Dear readers,
I just got back from Faith Camp yesterday! I was soooooo abundantly blessed by it! I was a disciple this year which means I would pick up, set up, clean up and wipe up any and everything. I really was able to practice serving. And not in only a spiritual way but with my hands. It was a beautiful experience. Faith Camp just finished it's 14th year. It was started by my aunt and grandma with 20 people and now has grown to 200! We had it this year at a facility so that we could accommodate 75 percent more campers. I was able to bond with the other 17 disciples that were there and truly was able to witness one of God's greatest works for young people. My whole family says it and I agree that Faith Camp is one of God's greatest works for youth in the world!!! I hope and plan to attend every possible opportunity I get! God has rocked my world this week and now the world is a better place.
I leave for Covecrest tomorrow and will be back in 8 days. Please pray for me. Also my cousin Marissa Grace was born today! My Great-uncle Will passed away two days ago. Please pray for all of this!
Peace and Love in Christ,
Alyse
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Craziness in plans
Dear readers,
Faith Camp starts on Monday!!!! I am indescribably excited about it, after painting various themed murals, cutting cardboard, praying daily and frantically finishing up things it is here!! God had a surprise up his sleeve! I am leaving to go to a week long summer camp in Georgia at Covecrest. I am soo excited about it! I will fly down the day after Faith Camp finishes and then will come back after 8 days. Then I will help me and my family move to an apartment that we found about 2 and a half hours away so Kevin can go to nursing school. After that I will go back down to General! Anyway I am keeping busy. After the trip in August things will probably mellow down a bit for about a month, or so I think. Any how, I just wanted to share with you and ask you all to keep me in your prayers. I probably won't be able to post for about two week so until then,
Peace and Love in Christ!
Alyse
Faith Camp starts on Monday!!!! I am indescribably excited about it, after painting various themed murals, cutting cardboard, praying daily and frantically finishing up things it is here!! God had a surprise up his sleeve! I am leaving to go to a week long summer camp in Georgia at Covecrest. I am soo excited about it! I will fly down the day after Faith Camp finishes and then will come back after 8 days. Then I will help me and my family move to an apartment that we found about 2 and a half hours away so Kevin can go to nursing school. After that I will go back down to General! Anyway I am keeping busy. After the trip in August things will probably mellow down a bit for about a month, or so I think. Any how, I just wanted to share with you and ask you all to keep me in your prayers. I probably won't be able to post for about two week so until then,
Peace and Love in Christ!
Alyse
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Back Home!
Dear readers,
I cannot put into words how indescribably blessed I have been these past two weeks in General Cepeda. God moved so powerfully and from the trips four people have felt the call to be full time missionaries! Please pray for these people and for their families. I feel so refreshed and renewed from being back in missions. One thing that I love about being a missionary is that I can always feel a change in myself. I feel like a different and better prson than I did before I went down two weeks ago. Even though I am back home I am preparing for a busy month and upcoming year. I will be home schooled again next year so as to continue being able to be a part of the mission trips. Faith Camp (a summer camp that I will be helping out with and is a wonderful ministry to junior high kids) is coming up soon! My mom will be going down to General while I am at Faith Camp. If you would like to learn more about the camp go to www.bestweekofyourlife.com. Hopefully I will have my own laptop soon and I plan to write a novel about missionaries! Please pray that God would inspire me so that it will give the glory to him! I will hopefully be going back to General Cepeda in August for a week. I am praying that I will be able to go to Ecuador sometime in this upcoming year!!!! If not this fall then in May for a short term group my uncle will be leading. Next summer, or if possible sooner, I plan to volunteer in an orphanage in Guadalajara for a time. Maybe two or three weeks. I am hoping to get a jump start or completely finish college by the time I am 18 so that I can go straight into missions, having moved college out of the way. So as you all see I plan to keep busy :) Please be praying for me and that I would be able to accomplish all of the things that God has in store for me! I am praying for y'all! Praise God for his providence!
Peace and Love in Christ,
Alyse
I cannot put into words how indescribably blessed I have been these past two weeks in General Cepeda. God moved so powerfully and from the trips four people have felt the call to be full time missionaries! Please pray for these people and for their families. I feel so refreshed and renewed from being back in missions. One thing that I love about being a missionary is that I can always feel a change in myself. I feel like a different and better prson than I did before I went down two weeks ago. Even though I am back home I am preparing for a busy month and upcoming year. I will be home schooled again next year so as to continue being able to be a part of the mission trips. Faith Camp (a summer camp that I will be helping out with and is a wonderful ministry to junior high kids) is coming up soon! My mom will be going down to General while I am at Faith Camp. If you would like to learn more about the camp go to www.bestweekofyourlife.com. Hopefully I will have my own laptop soon and I plan to write a novel about missionaries! Please pray that God would inspire me so that it will give the glory to him! I will hopefully be going back to General Cepeda in August for a week. I am praying that I will be able to go to Ecuador sometime in this upcoming year!!!! If not this fall then in May for a short term group my uncle will be leading. Next summer, or if possible sooner, I plan to volunteer in an orphanage in Guadalajara for a time. Maybe two or three weeks. I am hoping to get a jump start or completely finish college by the time I am 18 so that I can go straight into missions, having moved college out of the way. So as you all see I plan to keep busy :) Please be praying for me and that I would be able to accomplish all of the things that God has in store for me! I am praying for y'all! Praise God for his providence!
Peace and Love in Christ,
Alyse
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Missionary Photos
Me holding Yahaira
The cathedral in Saltillo, where we go to on pilgrimage day
The crucifix in the miracle chapel that converted a tribe. And now there are thousands of miracles that happen after people have visited it!
