A fire burning in my heart.

Lately, well I haven't wrote much so I thought I write something.

So much has been happening and I feel the need to tell you that God can put a fire in each in one of our hearts. Sometimes we don't feel that there's no fire because of the pain we feel. The world seems to knock us down, we feel useless. We feel that God doesn't want us so we find what we say are permanent decisions falling into the pit of the world. Then once we find Jesus we find the real permanent solution love, peace, and Joy.

We then develop a burning fire in our hearts that we can't control. It only takes a small step in obedience to let him into your life and your perspective will change on things. Realizing that you are something worth a meaning and that those things you did for the world were killer blocks that made you stumble.

When you really find the fire of God that is when you'll find true peace.

Philippians 4:6-7 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.

Y Ahora por una poema.

Oh cuan gran es el señor.

¡Oh, cuán asombroso es el Señor que está aquí entre nosotros para pedir que venga a nuestras vidas y nos cambia de adentro hacia afuera.
¡Cuán grande es el Señor que vino a rescatarnos de nosotros mismos cuando no podía.
¡Oh, qué elegante es el Señor quien rescata un alma con el amor, la gracia y la misericordia.
¡Oh, cuán adorable es el Señor que nos da protección todos los días de las autolesiones
¡Oh, cómo es eterno su amor arrebatado entre nosotros sobre una base diaria.
¡Oh, qué búsqueda es el Señor para ganar nuestros corazones, almas, y la vida otra vez.
¡Oh, cuán significativa es el Señor en nuestras vidas en que el mundo está lleno de suciedad.

A poem for a night like this.

AGELESS,

Oh how Amazing is the Lord who is here among us to ask and seek him to come into our lives and change us from the inside out.
Oh how Great is the Lord who came to rescue us from ourselves when we couldn't.
Oh how Elegant is the Lord who ransoms a soul with Love, Grace, and Mercy.
Oh how Loveable is the Lord who gives us protection daily from self harm
Oh how Everlasting is his love ravished among us on a daily basis.
Oh how Searching is the Lord to win our hearts, souls, and life over.
Oh how Significant is the Lord in our lives when the world is full with filth.

The intimacy we lack with Jesus.

In the world there are so many things we're intimate with. For the most of us, we are intimate with our partners or spouses. That's good to be intimate with them, but first try to be intimate with Jesus. First off, he created us in his image and he created this world. He created you, me, and our partners that we love and are intimate with.

Psalm 139:13-14: For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

He knew what you were going to look like before your parents knew because he made you in your mother's womb. We need to praise him and give him intimacy because he made us in his works. He is the sower and we are the clay. 

People in this world rather be more intimate with their partners than Jesus. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and the perfecter of our faith ( Hebrews 12:2). If we're aren't intimate with Jesus and love him, how can we be intimate with our partners. We need to love Jesus and love others because if we don't love Jesus and others first how can we be intimate with others. 

We need to love others no matter whether if they hate us or love us. We can't hinder the hurt inside we get from people rather repent it. Ask God to help you be more loving towards people. 

John 15: 9-17 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.  My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. This is my command: Love each other.

 You need to love one another like Jesus has loved you since the beginning. You need to lay your life down and love that person even if you don't want to or you feel it's a burden to you. If it's such a big burden to love someone because you hate them. Maybe talk it out with God and have him change your heart because seriously the greatest gift of life is the "three that remain faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." (1 Corinthians 13:13)

Our Daily Bread.

It's important to the read the bible everyday so you can become closer with Jesus. Also, it helps your spiritual growth in your faith with Jesus. Each day you read the bible you become more wise and more into the fact that life isn't about you it's about Jesus. How he created the earth, moon, and stars and us humans on earth. He longs for us to have a relationship with him so he can make us better people believe it or not. There are so many distractions nowadays where it blinds our eyes and hearts from the real feel of direction and love. Jesus is the truth the way and the life for us people on this earth. Why don't we put our precious time in other things like spending time with Jesus and church and helping others. Not in things that destroy us like drugs, alcohol, and hanging out with bad crowds.

