Guatemala!

A small update for all my supporters alongside me on this journel! Thank you or all you do??

This has been quite the journey. Getting off the plane here in Guatemala, I had all the emotions,, scared( because leaving the states and the cut of communication with home) , excited( because I am IN GUATEMALA it’s really happening), challenged ( because the launguage barrier ). I’m truly so excited to be here and seeing what God is already doing here is so amazing. I will say when the first week went by it was great. I just really was effected and down that I couldn’t understand them and that’s all I wanna be able to do. While that being said I came to the realization that God will and is using me with or without a launguage barrier. 

The culture here is absolutely amazing everyone is so so kind and welcoming it’s beautiful. 

So for the details of what missions looks like here! My team we have three different ministries we do during the week.

Monday: We go to the Library in a town called Paramos. To start, we do about a hour English class, then we go outside to do a sport or some type of activity with them for a hour. For the next 2 hours we clean the books in the library. After that another group of kiddos come we do the same as the first group.

Tuesday: We go to San Antonio where we are with Hope Ministry we start by house visits. We break into smaller groups, walk around the town, go into the homes and sit with them. We usually talk to them generally about how they are doing, how their family is, and just get to know them a little bit. We always ask for prayer requests and pray over them. Depending on timing we go to 2 or 3 houses. We come back to the ministry base and wait for the kids to come and we do children’s ministry usually through their program ( sometimes sing songs, play soccer, teach them a Bible story, or some small activity) 

Wednesday: In the morning we usually go to a coffee shop in a town called Paramos to plan for the next Monday’s English class. When we get back we go to San Antonio for Beauty for Ashes which is a woman’s ministry she usually does different things each week (water color, lesson, craft). I usually go to be with the kids and I love it!

Thursday: Is activation day so we usually have a teaching/bible study and go to a town to do what we learned. Both weeks we have gone to Paramos and just walk the streets and whoever we feel we need to go and talk to we go. * A small story* the first week it was amazing  seeing how God put people in our path like we went to this store, then to a bean lady, literally turned around there was little little older lady and somthing was wrong she kept repeating her self. Her daughter came out and we prayed over them together. It was precious it made me cry once we left just because I knew she couldn’t help it and my heart broke for her. Then, after that we went to the square, literally all these little kids came up and asked us to come over. I got filled with joy from it. It was so fun we just played with them and told them a Bible story it was truly bitter sweet!!

Friday: So it actually changed from the first week. We actually do night ministry now! So we went into Paramos and went to a church and it will differ each week anything from children’s ministry, doing something to set up for one of the other ministries, cleaning, or house visits it just depends on what they have for us. We do that from 1-4. Then around 6-11 ish we go and do homeless night ministry which is a lot of fun. It’s heartbreaking but so filling we walk around Antiqua handing out food and coffee to the homeless. Make conversation with them getting to know them, sometimes ask why they got there and their story. Then we pray over them giving them encouragment etc..

So that’s what our weeks look like here and on the weekend we do what we want! I usually go to coffee shops explore Guatemala and all the fun thing!!!!! It’s so beautiful here for real. Breathtaking.. It’s hard to at the same time fighting being homesick. I really miss being home but God has been doing so so much in me this season it’s so amazing to recognize it!