Every single day serving among the team has been a blessing, but I have to say that today will be a day that’ll stay in my memories for the rest of my life. Wes, Stephanie, Jeff, Lucy, some locals and I were able to go door to door and witness to people the good news. many were unreceptive or devout catholics, but as a team we managed to get 5 people to accept christ into their lives! Once we began the door to door Evangilism after lunch, I was put in a team with Eddie, Terry ( the man that has blessed us with a house to stay in) and Robert (a local pastor). I had already written up a quick overview of how I was going to share my faith, but the lord convicted my heart to evangilize with a different outline that involved a lot more scripture that, together, told the story of how Christ died for us. Through God’s awesome power, The team managed to place their faith in jesus! I’m fortunate that god strengthened me through the holy spirit, because I know that if he hadn’t, I wouldn’t have been able to get a family of 7 to pray that they will no longer be enemies of god but followers of christ, or to convinced a woman who thought she had never sinned that even the slightest liittle sin seperates us of God, and that our works our like filthy rags compared to Gods grace. To HIM be the glory. I was fortunate enough to run into a Little two year old kid as I helped out with the children at the Men/Women’s conference. He must have been two years old, because he sure didn’t talk much. He was running away from his group, from what it sounded like (and I don’t speak two year old spanish) looking for his parents. I was able to comfort him , hold him, and make him laugh for a whole 2 hours. I asked for his name (in spanish) but I’m guessing he was to young to know himself. So to me, he was just my little Buddy haha. God’s Children are beautiful. Thank all of you for you’re prayers. God is doing big things in Comayagua Honduras, and I’m honored that myself and the rest of the team are vessels for it.
Day: January 12, 2012
Third day
Again our interprataters are just so awsome I have been blessed to get to meet them and spend lots of time with them. Today Pamela was our translater she is the lead translater. She has such a heart for this work and God. Translaters are Pamela, Vannesa, Lucila, and Jenefer. We had 35 or so come to Jesus. Terry and Arlene are our host they are very fine people. I have learned so much in three days from some of the youngest people here God again has humbled me. I was a little disapointed with my door to door today because almost all thaught it was works and it is so hard to change there way of thinking. It is frustating because I have been going to church all my life and should know my bible upside down and backward but do not. So please read your bible and study so when you do share you can maybe change there thinking. But again God taught me that it is the seed you plant because tonight at our study the people I thaught did not understand came to our mens and womens confrence. So I want to enfasize that we must go and share even if you are not well versed. Share your heart. These people are so friendly you go to ther house and they invite you in break out the chairs and sit and talk. They are like we used to be family and friend oreinted comunity. We need to find our way back to loving our neihbors and enjoying there company. So pray for me that I can do this because I do not do this either. It breaks my heart that I am so much about Eddie so God please forgive me. This is one of the most awsome things I have done. Thank you God for allowing me this oppertunity. Forgive my spelling I am a plumber not a scolar. I hope you can read this and understand my heart. Love you all Eddie.
Ps love you Char, George, milaci, Seth
The children
We began today with sharing Christ around the area of where we were going to have the men’s and women’s conferences tonight. After we ate lunch we went and canvassed the area once more. After that we had the men’s and women’s conferences. During that a few of us watched over the kids, including me, Collin, and C-anna. Collin held a little baby boy for the entire 2 hours. Then a little boy tried to escape and I had to chase him down and after that C-anna held onto him until he fell asleep in her arms. Here are some pics of them both!!!
A monkey tried to eat my hair!
We went into the countryside today. Quite a bit different then the city. The people were still quite gracious and loving. We shared Jesus with several families today. The children are so sweet and well behaved, it is truly a community where people just go in and out of each other houses. Most of the people we talked to listen and wanted to know more, so with grace of God we did plants some seeds.
Back to the monkey, story one family had a pet monkey; so me being me, I asked if he would bite. They said no, but they did not tell me that the monkey liked to eat curly headed people!!! I am sure pictures will be posted.
Also, can anyone post and tell me how Tammy Hale is doing, she hurt her ankle before I left and I have not heard anything.
In His service,
Susie
So it continues…
God has taught me a lot this week so far. I came here with several foreign mission trips under my belt, but with that came expectations that some things would be the same as I was used to. God’s reminded me that different ministries work in different ways and I need to humble myself and serve Him with my whole heart, even if things aren’t what I thought they would be. He’s shown me about myself as well, my heart is discipleship and building relationships, but He has used me in doing other ways of evangelism as well. One lady stood next to her fridge and allowed me to walk her through the Gospel message and decided to accept Christ as Lord and Savior. Through nothing we are doing, just being obedient, we have been blessed to see people come to know the Lord and that’s what life as a Christian is all about. And to know that the people will be followed up with and discipled gives me a peace to just be a part of the harvest.
The younger team members and I had a great time at the bilingual school as well. I am so proud of our youth and encouraged my their strong faith at young ages. Collin, Isaiah, and Christiana are key members of our team. At the school we shared to all the older students about the differences in schools in the US and Collin shared the Gospel with them. When we asked for questions the first boy asked what we ate for lunch, but the second and subsequent questions were deep spiritual ones. What is Jesus’ love? How do I get forgiven? What is spiritual growth? We were blown away by these middle/highschool kids’ hunger for the truths of God. And when we broke off and talked to the kids less formally one kid would ask us a question and then before we could finish answering 10 kids would be huddled around us listening to us quote scripture and answer their questions. It was awesome.
Now we’re leaving in a few minutes to do our second run door-to-door so I’ve gotta wrap this up. Pray for us as we go to the homes and then later tonight we’ll have the women’s/men’s conference in the same area. I’m sharing the Gospel presentation for the ladies that come, and it feels different than preparing to share with kiddos. We appreciate all your prayers! You’re a part of this mission team in Honduras!