away sign for me and then we got everything ready and played a sweet icebreaker game. Then Jorge gave a good message on finances. Then they went around the room and people shared encouragement and words with me about my time here in El Salvador...I was touched deeply. I love the people in La Red, they are like my family!! :)Then after we order pupusas of course :)great last meal in El Salvador!!! :)However, then I had to say goodbyes to everyone, this was REALLY hard :( I really don't want to leave, i'm going to miss everyone SO much!!! but I will return to El Salvador!!
God has done amazing things in my heart in my time here and I just want him to be glorified!! I'm excited to see all of my peeps in Ames again. To my El Salvadorian friends, I'm going to miss you SO much and I can't wait till I can see you again y Dios te bendiga!!
Well, I have to get up in a couple of hours, so buenos noches!! Te quiero El Salvador mucho!!!
I'm writing on my last day here and actually its already Sunday here. I'm really sad to leave El Salvador...I really do love El Salvador, primarily the people. I've built relationships here that are going to be ever lasting. I can't wait till I come back.
The past couple of days I've mainly chilled and hung out with Victor Raul and Silvita. I also finally finished the missions website. I'm really going to miss hanging out with Victor Raul and Silvita :(
As some of you may know God has really put it on my heart to possibly come to El Salvador for a longer period of time and so on Wednesday morning, Victor, Silvia, Christina and I went out to breakfast to discuss my future in El Salvador. After talking with Victor, I've decided to apply for the 1yr missionary program through GCM!! I would deeply appreciate your prayers!! Then I said goodbye to Sarah(she was leaving to go to the States that night). Then I just hung out the rest of the night with Victor Raul and Silvita. Thursday I ran some errands and did some other stuff. Then we had my going away dinner with the Turcios family and Christina. We went to this nice Mexican restaurant and sat outside and there was this guy playing saxophone(Alexa I totally thought of you right away!!) It was SO great, I've been SO blessed to be able to stay with this family...I'm going to miss them a lot!!
Friday I finished up the missions website and ran my last couple of errands that i needed to run and finished helping Christina move into her other room.
Today, Saturday, was a great day!!! I speechless, God has blessed me SO much with all my friends here! I went to lunch with Luis and Gloria and then walked around Galerias for a while and then went to La Zona(which is the youth ministry). That was such a good and encouraging time, Jorge gave a very good message on becoming a influential leader. It was also a sad time because I had to say goodbye to people :( Then we left to go to La Red! La Red was chivo(this is awesome in Spanish slang)!!! They put up a sweet going away sign for me and then we got everything ready and played a sweet icebreaker game. Then Jorge gave a good message on finances. Then they went around the room and people shared encouragement and words with me about my time here in El Salvador...I was touched deeply. I love the people in La Red, they are like my family!! :)Then after we order pupusas of course :)great last meal in El Salvador!!! :)However, then I had to say goodbyes to everyone, this was REALLY hard :( I really don't want to leave, i'm going to miss everyone SO much!!! but I will return to El Salvador!!
God has done amazing things in my heart in my time here and I just want him to be glorified!! I'm excited to see all of my peeps in Ames again. To my El Salvadorian friends, I'm going to miss you SO much and I can't wait till I can see you again y Dios te bendiga!!
Well, I have to get up in a couple of hours, so buenos noches!! Te quiero El Salvador mucho!!!
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Mas El Salvador
Hola amigos!Que Ondas? (this is What's up in El Salvadorean slang)
Sorry I haven't blogged in a week. Things are going well down here. Did I mention that I love it down here! ;) The more time I am able to stop and reflect on my time here in El Salvador...I just can't believe what a blessing this trip has been. Being down here with the saints down here has been an encouragement and a huge blessing! I've started to build some good relationship bonds here.
Wednesday I went to the offices again with Sarah, Jorge and Kumar and I continued to work on the website that I am doing for missionaries. One thing that I have learned when working on making websites that it does take quite a bit of time but I really like doing it! :) Then later that night we met up with Eddie, Vanessa, Roger, Patty and Luis and we went to Gran Via. First we went and had dinner at Buffalo Wings, which was SO good! Then we went to see a movie and I don't remember what it was cause the name of the movie was in Spanish, but it was a good movie. Thursday was kind of a chill day, worked out with Sarah in the morning and then chilled. I worked on the website more and I worked on making a going away sign for Kumar since he was leaving on Sunday...I cut letters out using foam paper and putting it on string, it was sweet lookin! and then of course played some Wii with Victor Raul:) Friday Sarah, Christina and I ran some errands and then went to the University to go meet up with some people and then had lunch over at Sarah and Jorge's house (Sarah made delicious tacos again!) Then Friday night we had a going away dinner for Kumar. It was Victor and his family, Christina, Sarah, Jorge, Kumar and I. We played tag and some futbol with Victor Raul and Silvita and then had an amazing meal prepared by Sarah!
Saturday we went to play paintball! This was so sweet cause I had never played paintball before. We left at like 8:30am and got there about nine...we had a group of about 18 people. We went to this place just outside of San Salvador and it was up in some mountains which was SO sweet! Playing was so much fun, we played for like 3.5hours. We might be going back this Saturday so that will be sweet! Then Veronica and I chilled at Sarah's house for a while and then went to run some errands with Sarah. Then we started to set up for La Red and decorate Sarah and Jorge's garage for Kumar's going away sent off. We put up the sign I made and balloons. Then we had an awesome time at La Red! :) It was such a great time of fellowship! Sunday we went to church and Victor's message on how Jesus is the only was to heaven was really good!! Then the girls had another futbol game! :) It was SO much fun and my team won!! I really am going to try and get people together and play futbol and use it as an outreach tool once I get back to the states.
Last night we had a 2.5 hour soccer practice which was awesome! I seriously love playing futbol!! :) Then this morning Sarah and I did a sweet Tae Bo workout! God has really been working in my heart. I have a deep passion for the people here and I am so very grateful for the relationships that I have built. One thing God has really put on my heart is El Salvador and regards to my future. God is so awesome in how he works and I completely trust Him for what will happen in regards to my future in El Salvador! God continues to revel himself to me and is opening my eyes to things. To him be all the glory!
Dios Te Bendiga!!
Adios amigos
Sorry I haven't blogged in a week. Things are going well down here. Did I mention that I love it down here! ;) The more time I am able to stop and reflect on my time here in El Salvador...I just can't believe what a blessing this trip has been. Being down here with the saints down here has been an encouragement and a huge blessing! I've started to build some good relationship bonds here.
Wednesday I went to the offices again with Sarah, Jorge and Kumar and I continued to work on the website that I am doing for missionaries. One thing that I have learned when working on making websites that it does take quite a bit of time but I really like doing it! :) Then later that night we met up with Eddie, Vanessa, Roger, Patty and Luis and we went to Gran Via. First we went and had dinner at Buffalo Wings, which was SO good! Then we went to see a movie and I don't remember what it was cause the name of the movie was in Spanish, but it was a good movie. Thursday was kind of a chill day, worked out with Sarah in the morning and then chilled. I worked on the website more and I worked on making a going away sign for Kumar since he was leaving on Sunday...I cut letters out using foam paper and putting it on string, it was sweet lookin! and then of course played some Wii with Victor Raul:) Friday Sarah, Christina and I ran some errands and then went to the University to go meet up with some people and then had lunch over at Sarah and Jorge's house (Sarah made delicious tacos again!) Then Friday night we had a going away dinner for Kumar. It was Victor and his family, Christina, Sarah, Jorge, Kumar and I. We played tag and some futbol with Victor Raul and Silvita and then had an amazing meal prepared by Sarah!
