Jesus. Jesus is good

HELLLLLOOOOOO WORLD! 

You were probably expecting a really late post, so I won't apologize... ;)  Love you Mom! 

To start off, it does not seem that I ever went home for Christmas break. All of our schedule started right off the bat when I arrived: class, discipleship, mentoring, Church. My spanish has improved A LOT... well I think so. I still haven't understood a sermon yet, but that day will come! God's been helping me a lot. 

The second week we were here they sent a bunch of us away to work at Costa Rican, Christian summer camps. I went to the Word of Life camp in Guanacaste. Guanacaste is where the really beautiful beaches are... not that we went, but it was definitely HOT. The kind of hot..where you take a shower and don't ever really feel like you dry off. But it was awesome, beautiful. I worked in the kitchen, so I had the chance to practice a lot of spanish. On the way to camp I sat next to this girl named Vanessa. She's 12 and was VERY patient with my little understanding the entire trip. A little boy asked her to a banquet at the end of camp (on stage in front of everybody) She was so excited... until the night before the banquet when she told me her date decided that he wanted to go with another girl. So then came the rambling in spanish and crying on my shoulder...

This is the time where I wish I knew a little more spanish. 

I finally convinced one of our GAP boys to ask her. (Cameron you're awesome) So needless to say.. she had an awesome time with the tall, white boy with muscles. 

Please pray for my spanish! I am burdened to communicate with these people. Thanks everybody, y'all are really awesome. 

God has been teaching me so much already. I continue to feel wimpier and wimpier as I read the Old Testament. God punished people for complaining, not trusting in Him, working on the Sabbath... things I do ALL of the time. All I have to say is that I really really like You Jesus. 

a lot

I can't go into much detail, but there is someone here who needs a lot of prayer. I love this person very much, (VERY) and they have almost no desire to be here... or know God, so if you're reading this... please pray for God to give this person a hunger to know Him. 

But Jesus is so good... way too good for people not to know about and love. 

The Dad of Hannah (my room mate who left last semester) is here this week teaching us from a book called contagious Christianity. I think it might be a movement or something.. not really sure, but the study we're doing is all about evangelism. Evangelism has an awful name because of its inauthenticity. The best people to tell about Jesus are the people you're closest to... the people that love you. 

In the video for Contagious Christianity, there was an atheist that, after a very real conversation with a believer commented on this man's genuine goodness. And then the killer statement... he said "I mean... if these people actually believe what's in that Book they read...how much do they have to HATE people not to tell them about their God." 

Yikes.

So I definitely have been having to keep in mind that heart changes are up to God... but this guy definitely motivated me. 

Have I ever even explained the Gospel??

...yikes! 

I love you guys. I don't know who all is reading this, but I love you. 

...and I don't know if this is what a blog is supposed to look like, so if you want to know specific things, tell me. 

que tenga buen noche!