Week 2

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What a sense of hummor my Lord has! He knew I needed a morning to recooporate, so he sent rain.
Wow! What an awesome first two weeks it has been! I wanted to share with you a few things The Lord has been teaching me lately...

"Love The Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these," Mark 12: 30-31.
I see the love of Jesus in the faces of the children both the ones i serve daily and the ones I pass on the streets; I see it in my friends from church as they pour out their hearts in worship to The Lord, and as they interact daily with each other and me; I see it in the countenance of my professor and the women I pass everyday selling their fruit on the street corner. I see it in the BIG smiles and twinkling eyes, and through the eight letters I received yesterday from the chicos...In their patience and giggles as I stumble in my espanol over and over again.
I may not be able to speak their language nor them mine, but I have learned that love needs no language and has no barrier. Love is a verb that isn't dependent on how I feel. When I am frustrated from the heat or feel like sleeping 'til noon, The Lord fill my cup through the huggs and kisses of my Colombian brothers and sisters. 
Loneliness is far from me and I forbid it to take root. It is a lie that the Enemy wishes to use to bring me down; how could I be lonely when i have friends who invite me to invade their plans and accompany them in their daily activities, and when I have childREN to lavish me with huggs and kisses...and for me to do all in return!
"He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for His name sake....You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows," Psalm 23:3,5.
Yes! My cup overflows! 
When i see a child in a corner all alone, and when I wish so badly to speak words of compfort and love to the child I hold in my arms and hear their aching heart, Jesus says, "Ana, dont waiste this moment of learning to listen from Me." He will give me the words, the language, in time, but for now I simply need to let Him keep filling my cup until it overflows.
When I hear of fifeteen, fourteen, and even thirteen year old girls selling their bodies...when i see young men and old just sitting arounf having nothing to do, I hear Jesus say, "Be still, Ana, the time will come for you to help, but as long as this world exists you will see more and more of this despiration, poverty, and hunger." He didn't ask me to try and stop it, I can't. He simply told me to love with the overflow, the much He has given me until He returns. 
"Everyone who has been given much, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more," Luke 12:48.

Prayer request:
Please be praying for the children at Aljaba as many of them go home this week for school break. Also, there seems to be an 'lilliteracy' so to speak when it comes to knowing the Bible. The more I talk to people it comes out. Pray that The Lord might open up opportunities to use me if He so wishes.
And that I will learn more and more to take one day, one hour, one moment at a time to truly love the person/people Jesus puts in front of me at the time.
Praise:
My espanol professor, Jorge, is awesome! And my class is one-on-one, so that is a great blessing as well! Thank you Jesus! We had a great conversation the other day. he educated me on some info and circumstances regarding the people(mainly girls and single mothers) here in Leticia...but He also shared some of his history as well.  You can also pray for that relationship as well....That I might learn from him and that The Lord might also use me to lshine some light in areas as well.

Love you all mucho mucho! 







Special thanks to the medical team from Charlotte, NC who are leaving at noon today....They had an awesome week with the kids!
Their activities for the week were:
doing vbs, taking some of the kids on a boat ride down the Amazon to Monkey Island, and holding a clinic for the kids at Aljaba and our the church! 


At the monkey Island

Some photos of my Spanish College(it is also a hotel)

Tia Lucy's house, which she kindly shares with me :)



Thurday night: Silliness!

Friday: Just having fun drawing
My little brother!
Lunch...I'm not complaining :)
One of my pictures <3

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