Day 11: God has a purpose for every thing

Hola a todos! (Hello every one!)

As you can tell, we were able to get the blog up to date tonight :D yay! Since the internet has been awesomely good today and it hasn't died out on us or anything and it has been pretty fast, despite the fact that it's raining quite hard right now. Actually, I am scared the power might go out and the internet will stop working but I really hope not.

Anyway! It has stopped raining a little and the internet is still working yay! :D Okay, so today, we had to opportunity to go back to a private Christian school named En-Hacore. As always, the principal, teachers and students are so welcoming. We were asked to lead a service in the morning and we gladly accepted it :)

David started off by introducing our team and Allan opening up for us. We also had Carla (an ex-student of the school and also a volunteer for YFC El Salvador) do the open prayer. Vanessa, Joel and Amanda (holding the mike ;D) led us into some worship time which was really awesome. Then we had to great opportunity of hearing Sara's testimony and everything that God has taught her through difficult times. Afterward, the brave Natasha read some verses in SPANISH. Yes, I said it, in SPANISH. And she did quite a good job! Kirsten also shared her captivating testimony of how the Lord has always been there to protect and be with her through difficult times. Winston and I (Laura) had some time of prayer, in which we asked the students if they had some prayer request and a few students were willing enough to share with us their worries about their family members and health. And last but not least, Abby (one of our fellow YFC El Salvador workers) shared her testimony about how God restored her health :) It was really great to have one of the members of the El Salvador team speak because it's not just about us speaking but as well as their team sharing their lives with the youth.

After we finished, we got to spend some time getting to know some students since they had recess and then we went off to brunch. Something really exciting happened after we ordered our food during brunch. I saw a childhood friend walk by the restaurant, so I ran after her and was able to say hi! It's always quite funny and cool to see the reactions people have whenever I am back in the country and they don't know.

Since we still had a lot of time ahead after brunch, we headed off to the market for people to be able to buy some souvenirs! We spent quite some time there getting bracelets, shirts, etc, many gifts for our friends and family members :)

In the afternoon, we headed back to the same school we went on Monday and we had some talks again. The 3 groups split off into different classrooms and from what I heard, everything went quite well with everyone. I think it's always nerve racking to go into a classroom and speak to a bunch of students that only know Spanish but thanks to God, anything is possible and we just have to be willing to be led by His Spirit.

We finished quite early today again and spent some time making piñatas at the hotel. Well... some of us went off to sleep as soon as we got to the hotel hehehehe... myself included. And we had some dinner at the hotel, quite relaxed and just hanging out with the El Salvador team. And that was our day! :) please continue to pray that we be filled with strength, love, patience and just everything that we need to be equipped with for our last days. Thank you for keeping up with us! :D

In Christ,
Laura and the Team