Day 1 - COLOMBIA

COLOMBIA..........that's right, I'm in Colombia. CRAZY!!! It's outreach time and my outreach for a month is in Cartagena, Colombia. Yesterday was our first day of ministry. It was quite an introduction to ministry. Was quite an example of how we are going to have to be super flexible. I want to write a quick story/conversation I had with a young girl yesterday. IT WAS AWESOME. For our ministry we were giving a program at a local school for the whole day. It was absolutely insane but fun (at times :) ). After our program we went around praying for the students. For one girl specifically, I sat down and started to ask if she had anything I could pray for. She was like, "nope". She basically was like, I don't believe in that stuff. I then asked her what was truth to her. A little confused, I asked, "is it in humans, is it in what you see...."....she nodded yes. Knowing I wasn't going to try and defend my faith....I turned towards her and said, "God has something to tell you, he wants to tell you that there is more....there is more to life. It says in the Bible, if we seek him we will find him. That's a promise. You can't make a decision off of information you don't know. You can't make a decision off of Christian because we make mistakes....we are human. You have to look at the truth...the Bible to make a decision." She was super attentive, slightly wide eyed that God had something to say to her. She then opened up about how her family had been hurt by a Jehovah witness. I was like, "GAHH...that makes me soo angry when I see people not living their faith...when their actions don't follow their words...I totally understand why you don't believe...I would feel the same." Upon getting on her level she super opened up and began to tell me about her family and how she started talking about her uncles funeral....she asked, "Can people be forgiven?"....that was a HUGE open door. We had an awesome conversation and it ended with her crying at the end with a big smile on her face. I got to speak truth into that she was special, unique, and God gave her specific gifts that only she had....he gave her those gifts because he wanted to use her in ways that He can ONLY use her. It was sooooo fun to be able to speak some truths into her and see her face change over the 20 minute conversation. She was a precious young girl. That was like my first legit fruitful conversation while here and it was such a blessing!! I just wanted to share that with all of you.....mind you...all of that convo was in Spanish, ha!!.....

OH...and I got to translate for the first time in front of group of kids. A girl told her testimony and I got to translate it...it was crazy fun!!