My rancho group in front of the mountain that has hundreds of petroglyphs carved into the stones
One of the pertroglyphs
Us eating with Tonio and Mari
My missionary sister Erika and I
Me holding one of our signs to sing along with
Our Lady of Guadalupe
A beautiful chapel that we visited
I have been continuously blessed during my visit here! I will be returning to the US on the fourth. Please pray for the people here and for a safe journey home. I can't wait to share some of my stories with y'all!
Peace and Love in Christ,
Alyse
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Updates
This is the entrance to our mission house!
This is the chapel of Independencia, a rancho that my family and I used to go to weekly.
This is our group that climbed the mountain. It was really cool, there is a shrine to Mary on the top where she appeared to a shepard!
This is one of the many amazing views from on top of the mountain
This is me translating at Independencia!
This is the pinata I got for my birthday :-)
This is one of my many attempts to hit my pinata with a blindfold on my face
This is our missionary Jonathan on the roof holding the pinata
This is my face shoved in my wonderful cake for the traditional "mordida"
I hope y'all enjoy these pics, and that they help you get a feel for what it is like here! I will try to get more later and put them up for you.
Peace and Love in Christ,
Alyse
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Touched
Dear readers,
I have continued to be abundantly blessed by God's love and providence. Yesterday was my birthday! I had a delicious cake and a pinata as a surprise! Another girl on the group also had her birthday yesterday and we celebrated together. We had an amazing rancho experience and I was just so blessed all day! I have been taking pictures and hopefully I will be able to share them with y'all soon! Today I just got back from home visits. We visited a man who has a lot of trouble walking, and we were able to give him crutches. We visited a woman who is truly one of the most good natured people I have ever met and we visited a little boy. His name is Luis Angel and he is 9 years old. He is one of a family of four and last year his older brother died of a rare and aggressive disease. He was in the grade underneath me and his sister was in my class. Luis Angel has cancer in his blood. No body ever visits him so Tonio, a missionary, is his best friend. He has the most amazing smile and a truly kind and happy heart. His family lives in a two room adobe house and they are an example of true poverty. Luis cannot be cured. He is taking medicine to help calm his disease, and unless God cures him he will die in not too long. I am crying ad I write this, I don't know if I have ever been so touched by any home visit or any person I have ministered to as Luis. Every week Tonio visits him and gives him the homework of drawing him a picture. As I sat there and spoke with Luis Angel all I wanted to do was help him, and I was overwhelmed with the sensation of hopelessness. I ask you to pray for the Torres Cerda family and especially for Luis Angel. I cannot imagine what his family must feel to be attacked with such hardships and yet his Mother smiled the whole time and thanked us for coming. I could write forever but I need to go.
Peace and Love in Christ,
Alyse
I have continued to be abundantly blessed by God's love and providence. Yesterday was my birthday! I had a delicious cake and a pinata as a surprise! Another girl on the group also had her birthday yesterday and we celebrated together. We had an amazing rancho experience and I was just so blessed all day! I have been taking pictures and hopefully I will be able to share them with y'all soon! Today I just got back from home visits. We visited a man who has a lot of trouble walking, and we were able to give him crutches. We visited a woman who is truly one of the most good natured people I have ever met and we visited a little boy. His name is Luis Angel and he is 9 years old. He is one of a family of four and last year his older brother died of a rare and aggressive disease. He was in the grade underneath me and his sister was in my class. Luis Angel has cancer in his blood. No body ever visits him so Tonio, a missionary, is his best friend. He has the most amazing smile and a truly kind and happy heart. His family lives in a two room adobe house and they are an example of true poverty. Luis cannot be cured. He is taking medicine to help calm his disease, and unless God cures him he will die in not too long. I am crying ad I write this, I don't know if I have ever been so touched by any home visit or any person I have ministered to as Luis. Every week Tonio visits him and gives him the homework of drawing him a picture. As I sat there and spoke with Luis Angel all I wanted to do was help him, and I was overwhelmed with the sensation of hopelessness. I ask you to pray for the Torres Cerda family and especially for Luis Angel. I cannot imagine what his family must feel to be attacked with such hardships and yet his Mother smiled the whole time and thanked us for coming. I could write forever but I need to go.
Peace and Love in Christ,
Alyse
Monday, June 21, 2010
Blessings!!!!
Dear readers,
I have arrived safely back at my dearest General Cepeda. We had a slight stumbling block at the border, but as always God had our back. We had a totally safe and happy trip here. We were greeted by the four full time missionaries that have been living here the past month. I have just been here a day but I know that God id going to move powerfully in and through this group. I didn't know the full extent of how much I missed this place until I got here. I was able to visit two of God's saints today and that gave me so much joy! I have reached the point that the thought of my life without missions is unbearable. I want to give my whole life to the service of my brother's and sister's in him who gives us life! I am so blessed with all that I have seen and experienced, I don't know why God blesses me so abundantly, but I do know that I am ready to live my life in thanksgiving for those blessings. Thank y'all for reading and praying with and for me! I love you all!
Peace and Love in Christ,
Alyse
I have arrived safely back at my dearest General Cepeda. We had a slight stumbling block at the border, but as always God had our back. We had a totally safe and happy trip here. We were greeted by the four full time missionaries that have been living here the past month. I have just been here a day but I know that God id going to move powerfully in and through this group. I didn't know the full extent of how much I missed this place until I got here. I was able to visit two of God's saints today and that gave me so much joy! I have reached the point that the thought of my life without missions is unbearable. I want to give my whole life to the service of my brother's and sister's in him who gives us life! I am so blessed with all that I have seen and experienced, I don't know why God blesses me so abundantly, but I do know that I am ready to live my life in thanksgiving for those blessings. Thank y'all for reading and praying with and for me! I love you all!
Peace and Love in Christ,
Alyse
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