Saturday we went to play paintball! This was so sweet cause I had never played paintball before. We left at like 8:30am and got there about nine...we had a group of about 18 people. We went to this place just outside of San Salvador and it was up in some mountains which was SO sweet! Playing was so much fun, we played for like 3.5hours. We might be going back this Saturday so that will be sweet! Then Veronica and I chilled at Sarah's house for a while and then went to run some errands with Sarah. Then we started to set up for La Red and decorate Sarah and Jorge's garage for Kumar's going away sent off. We put up the sign I made and balloons. Then we had an awesome time at La Red! :) It was such a great time of fellowship! Sunday we went to church and Victor's message on how Jesus is the only was to heaven was really good!! Then the girls had another futbol game! :) It was SO much fun and my team won!! I really am going to try and get people together and play futbol and use it as an outreach tool once I get back to the states.
Last night we had a 2.5 hour soccer practice which was awesome! I seriously love playing futbol!! :) Then this morning Sarah and I did a sweet Tae Bo workout! God has really been working in my heart. I have a deep passion for the people here and I am so very grateful for the relationships that I have built. One thing God has really put on my heart is El Salvador and regards to my future. God is so awesome in how he works and I completely trust Him for what will happen in regards to my future in El Salvador! God continues to revel himself to me and is opening my eyes to things. To him be all the glory!
Dios Te Bendiga!!
Adios amigos
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Futbol y mas
On Saturday La Red was great! We are going through a series on the value of a cent. Which was really interesting. So Jorge proposed a challenge for the group...everyone was given one cent and they have a month to try and see what they can get for a cent. It's going to be a sweet and interesting challenge. Then after well all went out to pizza hut for dinner. Then on the way back we packed seven people into Jorge and Sarah's Honda Civic. I've come to realize that you try and fit as many people as you can in cars, you find room...haha.
Sunday we went to church and Victor started a new series called to believe or not in the Bible. The message on Sunday was on the Bible is the word of God. The message was really good. Then after the service I helped Sarah with the new members lunch. Then we went over to Sarah and Jorge's for lunch and just chilled for a little bit...then it was time for the girls to play some FUTBOL!!!! I was so excited to finally play a real game of futbol...it had been awhile. However, I got locked out of the house so I didn't have any shoes to play in. So I decided to play barefoot on the turf field...not one of my smartest ideas in the world but it was totally worth it so I could play. It was SO much fun to play...oh how I've missed playing futbol!! I for sure learned that here in El Salvador the girls do not play as aggressively and rough as we do in the states, but it was a great time and I can't wait to play again. I did end up with some pretty big blisters on my feet and it was kinda hard to walk after the game but once I got back to the house I iced my feet and put some band aid with bacitracin on them and they are now healed.I totally went to bed at 10pm and that's the earliest that I have went to bed since like last Wednesday, every other night I had been out till like 12:30am, and I wake up at 5 or 6am automatically so you can imagine that I have been tired.
Monday the morning was relaxing and then I went to the University with Kumar and Sarah. This was sweet cause I really hadn't been to the University before other than to drop people off and when we had our first La Red meeting on campus. Sarah showed me around the campus and then we saw Julio who just prayed to receive Christ on !!!and Sarah started talking with him. Then I just started talking to this guy named Daniel(at least I think that was his name lol) and I had a conversation with him and it was completely in Spanish. I was pretty excited to be able to have a conversation and he actually understood what I said...haha. Then Sarah, Kumar and I met up with Anai and talked with her about her faith and coming to church and such. Which was sweet. Then I tried what is called Yuca it was really good I can't really describe it but it was good. Since I'm not with the mission group I get to try any food I want but Sarah has told me some foods to stay away from like cortido because that like rips apart your stomach. Then after we went back to Sarah and Jorge's house to have lunch. Then we went to go to the offices and on the way we stopped by this street vendor that was selling ice cream! That ice cream was amazing! Its different than regular ice cream you get in the states, it didn't have as much cream in it! It was just so good! So I got some work done and chilled at the offices but I started to realize that my body it kinda sore from playing soccer. I guess that's what happens when you don't play for a while ;)
Anyways I'm off to the University again in a little bit.
Adios Amigos
Sunday we went to church and Victor started a new series called to believe or not in the Bible. The message on Sunday was on the Bible is the word of God. The message was really good. Then after the service I helped Sarah with the new members lunch. Then we went over to Sarah and Jorge's for lunch and just chilled for a little bit...then it was time for the girls to play some FUTBOL!!!! I was so excited to finally play a real game of futbol...it had been awhile. However, I got locked out of the house so I didn't have any shoes to play in. So I decided to play barefoot on the turf field...not one of my smartest ideas in the world but it was totally worth it so I could play. It was SO much fun to play...oh how I've missed playing futbol!! I for sure learned that here in El Salvador the girls do not play as aggressively and rough as we do in the states, but it was a great time and I can't wait to play again. I did end up with some pretty big blisters on my feet and it was kinda hard to walk after the game but once I got back to the house I iced my feet and put some band aid with bacitracin on them and they are now healed.I totally went to bed at 10pm and that's the earliest that I have went to bed since like last Wednesday, every other night I had been out till like 12:30am, and I wake up at 5 or 6am automatically so you can imagine that I have been tired.
Monday the morning was relaxing and then I went to the University with Kumar and Sarah. This was sweet cause I really hadn't been to the University before other than to drop people off and when we had our first La Red meeting on campus. Sarah showed me around the campus and then we saw Julio who just prayed to receive Christ on !!!and Sarah started talking with him. Then I just started talking to this guy named Daniel(at least I think that was his name lol) and I had a conversation with him and it was completely in Spanish. I was pretty excited to be able to have a conversation and he actually understood what I said...haha. Then Sarah, Kumar and I met up with Anai and talked with her about her faith and coming to church and such. Which was sweet. Then I tried what is called Yuca it was really good I can't really describe it but it was good. Since I'm not with the mission group I get to try any food I want but Sarah has told me some foods to stay away from like cortido because that like rips apart your stomach. Then after we went back to Sarah and Jorge's house to have lunch. Then we went to go to the offices and on the way we stopped by this street vendor that was selling ice cream! That ice cream was amazing! Its different than regular ice cream you get in the states, it didn't have as much cream in it! It was just so good! So I got some work done and chilled at the offices but I started to realize that my body it kinda sore from playing soccer. I guess that's what happens when you don't play for a while ;)
Anyways I'm off to the University again in a little bit.
Adios Amigos
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Pupusas and more
Wow I can't believe I have been in El Salvador for a week already..time is just flying by. I'm still loving El Salvador!!!The past couple days I've had pupusas and they are so great!! They are seriously my favorite food!!
On Thursday I chilled and worked on the English website for the church and worked on backing it up as well as doing some other little things of work. Then that night I hung out with Luis and we went to Buffalo Wings at this outdoor mall thing that they have in El Salvador, which was really sweet. Then he showed me all these sweet sights around San Salvador...like we went to this place called Antiguo Cuscatlán and its a famous part of the city and there is this park there that looks out over a big part of the city...its near the massive US embassy....then he showed me downtown San Salvador (like where all the national buildings are like the national palace, national theater and the national cathedral). So it was cool to be able to see some of the parts of ES I haven't seen before. So it was sweet but tiring.
