Ashton 1 week

Ashton 1 week:

This was my favorite week by far, SO MANY wonderful things happened. Over all this week taught me that when you seek Gods kingdom first thats when he will add things to you. I stayed at a house with Lillian from Brazil who during outreach became our mother, and someone I really admire and look up to. The house was fantastic, everything I had been missing from back home was at this house, they had a pool, a treadmill and more food then I could have needed. I was so blessed this week.

We worked with a church and their youth group, these kids grabbed all of our hearts. It was a group of very unique, and talented kids. They were apart of all of our ministry with us, which was awesome, they helped show us around. Asthon was so beautiful. The landscape was mountians, mountians, mountians, and beautiful colors all around. Everywhere you looked there were flowers. The beginning we started with a prayer walk and man I was just hit with a revelation of how truly beautiful God is, and how lucky I am to be living at this very moment. Ashton helped me appreciate my life, and my health.

My heart continued to break as the week went on, we visited a hospital wow I dont have words. All I can say is guys seriously we are so privledged to walk, to eat, and to breath without struggeling. It hit me so hard that I had been living with such an ungrateful heart, taking SO MUCH for granted. After this week was over my whole mindset started to change.

The youth man, these guys were great. I still am in contact with a couple of them, most of them were 16 and under so it was cool to be able to mentor to them. Sandy did some awesome things with the youth girls, she became someone who they really looked up to. And this week for her wow it pushed her to seek God with everything, which was amazing just in itself. She helped the girls and the girls helped her. Its mind blowing how many girls are getting raped here, almost every one of the youth had gotten raped, it was heartbreaking.

At this point of outreach my shoes hahah it looked like I had come off the streets, but at the end of the week I ended up getting blessed with Two pairs of shoes, perfume and some headbands. It was incredible, God is faithful and when you wait upon him after we learn how to wait he will provide, it might not be in the way you think, but he knows what you need.

“Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?, What shall we drink?, What shall we wear?' For the gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” - Matthew 6:31-33

This was the first and only week we wanted to stay longer at a place. We connected so well with the youth and the people, all of us girls ended up crying when we were leaving. Whoo it was sad.