The adventures in God's Hands

To start I must say that this month has been full of happy, sad, and exciting moments. This month has also been slow and busy at the same time, but in the mist of everything God has been present all the time. That is why I am naming this post "The adventures in God's Hands". Let me start telling you that I finished working at the School District of Lancaster on Wednesday, June 15th. There were at lot of mixing emotions. First, I was happy to be the end the school year, which by the way was great. Second, I was excited to close a chapter on my life and finally moving on to a different one, and Third, it was really hard and sad to say good bye to the kids. You get so attached to them, and when is time to say good bye is so painful. Off course more for me than for them. lol!

Also during this month I had a Colombian fundraising meal to help me raise support for my trip. The meal was a success!!! Thanks to many of you this activity was possible. Allow me to let you how God's hands were present during this meal. Let me star telling you that there was a point were I was very worried, people were not responding to my invitation, the numbers were very low and I was literally freaking out. I guess in my mind, I was thinking that out the 150 people I invited, everyone will say "yes". Oh boy let me tell you, I was super scared when  only 12 people were attending, but then God surprised me with a bunch of emails from other people telling they were attending as well. At that point I was calmer, and I felt much better about the whole thing. However, this was not the only thing I was worried about, I was worry about the quality, and the cost of the food but God's hands were presented once again. The day we went to buy the food was a whole new adventure. When we were at the butcher shop we had to wait a whole hour to be attended, then it took me like half hour to explain the kind of meat I needed, and in top of that the guys at the butcher shop made fun of me a little but in the end I got what I needed after other whole hour. Then we went to the Latino store and found all the fresh veggies I needed for an amazing price.Then we went to the grocery store and found the most juice and sweet fruits ever for great prices as well; and the most amazing of all, we found avocados ready to eat, which does not happen often, or at least finding 15 avocados ready to eat!! During the buying process we couldn't find plantains, the Latino store had only two, and I was sad because the price was really good, at least that's what I thought. The plantains were 5 for $2.00, so we had to go back to butcher shop because that was the only place that had plantains, and to my surprise they were at an amazing price!! 8 for $1.00!!! Amazing ah?! Then went I got home and checked how much I had spend and to my surprise I had the exact amount of money needed to begging with the next day at the donation table. God really showed Himself in a way I had never seen before. It was great, He gave me such an amazing peace!!
But the blessing did not stop right there, that Saturday morning God provided me with a bunch of helpful hearts, minds, and hands. I never expected to have so much help. It was great to work all together. The morning went really smooth and we all had a great time. In the end I had raised around $1,000, people came with very generous hearts, and I am sure they left with full happy bellies and content hearts,because I know that is the side effect of Colombian food!! 

Now the sad part comes. I am in the packing process of moving out of my home of 5 years. I never thought this was going to be so hard to let go. You get to know so many people in MIH, but the most great part is that you built strong long lasting friendships, and it is really hard to say see you later. However, I am really excited to see what God has in store for this new school year. I am looking forward to meet new people, build new friendships, but most important of all to grow stronger in Jesus. I am so excited to get to know the kids, teachers, administrators, and parents.

I am also preparing to enjoy my vacations with my daddy, and family in Puerto Rico. I will have the opportunity to celebrate my dad's birthday with him. I am looking forward to have some family time and enjoy them the most I can. Then Sophie will arrive to Puerto Rico and we'll have a blast exploring the island together.

Any ways, those are the updates of this month. I will be writing more from Puerto Rico and letting you know how I am doing.

Love
Olgui!!
P.S. Sorry for the mistakes, still learning!!