Decisions/Patience

I am at a point in my life where a decision has to be made. Where do I want to finish up my schooling? But do I have the patience to wait for God to tell me where he has planned for me thats what we are going to find out. See I have the desire in my heart to go to UTEP so that I can be closer to Juarez and to the people who so desperately need the love of christ in their heart. But more than that I think getting away from the bad influences in my life would be a good thing as well for me to be able to grow to the potential that God has for me and to be able to raise the bar another notch. But after talking to a UTEP representative it seems that I wont know until right before school starts on wether or not I will not only moving to El Paso but in a very short time from with no place to stay no job and not knowing the spread of the Campus. I have faith that God will open or close doors as according to his will and the plan for hope and a future in my life Jeremiah 29:11 " ¹¹ For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." now I just have the patience to wait and see which door he opens. Being wise I need to prepare myself for the door to UTEP being closed so I need to prepare stuff for WT which I found out today that I got accepted to. So next week I will go prepare my schedule by meeting with an advisor from WT, Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. Daily I will delight myself in the Lord because he will give me the desires of my heart it says so in the Bible, also my desire it to walk in the path that he has made for me. I pray that his will be done my emotions set aside I just want to do his bidding I will be happy either way. Because if he doesnt want me in El Paso then he has something here in Amarillo for me thats greater than I could have imagined doing in El Paso because my God is a good and great things and mountains can be moved in his name with faith the size of a mustard seed.

El Paso

So coming in to El Paso for the weekend I had a few goals

1) To see friends that I haven't seen in a while

2) Get a Tattoo

2) Let them know that I am trying to move down here to finish school and to be around them

I had an amazing time. I was able to go to Hueco Tanks which for those of you who dont know is in the Top 2 spots world wide for bouldering which is my favorite type of climbing. Sunday I had the awesome ability to go into Juarez Mx. with my good friend Josh, Pete and their team of 24 people to build 2 homes

for 2 different families and share the Love of the cross and the grace of the Blood. Something that I have been praying for the last couple of weeks is that I would be able to see a life changed. But this time I was specific I wanted to hear that a team member accepted Jesus into their heart. Its been on my heart I read stories about other leaders learning of this. I often felt like I was doing something wrong as a team leader that I needed to do something to better for that to work. But these weekend I didn't do anything better than I usually do in fact if you really want to break it down I did a lot less I did my best to just become a team member again because I know that it wont be like that when I come back in two weeks with my home Church.

Coming to El Paso for this weekend just showed me how much more I want to move down here. The opportunities to serve in so many different ways and in serving the opportunity to grow is increased exponentially. With what little I walked around campus I was impressed with the structure and the shape of the campus it all looked newly remodeled of very well kept. Aside from Hueco Tanks there are actual mountains to ride my Mt. Bike, the cycling community not only exist but is visible. I so people riding there bikes constantly, they had bike lanes and drivers stayed out of them. The UTEP campus has a pull that i would have Access to which would allow me to teach myself how to swim properly for competition thus being able to start training for Triathlons. Pretty much everything I want/like to do is wrapped up in this city. It may be in the middle of the desert but the people there( CpC and Paseo peeps) are fantastic people to be around and definately a group that would be a positive change for me.

Camp X

So the Past week has been one of the most rewarding weeks of my life.

This year we went to a new camp for Xtreme, Bonita Park in Ruidoso NM. So different from anything we were used to. It was in the mountains, green, wet, there were tons of trees and the temperatures were not crazy hot and the daily rain was refreshing.

The camp staff at Bonita Park were to say the least awesome. I dont think I have ever come across such a large group of people who were so happy all the time. I never saw anything but a smile on their face. I was so refreshing

Gods presence and the Holy Spirit were so thick the whole week it felt unreal. The kids were asking for longer worship sets and many received Christ and many more received their prayer language. I heard multiple stories of kids having visions in their quiet times. I also received many encouraging words this week which was something that I have been in need of. Praise the Lord

Matthew 25:21 His master replied, "Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share in your master's happiness!"

The feeling I left that camp with is something that I am not able to do justice with words. It was the most amazing feeling I have ever had. Matching that of being able to hand a family keys to a new home that God has giving them. The Holy Spirit was just so present.

If you read this post I would ask that you pray for the continual movement of the Holy Spirit in these kids and for the spirits of the camp staff so that they will be able to continue to impact the lives of those attending a camp at bonita park in a positive way.