Missions

Last night while laying in bed a lot was on my mind. I was thinking about my past mission trips. And i totally realized something while laying there and thinking about it. Us as americans and US citizens have so much and we take it for granted. Ok yea i know a lot of people say that and it probably gets super annoying hearing it, but it is true. When i was on my first trip to Chincha, Peru it was a totally new experience for me. Now when we went to Chincha they just went through a really bad earthquake and didn't have much at all and even without the earthquake they didn't have a lot. But im going to tell you a short story.I was at a pizza parol and let me tell you the bathrooms there were not nice at all the nicest ones i saw was at my hotel and i wasn't there much lol. So i walk in the bathroom and all i see is the bowl of the toilet there was no toilet seat and no toilet paper at all. I was like really? Oh man. So sometimes when i see a toilet with a seat im pretty happy that we are lucky enough to have that.

this was the view from my hotel room.

some people digging through trash.

Now I cant pick my favorite mission trip because i love them all for different reasons, but ill have to say my favorite with locations and settings would have to be Barranquilla, Colombia! It was such a beautiful place all over! This has to be one of the million places in Barranquilla that i loved it was so gorgeous and very peaceful.

Now where we lived was right in the city so when we left the hotel we were right on the street with busy cars coming from left to right, but everyday i would see homeless people laying outside of our hotel on the sidewalk or just sitting it was really sad.

When i went to Iquitos, Peru my favorite thing we did is we went on the Amazon river! it was so cool! We also went to a tribe while we were there and danced with them and spent time with them.

My favorite thing about mission trip is the kids. The kids really show how excited they are to see you and spend time with you. They are such sweet kids and sometimes if you give them a bracelet that we make for all the kids explaining salvation, they will come up to you at the crusade and give you a hug.

Things that have crossed my mind:

This is totally off topic, but today while i listened to Taylor Swift's song "The Way I Loved You". When I really listened to the lyrics and really paid attention to it and when it says, 

"But I've been screamin and fightin 

And Kissing in the rain

It's 2am and I am cursin your name

You're so in love that you act insane

And thats the way I loved you"

Why is it we can act that crazy for a boy? Why is it we can sit down right a billion songs about how guys are this and that and talk about how crazy in love you are with him. Why can't we be that crazy in love with Jesus? Why can't we sit down and write a couple songs about how much we love him and how crazy we are about him? Now if i was on the other side of the screen and reading this i would be like man i never thought of it that way. You know we get so busy with life and trying to find a boy that we don't realize what is really important. Now i know all the girls in the world want to find there prince charming, but we can't do it without Jesus. I mean we can date a couple guys here and there, but yet you still feel like it's not right. The right guy will come in Gods time not in our time and that is even hard for me to admit sometimes because im always saying i want a boyfriend, but right now i have the greatest guy ever and thats JESUS!