It’s not so easy to sit down and share my day, my week or my month. It’s difficult because a lot of
that time was a battle. If I sat down
most days and wrote, you would hear about how life as a missionary is hard. You would hear how my days are so long that
by the time I get home all I want to do is nothing. How there are a million things I need to do
but either can’t find the energy or don’t have the emotional strength to do them.
If I sat down and wrote on any given day you would hear how
sometimes I don’t want to get up at 5:30am and get home at 9pm. You would hear how miserable working in this suffocating
heat can be or how sweet little street boys think calling me fat is a compliment. No
doubt I would tell you how stressed I can get over my finances. How people that have supported me have just disappeared
and I can’t explain why. You would hear how
my only roommate is moving and soon I'll be alone. I would tell you how much I miss my family.Part of me wants to believe that it will get easier. That eventually my Faith will exceed these circumstances. I want to believe that this is all I’ll have to conquer. But I know that’s not true. If we’re moving forward in Faith listening for God in everything we do, it will never get easier. It will only get better.
Last week God took my ‘not so easy’ and turned it into ‘I must be crazy’. Honduras is no longer a temporary 2 year mission field for me. I know God is calling me here permanently. I’m scared. I’m excited. I’m sad. People are supportive. People are against it. But in the end either I say yes, focus my eyes on Jesus and believe this will be a time of the miraculous or I go back home where things will be easier.
I’m saying yes. Yes to
everything God has for me no matter how difficult or impossible it seems.
Last month one of my students handed me this letter
wrapped in a pretty bow. Today I put it
on my wall. I get to pour love into 80
little lives a day. I can never forget
that.
Wow Naomi.....awesome and moving. You rock! Stay tight with Jesus - He will make it better (maybe not easier). Love, love, love ya! Peg
ReplyDeleteGood morning how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because trough them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately it’s impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this I would ask you one small favor:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Honduras? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Honduras in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Avenida Juan de la Cierva, 44
28902 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Emilio Fernandez