Sunday, I say goodbye to Aida and Brody and get on a plane to head to Lima, Peru for a week long training. Ruth, Bobby, and I head out together for this training event. It was actually nice to fly with people I know as we talked, they helped me with my bag as my knee is still killing me, and we just enjoyed our time together. We arrive to Lima late that night but after we arrive in the hotel, we decided to go get Pizza Hut. My roommate Christy was there and she wanted to join us. We ate pizza, listened to what is going on in her life, and then went back to the hotel for the night.
Monday, we head out to the affinity office to begin our weeklong training. It was neat to meet new Ms, catch up with Ms we knew, and learn the first part of the oral strategy we were learning. We began by learning the Mark 5 story and connecting it to our testimony as a way of evangelizing. After lunch, they told us to divide up in twos and head out to share our testimony with the Mark 5 story at least twice each. I went out with Melissa and neither of us like to force sharing with people that we do not know. So we began to walk and pry asking Him for opening up doors for us to share naturally and with whom He had divinely appointed. We ended up walking far away from the office, knowing that the majority of the other Ms would stay around that area. We eventually arrive to this outdoor mall right on the Pacific Ocean; talk about beautiful! We continue pryng and walking when we see a group of skaters and decided to sit down. We continued pryng and Melissa asked me if we were going to go and talk to them, and I said no, we would wait and continue to pry. About 15 minutes later, one of the guys came over to us and began talking to us. As soon as he started talking, I recognized his accent. He was from Bogota, Colombia and so I called him a cachaco and he was completely shocked!
Well this of course started an amazing discussion and opened him up to receive us. We had the opportunity to hear his story, share our stories, and as he was commenting about an injury…Melissa tells him what I did for a living and so I start to evaluate his injury. Within a minute or two, I think we were surrounded by 15 or so other skaters with injuries who wanted an evaluation as well. HE is so sovereign in every step. As we left these guys (who asked us to come back the next day), we began praising Him for this appointment and asking Him to raise up a local Peruvian who would continue with these guys. I left Melissa and went to meet up with the Paul’s and Arturo (a local Peruvian who had asked us to help him with a ministry that night.) I began to share with him all that HE had done and told him he should learn to skate. He quickly responded, why Freddie who is in the training is a professional skater, a believer and has been looking for a way to start a ministry with them! Are you kidding me, DAD? That is incredible how HE had ordained all the steps to this week. That night, I had the privilege to work with some amazing young Peruvian's who are serving Him in neat ways...it was a blessing!
Needless to say, on Tuesday morning I ran to talk to Freddie to tell him what HE had done the day before and he was so excited about what HE was going to do through this contact. That afternoon, we went out with Freddie and it was neat to watch HIM work through each of them and unite them as a group. Because I was a slacker and had not written this until now, I will just say the rest of the week was just like this first day. Divine appointment after diving appointment…watching Him work miracles as we learned and having the opportunity to put into practice what we learned each day. This was by far one of the best trainings I had been to in awhile and was excited to get home and put it into practice with my people.
Monday, we head out to the affinity office to begin our weeklong training. It was neat to meet new Ms, catch up with Ms we knew, and learn the first part of the oral strategy we were learning. We began by learning the Mark 5 story and connecting it to our testimony as a way of evangelizing. After lunch, they told us to divide up in twos and head out to share our testimony with the Mark 5 story at least twice each. I went out with Melissa and neither of us like to force sharing with people that we do not know. So we began to walk and pry asking Him for opening up doors for us to share naturally and with whom He had divinely appointed. We ended up walking far away from the office, knowing that the majority of the other Ms would stay around that area. We eventually arrive to this outdoor mall right on the Pacific Ocean; talk about beautiful! We continue pryng and walking when we see a group of skaters and decided to sit down. We continued pryng and Melissa asked me if we were going to go and talk to them, and I said no, we would wait and continue to pry. About 15 minutes later, one of the guys came over to us and began talking to us. As soon as he started talking, I recognized his accent. He was from Bogota, Colombia and so I called him a cachaco and he was completely shocked!
Well this of course started an amazing discussion and opened him up to receive us. We had the opportunity to hear his story, share our stories, and as he was commenting about an injury…Melissa tells him what I did for a living and so I start to evaluate his injury. Within a minute or two, I think we were surrounded by 15 or so other skaters with injuries who wanted an evaluation as well. HE is so sovereign in every step. As we left these guys (who asked us to come back the next day), we began praising Him for this appointment and asking Him to raise up a local Peruvian who would continue with these guys. I left Melissa and went to meet up with the Paul’s and Arturo (a local Peruvian who had asked us to help him with a ministry that night.) I began to share with him all that HE had done and told him he should learn to skate. He quickly responded, why Freddie who is in the training is a professional skater, a believer and has been looking for a way to start a ministry with them! Are you kidding me, DAD? That is incredible how HE had ordained all the steps to this week. That night, I had the privilege to work with some amazing young Peruvian's who are serving Him in neat ways...it was a blessing!
Needless to say, on Tuesday morning I ran to talk to Freddie to tell him what HE had done the day before and he was so excited about what HE was going to do through this contact. That afternoon, we went out with Freddie and it was neat to watch HIM work through each of them and unite them as a group. Because I was a slacker and had not written this until now, I will just say the rest of the week was just like this first day. Divine appointment after diving appointment…watching Him work miracles as we learned and having the opportunity to put into practice what we learned each day. This was by far one of the best trainings I had been to in awhile and was excited to get home and put it into practice with my people.
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