1) Please pray for our travels. I hate flying and am already nervous about the airports/planes.
2) Please pray for my fear of inadequate language skills. I feel as though I should have learned more Spanish through out my life and now would have been an AMAZING time to put it into practice.
3) Please pray for my health. I really can't afford to get sick in Ecuador or when I return.
4) Please pray for my finances. I am having to take off from work unpaid while I am in Ecuador and am not able to receive funds for bills I need to pay when I return!
So my story about how I ended up on this trip is pretty funny. I remember getting an email from Julie about Ecuador while I was on a missions trip in Montana. I read it and felt God saying I should go on this trip (something that should be noted is I had only been attending Grace for three or four Sundays!) I was too busy in Montana to respond to her email and when I returned to Lincoln I had already forgotten to reply. Julie messaged me about two weeks later wanting to know if I had decided to go or not and after a while of debating with myself (and not God) I decided that I did not have the time/money to do such an extensive missions trip so I replied with a simple "sorry. I can't go, but I will be praying for you all who can go!"
Instantly there was a turning in my stomach and an invisible red handprint across my face. My heart began to race and I had no idea why, withing literally 45 seconds I replied again to Julie's email saying "scratch the last email, I will be going to Ecuador...sign me up!" God really spoke to me in that moment and he clearly showed me that I was meant for this missions trip! :) If you ask Julie there are even more crazy ways that God revealed to her that I needed to be apart of this! Anyhow, I'm apart of this team and wouldn't trade any of it for the world! I can't wait to see how God works with our hands through are hearts and in our lives and the lives of the children and workers of this orphanage!
Until the Whole World Hears,
Aaron Zapata
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ooh, thanks for sharing of God's message to you.
ReplyDeleteVery cool, Aaron.
Will be praying for those sweaty palms during the flight!!
Patti
We are very blessed to have such wonderful son and brother like you Aaron!!! You make us so proud!!! You are following in the footsteps of our Savior when he made that sacrifice for us!!!
ReplyDeleteAfter Gods <3,
Mom Dad Zac and Caleb