Faithfulness and Completion

Ecuador, I’ll miss you more than you’ll ever know. These last three months have honestly been the best three months of my life. 

For those of you who don’t know.. my team and I have been at a school here in Ecuador called T.W. Anderson for the last 3 months. Today was our last day there. The students at this school have become like friends to me. So saying goodbye to them today was honestly one of the actual hardest things I’ve had to do. I really don’t want to leave these kids. I have an immense amount of love for them. They have my heart. All of it. 

Today, one of girls at school decided to let Christ into her life. I cried after it happened, I was completely overjoyed.. I still am completely overjoyed. The past couple months the Lord had laid her on my heart so hard. Over the time I’ve been here we’ve talked a lot about Jesus and life and all the things. It’s been such fruitful thing for me, as for her. Through this, I’ve learned a lot about faith and trust with the Lord. And that what He says, is true. And that He keeps His promises. If He tells me 2 months in advance that a specific girl at the school is going to give her life to Christ before we leave, it’s going to happen.. and it did. God is incredible, over and over again He amazes me with His faithfulness. This moment today, when I was able to pray for her and when she let Jesus into her life, was one of my favorite moment’s of my whole life. I can’t wait to see where the Lord takes her. It’s going to be absolutely incredible.

Over these last few months the Lord has taught me a lot about walking in the freedom He’s given me and about being obedient to Him.

I’m going to miss Ecuador so much, more specifically.. I’m going to miss the people at T.W. Anderson. Especially things like Peter saying hello to us every morning on the bus, and walking into class and hearing all the kids go “Hiiii Alyeeeeeesssssaaaa” every single time. Or when I’d see Gabby and she’d ask me about my day and give me the biggest hug. I’m going to miss break and lunch, where I’ve had some of the most in depth conversations with the students. I’m going to miss doing my handshake with May and Cao everyday. I’m so deeply going  to miss the talks Karen and I had about why Jesus loves us and the deep conversations about purpose with Mateo. I’m going to miss Samy’s beautiful smile. I’m going to miss all of their hugs. I could keep on going, but I’d go on forever.. for real.

Everyone at T Dubs, (T.W. Anderson). I am going to miss you all so much. 

Although I am incredibly sad about leaving, I feel happy to say that I have a sense of peace about leaving.

Peace Out Homies.

-Lyss