Then on Friday I chilled that morning and played with Victor Raul and Sivita. Then in the afternoon I went with Sarah and Jorge to the offices and Sarah gave me some more sweet ideas of what I can do to help out with La Red (like I'm going to part we are going to have a sleepover for the girls in La Red and I'm going to spend some more time just building relationships with the girls down here, we are also trying to coordinate with the University so our church team can play against the University team and use that as an outreach tool.) to get some work done on the Spanish church website, but I ended up running a lot of errands with Sarah, which was awesome, cause we just got to talk more about the culture and I shared my testimony with her. Then once we got back to the offices we did some more work, but then the band was going to have band practice.
So then I went with Sarah and Jorge to go have dinner over at Jorge's sister's house. First we picked up Jorge's mom...she is totally awesome!!! She welcomed me into her home and was like this is your home also...it was just really touching, how she welcomed me like part of her family like immediately. The hospitality down here is amazing. We also picked up his adorable niece!!! His niece is an amazing singer!!!:) Then we got to his sister's house which was beautiful!!! They have an adorable little girl :) We had pupusas for dinner and they were great!!! Did I mention that I love pupusas lol :) We had some great conversation and it was just fun hanging out with Jorge's family. Then his niece sang for us and it was totally awesome!!!! Then Jorge's niece, Sarah and I showed everyone else how to do the hokey pokey...it was quite entertaining. I have to say that hanging out with Jorge's family was totally awesome and one of best days that I have had in El Salvador...it was just great!! :)
I've realized that it has been hard to adapt to a couple of things here...the fact that unlike in the US where you can't go places by yourself especially walking. This has been hard for me because in the US I'm so use to being able to go where I want and not really have to worry about how dangerous its going to be. With this it results in having to stay at the house quite a bit unless I can get someone to give me a ride. This has for sure been a hard thing to adapt to because I really don't like having to stay in the house, so every chance that I get I leave the house, even if its just to the store or to go pick something up. Another cultural thing that has been interesting to adapt to is that here being out at 10pm is considered really late, which is far from the view in the US. However, here the big reason is that it is just not safe for people to be out that late...for sure an adjustment from living in Ames.
Other than that God continues to revel himself to me. God just continues to open my eyes to his amazing love and grace!! I again ask you to pray for my time here, but more importantly for the church, the people of San Salvador...that we could share Truth with them, and for my building of relationships with the women of La Red.
Well off to La Red!
Adios Amigos
On Thursday I chilled and worked on the English website for the church and worked on backing it up as well as doing some other little things of work. Then that night I hung out with Luis and we went to Buffalo Wings at this outdoor mall thing that they have in El Salvador, which was really sweet. Then he showed me all these sweet sights around San Salvador...like we went to this place called Antiguo Cuscatlán and its a famous part of the city and there is this park there that looks out over a big part of the city...its near the massive US embassy....then he showed me downtown San Salvador (like where all the national buildings are like the national palace, national theater and the national cathedral). So it was cool to be able to see some of the parts of ES I haven't seen before. So it was sweet but tiring.
Then on Friday I chilled that morning and played with Victor Raul and Sivita. Then in the afternoon I went with Sarah and Jorge to the offices and Sarah gave me some more sweet ideas of what I can do to help out with La Red (like I'm going to part we are going to have a sleepover for the girls in La Red and I'm going to spend some more time just building relationships with the girls down here, we are also trying to coordinate with the University so our church team can play against the University team and use that as an outreach tool.) to get some work done on the Spanish church website, but I ended up running a lot of errands with Sarah, which was awesome, cause we just got to talk more about the culture and I shared my testimony with her. Then once we got back to the offices we did some more work, but then the band was going to have band practice.
So then I went with Sarah and Jorge to go have dinner over at Jorge's sister's house. First we picked up Jorge's mom...she is totally awesome!!! She welcomed me into her home and was like this is your home also...it was just really touching, how she welcomed me like part of her family like immediately. The hospitality down here is amazing. We also picked up his adorable niece!!! His niece is an amazing singer!!!:) Then we got to his sister's house which was beautiful!!! They have an adorable little girl :) We had pupusas for dinner and they were great!!! Did I mention that I love pupusas lol :) We had some great conversation and it was just fun hanging out with Jorge's family. Then his niece sang for us and it was totally awesome!!!! Then Jorge's niece, Sarah and I showed everyone else how to do the hokey pokey...it was quite entertaining. I have to say that hanging out with Jorge's family was totally awesome and one of best days that I have had in El Salvador...it was just great!! :)
I've realized that it has been hard to adapt to a couple of things here...the fact that unlike in the US where you can't go places by yourself especially walking. This has been hard for me because in the US I'm so use to being able to go where I want and not really have to worry about how dangerous its going to be. With this it results in having to stay at the house quite a bit unless I can get someone to give me a ride. This has for sure been a hard thing to adapt to because I really don't like having to stay in the house, so every chance that I get I leave the house, even if its just to the store or to go pick something up. Another cultural thing that has been interesting to adapt to is that here being out at 10pm is considered really late, which is far from the view in the US. However, here the big reason is that it is just not safe for people to be out that late...for sure an adjustment from living in Ames.
Other than that God continues to revel himself to me. God just continues to open my eyes to his amazing love and grace!! I again ask you to pray for my time here, but more importantly for the church, the people of San Salvador...that we could share Truth with them, and for my building of relationships with the women of La Red.
Well off to La Red!
Adios Amigos
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Ongoings
Hey Peeps!
El Salvador is still amazing...I love it here! On Monday and Tuesday I just kinda relaxed and hung out around the house. I've played a lot of Wii with Victor Raul....he absolutely loves that I play Wii with him. Also on Tuesday I started giving English lessons to Silva, Victor Raul and Silvita.I've also done some errands with Christina, but for the most part, I have just chilled and played with Victor Raul and Silvita.
Wednesday I just chilled in the morning and then Christina and I went over to Sarah and Jorge's to have lunch. We had this amazing chicken soup...it was so good! We talked a little bit about how I can work with La Red while I'm here. Then once we got back Victor gave me a task to take the stuff off of the church website and put it all in files and back it up so they can redesign the website with out losing the information, this has for sure kept me busy. Then I went over to Sarah's for dinner (we had awesome tacos with beans, meat,alvacado and cheese they were SO good!) and we talked and started watching a movie. Then we went with Jorge, Luis and some other guys to go watch them play some futbol.It was a good night! Then this morning Sarah and I did an awesome Tae Bo workout video.
I've been learning so much about the El Salvadorian culture and what its like to live here. God is really teaching me what it is like to live in a culture that is very different than the one that we have in the states. I'm continually reminded of how I am so very blessed with everything that I have. In the US we are so blessed! One praise that I have noticed since I have been here is that not only have I been able to eat anything that they have made for me foodwise and I haven't had ANY stomach problems...for those of you who know me well...you know this is huge for me because I've had problems for awhile now...I guess that just means I'll have to cook El Salvadorian food all the time when I get back ;)I'm SO excited for what God is going to do while I am down here.
That's all I have for you now!ps I have epically failed at taking pictures...sorry.