Luke 11: 1-4 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” He said to them, “When you pray, say:“‘Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation.

Jesus the Bread of Life : 

John 6: 25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?" 26 Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, you are looking for me, not because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. 27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval." 28 Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?" 29 Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent." 30 So they asked him, "What miraculous sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? 31 Our forefathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written: 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.' " 32 Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." 34 "Sir," they said, "from now on give us this bread." 35 Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40 For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day." 41 At this the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven." 42 They said, "Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I came down from heaven'?" 43 "Stop grumbling among yourselves," Jesus answered. 44 "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me. 46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. 47 I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. 50 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." 52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" 53 Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever." 59 He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

Asking for things.

^{When you ask for things you need to ask with right motives and not your own. He is God and he knows what you want and needs are and he wants to give you what you ask, but it needs to be in his name first.}

John 16:23-24 In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.

 ^{Matthew 7:7-12} “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.“Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.



James 4: 1- 3 : What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

We as people should get in fights over selfishly desires instead fight for what really matters like what Jesus would cherish.

Jesus :3

People who know me probably sometimes wonder, how could I have dealt with all that I have gone through. Well, actually what I am still going through. All I can really tell them is that Jesus has transformed me and shaped me how he wants me to be and I am very blessed for that.

Jesus conitues to shape me every day in many different ways. In different ways which are good ones to have in your life. Not many people think Jesus is real or maybe the fact is they know he's there but they don't want the change. They don't want the change simply because they feel their life is going so good and so they don't need him. In reality everyone needs Jesus, but so many people are afraid to be changed.

When I first became really intimate with Jesus everything else in the world never really mattered to me. Still today it doesn't really matter to me because Jesus is my everything and the world has nothing on me now.

Matthew 24:35 : Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

My thought today

I feel God is going to change my season that I am in. I have to be ready for it and not ask why and trust him in everything I do. Don't too comfortable where I am at because he is God. He moves us and shakes things up. #HeIsGod #takeaway #give

Siento que Dios va a cambiar mi temporada que estoy en. Necesito estar listo por eso, y no le pregunté por qué y confío en él en todo lo que hago. No demasiado cómodo donde estoy, porque él es Dios. Él nos mueve y sacude las cosas. #ElEsDios #sacar #dar

Our cities.

Interesting concept that I ran over in Deuteronomy 28 tonight reading my bible. We were talking about our cities today at church, and I ran over that same thing, tonight and Deuteronomy 28 wasn't in the preaching today. #Godstalkingtome #aboutsomething

28 If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. ² All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God:

³ You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.
⁴ The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
⁵ Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.
⁶ You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

⁷ The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.

⁸ The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.
⁹ The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the Lord your God and walk in obedience to him. ¹⁰ Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will fear you. ¹¹ The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.
¹² The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. ¹³ The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. ¹⁴ Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.

 



Concepto interesante que corrí en Deuteronomio 28 esta noche leyendo mi biblia. Hablábamos de nuestras ciudades de hoy en la iglesia y yo corrimos durante ese mismo, esta noche y Deuteronomio 28 no estaba en la predica de hoy. #Diosestahablandoconmigo #sobrealgo

Bendiciones por la obediencia

28 »Si realmente escuchas al Señor tu Dios, y cumples fielmente todos estos mandamientos que hoy te ordeno, el Señor tu Dios te pondrá por encima de todas las naciones de la tierra. ² Si obedeces al Señor tu Dios, todas estas bendiciones vendrán sobre ti y te acompañarán siempre:

³ »Bendito serás en la ciudad,
    y bendito en el campo.

⁴ »Benditos serán el fruto de tu vientre,
    tus cosechas, las crías de tu ganado,
los terneritos de tus manadas
    y los corderitos de tus rebaños.

⁵ »Benditas serán tu canasta
    y tu mesa de amasar.

⁶ »Bendito serás en el hogar,
    y bendito en el camino.^[a]

⁷ »El Señor te concederá la victoria sobre tus enemigos. Avanzarán contra ti en perfecta formación, pero huirán en desb

anda

da.

