Alright so last week was amazing. Basically. Very difficult. Very awesome. I feel like a year went by with what I learned about myself and God and with what I've seen. I kinda feel like a new person again. Last week we worked a lot on healing. A lot of the students were able to forgive people who had done horrible things to them in their past, and were able to forgive themselves and God for what has happened. It was very powerful. My life has been hard, but their lives have just been a whole different kind of hard. There are Bible verses have come more alive to me after knowing these amazing people. If you feel like there a parts of the Bible that maybe just symbolically relate to you, they are very real for other people around the world and we all need to be praying for those people. Please say a prayer for North Korea, for the people living there and for the people ruling over them and for unification of the North and South to happen soon! My girls were not among the students who had big break throughs. Last week was like the first time they even allowed themselves to think about their past sense they began their new life. And they felt so guilty for being sad. It was so tragic. It was like they felt that now that they are where they are, they have to be happy. Being sad made them feel weak and like none of what they went through was worth it. I spoke alot of truth over them. Hopefully soon they will be able to break through the lie that if they don't think about it, they don't have to deal with it. They will always be in my prayers. The seeds have been planted. God, you have said you will make them grow. Make the seeds grow, Father. Let everything they learned that is good and true sink deep and take root. Love intensely and tangibly on them.
God gave me such a good spirit for this camp. I feel like He really protected my mind. There were so many times I could have been discouraged or wanted to just give up. He constantly was reminding me that He was the one doing the work, and I was called to love Him and love the girls. So that's what I did. I loved on them like crazy. I spoke beauty and value and truth over them. As you think of them, please say a quick prayer for them. God has such huge plans for these students.
After typing those last couple blogs, and remembering that prayer I prayed about wanting to be as awesome and beautiful as the sky where I don't have to even say anything and people will see God's glory, I feel close to tears. My Father is so cool. He really does give the best gifts. On the last day we were there, I felt led to pray for my translator, who had been participating in an exercise during a teaching along with the students. After praying for her, she started praying for me and started crying. When she was done, she told me about how she hasn't prayed for two years, and now she is praying all the time. She said she prays for Trent and I every night, and said that Trent has such a gift to bring people happiness. She said that the words I spoke for her to translate and my life in general inspired her. Praise God. Father, look at where I've come from - and now just me living does bring You glory. You are a redeemer. I can't believe what You've done with my life. And now I just want to keep running after You so that You'll keep pouring out of me onto everyone around me. My God is just so cool!
Now we are celebrating the Lunar New Year. Everyone turns a year older (in addition to already being a year older, I am now 23 and Trent is 6 lol), and nothing happens in Korea for 3 days so we get to stay in a Hotel and relax with our team. The other half of our team joined us over the weekend, so once again we are all together. They all came back with amazing stories of what God did as well. Man, He is doing a lot of work. Trent and I have been blessed with the most amazing room. I screamed like a little girl. The other people on my team are sleeping 4 to a room. They get their own bathroom to share with just the 4 people and a T.V. and really comfy mats to sleep on. But I walked into my room and like lost my breath. There were 2 BEDS! Like actual beds! For 3 days Trent and I get to sleep on our beds and have our own bathroom! Oh life is good haha :)
And as I wrap up this blog I have my goal of getting my blogs posted accomplished. I think I'll be able to get internet pretty easily from now on. For the rest of the break I'm hoping to do laundry lol and find some postcards to send back home...or maybe just bring home and send from America lol. I just feel so incredibly blessed. Again, thank you so much to everyone who supported us. I wish there was more I could do than just say thank you. I can't believe how much people came around us to help us get here. God, bless them 10 times more than they blessed me. In Jesus's name, Amen.
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