Hasta Luego Amigos
El Salvador is still amazing...I love it here! On Monday and Tuesday I just kinda relaxed and hung out around the house. I've played a lot of Wii with Victor Raul....he absolutely loves that I play Wii with him. Also on Tuesday I started giving English lessons to Silva, Victor Raul and Silvita.I've also done some errands with Christina, but for the most part, I have just chilled and played with Victor Raul and Silvita.
Wednesday I just chilled in the morning and then Christina and I went over to Sarah and Jorge's to have lunch. We had this amazing chicken soup...it was so good! We talked a little bit about how I can work with La Red while I'm here. Then once we got back Victor gave me a task to take the stuff off of the church website and put it all in files and back it up so they can redesign the website with out losing the information, this has for sure kept me busy. Then I went over to Sarah's for dinner (we had awesome tacos with beans, meat,alvacado and cheese they were SO good!) and we talked and started watching a movie. Then we went with Jorge, Luis and some other guys to go watch them play some futbol.It was a good night! Then this morning Sarah and I did an awesome Tae Bo workout video.
I've been learning so much about the El Salvadorian culture and what its like to live here. God is really teaching me what it is like to live in a culture that is very different than the one that we have in the states. I'm continually reminded of how I am so very blessed with everything that I have. In the US we are so blessed! One praise that I have noticed since I have been here is that not only have I been able to eat anything that they have made for me foodwise and I haven't had ANY stomach problems...for those of you who know me well...you know this is huge for me because I've had problems for awhile now...I guess that just means I'll have to cook El Salvadorian food all the time when I get back ;)I'm SO excited for what God is going to do while I am down here.
That's all I have for you now!ps I have epically failed at taking pictures...sorry.
Hasta Luego Amigos
Sunday, May 30, 2010
In El Salvador
Hola from El Salvador!!!
I'm going to try and blog every couple of days when I am here in El Salvador. It will all depend on the time that I have and how tired I am each night as to how much I will blog. I'll be blogging about what's going on here and what God is teaching me.
So I got here yesterday in the afternoon and I arrived into a tropical storm that El Salvador was under! This is crazy rain when it rains like it has and the rain affects so much down here, like how snow affects so much in Iowa. My flight was good I was just really tired from having to get up so early to get to the airport. Sarah, Christina and Gabriel picked me up at the airport. Then Christina and I got dropped off at Victor's house were I will be staying for the next three weeks! Then after I got my stuff ready we went to the meeting of La Red which is the college ministry of Iglesia Gran Comision San Salvador. It was really cool to meet a group of the college students and I also met Kumar who is the other missionary here. Sarah gave her Testimony and Jorge gave a really good message. Then we all went out pizza hut and it was sweet.
Today, I got to sleep in a bit. Then I had cereal with milk (Sarah, this is a big shocker! haha) Then we went to church, which was really sweet cause when we came in March we didn't get to go to the church here, so I was really excited to experience it. It was really good and Victor gave a good message! Then Victor and his family, Christina, Kumar and I went to the mall for lunch. Then later Kumar, Christina and I sat down with Victor and talked about out the plans for the time that I am here. So that was sweet! Then we went back to the house and Victor Raul and I played Wii together for at least a couple of hours...haha. Then Victor Raul, Silvita and played some more games, but then I had to to go cause Christina and I were going with Luis and Lelys to see Iron Man 2 which was good but honestly I was kinda lost because I haven't seen the first one. Then we had Pupusas!!! I love pupusas :)
I'm SO excited as to what God will to during my time here in El Salvador...I believe that He is going to do some amazing things!! To Him be all the glory!!!
I do have some prayer requests for you all to me praying for(these are in no particular order):
1. Just your continued prayers for this trip overall and for God to be glorifed in all that I am doing down here.
2. For my Spanish...I can understand a lot but I still have to work on my speaking.
3. The the Lord continues to break my heart for the things that break his
I'm having an awesome time here! I love the Turcios family!! Silvia,Victor,Silvita and Victor Raul are so awesome! I'm SO blessed that they have opened up their home to me!!!
Its off to bed for me cause I'm SO exhausted....still attempting to catch up on sleep from Friday. Anyways until next time
Adios amigos!!
I'm going to try and blog every couple of days when I am here in El Salvador. It will all depend on the time that I have and how tired I am each night as to how much I will blog. I'll be blogging about what's going on here and what God is teaching me.
So I got here yesterday in the afternoon and I arrived into a tropical storm that El Salvador was under! This is crazy rain when it rains like it has and the rain affects so much down here, like how snow affects so much in Iowa. My flight was good I was just really tired from having to get up so early to get to the airport. Sarah, Christina and Gabriel picked me up at the airport. Then Christina and I got dropped off at Victor's house were I will be staying for the next three weeks! Then after I got my stuff ready we went to the meeting of La Red which is the college ministry of Iglesia Gran Comision San Salvador. It was really cool to meet a group of the college students and I also met Kumar who is the other missionary here. Sarah gave her Testimony and Jorge gave a really good message. Then we all went out pizza hut and it was sweet.
Today, I got to sleep in a bit. Then I had cereal with milk (Sarah, this is a big shocker! haha) Then we went to church, which was really sweet cause when we came in March we didn't get to go to the church here, so I was really excited to experience it. It was really good and Victor gave a good message! Then Victor and his family, Christina, Kumar and I went to the mall for lunch. Then later Kumar, Christina and I sat down with Victor and talked about out the plans for the time that I am here. So that was sweet! Then we went back to the house and Victor Raul and I played Wii together for at least a couple of hours...haha. Then Victor Raul, Silvita and played some more games, but then I had to to go cause Christina and I were going with Luis and Lelys to see Iron Man 2 which was good but honestly I was kinda lost because I haven't seen the first one. Then we had Pupusas!!! I love pupusas :)
I'm SO excited as to what God will to during my time here in El Salvador...I believe that He is going to do some amazing things!! To Him be all the glory!!!
I do have some prayer requests for you all to me praying for(these are in no particular order):
1. Just your continued prayers for this trip overall and for God to be glorifed in all that I am doing down here.
2. For my Spanish...I can understand a lot but I still have to work on my speaking.
3. The the Lord continues to break my heart for the things that break his
I'm having an awesome time here! I love the Turcios family!! Silvia,Victor,Silvita and Victor Raul are so awesome! I'm SO blessed that they have opened up their home to me!!!
Its off to bed for me cause I'm SO exhausted....still attempting to catch up on sleep from Friday. Anyways until next time
Adios amigos!!
Friday, May 14, 2010
Update
Wow its been so long since, I've blogged. Life has been kinda crazy, but God has been SO good!! So I'll just give you a quick update. Since I've been back from El Salvador, I can't tell you in words how much God has changed me. God is just so amazing, to Him be the glory!!
A couple of huge things that have occured is I have gotten to share the gospel with three of my Chinese friends that I have been reaching out to and building relationships with, this has been SO cool. Secondly, Alexa got baptized!!! Woo!!! I was so glad that I got to see her make that step of faith!!! Love you Lexa!! :)
Finally, big news I'm going back to El Salvador this summer for three weeks!!! Praise Him!!!! This opportunity was totally and completely orchestrated by God. He did what I thought was nearly impossible and made it possible. So quick sysopsis of the story...so when I got back to the states after being in El Salvador, I stayed in contact with Sarah and the other leaders down there about possibly coming down for a longer period of time. Then one day I got an email from her saying that I could possibly come down for three or four weeks this summer. As you can imagine I was super stoked about this opportunity, and I really wanted to take advantage of this, but I was like there is no way work will let me take three weeks off and I haven't even worked there for six months. However, God had a different plan and worked in a supernatural way and I was just completely in awe of Him!! I talked to my boss the next day and she was totally cool with it; she was like yah sure that should be fine we can get coverage for you!! The look on my face must have been priceless. I was just in awe of how God worked!! Praise Him!!! So the past couple weeks we have been working out details and it has become official...I'm going back to El Salvador May 29-June20th!!!! I'm SO excited!!!! God is SO good!!!!!