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»El Señor bendecirá tus graneros, y todo el trabajo de tus manos.
»El Señor tu Dios te bendecirá en la tierra que te ha dado.
⁹ »El Señor te establecerá como su pueblo *santo, conforme a su juramento, si cumples sus mandamientos y andas en sus *caminos. ¹⁰ Todas las naciones de la tierra te respetarán al reconocerte como el pueblo del Señor.
¹¹ »El Señor te concederá abundancia de bienes: multiplicará tus hijos, tu ganado y tus cosechas en la tierra que a tus antepasados juró que te daría.
¹² »El Señor abrirá los cielos, su generoso tesoro, para derramar a su debido tiempo la lluvia sobre la tierra, y para bendecir todo el trabajo de tus manos. Tú les prestarás a muchas naciones, pero no tomarás prestado de nadie. ¹³ El Señor te pondrá a la cabeza, nunca en la cola. Siempre estarás en la cima, nunca en el fondo, con tal de que prestes atención a los mandamientos del Señor tu Dios que hoy te mando, y los obedezcas con cuidado. ¹⁴ Jamás te apartes de ninguna de las palabras que hoy te ordeno, para seguir y servir a otros dioses.

Marked

In life we all get marked by things that happen to us. Some of those things can be physically, spiritually, emotionally, or mentally. This world that we live in is marked mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually dead. Yes, there are things in this life that mark us some bigger than others.

Markings that Jesus gives vs. the world.

Physically:

Jesus: He gives us the sufficient amount of strength to carry on. When we feel that we can't go anything further. He gives us

The World: The world will beat you down and hurt you physically. More than you ever know.


Spiritually:

Jesus: Being marked by Jesus spiritually is the greatest thing ever. Your spirit will be renewed it won't dead, it will be alive and free.

The World: The world is spiritually dead and some people are spiritually dead.

Mentally:

Jesus: Jesus is the most secure place to put your mind.

World: The World will drag you down and make you feel worthless.

Emotionally:

 Jesus: He will lift you up even when you feel worthless.

World: The World will drag you down and make you feel worthless.


Romans 12:2 ^"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will."


Isaiah 43:13 "For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you."

One thing in me that has marked me is the fact that Jesus has touched me. Once you get marked by Jesus you won't be the same.

The Lamp of the Body

 Luke 11:33-36

“No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.  Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are healthy, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are unhealthy, your body also is full of darkness. See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness. Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be just as full of light as when a lamp shines its light on you.”

 We as human beings need to remember that our eyes are the first thing to notice things. You may think our hearts are first, but really our eyes are. When we see negative, it triggers negative thoughts and our thoughts and actions become dark. When we think positive our thoughts and actions become positive. Us a christian sometimes lack the fact that we need to be the light for the people who are in this dark world. We need to be more open with the light that we live in, even if we are afraid of what people may think. Romans 8:31 "What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?"

My thought right now.

I rather follow in the depths of my King Lord Jesus than in the flesh of this world. I give him my all and I am learning to realize that he had me saved from the beginning. God has affected me so much in the past year and it's amazing. I wouldn't trade my decision to follow him. I want to know you more Jesus and be so lost in you, so that the things of the world seem unreal. I will follow you in everything I do.

Prefiero seguir en lo más profundo pasos de mi Rey Señor Jesús que en la carne de este mundo. Le doy mi todo y yo estoy aprendiendo a darse cuenta de que me había guardado desde el principio. Dios me ha afectado mucho en el último año y es increíble. No cambiaría mi decisión de seguirlo. Quiero saber más de Jesús y ser tan perdido en ti, para que las cosas del mundo parecen irreales. Voy a seguirte en todo lo que hago.

Let's face it.

In life we all have our battles. Some of them are small, moderate, or huge ones. Most of us feel the need to say we can do things on own. When in reality you will fall in the world harder than you would with Jesus. In the world not all things are bad, but the fact on how dark the world is. That scares some people like walking in the dark alone or turning the lights off when it's time for bed. When you were younger or maybe still today.

