Let your light shine!

The past week I’ve been wondering what to share with you all. I’m currently sitting in the patio outside the house that myself and seven other single ladies are sharing during the FMC mission trip this week. Before I came over here and got my laptop and sat down to type this out I had gone over to the church that’s super close to the house. I went there to spend time with the Lord but to also pray and see if anything would come up to me to share for a blog post. There have been plenty of crazy amazing beautiful moments that have happened since coming to Mexico and I just wasn’t sure how to share them. I came into the church and sat down and got my bible out and felt like the Lord said, “Matthew 25:40” which is a bible verse I know very well, “Whatever you do to the least of my brothers and sisters, you do to Me.” And I didn’t open my bible to that verse but simply sat there. I got up from my seat and was going to start singing a song (as I was alone in the church and I LOVE to sing.) b...

Week eight: Mexico! We made it to Mexico! As I write this I’m sitting in the little chapel inside the Family Missions Company mission base in General Cepeda, Mexico. We arrived here yesterday (Saturday) afternoon. We left early Friday morning, spend the night in a hotel in Leredo, Texas and then early Saturday morning we stopped at IHOP for breakfast and then went to the border and went through customs. God got us safely here and it’s kind of surreal being here, it’s hitting me more and more that this is going to be my life (depending on where I’m sent it’ll look a little different). And being here is just reminding me that throughout this journey I’m going to grow deeper and deeper in dependence on God. I will be going somewhere where I won’t know the language, the culture etc. This week we had some classes on inculturation and enculturation— and one of the things I took from what we went over is the fact that ultimately wherever I am sent I will be an outsider. I won’t know anythin...

Week seven: In weakness…  Another week of Intake done, and this week I was reminded that I can’t do this. I can’t do any of it. I came to the Lord in prayer and told Him, “I’m not capable, I’m not ready, I’m weak, I’m not strong enough to do this.”  When I think of all that missions entails and think about doing this I know without a doubt I can’t do this… This week we had a ‘Life in the Spirit’ Seminar. Within that we had different talks, a talk on God’s love, Sin and Salvation, New Life, Receiving the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and Growth. All of the talks were amazing, and if you ever have a chance to go to a Life in the Spirit Seminar I highly recommend you do. It’s a wonderful way to grow deeper in your relationship with the Lord and receive more of His Holy Spirit. During the ‘New Life’ talk the speaker gave us different bible verses we could reflect on, the one that I felt called to reflect on was Isaiah 65:1, “I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask fo...