Yes i live a life as a missionary and every day is like a mission trip! But, i haven't been to a new place on a mission trip in a long time. Even though i am staff for Back2Back and went to Cancun as Staff, it was still so new to me! It was something that was definitely needed. Every child i came in contact with, i couldn't help but fall in love! it reminded me of my first time here to Monterrey! San Jose is a Catholic Casa Hogar Back2Back is partnering with. There are 12 children that live there and only 1 boy! It was a sibling set so they didn't want to separate them from each other. We were there to decorate trees with them, feed them a pancake breakfast, put on a skit, make cookies, and redecorate their rooms without them knowing. When i was helping with decorating their Christmas tree i notices these VERY SWEET TWINS. Their names are Isabella and Sofia. I seriously fell in love with them. I have been praying for them since i got back. Their faces are just too precious. They were well behaved and very fun and the best part, there was 2 of them!!!! While we were busy putting the tree decorations on and making the kids be outside so the women could re-decorate their rooms, the children could suspect something was going on. So finally we were ready to show them. We had them stand outside of their room with the door closed to make it more intense. We walked them in with their eyes closed. We counted to 3 and said OPEN YOUR EYES!!! The excitement that filled that room, from 11 little girls, could have been compared to a million people cheering on their favorite football team. They were jumping up and down screaming and so excited. Each new bed had new sheets, new polka-dot blanket, and a pillow with their names embroidered on them. They were hugging their pillows and laying in their beds. It was a sweet picture of them being thankful. They were so excited when other kids got home from school. They would tell them outside to close their eyes and they walked them into the new room. Just like we did for them. They were all thrilled and happy for the new room make-over we did for them. I will never forget this day!
One morning we had to leave so early we weren't able to do our quiet times. So, we thought it would be a fun surprise to take the women to the beach to do a quiet time and our small groups. This beach is absolutely one of the prettiest beaches in the world. When i was with the Cooper's babysitting them for 2 weeks, this is the beach we went to. Anyway, Matt did a little devotion time with us before our quiet times. He had us take our shoes off and put our feet in the sand. Then he told us to look out into the ocean. That it was a representative of God's love for us. You can never see the end of it. His love for us goes too deep and too wide. We can't comprehend His love for us. Then he told us to dig our feet in the sand. That every grain of sand that we could feel, on and under our feet, was the lives we were going to touch.
Then we broke off for 30 minutes by ourselves and with God. Talk about one of the most peaceful quiet times i have ever had in my entire life. Just sitting there praying and confessing before the Lord. It reminded me of how small i am and how BIG our God is! Then we broke out into small groups. Since us staff women were not in small groups, we decided to have our own little small group! The picture above is our group of woman praying for one another. This was a big highlight of mine from the Cancun trip because it was something i had never done before. And God showed me a lot in my 30 minutes alone with Him on the beach that day!
I think i want to have my quiet times on the beach every day! haha
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