The thing that scares me most is people who feel the need to say I'm okay I can do it on my own. People fall, some people harder and deeper than others. We need to ask for help but the majority of the time the world won't let it do that. The world will tell us hey, we can make it on our own. You won't fall, seriously? Are you kidding me one of the darkest places is knowing that the world is telling us that.

The world by how it's going right now it has no direction. The people of this world will fall and the people are saved by Jesus will rise. Jesus gives direction and promises to those who he loves. He covers us when the world says oh, it won't hurt. Just one try and then bam you're hooked for life. Jesus is there to cover our hearts and minds of this world that is so dark and sinful.

I got lost once but Jesus saved me from it. I am glad he did because I would be a different person right now. Before I really knew Jesus, I didn't really care for him because others influenced me to be bad. They told me smoking some weed won't hurt or having an intercourse with someone. Consequences follow bad decisions and that's what's scary, karma. I smoked weed for almost 2 years with people who influenced me that it was okay to do so. I had an encounter with Jesus one night and it changed my life forever.

I was so far in the darkness people really didn't know I had a dark side or a bright side. I was covering my inner feelings with the things of this world. Let's face it, people need Jesus, but most people won't admit it. Jesus is there for you and you don't have to carry it on your own. Let Jesus take the load off your back. He is there to help you when the world is making you fall. Jesus frees you when the world captivates you.

Matthew 11:28 -30 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Where the presence of God is.

Most people in this world rather not be in the presence of God. Some people really believe that there is no God and he doesn't exist. When in reality he does exist because he gives us many blessings and helps us in our troubles. The devil tempts us and makes us uncomfortable. God is there to comfort us and helps us in our trials.


In the world today, many people I believe are too busy for God, or they so say themselves. We people in this world need to make time for God. God created this world and the people in it. We can at least make some time out of our crazy and busy lives for him. God is asking just to spend at least 10 to 15 minutes each day.

The world has many ways of distracting our minds from the things of God. For instance, social media is a huge one. Oftentely forgetting to spend time with him because you want to put yourself first. God isn't a selfish God, he is a loving God.

God's presence I found is in the midst of the silence in our lives. If we just be quiet and sit in silence and pray we will get further in life. The busy bodies are the worst and they are hardest to sit still. The loners I found would have it much easier because they are by themselves. Not wanting to be around everyone and leaving more room for God.

It's the lack of silence that prevents us from hearing the voice of God. God wants us to put away all the distractions and listen to him. God wants to come into your life and heal your wounds. God wants to fill your life with his presence daily. Only, if you first sit still, and leave the detractions away from your sight and mind.

A 40 day Fast

In our church some of us did a 40 day fast. Not to be higher on the totem pole, or be more spiritual, but to have a closer relationship with God. So the people who fasted were fasting from different things. I fasted from being on Facebook and drinking no soda. Not drinking the soda was easy because I don't really drink soda. After the fast, I realized God has touched me a lot in different ways. I am deciding to stay longer off Facebook.

Day 1. January 8, My first day of my fast was interesting. I was fasting from Facebook it really didn't bother me actually because I started off being with God.

Day 2. January 9,  Today I just was reflecting on the grace and love I have for God :)

Day 3. January 10, Today started out with going to the soup kitchen helping prepare food and playing with the kids. I really enjoy all these children out in the mission I go to. Afterwards, I went with a couple of friends to a dentist appointment they had. The dentist only spoke Spanish so I helped my friends. In the process, the dentist asked me when the last time I got my gums cut. I said when I about 5 or 6 years old. He ended up cutting them free without any charge. He told me God paid it :) My smile looks awesome.

Day 4. January 11, Today, I had to rest because my mouth surgery. I enjoyed the rest that God gave me after the miracle happened yesterday.

Day 5. January 12, Today, I went to church with my family. Then we came home and just hanged out with my dad because today was his birthday. We had pizza later it was so good.

Day 6. January 13, I am blessed to be with God each and every day.

