Tuesday, March 25, 2008

good times


hey everyone! i have been kinda slacking on writing my blog so i will give a quick update. i spent a week in Texas from the 13th to the 21st. it was really awesome being able to take a one week break and see old friends. isnt it awesome how God has a purpose for everything? when i went down to Texas, i got to surprise a group of people from my home church in Alaska. it was great to see old friends, but God had a deeper purpose. i have a really good friend from my church whose name is Maria and she is 16 years old. we have been talking for a long time now and i had always thought she was baptized because of how spiritual she has always been and so i never second guessed that she wasnt yet baptized. well when i found out that she in fact wasnt, i studied with her for 3 or 4 days and she got baptized that week! so i knew that God had a purpose for me being there that week. now i am back in Leon, spiritually re-energized and ready to work more. last nite, Megan, Raphael, Jazmin and I went to Starbucks to have coffee but it was to cold outside so we went to Raphaels house to watch a movie. Raphael is an interesting guy. he knows English already so its easy to talk with him. he used to go to a Baptist church but one Sunday he decided to visit out church, and ever since then he has been coming back. he is really good about bringing his family to. sometimes people just come to church because of the love they feel when they are there, so that just tells me something good about the work going on here in Leon. Praise God for his faithfulness!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

it is good to see that you are back on line....keep at it.

Unknown said...

Hay ben! ITs so good to hear that you are doing well and that you are as happy as you seem to be! I will be moving to Texas soon, so maybe we will have to organize a meeting! I miss you, you were always great to cheer up my spirits back home. I have a friend on his mission- he is in japan, So when you wrote that you met a guy and he speaks english, it hit close to home, Logan always tells us stories of not knowing what anyone is really saying lol
hope all well
love n miss u
melissa