The following is a
very vague and shortened version of what happened this week. It would take 100
pages to tell of all that happened but feel free to ask questions! I would love
to tell more stories but for the sake of your time this is what I have for you
right now.

Oh man. It has been almost a month since my last blog and I am
so sorry! Things have been crazy around here especially in the past week.
Adventures in Missions is an organization that is all about listening to the
Holy Spirit and letting it lead all the time. Since we have been here, not a
single day has followed the schedule because God has had a different plan. This
past week we felt the Spirit doing some amazing things and we decided to dump
the schedule all together. 

On Tuesday morning I woke up to bright lights shining in my
face and my leader, Blair, saying "It's 5 am and you have five minutes to get
ready and get down stairs." To be honest with you, I was pretty upset that I only
got about four and a half hours of sleep that night but it only made it worse
when I found that the usual many choices of cereal for breakfast were replaced
with a hardboiled egg and a piece of white bread. Within a very short time we
were in the vans headed off to Matamoros.

As we pulled up to the town square I was reminded of the team
talk we had the night before about feeling restless and wanting to do more
ministry. I figured they would drop us off and tell us to ask the Lord what he
wanted us to do for ministry and do it for a few hours and then head on home but
instead they told us we had an hour to have a quiet time. Confused as to why we
couldn't do that at the base and freezing cold I found a nice bench next to a shoe
shine man, cracked open my journal and told God how I was feeling and that I wanted
to hear from Him. He spoke so many things in that hour and told me about the
life he wanted me to live and how it didn't line up with the one I was living.

A short while later we loaded up in the vans and drove to a
slum buried in mud from the storm the night before. We were told we had until 5
pm to do ministry and oh boy did God do some awesome things. We repaired a
family's roof, prayed over a bunch of people, talked and ate with a woman and
her kids for a few hours and before we knew it, it was time to go. We ended up
not going to bed until about 12 am that night because we really wanted to seek
out God and figure out what he wanted the rest of the week to look like.

The rest of the week looked about the same as the first day.
Wake up at five, drive into town, have a bit of a quiet time, do some kind of
ministry and end up in bed at around midnight. It was tiring, hard work but God
did amazing things through the sacrifices of food, sleep, rest and a schedule. Not
only were lives changed in the city of Matamoros but everybody on my team had a
life change as well. I have learned that in the kingdom of God earthly things
are not necessary and sacrifices produce great rewards.