The Lord Will Provide.

It is a well-known fact amongst our team that The Lord will provide for our trip. He will show us the right families to help, He will enable us to translate the Bible Studies into Spanish, He will equip us physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and financially to go. He will provide.

Our first test has been placed amongst us: fundraising. Although a challenge, fundraising for this trip is also exciting as we get to spread the Word of Jesus while we do it, and not only gather monetary support, but prayer support as well.  The $1,300 we are to raise for this trip is a challenge in and of itself. When plane tickets sky-rocket and are way over what we budgeted, it requires us to raise an additional $150 that we were not expecting. But instead of getting down about the new challenge, we remind ourselves that the Lord will provide. We have no doubts that we are to be in Honduras, and therefore, we take comfort in the truth that Our God will fulfill what we need.

Our trip is less than two months away: CRAZY. There is so much that needs to be done! As we start checking things off our to-do list, we get a bit more excited about what God will do through us in Honduras!

Studyin' Spanish

Yes, I have picked up an extra "subject" to "study" for the remainder of this semester! My goal is to be a lot more comfortable with some of the high frequency words in the Spanish vocabulary by the time I land in Honduras in January! My favorite thing last year was getting to play with the kids and talk with the families, and I was so thankful that translators were there to help us when we were stuck and couldn't figure out a way to make the words we did know in Spanish work for what we were trying to say. This year, I'm determined to have a better basis of Spanish when we go, so that I can communicate more on my own! So stoked!

Honduras 2012 VIDEO!

It's been 10 months since my first trip to Honduras, and just this past week the wonderful videographer at camp put together a video to describe just a tiny-portion of what our trip consisted of. I thought I would share with all of you guys so that you too can see a glimpse into what this week held for us in Honduras.

Isaiah 6:8

"Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”

And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”" -Isaiah 6:8

"Y oí la voz del Señor que decía: ¿A quién enviaré, y quién irá por nosotros? Entonces respondí: Heme aquí; envíame a mí." -Isaías 6:8

So ready and excited to be a servant that God is sending out in January! Until then, I will continue to serve Him here in College Station through the daily parts of life!

"All I Am"

One of my friends tweeted a lyric to the song "All I Am" by Phil Wickham today and I got curious. So, obviously, I went and youtubed the song to listen to it.

LOVE. The song applied directly to missions and related beautifully to my upcoming trip to Honduras. Here are the full lyrics:

"Take these hands

I know they're empty
But with You they can
Be used for beauty
In Your perfect Plan
All I am is Yours

Take these feet
I know they stumble
But You use the weak
You use the humble
So, please use me
All I am is Yours

I give You all my life
I'm letting it go
A living sacrifice
No longer my own
All I am is Yours
All I am is Yours

Take this heart
Set it on fire
Shine it in the dark
I wanna tell the world
Of who You are
All I am is Yours

I give You all my life
I'm letting it go
I live in sacrifice

No longer my own
All I am is Yours
All I am is Yours

I give You everything
To You I belong
Every beat of my heart
The breath in my lungs
All I am is Yours
All I am is Yours

I lift my hands up
God I surrender
All that I am
For Your glory, Your honor, Your faith
I lift my hands up
God I surrender to You

I give You all my life
I'm letting it go
I live in sacrifice
No longer my own
All I am is Yours
All I am is Yours

I give You everything
To You I belong
Every beat of my heart
The breath in my lungs
All I am is Yours
All I am is Yours" 

All we are is God's. That is our purpose here on this Earth, to shine for Him and to bring His Name the glory. We may only have empty hands and stumbling feet, but God uses those to His glory. When we surrender He uses our weaknesses, our strengths, our breath, and our life to bring others to Him. We just have to give Him all that we are!

Popular Words

A while back Aunt Amy sent me a web-site that was pretty neat. The only issue was, she emailed the website to me in July, and I went on a no-email-reading-party from middle of May until about now -- I only read the emails that were from A&M or marked high priority. Probably a bad idea now that I have 248 unread emails... but eh, whatever!

Anyways, Amy sent me this really cool website that is very similar to Wordle, except it can link from blogs and other websites. How neat!? So of course I go on and put in my normal blog, and am in love at what my most used words are and how just from that it pretty much describes me. Camp, water polo, God, Cho-Yeh, and friends were easily among the most used words. I then got interested and put in my Hondruas blog. This was the outcome! I absolutely ADORE that "Sara" is one of the most used words. I still miss that girl EVERY day, and this summer I was able to tell her story to each of my cabins. Excited to know that in 6 months I'll be back down where this journey began - Santa Elena, Honduras!

And The Total Is....

This summer at Cho-Yeh we allowed campers to donate extra money from their Trading Post accounts to our Honduras mission trip fund in order to help us pay for the houses that we will be building. After 10 weeks of camp, Cho-Yeh campers pulled together over $8,000 for Honduras!!

We are also having a huge garage sale at camp and selling all of the unclaimed Lost and Found items from this summer (there is SO MUCH STUFF!), and those proceeds will also go towards Honduras!

I am so excited to see how the Lord is working ALREADY! This time last year, we didn't even know about Honduras, and now we have already begun raising money as a camp! So super stoked!