Day 7. January 14, Today I was helping out in the mission. I took care of the babies from the ages of couple of months to 2 years old. I had help with some other people and we had an awesome time. One of the babies there was named Japhet and he was one of the pastor's kids, he was an 1 year old. His mom, my pastor was really tired because she has three kids. One is 7 named Chris, the middle child is 3 years old and the other is Japhet the youngest, one year old. I decided to help her out with a necessary duty. I told her I could handle it. She asked me if "everything was okay?" I said, "yes." Afterwards, she told me "Thank you." I realized she needed my help, and I was willing to be there to do what she needed me to do.

Day 8. January 15,  Today I went to the soup kitchen and helped prepare the food and played with the kids. Also, some friends of Jennifer (She is a friend of mine) came to help us. I translated for them. We made a really good salad with cabbage, carrots, cranberries, with an apple vinegar sauce. Later that night I went to the service they have every Wednesday night. The sermon was about levels and what you have to do in order to reach the next one. While I was listening, I felt I needed a boost of confidence and trust in God because Satan has been trying to knock me down. So after the preaching the Pastor who was speaking asked if anyone needed a spiritual uplifting? If so come up front. Almost all of us who were there went up front. I asked God for his guidance, direction and to have satan flee because he isn't supposed to part of me anyone.

Day 9. January 16, I didn't really do anything today in particular.

Day 10. January 17, I went to the soup kitchen today and served the kids and felt good.

Day11. January 18, I went to the mission and danced with the kids. I went and helped my friend with her class. I was in a cardboard box along with a couple of my other friends.

Day 12. January 19, I went to church today and it felt good. The worship and word were great.

Day 13. January 20, Today I took a break because we don't really do things on Mondays.

Day 14. January 21, Today, was another amazing day in the presence of God. Later, I went to a dinner at the Pastor's house to eat, and chatted with the others among me. The dinner was for the English congregation so I had a delight in chatting with most of them. Considering all the English congregation is scatted throughout the bay helping different missions we have. It was a great time of fellowship.

Day 15. January 22, Today in the early afternoon, I went to the soup kitchen and just served the Lord like I love to do. I love cooking for the kids there, it's my pleasure and to play with them too. At night, I had a class at my church, it was amazing. This one girl named Ely, she got glitter everywhere it was kind of funny. I did a class about how it's important to pass time with God and pray to him. The graft I did was on a colored piece of paper with hands in the prayer position and had the kids put glue and glitter. It looked cool :)

Day 16. January 23, Today, I am thankful for God's amazing love, mercy, and grace. I went over to a friend's house with some other people to do the bookmarks for youth. Then we eat food and followed in prayer time it was a great time.

Day 17. January 24, Today I went out to the mission to help out in the soup kitchen. The soup kitchen that I go to every Friday and Wednesday from 12 to 3 in the afternoon is out in San Vicente. There were some Americans and Canadians there they didn't know any Spanish. So I helped them translate some things and helped get things more in an orderly fashion out there :)

Day 18. January 25, Tonight was phenomenal amazing night of fellowship as always on Saturday night at Youth. By the way, my youth is in spanish ;) An amazing worship to start off, games, and a shaving head bet that if there more than 100 youth there our main pastor would shave his head. Well as a result there were 86 of us and he shaved his head anyways. An amazing word by our main pastor of our church. Also, there were about 6 to 8 people who got saved too. Just Awesome!

Day 19. January 26, Tonight was amazing and well actually today too :) I love being in the presence of God and being filled by the Holy Spirit. Today there was sermon as always on sunday mornings at my church and at night too. Tonight was different maybe it was the word that was spoken to me or maybe it was the fact that I was laying at the feet of Jesus. After laying there for a while on the floor being filled by the Holy Spirit. I was asking God to strengthen my faith and trust in him so I could have a better relationship with him. I felt his presence there all around me and a miracle was happening inside of me bigger than my faith. I felt I might be more to the church that I go to than I ever knew. Not sure what next is going to happen, but I feel it's going to be huge.

Day 20. January 27, Today, I am grateful for people who are out there to help to me and for me to help me when in a time of need.

