So I once again had the amazing opportunity to go on a week long mission trip to Autlan, Jalisco Mexico. It was amazing!!! I was more excited this year because I knew what we would be doing and how God can work through us and in us. I cannot describe the feeling when you know that you are fulfilling the great commission. When you are doing exactly what God wants you to do is just an overwhelming feeling of joy. It is just awesome!! This year was so different but so the same. It was so awesome to have a family living at the Center. The Bruggeman's are such an amazing family that I only hope that one day I will be able to be close to the family and connection they have and I will consider myself blessed. They had 5 children and the oldest 2; Jessica and Brent went with us throughout the week and help with translation during our gospel saturation.
It is so great to see these amazing people that do not have a lot yet they are so incredibly proud of what they do have and very generous. They want to make sure that their guests are served even if that means that they have to go without. I met someone Estella who I had met last year and she is one amazing woman with such a servant's heart. She is such an inspiration. She taught me so much when we did not even speak the same language.
I have grown a lot spiritually in the last few months but for whatever reason got out of God's word and I just been letting satan attack me and my thoughts. One thing that happened on this trip that just grab my heart and filled it with the hope that with God nothing is impossible. That through Christ all things are possible. When climbed this mountain behind the center which we had done last year, but it was extremely hard this year and there were points were i seriously wanted to give up because i was like well I have been to the top I know the view whatever. So i just prayed that God would give me the strength and the energy to get to the top. I even almost started crying because i just knew that this feat was impossible but just continually praying those few words and believing what i read many times in the bible. HE DID IT!! He got me up that mountain. This really just did a lot for me because I have followed in the way that God wants me to be and that is to my dream job in Jackson Mississippi, and it has been tough and there have been days where I have cried, I just knew that i could not make it here that i just wanted to give up and go back home to College Station Texas however I just have to stay attached to God and he will get me there he will get me to the top of that mountain. That was one amazing lesson with a great view at the top!!
On this trip I was able to get to know some amazing young adults and teenagers!! These are just an amazing group of people. Jessica is the oldest daughter of the Bruggeman's and she is just amazing. She has a love for christ that just shines through her and such a caring heart. She is someone that is so incredibly mature and taught me a lot and I am 10 years older than her. Caleb is about to be a Sophomore at A&M and was able to go with us. He was an amazing asset to have on this trip. I had to keep reminding myself that he was 19 because he just had this amazing wealth of knowledge and was an amazing spiritual leader. He is such a caring person that when it talks about there is no greater gift than laying ones life down for ones friend......I just know that if it came down to it that Caleb would. He is just an amazing young man and i am so glad that i have been able to get to know him. I feel that he has become the brother that I have never had. Sarah is a senior in high school that has a heart of Gold!! She also is amazing with children. You can learn a lot from sarah, she maybe quiet at first but she has such a presence about her. She is one of those people that you will never be able to forget even if you tried. Those are just a few of the young people that impacted my life this week. There was also Brent who is just fabulous and Brittany that also came with us.
Since returning home it has been difficult just trying to get settled back into regular life, however you do not want to settle enough where you are not sharing the gospel and living out the great commission. When you come back you realize how much we talk for granted, how incredibly selfish you are, and how incredibly blessed we have been and also just how materialstic we are. It is so crazy how we think that we are identified by the car that we have, the job we have, how may digits are pay check is, the size of your tv, the size of your diamond ring etc. Instead we should just be perfectly happy with the fact that we are children of God and we have the best thing ever, eternity with him. We do not have to worry if we do not wake up tomorrow, I know that of I do not wake up tomorrow morning that i will be going to heaven and when i get there I hope to hear Well done my good and faithful servant.
Thank you for all of the prayers while in Mexico!! I love you all and will post again soon!!