A couple of huge things that have occured is I have gotten to share the gospel with three of my Chinese friends that I have been reaching out to and building relationships with, this has been SO cool. Secondly, Alexa got baptized!!! Woo!!! I was so glad that I got to see her make that step of faith!!! Love you Lexa!! :)
Finally, big news I'm going back to El Salvador this summer for three weeks!!! Praise Him!!!! This opportunity was totally and completely orchestrated by God. He did what I thought was nearly impossible and made it possible. So quick sysopsis of the story...so when I got back to the states after being in El Salvador, I stayed in contact with Sarah and the other leaders down there about possibly coming down for a longer period of time. Then one day I got an email from her saying that I could possibly come down for three or four weeks this summer. As you can imagine I was super stoked about this opportunity, and I really wanted to take advantage of this, but I was like there is no way work will let me take three weeks off and I haven't even worked there for six months. However, God had a different plan and worked in a supernatural way and I was just completely in awe of Him!! I talked to my boss the next day and she was totally cool with it; she was like yah sure that should be fine we can get coverage for you!! The look on my face must have been priceless. I was just in awe of how God worked!! Praise Him!!! So the past couple weeks we have been working out details and it has become official...I'm going back to El Salvador May 29-June20th!!!! I'm SO excited!!!! God is SO good!!!!!
Friday, April 2, 2010
More on El Salvador
Sorry this post is a bit late but here is a little more about the mission trip to El Salvador. This is still a summarized version, if you want to hear more just ask me!
El Salvador was AMAZING...there are not words to describe how much of
an affect it had on me. It was SO incredible.I REALLY didn't want to
come back, I was so touched and impacted! I am even thinking about
talking with Jorge and Sarah about maybe going back this summer. I
loved it SO much down there and it ignited my passion for missions
even more! I have SO many stories to tell you, but I'll give you the
quick run down on the trip, I can talk for at least two hours about
the trip and thats really saying something for me! First when we were
in the Airport we went to Ruby's and I actually got a cheeseburger and
I ate the whole thing...this is big for me because it was my first cheeseburger in like 9 years lol. So the first night that we got to San Salvador the other half of the group was already at the hotel because I flew on another flight with the
Minneapolis peeps and we got there a lot later than they did, but I
got to room with Julie Johnson the whole week so that was AWESOME cause she is just awesome!
Then the next morning, Monday we started..we stayed at a nice hotel and
we got free continental breakfast every morning. The first half of the
morning we got some cutural training and broke down into our
groups...I was in the Medical group. That group was with the doctors
and after the community would get the medical consultutations then we
would share the gospel with them. So later we went to El Guayabo which
was the poor community that we were going to reach out to and we went
there to set up the appointments for the week and meet some in the
community. This afternoon was SO touching...so while the leaders where
scheduling appointments, I went over to play with this big group of
kids and then there was this little girl and I just smiled at her and
said Hola and she came running over to me and gave me a big hug and
kiss and wouldnt let go of my hand...It was SO precious and cute and
really touched my heart!! (there is a pic on facebook that Marc took
with the little girl). Then there was three kids left toward the end
of the day Brain (who is the cute little boy who hung out with us all week), Esmeralda and her sister Karla. So I wanted to play a game with them so I though about duck, duck, goose because that would be easy to explain in Spanish, however
the funny thing was that I couldn't remember how to say goose in Spanish so I changed the name of the game to pollo, pollo, pato which
is chicken, chicken, duck.
I also got to play soccer like every couple of days with El
Salvadorians which was awesome! The next couple of days Tues-Thurs we
shared the gospel with people who came for medical consulatations. I
shared with a ton of people and 10 people that I shared the gospel
with prayed to recieve Christ!!! PTL!!! It was SO amazing to see God
work!!! There were like 40 people who prayed to recieve Christ it was
SO amazing!! God is SO good!!
Then Friday was the beach day which was awesome...the waves were
wicked sweet!! I got really sunburnt thought but it was SO much fun!
Then Saturday was our last day at the community...it was really sad to
say goodbye to the people of El Guayabo. We had a bazarr in the
morning where we gave away clothing to the people...it was so awesome
to see the joy in their faces and the gratiude that they had! One
thing that was really impacting was that these people have so very
little but they are willing to give what little they have to help
others. Then that afternoon the rest of the group stayed for the
church service and the kids party but Andrew, Marc, Paul, Julie and I
went with Victor to the youth group meeting! However, before this we
had to say goodbye to the people in El Guayabo, which was
heartbreaking, especially saying goodbye to Brain:( Paul gave a sweet
message to the youth group and we got to hang out with the youth group
and have worship with them it was SO awesome!! After though it was sad
because we had to say goodbye to all the locals and our translators.
Then later we had our going away dinner with Sarah, Jorge and
Christina...it was SO good and it made me cry.
This whole trip was SO amazing and I can't fit everything into this
email. I don't have enough words to express the impact this trip had on me...it
was SO wonderful!! God opened my eyes SO much and taught me SO much!!
I want to go back SO bad...it was AMAZING!
Until next time, Peace Out!
El Salvador was AMAZING...there are not words to describe how much of
an affect it had on me. It was SO incredible.I REALLY didn't want to
come back, I was so touched and impacted! I am even thinking about
talking with Jorge and Sarah about maybe going back this summer. I
loved it SO much down there and it ignited my passion for missions
even more! I have SO many stories to tell you, but I'll give you the
quick run down on the trip, I can talk for at least two hours about
the trip and thats really saying something for me! First when we were
in the Airport we went to Ruby's and I actually got a cheeseburger and
I ate the whole thing...this is big for me because it was my first cheeseburger in like 9 years lol. So the first night that we got to San Salvador the other half of the group was already at the hotel because I flew on another flight with the
Minneapolis peeps and we got there a lot later than they did, but I
got to room with Julie Johnson the whole week so that was AWESOME cause she is just awesome!
Then the next morning, Monday we started..we stayed at a nice hotel and
we got free continental breakfast every morning. The first half of the
morning we got some cutural training and broke down into our
groups...I was in the Medical group. That group was with the doctors
and after the community would get the medical consultutations then we
would share the gospel with them. So later we went to El Guayabo which
was the poor community that we were going to reach out to and we went
there to set up the appointments for the week and meet some in the
community. This afternoon was SO touching...so while the leaders where
scheduling appointments, I went over to play with this big group of
kids and then there was this little girl and I just smiled at her and
said Hola and she came running over to me and gave me a big hug and
kiss and wouldnt let go of my hand...It was SO precious and cute and
really touched my heart!! (there is a pic on facebook that Marc took
with the little girl). Then there was three kids left toward the end
of the day Brain (who is the cute little boy who hung out with us all week), Esmeralda and her sister Karla. So I wanted to play a game with them so I though about duck, duck, goose because that would be easy to explain in Spanish, however
the funny thing was that I couldn't remember how to say goose in Spanish so I changed the name of the game to pollo, pollo, pato which
is chicken, chicken, duck.
