despertar sueños
awaken dreams.
I am so excited to write! (and sorry it’s been a bit, I have been w/o internet..kinda)
Well…The Lord has a stirred up a new joy inside of me! I know I have said it before, but this time I really might just explode.
I will explain, The Lord is awakening dreams here in Nicaragua!
Not just in me but in the hearts of the youth.
Lets just say I have spent a lot of my life helping others chase after their dreams, which is not a bad thing. But I used it has a way to tuck away my own dreams, I didn’t just tuck them I away, I pretty much buried them…
Ever since I set foot here in Candelaria, the Lord has given me so much excitement and joy for his children here. Ask Brianna or meg, its kinda ridiculous. There are a specific few that I have really been overwhelmingly in love with. The Lord has continuously spoken to me about their lives and the plans they have for them. I have invested much of my time here with these kids, encouraging and supporting them in their dreams and just believing in them. Sometimes it is hard here to get the people to step out and say their dreams, because they don’t believe in themselves and once they have said their dreams they feel as though they have set themselves up for automatic failure. The Lord is destroying that lie right now, he is shaking lose dreams in Nicaragua!
and inside of me.
Since I have been here the Lord has used these youth to stir up my passions!!! Ones I didn’t even know I had—which I will write more about later ☺
Just pray with me that Meg, Brianna and I will hear clearly the ways in which we can support dreams! Spiritually, physically practically.
Dreams:
Jovanny: An incredible dancer-He wants to attend school in Managua for dance. Let me tell you, he’s already changing Canderlaria with this gift. He teaches classes three times a week.
Anthony: He wants to be a translator. Anthony can really do anything he sets his mind too, I just love him.
Ariel: He wants to be a dentist! He’s got the smile for it. We are going to try to get him started helping in the clinic while he finishes highschool ☺
Each of these kids wants to use their passions to help the village.
These are just a few of the spoken dreams I have heard since I have been here—The ones that I am committing to supporting for the long run…and helping find other supporters.
I will write more later, Meg and I are heading into Leon (I am living in Candelaria now) to help Linda with the website, brochures etc. and Brianna is going to the University with Tommy and Julio to discuss getting a campus ministry started there!
Yo creo en ti!!!!!!!!!!
-Whitney
P.S I am completely healthy, thanks for all who prayed it was just a 48 hour fever and stomach bug, a really bad stomach bug. But I am healthy and eating!
