how to do life here, and the past 2 months have been full of learning.
Learning how to rest and learning how to work and do life out of a
position of rest.
Learning when to say yes to something and when to say no.
Learning how to do family with everyone here and keep unity even when
there are disagreements.
Ultimately learning how to LOVE in every situation.
Even to do the daily tasks I am having to completely lean on the Lord,
because honestly a lot of the time I have no idea what I am doing,
so my aim is to do only what i see my Daddy in heaven doing, just like
Jesus did... and I think it is safe to say He turned out alright haha!
Colossians 1:12 says that my Father in heaven has QUALIFIED me to
share in the heavenly inheritance of the saints in light.
So no matter if I feel like i know or i don’t know what i am doing...
I am qualified.
SO many things have been happening in these 2 months!!
First of all... I AM ENGAGED!! WOOHOO!! I am engaged and completely in
love with Dira Karo Karo. Maybe if I say it enough times it will seem
real. I am engaged ... I am engaged .. I am engaged ... nope it still
feels like I am dreaming! We are going to have the wedding in the
states!!! haha! I am so excited about that! and the hilarious thing is
.. we have no money to do so.. HA!! We will see what God does, because
I believe that he wants us to have an amazing wedding!
I will give you some more amazing stories.
On Friday nights I am leading a home group with just Casa Jimmy boys.
I set them up in prayer groups with 3 people in one group. I explained
that at some time every day they need to get together and pray. Two
out of the three groups are actually doing it!!! (they are doing this
on their own... with out me initiating it) 2/3 groups for the first
couple of weeks isn’t bad at all haha!! I believe as the time goes by
more and more groups will be formed!
One morning one of my boys, Daudo, brought bread to my house so that I
could have breakfast without me asking him or even mentioning that I
needed more bread. When he brought it I was still sleeping, so he gave
it to my housemate. When he gave it to my house mate he said, “When i
lived with my father I used to bring him bread every morning, so I
want to do this for André now.” ... When I heard this .. I was
speechless. I am truly humbled by this story.
You all might have noticed that I had successfully filled up my days
to the point where I was literally working from the moment I woke up
to the moment I went to sleep. Well, during my 3 month evaluation here
the base director realized this and she told me that I am doing way
too much. She said that I would not last a year here if I continued
doing as much as I was doing. She said that she wanted to see a change
in my schedule in the next 3 weeks.
The meeting was hard, but very good. I have recently cut out some
things that i have been doing. I have stopped helping lead the small group on Monday nights and I am still keeping an eye on the computer lab from time to time during the day, but I am just letting the two of my boys who work in there run it (they know more about MacBooks than I do anyway haha!); Therefore, I have more time for my boys. Since then I have been able to rest a
bit more. Just being honest... when ever I do rest I sometimes
struggle with feeling guilty (which I know should I not feel guilty).
I am just being honest so you all know how to pray for me.
Other than that things are going absolutely amazing!!!
Thank you all so much for praying for me because it truly makes a
difference. I could not do what I am doing here without you all
backing me up.
Also pray that all of the provisions for the wedding to come in, and
that all the papers that need to be sorted out get sorted smoothly
with no complications.
Thank you so much for all of you who support me financially. You are
bringing the Kingdom in such amazing ways to so many people. Your
generosity amazes me all the time. I learn so much from you.
I LOVE YOU ALL!!!
