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!!

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!!!!!