An Awesome Day! The best in the last few months.

I just came back from Mexico from an awesome experience. I was planning on going to the Harvard-Yale football game this weekend. I was looking forward to loving on people I love so much. Alas, with me feeling sick and the plane ticket prices sky rocketing, I didn’t go. God definitely has his plans though. I was in my car on my way back from the church mission in Algodones. I wasn’t in a good mood because I had gone into the house of a woman who attends the church and saw pictures of “saints” in her house. It just makes me so sad that people have a culture that has religion and idolatry traditions so intertwined, and many people don't let go of their traditions and hold on to Jesus. I prayed, like I pray for my mom and many others, that God would make His truths evident.

So, I was in my car in a sad mood, when a man comes up to me asking for money for a drug rehabilitation center he attends. After I informed him I didn’t have any money, he asked if I took care of children (my car exterior is full of colorful hand prints). I told him that I am a teacher in the states, and come to teach kids about God in Mexico on Saturdays. I told him about Luke chapter 17, which is what was talked about today, how only one of ten men who Jesus healed of leprosy came back to thank God.

He then told me about his life, how God has been good to him, and how he was not worthy to be in God’s presence. I told him none of us is worthy on our own, but by accepting that Jesus died for our sins and accepting Him into our lives, He makes us worthy. He said he wanted to accept Jesus into his life. So right there in the line to the US with our hands held outside my car door, he prayed acknowledging that he had sinned and believed that Jesus died to pay for those sins. He asked God to take over his life. How awesome! I am looking forward to going to give him a Bible in Spanish and showing Him some of God’s word: his awesome promises and love, and all the great things he wants to do in his life. Salvation occurs in an instant, but sanctification lasts a whole lifetime. What an awesome journey! What a wonderful God!