¨I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I am growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That sound be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.¨ - J.C. Watts I just happened to be planted here in a small town in Honduras. I remember people always saying to me when I was younger that I would do most of my growing in my late 20´s. Keep in mind I am only 23 years old as of today, but I truly feel as though I have done most of my substantional growing the past three years that I have been here on the mission field. My amount of knowledge has grown in abundance now that I can speak Spanish. My heart has certianly grown larger with all of the children I have come to know and love. My experiences cultrualy have grown as I stepped out of my safe place in the USA and came to a foriegn land by myself at age 20. My love for my family has grown in the distance that we have had between us all this time. But most importantly, my relationship and intimacy with God has grown. I have seen His hands at work in the Hospital as wounds that seemed to be lost causes, healed and the sick have become healthy once again. I have heard His whispers of hope as I felt alone and like I really just could no go on another day here. I have seen His peace in situations that only seemed to cause chaos in the lives around me. I know without a doubt that I am not even close to being done growing, I just know that I am so thankful for all the growth I have been able to do and am going to do as I continue my journey as a missionary. People always say that the first year of marriage is the hardest. I worried about this before Omar and I tied the knot in April. I worried about how ¨hard¨ it might be for us, then after we had been married a few months, I realized that it really is not hard like you might think. It is not hard to love him, or to go to bed next to him every night. It IS however hard to grow next to someone. We are both growing constantly and sometimes at different rates. Sometimes we are growing in different directions as well. That hard part, for me at least, has been the growth that has sprouted in me since we got married. God has shown me that I have to stretch and bend in ways that I didnt know how to before. Especially since we are the house parents of the teenage boys here. We both have had to grown to love these boy, to deal with a messy house 99 percent of the time and have had to learn to live all five of us in one house. Growth may not always be pretty in the moment, but in the end you become something different and beautiful in the eyes of the Lord. I pray that we continue to grow in him and in the knowledge of our savior. I pray that we grow as a little family in the time that we have together, and that I can grow as a missionary, mom, wife and Christian in the future years. ......Speaking of growing..... I have been growing a sweet baby for the past four months! Only five months left until we get to meet our sweet angel and grow into parents :) We have been so blessed with a loving church family that prays for us. We have grown in support and love over the past few years. However, as we grow and expand our family and ministry, our financial needs are growing as well.
To be completely honest, as of now, we are blessed with around 400 dollars a month in donations. WE are so beyond thankful for the support we have been shown so far and could not be more grateful. We are now praying that God fufills our need of more. As missionaries, we pay rent, buy our food, have car expenses, I personally travel home to the states every 3-4 months (plane tickets), and now we are planning to bring a baby into the world (eeek) :D To give you a number, we are needing about 400 more a month to be able to continue here on the mission field. If you feel encouraged to give or are willing to pray for those who are able to give, please do. I have faith that God will come through, I have 23 years of experience to show that he will (he always does) But I have felt led to let you know of our needs. [email protected] is my email and probably the fastest way to contact me about how to give, unless you have a facebook . We love you all and cant wait to share more in the future, especially when the baby is here!!!
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