House Visits + V.B.S La Libertad

It’s Day 9 of our travels and being away from home sweet home… away from my comfort zone and all my loved ones has started to wear on this introvert a smidge. Probably a bit homesick and also on Day 3 of Cipro (Google that if you need to know what that med is for 🫣) so to say that today started with a bit of a challenge may be a bit of an understatement.

But God had other plans for me… This morning I was asked to pray over breakfast and for the day. Ever been asked to pray when it’s the last thing you feel like doing? That was me this morning! But God put prayer in my path so I prayed. It wasn’t my best performance but the team gave a big AMEN and then we (more like they) feasted.

On a trip back to our cabin before we left, I was about to walk out of our room and felt the need to grab my Bible. Grabbed it and put it in my backpack just in case.

My plan for me today was to be a supporting role (comfort-zone) and just quietly go about my day. But this was not God’s plan for me either today …

We got to the village and Pastor David called me over to him for a one-on-one and showed me another Bible he was gifted, that had two Bible verses handwritten from the gifter; Mateo 24:14 and Marco 16:15. He told me to not see myself as small but that with God in my heart, I am big and can do great things! And to go out today and allow God to talk through my heart to the people of La Libertad. Ugh… the tug at my ♥️ with those words.

The first half of the day started with these home visits, where we were welcomed into the villager’s homes, granted the opportunity to pray over them and was able to reconnect with many of the villagers we met yesterday during VBS.

Pop quiz! What does VBS stand for?

And as Pastor David promised … God’s strength and words arrived and Tawnya and I prayed for and with these people. From medical issues, to over babies and simple prayers for hope, faith and love (Tebow!) Tears flowed and hugs exchanged. Amen. 🙏🏼

Remainder of the day was f-u-n! Fun with the men! Fun with the ladies! And fun with the kiddos of course! Gerri did a demonstration on planting seeds (Please tell me you have read LCP’s newsletter on planting seeds!) and then each received some seeds to plant, nurture and grow just like we need to do with our faith. Remember … Faith the size of a mustard seed will move mountains!

And I totally redeemed myself with sunglass! They were a hit! 😎 (Guatemala gave me a big thumbs down 👎🏼 on the el’ sunglass-os so this was a big highlight for this gal!)

Kiddos meanwhile flew kites, played soccer, jumped rope (I even joined in for about 60 seconds) and my new amiga, Ariana, asked me to play volleyball with her. It was liked getting picked first to play kickball! And one of our team members did dance lessons at the school. Soooooo good! 💃🕺

Team is pooped. Villagers are pooped. God is good.

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