It's been 6 weeks I'm in America! I've been meeting and connecting with people, sharing in different groups settings and raising support!!! I've had the privilege to see wonderful people that I've met in Brazil, reconnect and be encouraged by them, share struggles and prayer request, and it is been helping a lot throughout this whole raising support process!
Yes it is a process! I didn't have idea of how big, detailed, complicated and tiring this would be. It is a challenge learning how to do it as I'm doing it! It's being hard, but I can't denay that I'm growing a lot throughout that. When I wake up worried with all I have to do, my day doesn't end the way I expected...When I wake up not worring with things that I can't do on my own, and I try to not exactly fit in that day according the way "I think" it should be and, instead I do what I’m suppose to do for that day but watching what God is doing and then join in what He is already doing, then I end my day smiling and praising Him for amazing things that He did and I didn't expected at all!!!
Another challenge it's sharing my complete testimony. I'm sure many of you haven't heard the entire history. I always had a hard time sharing it, I was ashamed about my past. But I've experienced how God can use our past for His glory, if we surrender to Him, love Him and seek for His purposes, his will instead of ours... (All things works to the good for those who loves Him and are called according with His purpose...Rm8:28).
More than just raising support, sharing my heart with people is enabling me to be healed, allows me to actually see how God has carried me through until this point (wich has drawn me more and more to Him) and as I share my heart, God bless people with the history that He own has wrote in my life...Praise Him! You should find God's people and share your heart as well!
The last thing I want to share about my short journey in USA its about my hosting family, the Middleton are an awesome family! Everyone get surprised when I say I'm living with a family who got 5 kids and they are all homeschooled! It's being my pleasure share with those people what a blessing being there is for me and how I've learned a lot from them, like parenting and family stuff! Praise the Lord for families like theirs!
Isn't it awesome how much God can done in such a short period of time?! Surrender your will, your own way to do things to Him and you will experience His amazing ways to be your God! This is my verse for this Lent season: “You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart" Jr 29:13
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God bless you, enjoy the pictures bellow, places whre I've been sharing and people I've been meeting!
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| Kyle and Amy Middleton, and Amy's father |
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| Dann and Darlene Bryant! He is an awesome cook! Hegave me scargot to try and I didn't know what was it! :( |
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| Sharing at a Homeschool Event |
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| Uebelhoer Family! Met them for God's coincidence, she is Brazilian from Minas Gerais! |
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| Corrissa Jacomine and Shwan Mcphie, people uphere dress so different than when they are in Brazil! |
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| Dear Friend Robin Drummond, shared at City Impact minsitry in Tenderloin, SF and I was able to join it! |
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| Sharing at a Oak Hills church Mothers Event |
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| OEM Huddle at LakeSide Church. We meet every Tuesday morning, missions minded folks who got a passion to share the Gospel with others! |
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| Bill and Lillie Smith, We have knowned each other for 10 years! |
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| Joe and Diane Walsh, they were missionaries in Brazil 30 years ago! |
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| Courtney Gregory from Arcade Church is going to Brazil for 6 months, she organized a dessert forher supporters, so I helped doing a brazilian flan dessert! Cooking isnt' my skill! |
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| Thisis how the flan turned out! People liked thou! It was still hot and we took out of the pan! Hahahaha |
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| See, people enjoyed! |
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| That's how we served the flan, it worked! People said it tasted very good! |
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| Cortney Gregory, been prayed over by her church elders! |
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| Sharing at Oak Hills Church Staff Meeting! |
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| Brian, you rock! |
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| Many of you met Weston and Carrie Lemos, they are living back in USA now! Got 3 kids! |
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| LakeSide Church gave me a workstation at their office! It helps a lot! |
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My great friend Diane Slusher!!!
I'm getting a lot pounds on this trip!!!! :( |
