Wow, this last month has been
incredible: Incredibly good, hard, long, encouraging, sweet, sad, and joyful. I
absolutely loved classes this month. It turns out I told you wrong before: my
second class was actually synthesis of the old testament- and it was soooo
good. I ate the word like crazy, I kept
trying to keep ahead of him, and ended up reading the entire bible this month.
I really enjoyed reading everything before he taught it; it gave me an
excitement for every class and what he would say about the next book of the Bible.
God is so cool, so gracious, I am in love with how perfect His plan fits
together and so beside myself with how perfectly His word is put together. He
is so good, so powerful, and so faithful. I’m really glad I had these classes
last; it makes me feel that I am leaving on a sweet note.
I also got to go on one last
ministry trip while I was here. We went to this little town close to Buenos
Aires and a friend of mine gave a concert, so we invited people to go to it and
we got to share the gospel a few times. Also I had the opportunity to be
involved doing a little discipleship. My group went over to a ladies house that
attends the church we were helping with and we had a little share time. I loved
it. We all went around and told our testimonies and talked about how good God
is and how powerful He is in having saved us. Then we encouraged her with some
scripture and prayed over her, I love having the opportunity to share with
other brothers and sisters in the faith like that. No one that my group and I
shared with accepted Christ that day, but some seeds were definitely planted. I
can’t remember all the names of the people we talked to, but I definitely will
be praying for the people I had the opportunity to share with: if you remember,
pray for them too, that God would continue to send people from that church to
share with them and love on them: but ultimately that God would be mighty to
save.
I’m really going to miss things
here. Well….. not everything. There’s
this door that hits me in the face every time I go through it, I’m really not
going to miss that door. There are a few other things too, but I guess it’s
hard to miss things that are difficult and at times uncomfortable to go though.
The truth of it is, I can’t say there is a thing I went through this year that
the Lord didn’t use to challenge or grow me. I’m going to miss the people, the
ministry, the Spanish, the classes, heck: I might even miss that door sometimes.
But I’m ready to come home, the more I pray, the more I know that it’s where
I’m supposed to be: at least for now. I’m going to North Greenville University in
South Carolina this year. I honestly don’t know what I’m going to study yet.
All I know is that I want to serve the Lord with all my heart. I prayed about
it, and I feel peace about college right now, my hope is that in studying for a
career, if the Lord calls me to a difficult country I’ll have entrance through
creative access. Heaven only knows where I’ll be five years from now- or five
months from now for that matter, I haven’t the slightest idea. All I truly know
is that I’m following Christ, and that my final destination is His presence in
the end. The goal: is to reach Heaven’s gates having made an impact on the
souls Jesus loved enough to die for.
What to say about this year… It’s
hard to sum it up on a blog. Some days it feels like it was a matter of
minutes. But most days it doesn’t, most days it feels like it lasted years.
I’ve learned so much here that it doesn’t seem like it would be possible to
have learned all of it in just a matter of a year. All I can say is that the
Lord always works in His own timing, especially in ways that seem impossible to
my finite human brain. To say it was a hard year would be an understatement.
Ultimately I have been humbled in many ways. I left thinking I knew a lot, I
come back knowing I know next to nothing.