Day 21. January 28, Today, I am grateful for the people around me who are set apart from this world. Who live in this world, but separate themselves from it and choose to bring other people closer to God's word. I invited someone to youth next week I'll see if they come or not.

Day 22. January 29, Today, was amazing went I went to the soup kitchen like every Wednesday and Friday. Later, I had a class so I went early and prepared for it. During the worship we were dancing with the kids, which all of them are amazing. Then when I was done with the class we took all kids to the auditorium to pray for them. It was the most amazing thing. Little kids praying to God, whether if it was a small thing or a big one. All of our youth, pastors, leaders, and parents were praying over the kids. I felt the Holy Spirit tonight boy.

Day 23. January 30, Today God taught me to be patient and wait, for there is a tomorrow. Also, he taught me that some things don't always come when we want them. I will cast my cares on him, for he cares to listen.

Day 24. January 31, Today, I went to the soup kitchen and served and then on the way home we got a flat tire. I was thankful that our friends were behind us and help us. Then went to the dentist later to fix my cavity that was really deep down in my mouth. The dentist told me that it was very close to my nerve and I might have to have a root canal ahh!


Day 25. Feburary 1, Went today to the mission and had breakfast there. While I was there I took care of the babies and forgot my phone haha. I didn't realize I left it there, until about 5:30 in the afternoon. Youth was amazing it was about your connect with God and where your home is in this world. We Christians need to have a home in Jesus.

Day 26. Feburary 2, I went to church today, and I love being in his presence and his guidance.

Day 27. Feburary 3, I went down to the beach today to tell God what has been bothering me. He listened and responded with something surprising to me. You won't have to worry about getting lost in this world because your passion and faith in me is so strong. The people who see this will know that you're wise and you won't go back to Satan's ways.

Day 28. Feburary 4, Tonight I went to the mission and just helped God today.

Day 29. Feburary 5, I went to the soup kitchen today and helped cook the food. Also, I helped clean the tarp that goes over our canopy where the adults sit on Tuesday nights and the kids use on Saturday mornings. Then, later I went to the service and the sermon was awesome.

Day 30. February 6, Today I went to La Fuente Vaules in a school we were invited to. Mardell and I were teaching about germs and hygiene and how they can spread. Most of the kids there didn't speak much English, so I spoke in Spanish to them.

Day 31. February 7, I went to the soup kitchen again and helped the Americans and Canadians that didn't know any Spanish. Then went to the dentist today and fixed another cavity.

Day 32. February 8, Today I went to the mission and did an act with some of my friends for my pastor who was giving a class. Then afterwards, I went to the dentist with a Pastor and his wife to translate for them. Came home and went to youth group. I felt the holy spirit move in us tonight with the worship and preaching.

Day 33. February 9, Went to church today and love it as always. Then came home and waited for my dad to get here from California, where he was for the last week visiting my Grandpa. Then just hanged out with him for the rest of the day.

Day 34. February 10, Today, I went to the dentist later this afternoon and the dentist dug deep in my mouth. I think, the cavities he did today were deeper than the one he did last time.

Day 35. Febuary 11, Today, I went to the mission and listened to my pastor. It was an interesting message on Jesus and how much he loves us. The preach caught my eye a few times and how much Jesus has impacted me in these last few years.

Day 36. February  12, Today, I went to the soup kitchen today, helped serve the food, and prepare it. Later, I had a class at night and it went well some of the kids were being chaotic, but what can I say their 1 to 2 year olds.

Day 37. February 13, I went to help a friend today at the dentist office.

Day 38. February 14, Today I went to the soup kitchen served food, and took care of the babies with a friend named Diana. Then later went to the movies with some of my friends.

Day 39. February 15, Today I went to the mission and prepared food  and took care of the babies with my friend Victoria and Monse. Then went to youth group, and made the snack with one of my friends named Sofia. Then came home and read a book I have been reading called Gutsy Faith.

Day 40. February 16, Today was the last day of the fast, but I am deciding to go longer. I went to church three times today. I love being at church and my church family. They are all supportive of my feelings and thoughts and I am the same to theirs.