My Team:

I just realized that I haven’t introduced you all to my teammates yet.

This is Danielle:

She is 19 (turning 20 in less than a month!) and is so incredibly sweet, great and very willing to have God envelope her this summer as He has called her to this summer in Mexico. She is going to be a Junior at Olivet in the fall. Yep, she is a smartie and is graduating early. She speaks a lot of Spanish, but is still learning just like me.

This is Mayuli also known as Miley:

 

I gave her the nickname Miley. She is 24 and in the fall going to nursing school. She has a developing passion for God’s people and missions. She desires to have it be a strong part of her life and is just learning what that means by being involved in Youth in Mission this summer. She is so sweet and doesn’t speak much English, but is so willing to learn. We are getting close, she has a beautiful heart.

This is Maddai, our leader:

She is 21 and the evangelism coordinator for her district in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. She has an amazing passion for broken and lost people and desires like no one else I’ve seen for them to find their way home again. She is learning, making mistakes and learning how to be a great leader in Christ. She is young and it is usual here as well, for her to have the job she does but she gives a fresh new face to missions and a new outlook on the things she is doing and accomplishing. We could use more people like her in the U.S. She has a beautiful soul and we have been friends for over a year now. We are so similar in so many ways, mostly because we have very similar passions, helping people.

She has almost become fluent in English in less than year, which is an inspiration to me.

Then there is me:

My Spanish is definitely improving in the 2 weeks since I’ve been here. God is stretching me as a person more than I would have expected and my desires and passions as a person are changing and being transformed into something that I hope is more of Him and less of me. I’m learning a lot. And learning how to be more like the servant in Philippians 2:

“If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.

Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life—in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing. But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.”