Hello friends! It is a little after 5 p.m. here in Mission, Texas. It is hot and sunny as usual. Samantha and I just got back from the pool. Now we're just hanging out until Isaac is finished cooking dinner. This first week was a long one. Our routine started out with serving kids breakfast and lunch/babysitting/cleaning until around 1 p.m. After that we would go to the Buckner Colonias Office to sort for things that we needed for the CTC office. It has been more of a job than I had expected. This first week I haven't made any connections yet. Thursday was the first day I got to spend some time with some local kids at a bible school that a church was doing in the area. That was fun. However, next week us interns will be leading a bible school at the CTC with the help of some short term missionaries from another church. I'm looking forward to it. I will be teaching, with some help from other, the kids about the creation. The week after that we will be helping out another church group with their bible school, most likely at another church in the area. I hope that I can make an impact on some of the children/teens. I know I was brought here for a reason, God put it on my heart and worked it out for me to be here at this time, for this amount of time. So now I just have to wait on the Lord for him to lead me and show me where my ministry really is here.
Yesterday was a fun day with the Buckner staff. We went to the Olive Garden for Becci's birthday. After that we went to the Valley's Outlet mall which was a lot of fun. Then we went to another Mexican restaurant which was good. It's great to get to be here long enough to form relationships with the Buckner people down here. Next week we will be going to Padra Island on Friday. I'm looking forward to that after i'm sure what will be a long and tiring week. But I am so happy to have the opportunity to help with a bible school in this community. It is a poor community that needs the light of Jesus, especially for the teens. I met some teenagers that were telling Samantha and I how dangerous it was to live around here. She then shared her story of how someone was trying to take her brother and how she had to defend herself and how it happens all the time. I hope a lot of older kids come out to bible school so we can show them the love of Jesus! I've had so much fun really...Isaac is hilarious...Samantha and I have a lot in common and we get along well...and we are being treated really good here. On Thursday afternoon we did feet washing which was a good experience. It was humbling and I think the children really liked their new shoes. It really is like you are in Mexico down here. Since it's the so close to the border you get a feel of what Mexican culture is like. The people I have experienced are nice, patient, polite, and humble. They seem to be thankful for what they have and get by with what little some of them have. Overall, the first week has been good. I've enjoyed the time spent with the children and getting to know my team better. I still wish I knew more Spanish. Everywhere you go you hear it...sometimes I get frustrated because I don't like not knowing what people are saying..lol. But almost everyone knows English as well...or they understand it. In the bible study of the psalms of ascent I have been doing, the focus of the past few days as been on fixing our gaze on Jesus because when we do that we listen to him. I am trying to spend more time every day writing and doing the study. It makes me feel a lot better whenever I do it. And it reminds me to keep my focus on God, because once I do that everything else falls into place better and I feel more at peace.
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