BANGERANG!!

Wow.. So God once again is so faithful, it´s rediculous..



My friends here have soo much drama with their 100 year old computer crashing all the time, but it looks like that they have enough now to buy a new computer! How amazing!



THings are starting to look a bit better here.. First couple of weeks were kinda rough.. I have absolutly no problem eating cereal with ants in it, or brushing my hair with a fork or having a huge scorpion lurking in my room... I think it was just a few other things on my mind..

Anyhoo, the update:

Friday night was cool. I went to a conference: Los Cinco Lenguajes de Amor (The 5 Love Languages). All in spanish.. The jam.. I had the opportunity to eat out with the speakers. They are locals here to Merida and he is a pastor to a presbyterian church. All the locals said that they spoke soo slow during the conference, but GOd knows that was for me! my spanish is still pretty malo..



Saturday morning we were out of the house by 5.30am to hunt for pajaros.. We went to a field and let these birds do the rest. We took the birds in their cages and placed them out in teh fields and waited... These types of birds are super territorial and the ones we had were trained, so it usually is pretty easy. THe other birds get angry because there´s a newbie in the area. So they just fly over and jump in the cages. and Boom, Baby! Pajaros. Nobody ever kills the birds; you just catch them and let them go (although some people make a living off of catching these birds). They´re a bit bigger than finches and absolutely gorgeous.



After that, went to see Mexican soccer live. These guys are machines. Playing out in the heat for hours without water.. It´s rediculous.. Our team won though. We schooled those punks like we were gettin pesos for it.

Had a dance party in this girls house.. I think the dance parties will continue because i keep getting requests for tha Salsa.

Our connection here to Campus Crusade for Christ hosts church services at their house.. THey dug up a keyboard for me and i´ll be playing this Sunday.. Chopper, the guitarist, introduced some Spanish songs and helped translate the chords- even the music is read differently here! Turns out that a lot of Mexicans know Christian artists from los Estados Unidos.. Toby Mac, Jars of Clay and my personal favorite, Jeremy Camp. One of the guys here calls me "Amy Grant"

I made a new friend and she took me out for ice cream.. Corn icecream!! it was Insane! REmember the movie NACHO LIBRE... Yeah, it was just like that..



I´ve been chewing on this verse recently:

The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me;

your love, O LORD, endures forever-

do not abandon the work of your hands.

Psalm 138:8

Thanks again for hanging out with me.. I miss you all.

PLEASE HELP!!!!!

WOah!

SO God totally provides!!!

My friends here are minisionaries right, and as missionaries they have to trust GOd completely with everything.. even finances... especially finances.

SO they find out tonight that they are only $300 ollars away from being OFFICIALLY full time missionaries!!!!


If you would have it in your heart to donate , they would OFFICIALLY freak out!

Go to the campus crusade for christ international web site, under the search menu type in DIEGO SOSA and donate to staff. Their staff ID #2760272

It would be MOST EXCELLENT if they could be full time so they could finally devote their time to the ministry!

WOW I can´t breathe! PLEASE HELP!

Wait, WHAT?!?! I don´t understand these things....

My last half of the blog was deleted cuz i talk too much.. I was really droppin the hammer.. I´ll sum it up.

My most excellent boyfriend (hug him if you see him) encouraged me today with this before the computer crashed:

"Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain unmderstanding and to humble yourelf before your God, your words were heard, and Ihave come in response to them...." Daniel 10:12

And I want that to be me.. To trust HIm even in the dry times. To know his plan can be known, to KNOW Him and make Him KNOWN in the short time i´m here.

"I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that they eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order taht you may known the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably grea power for us who believe..." -Ephesians 1:17-19

I guess i´ll finish with this (shout out to the ´havenites!)

"No eye has seen,

No ear has heard,

No mind has conceived,

What God has prepared for those who love Him."

1 Corinthians 2:9

Adios

Come Apart or Come A-WHAT?!?!?

Ok,
So the church I go to en los Estados Unidos (www. calvaryccm.com) is doing a series on how each of us should take time to get away with God or be lost in our own desperate lives.. And Í´ve been chewin´on this recently:

" GOd is our anchor,refuge and strength,our ever-present help in trouble. Therefore, we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea." and it goes on to say, "Be still and know that I am GOd" Psalm 46:1-2,10

And I seriously want to know God. and there are things i struggle with even now in different country that I just beg for God to illuminate so that HE would be made great in this situation.

I feel like i´m in a different country, taking a step back from American life and "coming apart" with the intention to know HIs will and yet there are distractions all up in my grill..I am so desperate to hear the voice of GOd.

I don´t want to waste my time or my life for that matter on things that are lethally distracting and superficial. . I´m over it.

God´s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God´s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory and that these two are one passion. The wasted life is the life without a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples. ...We waste our lives when we do not pray and think and dream adn plan and work toward magnifying God in all spheres of life. ...Love has to do with showing a dying sould the life-giving beauty of the glory of God. - John Piper, Don´t Waste Your Life

Un otro dia, Un otro peso

I just got schooled by a bunch of 4 year olds..


I actually thought i was decent enough in Spanish til I hung around these kids in SUnday school. They worked me so bad i wanted to cry all the way back to los Estados Unidos.. I was depressed for awhile but i´m back in the game, baby!

I was treated like a true gringa yesterday in el centro. I bought a small purse for more than any local would pay.. It´s a scam.. Because i´m white.. THe injustice of it all..
I had the chance to walk thru this HUGE Cathedral with actual people inside of it. They had gregorian chants playing - it was super cool until the priest started to speak, in this monotonous way over the speakers, i couldn´t understand but it seemed almost like brainwashing.. Please take no offense...

That´s all for now.. tell my mother i love her.

AJ

Dias longas en Mexico

Well, Hello my good amigos. I´m glad you´ve taken the time out from the American lifestyle to spend a little time with me..Gracias.

I´ve been encouraged to do one of these blog things but I really have no idea what i´m doing..

I sleep in a hammock. I eat in 3 meals what consists easily of 1 meal en los Estados Unidos.. I miss Jonathan terribly. I had a star party with a bonfire completed with 8 Mexicans singing praise songs.

I¨M staying out here in Merida with a good amiga from Belhaven days. She married a local here and they are working with Campus Crusade for Christ - with Athletes in Action. Diego, Rose´s husband, is basically a chaplain for the baseball teams and I believe they are working on a soccer team as well.. He is a spiritual supporter and counselor to these guys who are so lost.. GUys play ball here. To the point that it rips marriages apart.. It´s very highly esteemed for them. The women aren´t so happy..

I´v been trying to learn this language.. It´s more difficult thatn i thought.. but ´what´s a little discomfort when I think God has much to say to me in this time..

I´ll try to keep these blogs supershort because I´ve always had a short attention span myself.

Things to pray for:

My friend Rose today got a phone call. Her friend was killed in Iraq and their families were very close.. Pray for Julia (this boy´s twin sister) and the entire family. Their dad has already died. IT´s a mess.

Also, please about supporting my friends here.. They are sooo very close to reaching their funding goal so that they can be full time missionaries.. THey spend a lot of time with appointments trying to raise the money. If they can meet their goal, they can be more focused and do more in the ministry. I believe they are only a few hundred dollars away and it´s taken them quite some time.

and if you´re still in teh prayer zone, I´d like to learn this language and so far, hardly anything is sticking. It´s getting discouraging. I want to stay focused and really hear what God is saying to me in whatever language that is...

Thank you for your time.. Please keep me posted with teh lasted happenings with you..

i love you all.

Amy