Saturday, August 3, 2013

GUATEMALA PICTURES and 2.5 weeks left update

Just some pictures of what it looks like here:) This is only a small fraction of what I see every day, but it  will hopefully take you in a little bit! We have two more weeks left here. This next week we'll do our last round of vacation bible schools which have been super powerful. We've gotten some really encouraging feedback from the pastors of the churches we've been doing the VBSs at. It's awesome to know we've actually been able to powerfully bless this country, when most of the time "short term missions" are less about our sacrifice and more about learning....God has been gracious and blessed us with the ability to really touch the people here. Not to say that our lives aren't being powerfully changed at the same time, because they truly are. Praise the Lord! The week after next is the El Tizate school "campamento". It's a camp they do every year. This year's title is "The Holy Spirit" Pray that the Lord reveals himself to us, that we would be humbled, and that all the students, teachers, and leaders would be powerfully blessed by the Spirit of God ministering to us that week. PERSPECTIVE; It's a beautiful thing to gain from the body of Christ. Heres some pics!!

Climbing some active volcano

My 3rd and 4th grade buddies

Angel wearing my sunglasses

Us relaxing in Atitlan

View from our lake cabin in Atitlan

Cool plants n such

More atitlan

Jasmine. She's pretty much the cutest girl I've ever met.

more cool plan life

we eat good

Kaitlin, Tracey and Hannah at Atitlan

Ellis conquering a volcano
Our building site for a family's house...before... 
street in El Tizate...pretty much what it looks like in the village. It's a big street going up a mountain!

Me next to a blue wall. They have cool colored buildings.

Kat's (our leader) artwork in an El Tizate building

Our leaders Katrina and Christoph

My beautiful team mate Claire.

Black widow in our bathroom.

view from our worksite

puppet show practice for our VBS

cool bugs here

Joti:)

TWO AMAZING GODLY OBEDIENT POWERFUL HUMBLE MEN.

Mayan ruins

our host family feeds kevin and I very well

me'n my guys again

being fed by a church we did VBS at in Puerto de San Jose


2 comments:

  1. Thankyou for creating such a beautiful and descriptive Blog! :D It took me personally through your adventures in Guatemala. Truly a lovely country! So excited to see how God moved so effectively through each one of you as you loved and served the people of Guatemala. "Oh how lovely are the feet of those who bring Good News".! The spirit was strongly evident in the entire team! Praise God for the advancement of the Kingdom in the hearts of the people there!! The spirit of the Lord went before you and significantly prepared each one of your hearts to individually present your gifts and talents before our Heavenly Father, and in the process not only were the people blessed but each person on the team!! When God blesses, He creates a boomerang like effect!! As we bless others in the Spirit, He in return gives us an enormous blessing back so we are lifted up to eagerly serve Him more!! I will continue to pray for the people of Guatemala and thank God for your part done there Braden!! :D I love you!! Always Mom :D xoxo

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  2. Thankyou for creating such a beautiful and descriptive Blog! :D It took me personally through your adventures in Guatemala. Truly a lovely country! So excited to see how God moved so effectively through each one of you as you loved and served the people of Guatemala. "Oh how lovely are the feet of those who bring Good News".! The spirit was strongly evident in the entire team! Praise God for the advancement of the Kingdom in the hearts of the people there!! The spirit of the Lord went before you and significantly prepared each one of your hearts to individually present your gifts and talents before our Heavenly Father, and in the process not only were the people blessed but each person on the team!! When God blesses, He creates a boomerang like effect!! As we bless others in the Spirit, He in return gives us an enormous blessing back so we are lifted up to eagerly serve Him more!! I will continue to pray for the people of Guatemala and thank God for your part done there Braden!! :D I love you!! Always Mom :D xoxo

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