So what to say…well I guess I will start with what I felt when I first got here. The first thing I started to do was compare it to the Mexico trip last year. All I could think about for a while was wow there is no nature around here, where am I going to sit and watch the sunrise? Where am I going to do my quiet time? Where are the bugs? In the beginning I couldn’t really see what I was going to do here. And then it hit me. I shouldn’t be comparing the two mission trips. No two mission trips are ever going to be the same but God is still going to work wherever you are. And he proved it to me today.

Last year and this year up until today I had always seen people talk about the amazing experiences where they talked to people and really connected with them. And I always felt like there was something I was doing wrong. And I never really understood why I couldn’t have an experience like that. But today, a group of us went to the beach and me and this boy Chris went over and talked to a woman who was walking her dog. I will just keep it short and say that talking with her was a very discouraging experience. We walked away not feeling very well, but then I saw this man sitting off by himself. The two of us went over and started talking to him. He told us how he has been lonely since his mother died two years ago (he is an only child and has no one else) and then for a while he just kept himself secluded but that he was a Baptist Christian and believed in God. But he also said that it was funny that we came over at this time in his life. We asked him why and he said…..o its just because of things….so he really seemed to feel that God wanted us to talk to him at that moment. When we prayed he thanked God for “sending these two missionaries to talk to him” and it really showed me how amazing God is and that he will use you no matter what and that nothing is ever coincidence and that he really has a plan for everyone and when you are down He will send His help somehow and in any way.

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