I also got to play soccer like every couple of days with El
Salvadorians which was awesome! The next couple of days Tues-Thurs we
shared the gospel with people who came for medical consulatations. I
shared with a ton of people and 10 people that I shared the gospel
with prayed to recieve Christ!!! PTL!!! It was SO amazing to see God
work!!! There were like 40 people who prayed to recieve Christ it was
SO amazing!! God is SO good!!
Then Friday was the beach day which was awesome...the waves were
wicked sweet!! I got really sunburnt thought but it was SO much fun!
Then Saturday was our last day at the community...it was really sad to
say goodbye to the people of El Guayabo. We had a bazarr in the
morning where we gave away clothing to the people...it was so awesome
to see the joy in their faces and the gratiude that they had! One
thing that was really impacting was that these people have so very
little but they are willing to give what little they have to help
others. Then that afternoon the rest of the group stayed for the
church service and the kids party but Andrew, Marc, Paul, Julie and I
went with Victor to the youth group meeting! However, before this we
had to say goodbye to the people in El Guayabo, which was
heartbreaking, especially saying goodbye to Brain:( Paul gave a sweet
message to the youth group and we got to hang out with the youth group
and have worship with them it was SO awesome!! After though it was sad
because we had to say goodbye to all the locals and our translators.
Then later we had our going away dinner with Sarah, Jorge and
Christina...it was SO good and it made me cry.
This whole trip was SO amazing and I can't fit everything into this
email. I don't have enough words to express the impact this trip had on me...it
was SO wonderful!! God opened my eyes SO much and taught me SO much!!
I want to go back SO bad...it was AMAZING!
Until next time, Peace Out!
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
El Salvador
I only have a little time, but to sum the trip up in one word was AMAZING!!! God did so many awesome things!! We saw around 40 people pray to receive Christ!!! To Him be the glory!! There were so many touching stories, that broke my heart! I love El Salvador SO much and I want to go back very soon. Sarah and Jorge were amazing organizers!! I miss the people in El Guayabo SO much, especially Brain, Esmeralda and Karla, they touched my heart SO much!! I will write more about the trip later, so stay tuned or just ask me about it and I would love to tell you all about it!! God did amazing things and I was forever impacted!!
Peace out
Peace out
Friday, March 12, 2010
El Salvador!!!
I leave for El Salvador on early, early Sunday morning!!!! I'm SO stoked!!! God is going to some crazy AWESOME things!!! If you just be praying for logistics in getting there, safety and for God to be going before us and preparing hearts!!!
Peace Out!!!
Peace Out!!!
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Britt Nicole
So Last spring I discovered Britt Nicole as a artist with the song the Lost get Found. So I was introduced to this song the other day and WOW its one of those songs that I connect with SO much. The lyrics are SO very powerful.
This is another one of Britt Nicole's songs that I discovered tonight, that just really hits home and the lyrics are SO good.
This is another one of Britt Nicole's songs that I discovered tonight, that just really hits home and the lyrics are SO good.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
I love Tenth Avenue North
So I know I have said this before but I love tenth avenue north's music, their music speaks to me like no other. I found this video that is of a song that is going to be on their new album that comes out later this year, which I'm totally stoked for!! Hope you enjoy.
Monday, February 8, 2010
The Beauty of Letting Go
So this past week I would say that I got a real kick in the face by the Lord. My eyes were really opened up to the fact that I was holding on to somethings in my life that really aren't mine to hold onto and I've been holding on to "my rights". I was really humbled and awakened by the Lord. I realized that I needed to let go of these things and give them up to the Lord. I realized that these things that I had been clinging on so much to where hindering my walk with the Lord because I wanted it my way. So I decided to take this death grip off of some of these things I had been holding onto even though this I will admit scared me a bit. The beauty of it all though afterwords was I felt relief. It's amazing what happens when you just trust and obey what the Lord is asking. He is so very faithful!!
Here are a couple of verses that the Lord really used to really speak to me:
"For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless."-Psalm 84:11
"I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done. 8 Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ 9 and become one with him. I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ.[a] For God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith."- Phiippians 3:7-9
Also the Tenth Avenue North Song "Let it Go" also played a big part. I'm just amazed by God and His grace that He has lavished upon up us.
Here are a couple of verses that the Lord really used to really speak to me:
"For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless."-Psalm 84:11
"I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done. 8 Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ 9 and become one with him. I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ.[a] For God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith."- Phiippians 3:7-9
Also the Tenth Avenue North Song "Let it Go" also played a big part. I'm just amazed by God and His grace that He has lavished upon up us.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Winter Jam 2010
So the past week or so has been kind of hard for me...I've been really stressed out with trying to balance working full time while still going to school full time as well as trying to deal with certain circumstances. I admit I was starting to get discouraged. However, the Lord came through in a huge way I had a good conversation with a friend and then I went to the Winter Jam concert with two of my awesome friends, this was so amazing and so encouraging and uplifting. Music like what I heard at the concert does wonders for my soul.
So on Sunday I went to Winter Jam which is a concert with a ton of Christian bands and its only ten dollars. This year the line up was Revive, Robert Pierre, Newsong, Sidewalk Prophets, Fireflight, Newsboys, Tenth Avenue North and Third Day. This concert was AMAZING! I had since Tenth Avenue North two other times in concert, so I knew if it would have just been them it would have been amazing. All the bands were good but I have to say that Tenth Avenue North and the Newsboys were my favorites by far. I just love their music. Again Tenth Avenue North's music is SO good and is filled with SO much truth. There is so much truth in their music and I can relate to their lyrics so closely, and it really just speaks to me and at times comforts me so very much, I wish there where words. One sweet thing is that tenth avenue north played one of their new songs that will be on their new album and it was amazing and seriously the lyrics speak to me so clearly. Here is a little clip of it...I can't wait to get their new album...its going to be AMAZING!!!
I hope you enjoyed that song!! I was very impressed with the concert and amazed at the impact that it did to help encourage me.
So on Sunday I went to Winter Jam which is a concert with a ton of Christian bands and its only ten dollars. This year the line up was Revive, Robert Pierre, Newsong, Sidewalk Prophets, Fireflight, Newsboys, Tenth Avenue North and Third Day. This concert was AMAZING! I had since Tenth Avenue North two other times in concert, so I knew if it would have just been them it would have been amazing. All the bands were good but I have to say that Tenth Avenue North and the Newsboys were my favorites by far. I just love their music. Again Tenth Avenue North's music is SO good and is filled with SO much truth. There is so much truth in their music and I can relate to their lyrics so closely, and it really just speaks to me and at times comforts me so very much, I wish there where words. One sweet thing is that tenth avenue north played one of their new songs that will be on their new album and it was amazing and seriously the lyrics speak to me so clearly. Here is a little clip of it...I can't wait to get their new album...its going to be AMAZING!!!
I hope you enjoyed that song!! I was very impressed with the concert and amazed at the impact that it did to help encourage me.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
All I Know
This song was a song that Steele Croswhite wrote for faithwalkers and its absoultely AMAZING. It's a song that hits so close to my heart and how I have felt a lot lately. I really encourage you to listen to the words of this song they are so very powerful.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Faithwalkers
Encouraged, inspired, convicted, changed....this is the best way that I can describe faithwalkers this year...it was absolutely amazing!
