hey!! i want to start off by making it clear how thankful i am for your support whether you have given me any money at all or whether you have been praying for me or have been even thinking about me! I have been away from home on my 9 month Missions trip for 74 days today! My time has been so fruitful and i am so grateful for all the ways that God has been teaching me about all the things in my life that have helped me be a better person to the people around me and to the people i am ministering to here in Nicaragua and hopefully when i go on to the people in the other countries i’m visiting! My time here in Nicaragua has been especially fruitful for so many reasons! Ministry here has played a major role in the fruitfulness of my time here. My week looks a little like this! Monday through Friday is our ministry days we wake up at 5 every morning which has been surprisingly one of my favorite things to do. From 5 to 7 we all take individual time with God and we worship, pray or read the Bible and what i’ve been doing includes a lot of falling in love with my Creator and understanding his love and faithfulness to me. Then we eat breakfast, worship and then we go into ministry! Ministry is either prayer walking, working on the farm, going to the hospital or going to the local dump! During prayer walks and going to the hospital which are personally some of my favorite things to do, we are able to grow relationships with all kinds of people and learn about their families and where they are with their relationships with God. Whether they have never heard of him or are actively following God we talk to a whole spectrum of people! I love being able to do this because we are able to then pray for their specific need and their families and pray for a spirit of wisdom and revelation from God onto them! A very powerful but necessary prayer. During our time on the farm we are able to tend or pray for the place we are staying as it so generously facilitates my beautiful squad as well as anyone who comes for church on Saturdays as well as the many soccer and baseball games and practices. Some of my favorite things about the farm ministry is the ability to create friendships with the people who work here and pour into their lives as they pour into ours! Growing these relationships for a few weeks now has been such an amazing opportunity for me to see the many blessings God pours out on us more and more each and every day. During the dump ministry we go into town where the local dump is and there we have the opportunity to meet with around 100 Nicaraguan men women and children and we have the beautiful chance to give them a message of encouragement from the word of life. We then get to feed them and seeing their hunger for the Word of God has been so inspiring to me. Saturday is Sabbath so we have a whole day to relax in God’s love and mercy and some of my favorite parts of Sabbath has been just learning more about Gods grace and love and never-ending love and mercy and kindness. To end the week, Sundays are adventure days! I have gotten the chance to see a lot of Beautiful Nicaragua, I got to surf which was definitely the highlight of all the adventure days i’ve had so far and I’ve also gotten to zipline, go to the beach, and discover a lot of Granada and eat good food and also I have had many opportunities to talk to so many beautiful people on the streets and do ministry even on my off day! I’ve learned how much i take for granted the ability to have a relationship with God. To you reading that it might not seem like that big of a deal but to me that is the biggest deal in the World. I never want to take for granted again the fact that I get to intercede for the King of Kings, the Prince of Peace, the Lord of Lords, the Lion and the Lamb, the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last the Beginning and the End, Jehovah, Jireh, Adonai, Elohim, Abba Father, Jesus Christ. Like how is this my life? I wake up every day thanking God that I am able to breathe and walk and talk but it’s only because of God and HIS MERCY!!!! I would simply be nothing with him and it’s such an honor and a privilege to be able to live this life. I know now more than ever how BLESSED i am. With all that being said, I am still fundraising and as much as I can say I have no stress whatsoever about that, I would be lying which i don’t believe in. I pray every morning that God takes that stress off of my shoulders however to be completely vulnerable I have a hard time putting all of that onto God because I at times do not feel worthy of that ability. I am currently at 57% and as yesterday was a deadline I was unable to meet it I had to stay back from ministry today which was a little frustrating but above all I know that there is a purpose in everything he does which I also thank and praise him for every day. If you are feeling led at all my link to donate as well as my venmo to donate is at the bottom of this post and it would mean so much to me if you were to give to me as it means I am able to continue all the things that God has been teaching me and allowing me to grow and learn in. Once again, thank you and remember that you are loved and you have a place in Heaven prepared for you already right next to your creator! THANK YOU JESUS LOVES YOU BE KIND TO YOURSELF AND EVERYONE AROUND YOU YES THAT MEANS EVERYONE!!!!
