So on Friday our team decided to split up and have girl and guy time. So us girls had an amazing time getting to hang out and learn more about each other. We attempted to make ice cream, which was a lot of fun. We mixed milk and cream and then put it in a bag of ice and threw it around.  I think we all had a lot more fun making it then eating it, but it was such an awesome time laughing and being together. Next we got together and one of our leaders Shawndell read us these verses Isaiah 62:2-5: 2The nations will see your vindication,    and all kings your glory; you will...

For a moment I told myself no. I needed rest, I wanted to spend time on the internet, and I wanted to be alone….. I did not want to go to the beach with my team on another one of my internet/free days! Last night I decided I would stay back and have my own fun, my own time alone. That was until God woke me up, literally He woke me up and said I was going to go whether I wanted to or not. I was a little frustrated that God told me to go, why in the world did it matter! So I did my usual on the ride; listen to my music and block the rest out…. That only lasted for so long...

It's early in the morning, around six o'clock. After a night of tossing and turning on the dusty floor, I finally rise to the sound of roosters crowing and rays of sunlight bursting through the cracks in the walls. The hour has come to begin a new day. First thing is first, I take a collection of buckets and carry them down the narrow path until I reach the source of survival: the well. I make conversation as I stand in line while the earlier risers take their share of the water. I waste no time in beginning to pump as my neighbors finish up. I have built up quite an endurance to...

This week has been a blast! Bible study, spanish lessons, visits to Bethel and continuing building relationships in the village, building a house for one of our cooks, pumping buckets of water to make concrete, dance parties, shopping in the market, eating chocolate bananas, killing tarantulas, and going to our first spanish church service were only a few parts of our awesome week. This week our team was talking about the holy spirit living in us and what this means. God taught me how He equips us to do his work and blesses us with different spiritual gifts, each for a specific purpose. The...

Trusting and hearing from God can be a challenge. These are the two things that God has been working on with me for the last year. Lately, He has been speaking to me about trusting in His plans. He has given me the complete freedom to say no, I will follow my own plans, or yes, I will listen to you God. I have chosen the harder of the two and said Yes Lord. I have been hearing His voice clearer than any other time in my life and when I will just be still and listen He loves to speak to me. He loves to reveal new things to me if I ask Him. A couple thousand years ago God spoke to Jeremiah....

The first few days here were a little hard for me, having expectations of what I thought we might be doing. Those expectations were broke really quick, along with my heart…. Idk what God was planning for me, or how He might use me here; but after two weeks I may have a small idea. God is using me for love! Pure unconditional love… not the fake kind, but the for real in your face kind of love! At my church back home, our motto is always. "real with God, real with each other, and real in the world." This motto has specifically spoken to me in the past week I have been...