This year faithwalkers was different for me than the past couple of years that I have gone to faithwalkers. If I'm to be humbly honest with you, I had a lot of reservations about going to faithwalkers this year...in light of what has been going on in my life, but the LORD urged me to go so I did. I'm so happy that I did because I came away from this conference changed.
My heart was very heavy going to faithwalkers and the first night and into the first full day, I was in protection mode...in order to protect my heart from possible hurt and that is when the Lord broke into my heart and brought me to my knees. The first full day that we were at the conference...the LORD spoke to me so much...one question that the Lord has been pressing me to answer the day before faithwalkers was " Alyssa, are willing/ready to give up this situation up to me and to just trust me?", during the day when I went to the seminars "Your knight in shining Armor"...this seminar pretty much summarized the story of my life relating to a lot of my struggles and "Are you Brave Enough?" and through these seminars,the Lord really spoke to my heart and after the last seminar I went off by myself and broke down and surrendered that certain situation up to the Lord and i for the first time really truly meant it...it was SO freeing...I wish I had more words to describe how amazing this was just to surrender this to the Lord and trust Him...its amazing how simple this sounds but its so hard to do at times so this was such an amazing experience to just trust the LORD and give this to Him. This brought me to tears and humbled me so much and I thank God so much for this!
There is SO much that I learned at this conference and I am seriously inspired, encouraged and changed. So here are some of the very critical points that I got out of the conference. There is SO much that I learned these are just a few glimpses of what I learned and if you want to hear more ask me and I'll tell you.
One of the first points I got out of the conference was to stop pleasing people and letting what they say about me, define me. I have struggled with this my whole life, especially the past year or so. I was very convicted on this. I learned that God is NOT pleased when we work to just please others to gain acceptance. It is JESUS CHRIST who defines me NOT people. This is something I'm really going to work on. The verse that really hits me regarding this is Galatians 1:10: " Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ."
The second main point I got out of faithwalkers was from Andy Gray's seminar "Are you brave enough?" and that I need to take risks and stop being SO fearful of all things especially rejection and getting out of my comfort zone. This really hit me cause I have not been the person who normally takes risks and this is actually really self centered. One thing that really hit me was that Andy said Every spiritual blessing has been given to us through Christ, we have all the tools we need to get through situations. I loved how he related it to this situation where this man was a photographer and took a picture of this women and how she feel into a disaster and how he had the chance to save her but chose not to. So the thing that really convicted me was that I've had to ask myself if there is someone who is drowning would I be brave enough to jump in and save them, even if they have a wave of chaos coming in behind them. I really was convicted on this and about taking risks. The last question that he posed to us and the one I leave for you to think about is " Are you brave enough to love?"
A third point that I got out of this conference was a huge one and had a theme through out all of the faithwalkers teachings especially the main teachings.The big thing is reaching out and loving the lost. This hit me SO much, I've had a passion before to reach the lost but this was like a slap in the face and a real wake up call and re- lit this passion in my soul to reach the lost and share truth with them. So Bill Young had some amazing points that really hit me, the first thing he said that hit me was that Bill said " People are dying all around me, what are you doing with your life?" This really convicted me. Another quote that really hit me and was one of the most profound statements that impacted me this faithwalkers and that was " LORD, stamp eternity on my eyes: 'Heaven' on one and 'hell' on the other that I might see every should in light of eternity."- Leonard Ravenhill. WOW is all I can say, this is what I want to do in my life, I want to see people in this view. Another point that Bill brought up was the analogy that if you had the cure for cancer, you would share it wouldn't you? This hit me cause of course we would give them the cure and the thing is that we have a cure and that is Jesus, so think about this statement " If you really believe people are going to hell, and you have the answer, how much do you have to hate them not to tell them." I challenge you to really think about this.
If you want to be involved in changing lives, you have to be changed and be changing. One quote that Rick Whitney shared and that was " If you are not hated by someone then, we don't know enough people, and we don't speak enough truth"-John Piper, this hit me so hard and was a real wake up call and in relation to sharing my faith. Some points that Rick gave were; to pray for the lost everyday, pray for opportunities to be a witness, to pray for courage to speak, look for opportunities to hand out invites to your church. I really want to work to apply these to my life. I also want to share this piece of truth and that is If we open our mouths God will bless it!
Then Pat Sokoll spoke and wow it was AMAZING! He started his talk with a thing that had a counter on it with how many people were born each day in the world, how many people are hearing the gospel and not believing it and then how many people are dying and not hearing the gospel. This really hit me because there were thousands and by the time that he was done speaking over 2300 people died with out hearing the gospel and that really hit me because that was really put in because he was like this whole room plus more has died without hearing the gospel and that was very powerful. The biggest thing that I got out of Pat's message was to just go out and do it and reach out to the lost. I was really encouraged and inspired to share the truth with the lost.
One of the final points that really hit me was John Meyer's message. He stressed the importance of fellowship and loving one another and being Christ to one another. He used the word koinonia which means fellowship, association, community. He gave so many verses like John 13:34-35, 1 Thessalonians 4:9, 1 Thessalonians 3:12, 1 Peter 1:22, 1 John 3:11, 23, 1 John 4:7-8. We are called to love one another. So I ask are you applying obedient faith to that? I know that I have not this past semester and I think that's why this message really hit me. I've been SO selfish and self seeking. This message moved me to tears and had a major impact on me. So I leave you with this last thing I got from John Meyer and that was we love one another as an overflow of our relationship with Christ. Are you pursuing a relationship with Christ? Through the Bible? Through prayer?
This faithwalkers has impacted me SO much and has spurred me to changed quite a few things in my life and with with His help and through His grace I will try and accomplish these things.I was impacted by the life changing teachings and the amazing worship( which is amazing and a little slice of heaven on earth, I can't wait till we're all in heaven and worshiping with the LORD its going to be SO AWESOME, words can not describe). I'm so blessed that the LORD has chosen me as one of His vessels to share truth with others, its truly amazing. I want to live to give glory, honor and praise to Him and see others come to know Him!
I also want to thank Julie Johnson, she is pretty amazing! A true blessing and I was really encouraged by a talk that her and I had. It was SO nice to share a little time with you at faithwalkers.
So I hope that you are encouraged today and I leave you with the song that hits home for me, every time I listen to it and was written by steele croswhite and it is also the inspiration for the title of this blog. Here is Your love remains.
PS: I know that many of you don't read this blog and many will not ever know that this is on here, but I just want to thank SO many of you who have been in my life this past year, you all have truly impacted me more than you know and I thank God SO much for you and you all have been such a blessing to me and I'm truly honored to know you and to get to share life with you. So I would just like to thank all of you from the bottom of my heart. Tess, wow you have been absolutely amazing! I'm pretty sure I would have gone insane without you, thanks for always being there even when I have been extremely stubborn and for always encouraging me and loving me. Craig, you have been a huge blessing to my life and have helped me SO much. Your wisdom and guidance has helped me SO much. Thanks for being there for me. Alexa, wow, girl you have been AMAZING and I'm SO incredibly thankful. Thank you for loving me and encouraging me and just being there for me. Words can not describe how blessed I am to have you in my life. Sarah, you are SO amazing. You have had a profound impact on my life and I have been very blessed by having you in my life. God has worked through you SO many times to reveal truth to me and I'm SO thankful for that. I love you and you are very dear to me. I have SO many others that have impacted me so much and I love you all and I'm truly blessed and honored to share life with you.
