The past 2 days have been SO great! God has been showing up in so many awesome ways it's been too amazing. We spent the past two days in two different villages spending half of the day doing VBS and the other half of the day going with translators and local church leaders to talk, pray, and evangelize to people. At first kids were shy doing the crafts but as we tried our best to communicate and mainly failed, slowly but surely kids were clinging to all of us unable to stop giving hugs and loved. It was such an image of how I believe God loves us and wants us to cling to him. Even though they're young kids and we don't know how to communicate with one another, smiles and love are feelings and emotions that can be communicated no matter what the language barrier is. Another thing I loved watching was how excited kids got when we would take pictures of them and with them and they couldn't wait to look at the final product of the picture. I loved seeing how something so simple brought so much joy to these kids! I loved their spirits of just wanting to participate and be the one kid who clung to our sides. I met one girl named Berlandia who just loved repeating my name every time she saw me. It was something so infatuating and loving that I felt as if I could listen to her repeat it time and time again.
When I heard we were going to be going to people's homes evangelizing to them I will admit I was nervous. That's something in the US that is uncommon and seems to be frowned down upon. But as soon as our groups got sent out a calmness and peace came over me. The first day was awesome getting to pray for people who all new Jesus. What I didn't expect was people to not be praying for the typical things I thought they would ask for, but rather wanting courage and endurance when it came to following Jesus and wanting to commit entirely to him and not be halfhearted. These are people in the midst of everything wanting God to be closer to them and a healer to them. (It also was pretty rad to be trekking through the jungle and be able to pet donkeys along the way!)
Today was a bit different in regards that most people weren't believers of Christ. It seemed that most people wanted to accept God but were waiting to accomplish certain tasks or weren't happy with the choices or decisions they were making in their lives at the time. We started out with a woman who was a believer and we got to pray a prayer of healing for her because she kept having miscarriages. It broke my heart when she said that and how she so badly wanted to be able to carry a baby full term and not have stomach pains. What I loved after we prayed for her was that she shared that she had a vision yesterday that outsiders were going to come and bless her and mean it when they prayed for her. I loved hearing that because that to me is God at work and evidence of him and his power. (Be praying that God does heal her and take away her pain!) After that we had some people who weren't believers and weren't ready to accept God even after much attempted persuasion by the Haitians and some of the girls in our group sharing who God is to them. It was a bit defeating but I loved seeing how God used different times and different people in our group to be courageous and outside of our comfort zones. But at the end of the day we went to one last house and the woman there ended up accepting Christ! It was so incredible to witness and be apart of and see et face just radiate after we prayed for her. Even if just one person came to accept God today, that is a major success and was super fun to celebrate!
These last two days have been so encouraging to watch so many awesome people around me be doing such awesome work. We've had bus ride sing alongs, dance parties, held hands worshipping together, and have laughed A TON. I feel so blessed to be apart of this team and all God is doing here and through us all as individuals.
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