3 Weeks Till Outreach..!

Hey family and friends!! I am so excited to write you this today!!

Sorry I have not been able to write very much to you all, I have to buy internet time and as you all my know I am a little short on money.  J  So God has been doing crazy things here in San Jose. 

We are leaving in 3 weeks to begin our adventure.  We will be working with Indigenous tribes in Panama our first week, then traveling back to Costa Rica and distributing Bibles in a town called Nicoya.  When we are finished with that we will be going straight from there to a remote destination in Honduras, and staying with a tribe there.  Aparently we have to take small planes and fly in.  (I had a terrible experience in Iceland a few years ago, and almost vomitted on a small plane like the one we will be taking. I’ll need your prayers!) Our team will be focusing on relationships with the people here in Central America! I am very excited to head out with my team and start the work that we have been training for for the past few months.

            It has not been easy living here in a room with ten other girls.  I love them all to death (they are my sisters!) but it is definitely stretching our characters. 

This is just one story to explain to you my everyday life here at the YWAM San Jose base.

Yesterday, my teammate from New Zealand, Morgan, and I were doing work duties.  Her duty is to clean upstairs and I clean downstairs.  Everyday we do this, and we have it down to a science so that we can finish up fast before dinner.  While I was sweeping the floor, she came running out of the utility closet soaking wet.  She was panicked and yelling to me, but I could not understand because of her heavy New Zealander accent. (Don’t worry, she knows I can’t understand her! Love you Morgs!) J So I went around the corner to see what she was talking about, and saw water spewing everywhere! She had broken the water pipe while she was filling up a bucket and the entire utility closet was becoming soaked.  The pressure was so high, the water probably would have shot up 15 feet! So I acted fast. Threw my Ipod down, and prepared myself for what was to come.  I dove into the geiser and attempted to control the water, but slipped and fell into a sink that is built into the floor. For about 3 minutes I splashed around, with Morgan behind me just laughing. After three mop heads and a bunch of incoherent yelling, we finally had someone turn the water off at the base.  It was an adventure and definitely a time I will never forget. 

Well, I don’t have much time but I just want to say God bless you all.  I still need your prayers for the rest of the money, but I know God will provide for me.  This is where He wants me to be. I love you all and I’ll talk to you later!