June 28,29

Today is my day off. It feels great to relax a bit and sleep in. Yesterday I went to Douglas and we did some cleaning and painting in the kids dorms. we also have been working on putting bathrooms on the back side of the chapel, so we worked on the roof putting up shiggles. spelled that wrong haha. It was a great day with the kids. David and Asiel were running around and they had fun. we took the boys back to our property for a pool party in the sfternoon and they had a great time. Both the two boys have little chunky bellys so they are a bunch of cuties! The little girl in the picture is Fatima. she is just 3 years old, and can talk your ear off. she loves to take my hat and glasses. she calls me nino feo, which is ugly boy. No idea why, but she is goofy. She has so much energy though, and just loves to play around, and be held. 

This morning Ruby, our staff kids teacher, left to go home for a few weeks. She works with groups during June when the kids get out of school, and then goes home in July to fundraise. This summer she is going home for a week and then going to Nigeria with B2B to serve for 2 weeks. Many blessings and prayers to her for safe travels, and a great time. I know that God will lead her and Jessica Biondo, another staff teacher, and will show tham great things in his Kingdom in Africa.

God has been doing so many things in my Heart these last 6 weeks, and it is crazy to think that I have already been here this long. God has really been challenging me to trust him in every aspect of my life. It is hard to surrender all to him, and to stop relying on my self and others to always get through things. That is not to say that we shouldnt trust other people. By far we should love and walk with each other even our enimies at all time. But doing so in Christ. I was reading in 1 Peter today chapter 4, about how we as christians need to come together as fellow Brothers and sisters of Christ and walk with God togther. But in walking with God, we trust in his will together, just as the Bible tells us. It says to do this with all our Heart, and to not complain no matter how hard or painful it can be. I am always humbled by situations as to "walking with my enemy. But God says if you truly trust and honor me you will do it. and I think, our lives are just a fraction of what God has to offer us in eternity. and I think of my life, and the crazyness and surgerys, and beliefs that I might not be here the next day. and I cant tell you the blessings that God has given me through that. I found him through this. Through you all and through your support and Love and your prayers. and I feel like God keeps telling me, I put you through this, and you cant even trust me to help you get through this one day. I have given your Life, and great family and friends to be with. 

I think that the sound of trusting in God sometimes sounds radical to people. But maybe that is because they truly do not Know God. God isnt always that picture we see of the almighty one, or the cross we see at church. God isnt just at church or we we pray. But God is everywhere and in everything. He is in our actions and our thoughts, he is with us when we make mistakes. He is with us when we ignore him, and fall on our face, but he is still there to tell us "I told you so". He is in our converstions, and our Hearts when we feel for others. He is in our Friend ships, and our love for one another. God is everything in this spriritual world that we live in. This temporary Human experience that we are going through. is just a fraction of what is to come in the kingdom of God. Trust him, because when you find him, in your heart, in your family, in your friends, you cant let go of it. He loves you and he wants to be with you. I live by this challenge everyday. But God doesnt want it to be a challenge. He just wants us to follow him. And by following him, we do it not in the name of our church or denomination. Not in the name of our ministry or community, but literally in his sons name Jesus Christ.

Adam