This year faithwalkers was different for me than the past couple of years that I have gone to faithwalkers. If I'm to be humbly honest with you, I had a lot of reservations about going to faithwalkers this year...in light of what has been going on in my life, but the LORD urged me to go so I did. I'm so happy that I did because I came away from this conference changed.
My heart was very heavy going to faithwalkers and the first night and into the first full day, I was in protection mode...in order to protect my heart from possible hurt and that is when the Lord broke into my heart and brought me to my knees. The first full day that we were at the conference...the LORD spoke to me so much...one question that the Lord has been pressing me to answer the day before faithwalkers was " Alyssa, are willing/ready to give up this situation up to me and to just trust me?", during the day when I went to the seminars "Your knight in shining Armor"...this seminar pretty much summarized the story of my life relating to a lot of my struggles and "Are you Brave Enough?" and through these seminars,the Lord really spoke to my heart and after the last seminar I went off by myself and broke down and surrendered that certain situation up to the Lord and i for the first time really truly meant it...it was SO freeing...I wish I had more words to describe how amazing this was just to surrender this to the Lord and trust Him...its amazing how simple this sounds but its so hard to do at times so this was such an amazing experience to just trust the LORD and give this to Him. This brought me to tears and humbled me so much and I thank God so much for this!
There is SO much that I learned at this conference and I am seriously inspired, encouraged and changed. So here are some of the very critical points that I got out of the conference. There is SO much that I learned these are just a few glimpses of what I learned and if you want to hear more ask me and I'll tell you.
One of the first points I got out of the conference was to stop pleasing people and letting what they say about me, define me. I have struggled with this my whole life, especially the past year or so. I was very convicted on this. I learned that God is NOT pleased when we work to just please others to gain acceptance. It is JESUS CHRIST who defines me NOT people. This is something I'm really going to work on. The verse that really hits me regarding this is Galatians 1:10: " Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ."
The second main point I got out of faithwalkers was from Andy Gray's seminar "Are you brave enough?" and that I need to take risks and stop being SO fearful of all things especially rejection and getting out of my comfort zone. This really hit me cause I have not been the person who normally takes risks and this is actually really self centered. One thing that really hit me was that Andy said Every spiritual blessing has been given to us through Christ, we have all the tools we need to get through situations. I loved how he related it to this situation where this man was a photographer and took a picture of this women and how she feel into a disaster and how he had the chance to save her but chose not to. So the thing that really convicted me was that I've had to ask myself if there is someone who is drowning would I be brave enough to jump in and save them, even if they have a wave of chaos coming in behind them. I really was convicted on this and about taking risks. The last question that he posed to us and the one I leave for you to think about is " Are you brave enough to love?"
A third point that I got out of this conference was a huge one and had a theme through out all of the faithwalkers teachings especially the main teachings.The big thing is reaching out and loving the lost. This hit me SO much, I've had a passion before to reach the lost but this was like a slap in the face and a real wake up call and re- lit this passion in my soul to reach the lost and share truth with them. So Bill Young had some amazing points that really hit me, the first thing he said that hit me was that Bill said " People are dying all around me, what are you doing with your life?" This really convicted me. Another quote that really hit me and was one of the most profound statements that impacted me this faithwalkers and that was " LORD, stamp eternity on my eyes: 'Heaven' on one and 'hell' on the other that I might see every should in light of eternity."- Leonard Ravenhill. WOW is all I can say, this is what I want to do in my life, I want to see people in this view. Another point that Bill brought up was the analogy that if you had the cure for cancer, you would share it wouldn't you? This hit me cause of course we would give them the cure and the thing is that we have a cure and that is Jesus, so think about this statement " If you really believe people are going to hell, and you have the answer, how much do you have to hate them not to tell them." I challenge you to really think about this.
If you want to be involved in changing lives, you have to be changed and be changing. One quote that Rick Whitney shared and that was " If you are not hated by someone then, we don't know enough people, and we don't speak enough truth"-John Piper, this hit me so hard and was a real wake up call and in relation to sharing my faith. Some points that Rick gave were; to pray for the lost everyday, pray for opportunities to be a witness, to pray for courage to speak, look for opportunities to hand out invites to your church. I really want to work to apply these to my life. I also want to share this piece of truth and that is If we open our mouths God will bless it!
Then Pat Sokoll spoke and wow it was AMAZING! He started his talk with a thing that had a counter on it with how many people were born each day in the world, how many people are hearing the gospel and not believing it and then how many people are dying and not hearing the gospel. This really hit me because there were thousands and by the time that he was done speaking over 2300 people died with out hearing the gospel and that really hit me because that was really put in because he was like this whole room plus more has died without hearing the gospel and that was very powerful. The biggest thing that I got out of Pat's message was to just go out and do it and reach out to the lost. I was really encouraged and inspired to share the truth with the lost.
One of the final points that really hit me was John Meyer's message. He stressed the importance of fellowship and loving one another and being Christ to one another. He used the word koinonia which means fellowship, association, community. He gave so many verses like John 13:34-35, 1 Thessalonians 4:9, 1 Thessalonians 3:12, 1 Peter 1:22, 1 John 3:11, 23, 1 John 4:7-8. We are called to love one another. So I ask are you applying obedient faith to that? I know that I have not this past semester and I think that's why this message really hit me. I've been SO selfish and self seeking. This message moved me to tears and had a major impact on me. So I leave you with this last thing I got from John Meyer and that was we love one another as an overflow of our relationship with Christ. Are you pursuing a relationship with Christ? Through the Bible? Through prayer?
This faithwalkers has impacted me SO much and has spurred me to changed quite a few things in my life and with with His help and through His grace I will try and accomplish these things.I was impacted by the life changing teachings and the amazing worship( which is amazing and a little slice of heaven on earth, I can't wait till we're all in heaven and worshiping with the LORD its going to be SO AWESOME, words can not describe). I'm so blessed that the LORD has chosen me as one of His vessels to share truth with others, its truly amazing. I want to live to give glory, honor and praise to Him and see others come to know Him!
I also want to thank Julie Johnson, she is pretty amazing! A true blessing and I was really encouraged by a talk that her and I had. It was SO nice to share a little time with you at faithwalkers.
So I hope that you are encouraged today and I leave you with the song that hits home for me, every time I listen to it and was written by steele croswhite and it is also the inspiration for the title of this blog. Here is Your love remains.
PS: I know that many of you don't read this blog and many will not ever know that this is on here, but I just want to thank SO many of you who have been in my life this past year, you all have truly impacted me more than you know and I thank God SO much for you and you all have been such a blessing to me and I'm truly honored to know you and to get to share life with you. So I would just like to thank all of you from the bottom of my heart. Tess, wow you have been absolutely amazing! I'm pretty sure I would have gone insane without you, thanks for always being there even when I have been extremely stubborn and for always encouraging me and loving me. Craig, you have been a huge blessing to my life and have helped me SO much. Your wisdom and guidance has helped me SO much. Thanks for being there for me. Alexa, wow, girl you have been AMAZING and I'm SO incredibly thankful. Thank you for loving me and encouraging me and just being there for me. Words can not describe how blessed I am to have you in my life. Sarah, you are SO amazing. You have had a profound impact on my life and I have been very blessed by having you in my life. God has worked through you SO many times to reveal truth to me and I'm SO thankful for that. I love you and you are very dear to me. I have SO many others that have impacted me so much and I love you all and I'm truly blessed and honored to share life with you.
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