Yesterday (I wrote this on October 21, 2011) I went on the biggest adventure of my life thus far (You know…except for the whole moving to Guatemala for 3.5 months thing…). We were in Antigua, Guatemala for our mid-trip debrief and so a few of the girls and I decided to go on a hiking tour of the Pacaya Volcano. I almost didn’t go, but I knew I would regret it if I didn’t. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. We arrived at the start of the tour and there are a ton of boys around the age of 10 all trying to get us to rent their walking sticks. They were...

 This past week has been a life changing experience. We got on a bus for eight hours and made our way to the historic beautiful city of Antigua, Guatemala. As a team we felt burdened and just a weight was over us and we were emotionally and physically drowning in it. The city Puerto Barrios left a dark spiritual heaviness on each and every one of us. As we arrived in Antigua it was like a dream to say the least. It was so beautiful and turning every corner made me fall in love with the city!  Nick and Ashley flew down to join our team last week also to be there for support. They...

Warning: My team is not the same team we used to be. I fully believe that God is moving and that the second half of our trip will look competely different from the first half.  The last few weeks have looked pretty dark around our house. We have fallen into this funk of more complaining and ministry has become more of what we have to do rather than what we get to do.  We are at mid way debrief in Antigua, Guatemala right now and this is exactly what we needed. When we arrived we found out that a couple World Race teams are staying at our...

Hello U.S of A! Whelp, this is my third blog of my mission trip in Guatemala. On this blog, I would like to talk to you all about how God has opened my eyes to complaining. Complaining, to express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment. About 2 weeks ago my team and I were coming across some issues about the ministries here in Guatemala. Most of that was about the time issues here in Guatemala. That being we will be told a time to be somewhere but we will have to wait 30 minutes to an hour before we leave or someone even shows up. But that is just the culture here in Guatemala. So...

I wasn’t even planning to blog this week. I felt on the verge of verbal vomiting all over the page, and since the only person that would help is me, I thought I’d hold it in. Last night, however, I had a long, revelatory conversation with my dad and from that comes this blog post. When I was on the World Race, we frequently worked with pastors or churches, and consequently went nearly exclusively to their churches. So depending on the month and our contact, we would attend a different denomination’s churches throughout the region, or just one church the whole month. As a...

Hey Everyone, This week I will write more than three sentences, I apologize for the shortness of my previous ones. So for a few weeks now, I have been really struggling with the aspect of God living in me and being present. I never really thought about this deeply or honestly really cared until being in here in Guatemala, through these weeks I just really yearned for a new relationship with my heavenly father;  a deep, intimate and unending relationship. This week the lord just really showed me that he is present with me and in me. When our team and I went evangelizing with Pastor...