Live.Laugh.Love.Praise

so i tried to post a blog the other day but the computer i was working on was poop....

so much has happened since i blogged last. i am now in a village called panao which is a providence of pachitea. we are at 10,000 feet of elevation and it is beautiful up here. the mountains of peru are more amazing then i had ever imagined. it makes you wonder how people can think that there is no God, or how they can go on through out there lives not praising Him everyday. to be honest the night we got here my teammate and i had a mini nervous break down. we were terrified of coming to this place where we knew noone and had only each other and kegan our third teammate. only sarah (the one i had a nervous break down with) and i speak any spanish out of the three of us and even then it is not enough to tell people the word of God. we were going out of our minds almost in tears over the fact that we were literally being dropped on top of a mountain for 4 weeks with no knowledge of how we are to return to lima. in the midst of our freak out session our friend josh, who is spending his 4 weeks in santa cruz, gave us some great advise and encouraged us in an incredible way. he told us that we had nothing to worry about and that God would take care of us. well of course that is easy enough right? God will handle it and we have nothing to worry about... then satan says ¨yes you do. how are you supposed to get back to lima for your break after 2 weeks because the guy that dropped you off doesn´t know. who are you supposed to work with here? how are you three going to start bible studies and stuff like that when you don´t even have a church to work with? you can´t do this. you need to be at home because you are not good enough for it. don´t you miss everyone you were in lima and canta with for the past week and a half? you can´t do this without them. you are hopless and you should give up.¨ and we fell for it hook line and sinker... for about a half a day. then sunday came and larry the guy that dropped us off said that there was a church that morning and that we should go and meet the pastor because he is a great christian. thank you JESUS! finally we have somewhere to go. so we went sunday morning, we hopped a cab because it was in the village next to panao then we climbed the mountain to get to the church because you can´t drive on the roads up to the church. when we walked in it was like Jesus was saying ¨here, this is what you prayed for and i am giving it to you. because i love you and i am always with you.¨ the church had technology which is a rare find up here. (seriously, one night in canta we went to a church and it was lit by candle light. but the service was incredible!!!) they had a power point thing on the wall that had to words of the songs we sang and it had an outline of what the pastor was preaching on and everything. it was awsome. i gave my testimony in spanish and that was rough but God gave me the ability to speak spanish for a reason so i have to work hard to perfect it! the pastor has been amazing. he took us out on monday to different peoples houses in the villages and we got a chance to talk to them and read the bible to them in spanish. it was amazing. we went to a woman named maximine´s house and she is very ill. her house is literally made from brick and dirt. the floor is dirt and she sleeps on old potato sacks stuffed with grass. she has a 2 year old daughter who is beautiful. maximine´s uteris is inflamed and the surgery will cost 3000 soles which is like $1800. she can´t afford it and the only way for her to get better is to have the surgery. she is afraid of what will happen to her daughter when she dies. God really humbled me with that experience. Please pray for her and her daughter. we went to various other people´s homes and stores and we prayed for them and read the bible to them because most of the people here can´t read. and sometimes they are hearing the word of God for the first time. The children here are the most gorgeous children have ever met. they are so curious about everything and once they warm up to you they really love you. we had 3 little boys follow us around the whole village on monday. it was adorable. The pastor is thankful that we are here because it is easier to share the gospel with amaericans because the people are more interested and will listen. God has blessed us with an amazing ministry to work with here. This week we are working in the village just going house to house with the pastor and praying and reading and then next week we will be doing some other stuff in panao and working with the church there. we will be working with the pastors in 4 different villages thanks to the pastor here. the last week we will be having a huge concert for all the youth in the 4 villages. hopefully me and sarah will be singing. i can´t wait to see what God is going to do with us. unfortunatly yesterday me and sarah got sick and we had to stay in because the only bathroom that we knew of that had a toilet seat was the one in our hotel room. satan really ran with the fact that we were sick and he started to make us fear for our lives here and made us really homesick and made us miss our other teammates that are scattered through out peru. luckily God gave made us realize that it wasn´t us it was satan getting us down. he led me to matthew 28:19-20 which says...

¨Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you, and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.¨

God has been with us the whole time and all the time we were worrying and freaking out, God was right there saying ¨It´s ok I am here.¨ How awesome. God has done nothing but answer our prayers and bless us with great things. every fear we had about being here, every doubt we had has been completly dimolished by God´s grace and love for us. He loves us so much. He has given eveything we need to do His work here. Praise Him for that.

I am excited to come back with the memory of everything God has done this summer. and everything He will do.

God is working on my self image right now in a super way. He is teaching me how to be a Proverbs 31:10-31 woman. I am finding more beauty in myself through Him everyday. I know what kind of woman i am. Know what kind of man i deserve. and God will bring him to me in His time. I won´t settle for anyone that is not living for Him. i won´t settle for someone who isn´t ready. i am living for God. and right now He is all i need.

PRAYER REQUESTS!

pray for our ministry here.
pray for maximine and her family.
pray for the rest of the reap north summer missionaries and the work they are doing in their villages.

thanks. i love you all. don´t forger to sent me comments!