Change of Plans

So we were suppose to be leaving this Thursday, April 1st, but it's be changed to Monday, April 5th that we are now leaving for Port Hedland, there are different reasons for the change, one of which being fundraising opportunities on the weekend so that's awesome.
Everything's been going really well, the last 2 ish weeks have been great. It's been a lot of fun catching up with friends and processing outreach and what's coming up next.

Thanks for everything.

Mi Dios Es Bueno

My God is Good.
Just a quick update about what´s happening.
Our leaders met with University head people and we will be meeting with them next wednesday to potential work out times for us to go in and teach seminars and english and their classes.
Yesterday we were reading our last books of the Bible in the govt bilding area in Neza and this man, Ricardo, asked if we wanted to go and meet the receptionist or something of the building and talk to them about helping in Neza, totally random, he approached us.. hours later after the 3 of us students sat outside half asleep after finishing reading the bible, our leaders come out and tell us they just met with the assistent to the president and got all the contact info of all the churches in Neza and then then we got set up to work with flood relief in the northern area that flooded when a river over flowed. It was devistating but the opportunities that we´vebeen handed are amazing.. I cant believe what God has done.. it seems like we´ve done nothing but pray and God has opened every door for us.
mi diaos es bueno.

Bienvenido a Mexio

Well that is pretty much the extent of spanish.. haha and I had to look that up on google translator haha. So yes I am in Mexico .. in an area we like to call Neza because the actually name is much more complicated and lengthly than that. It´s a relatively dangerous area we are told .. the church pastor and his wife pretty much cringe whenever we tell them we´re going outside but hey, thats what we have Jesus for.
On the way here we said good-bye to one of our teammates who is going home for cancer treatment. It was really hard for all of us but we´re praying for her healing and I know she would appreciate your prayers as well if you get a chance. She´s a trooper and we love and miss her a lot.
For the first 3 days of us being here we will be reading through the bible, Genesis - Revelation, out loud in a public place .. and yes we go straight through the night taking 2 hour shifts with our little groups so it´s pretty exciting.
For 3 days after that we´ll be doing prayer walks around the area of Neza and then diving into ministry after that. We currently only really have 1 contact in our area with no real ministry set up. Please be praying that we are given the opportunities to do what God has for us here and maybe for the weather to warm up :) haha.
We´ve been eating tacos a lot .. Joe is loving life (he´s half mexican) with all the food he grew up on in the truest form of mexican cuisine. I´m enjoying it aswell.. he´s been packing us full of tacos for the last few days so we´ll probably all need some new pants or just some maternity pants to wear lol.
We´re doing really well so far, lots of laughing and crying and giggling and loving life. We´ve met a lot on new people and are working on our spanish by the minute.. my favourite word is gracias becuase it seems to suit everything.. that and bueno (good), como esta (how are you), hola (hello), and buenas noches/dias (good night/morning).
It´s chilly here thats for sure. I´m actually wearing 4 shirts and a jacket, tights and track/sweat pants and I can still say im very very cold. But it´s good.. winter in north america is like this. I´m just glad I dont need snow shoes haha.
I trust that you´re all doing well and keeping warm in the cold of the Canadian winter!
Thanks for everything..
love Becca

The Learning Curve ...

God's really been showing me growth in my life I think over the last few weeks. It's been a really really difficult couple weeks, but He's really used people around me and just different moments when it's just me and God to really let me know where I've come from. One of the things He's said was in a time when things were the hardest and I had just been told really bad news about a good friend and there was a lot going on. I was walking back home, not having a quiet time or anything and He basically says, "You're not blaming me" and I realized .. like wow.. I think a few months ago that would have been an entirely different statement like "STOP BLAMING ME" haha, but the fact is He's used SO many things to bring me to a point where I know He's good. He never changes. He never stops being faithful. He always brings us the best regardless of how it may seem at the moment. I just really feel Him around. As I'm even writing this out I'm realizing that God speaking at that moment wasn't only powerful because it was Him who said it .. but it was powerful because He wanted me to realize that He will speak to me as obviously as He needs to when I know I need Him and I dont have to be in a quiet time or not doing anything. I guess I'm just at a place where I know that if He needs me to know something He's going to tell me and He's not going to wait for me to be sitting in a park, alone, with my Bible open to such and such a passage, and my notebook on a new sheet, with my pen in hand and hymn music playing softly on my Ipod. If He needs to/wants to, He'll speak when I'm on the verge of a breakdown in a dodgey area of town because He loves me.

Better Plans

So today we went chocolate selling in 35+ degree weather. Good times I know :). It was pretty good. We got kicked out of the train station, the city and a mall.. but all in all it was okay.
The best part was that before getting kicked out of the mall but after getting kicked out of the city, we met back together to decide where to go and we asked Christine how it went and she replied, "Didn't sell a lot of chocolate but I saw a salvation" and we were all like stunned. This 13 year old foster child got saved! and all because we were there selling chocolate.

He might even come and join us for the SOS training days. Thank you Jesus!

Passage of the Day

FAITH

So God told me to go to the city today and sit so I could see the city square, so I did. I went and sat down with a drink and read some things from Psalms. We just hung out for a bit and then I started to pray for people that were walking past. Whatever popped into my head I prayed about.. for individuals, types of people, genders, ages, children, adults, a lady that was feeding sea gulls... etc. The last few days have been super rough for me and I'm learning to push and rely on God. While I was sitting in the city I was thinking to myself about where my faith had gone. I just wanted to believe in it all again and just know that it was going to okay. Then I read this:

Mark 11:12 > 26

The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry.Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.

Then he said to the tree, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again." And his disciples heard him say it. On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. And as he taught them, he said, "Is it not written: 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you have made it 'a den of robbers.' "
The chief priests and the teachers of the law heard this and began looking for a way to kill him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching. When evening came, Jesus and his disciples went out of the city. In the morning, as they went along, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots. Peter remembered and said to Jesus, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered!"
"Have faith in God," Jesus answered. "Truly I tell you, if you say to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and do not doubt in your heart but believe that what you say will happen, it will be done for you. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins."

I dunno. I guess I've read this a lot.. but for some reason this time it was just different.

Hope you're encouraged.

Peace and Love

Whoops

Okay, so the reason I haven't been blogging lately is because I'm a slacker so I want to say I'm sorry for those of you that are keeping posted via .. well this.
I'm doing really well right now. We only have about 2 weeks left of lecture phase before we start prepping for Summer of Service, the 3 week missions trip we lead during summer break with high schoolers. Cecily and I are going to Darwin (northern territory in Australia).
We're very excited, I'm a little wearing about the heat. It's gunna be pretty intense.. like 50s probably so who knows what that entails.
I'd like to continue to ask for your prayer support as the finances were due last Wednesay and commissoining is coming up this week. I still need about $5830.45 which means I only have $330.45 left of lecture phase and then $5500.00 for outreach. As you may or may not have known I started off needing over $2000 for lecture phase and it's come down so much so it's pretty awesome to see how faithful God is in finances. It's cool too that on both sides of the track, me going and those that are financially supporting and making it possible that God sees both people the same. Both individuals are being obedient and letting God use them .. it just looks different. So thank you for being in on it with me.
It's been a great 10 weeks - still can't believe it's been 10 weeks. I still have about 7 months to go which is shocking when I think about it. I started thinking about how by the time I get home next June I would have been in Canada for just over 2 months in a year and like 4 months. SO weird.
Anyways keep the prayers coming, they are very needed and they do make a difference.
Much love.