Sing Praise to Him

Hey everyone,        I am in need of some prayer support! I have an opportunity to travel to New Haven, Connecticut this summer for a mission trip.  I could spend one week to the entire summer. However long I feel called to stay.  Some of the ideas I have right now are staying maybe a month or less. I would love to spend an entire summer, but due to work back at home this may not be possible. Currently I am working at a grocery story, and they would be flexible with my schedule but I also work as a counselor at a kids camp in town doing all of the arts and crafts. I absolutely loved this job and I could not imagine a summer not around these kids. I may split it and do half and half :) But, please join me in prayer as I try and figure out where my next journey is..

         Last year I really felt called to make bean bags.  You know the ones you pop in the microwave during those winter storms or crampy days? These bags are perfect and oh so fun to pick out material for! I am selling them for $8 a piece or 2 for $14 All of the money made goes right into the bank for a Mission Trip fund :-) Whether I am called to go back to Costa Rica in the following year or travel elsewhere this money will go towards mission trips.  So excited!

The ticos love to play futbol!  Dago was so helpful helping me get ready for my first time ever going zip lining! I don't know what I would have done without him.  Randal is an amazing guy who has a great sense of humor. He is always smiling and is willing to lend a helping hand at any time. Skateboarding is a large part of his life and he now is involved in a skate ministry with the local boys in the community.  Chris (third one in) on the last night with his new friends :)  Tito and I share the same passion for music, and I had a great time joking around him with him. I also had the amazing experience to share my testimony with him and the youth group. He helped me find the strength I needed to share it, and was there for me the entire time.  David was the translator/worship leader who lives in the Harvest Hands house. Him and I were grouped up together most of the week. I miss David so much! One of my favorite memories of Costa R...

After two days in Jasmine, and being inside praying for people at the eye glass clinic (you'll here about that next)- this is how red I was! Tiana, the girl behind me is a lot fair skinned than I am and yet she didn't burn at all and she was outside most of the time with the kids! I gained a lot more freckles while in Costa Rica! This is for sure!

Our team was a very youth filled team! The only adults were our pastor, Dick & his wife Maida along with Marsha and Sonny. The rest of us were all 18 or younger.  Every single one of us were impacted greatly in Costa Rica. Often people think missionaries just go to foreign places to give them money or to do projects for them.  However, Costa Rica was so different. Our goal in going there was not to intrude in these peoples lives, and help them out, it was simply to go and spend time with them and love on them.  The people are no different than we are.  Especially us teenagers.  This picture was taken in Jasmine, a community over from Los Anonos.