Portugal….. I remember it as a time of confusion for me. But it was also a time I enjoyed very much!So we started out by almost missing our flight to Portugal, from Spain! The Lord did His work, so yes, we did make the flight. The time there I got confronted with some of the same stuff than in Guatemala.We also got some statistics about Europe and that was very shocking!! There really isn’t a lot of Christians there and the people just don’t want to hear the Gospel. They believe they have everything they need, they don’t need God! That saddened me a lot!!So the confusion part I felt the day we went to Fatima. I can’t even explain what it is, because I still don’t really know. All I know is that they believe 3 kids saw a vision of Mary and now they believe they need to pray through her to get to God. Why do people always want to complicate things?? They just make it harder on themselves! So didn’t learn much there, but I know it is wrong. So the confusion part came in, what do I do with this information that I learned there the day??? How do I use it in my daily live?? Why did I have to see and experience that?? I still don’t have an answer….So the same night we watched a DVD about Ester and what our
missions is in live. You get your real mission and you get shadow missions. A shadow mission is when you miss your purpose on earth. Your shadow mission can be off your real mission a little bit, but that little bit makes a differences. That made me to start thinking about what I busy doing in my live, is it my shadow mission??? I don’t know.The rest of the time we would hand out books and pamphlets to do “marketing” for the church services on Sunday and to invite people to church. Again I got rejected and this time I learned it just harder. You would hand out pamphlets and some people will through it in the dustbin immediately, very sad! They rejected the Lord, the ruler of heaven and earth. What’s even sadder is that they don’t even
realize it! And then the Lord says we should wipe the dust off our feet and move on! I still struggle a lot with that.I look up to the church we worked with, they just keep on inviting people to church, and then the church doesn’t really grow. I would have given up along time. They gave there everything to the Lord and then this happens. Well that Sunday in church they had 5 new people in the church, and that is really amazing!!All the families we stayed with were also very amazing. They just kept on blessing us with everything. There hospitality was just great. They really open there hearts and
their homes for us. It was also nice to see how close those people/ families are to each other. They all are really a big family and I am glad that I could have been a part of it! We can just keep praying for them and all the work they are doing there.
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