Here's some pictures and a video of my baptism!

2 Corinthians 5:17 (New International Version)

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"

God is so faithful, strong, mighty and true to His word!

:) and thanks to the lovely Julie Coss for some of these fantastic pictures!

come baptize us!

i'm getting baptized tomorrow! at the beach. oh. my. gosh, i'm SO excited! i don't know why i haven't been before, but it's something i've been praying about for a while and we have the chance to tomorrow. so i FOR SURE am! good bye old self..

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just thought i'd let ya know so you can share in my excitement!!!!!

So here's the dreads! :) get excited!

So I wrote this on Thursday but I couldn’t publish it because the internet went down…enjoy!

Last night was amazing. Once a week, we have a time for local outreach. This week we went to a shelter in downtown San José to help serve dinner and just hang out with the people there. Not many of us needed to help with food, so I was on the hang out committee. At first I was really nervous for several reasons, first of all because we were in a really rough part of town. When we first got there, we had to wait to get out of the vans because it wasn’t totally safe. So yeah super sketch. I was also worried about the language barrier. I know some Spanish, but I’m far from fluent. The good thing is pretty much everything I hear in English and Spanish, so I’m able to understand, or at least get the general idea of everything that’s said. Speaking? Not so much, but it’s a work in progress. I’ve been getting a lot of practice here, so little by little, right?

Ok back to last night. I was pretty worried about just going up to people who literally just came off the streets and didn’t speak my language. But God works with what we have if we’re willing to give it to Him. One of the guys on the DTS staff really encouraged me (and kinda dragged me) to go talk to people. He came with me to talk to a guy who was sitting by himself near a door. So we both went over to him. I didn’t say anything to that guy because inside the door were 5 other guys and I talked with them. We actually conversed! It was really exciting; they even said my Spanish was good! For me that’s such a huge testimony to how God really does work through us regardless of if we feel capable. So I was able to talk with these guys. I told them what I was here for and stuff. Over the course of the night I prayed with 2 guys. It was just a really cool experience. I think our group is going to go back there sometime, so that will be cool. Hopefully my Spanish will be even better then.

Oh and God is sending me to Central America for outreach! I can’t wait to see what He’s going to do!!!

Week #4 is over. I've been here for a month! how crazy! oh and tomorrow is my birthday! it's going to be my first birthday away from home which will be really weird. but i'm so excited! this next year of my life is going to be an amazing one!

time is flying by. i only have two more months of lecture then outreach! i'm still not entirely sure as to where i'll be going. i'm thinking either Mexico City or Central America. I still need to pray about it a lot.

this past week was SUPER intense. it was a lot of "inner healing" so it was very draining emotionally, but SO amazing! everybody got really close. it's cool to see how God is bringing us all together.

oh and for those of you who haven't heard, i'm getting dreads! haha they're taking a long time to finish, but they're going to be awesome. get excited! i'll put pictures up when they're all the way done, they look kinda funky right now because only some are all the way done haha

God never ceases to amaze me. He's told me something big is going to happen soon, i don't know what, but it's going to be awesome. like a waterfall. it's going to just pour out on me and totally surround me. I can't wait to see what it is! He has really been showing me how much He loves me. I can't even get my head around it. He's so crazy awesome! that's really the only way i can describe Him right now. CRAZY AWESOME! AHHH! yeah. oh man good stuff.