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!
