Let’s Catchup :)

Hey guys long time no talk. I’m so sorry I haven’t updated my blog in a while but now that I am finally getting settled in Ecuador I promise I will be posting a lot more 😉 Sooooo since I have been M.I.A. lately I thought I would update y’all a bit about life on the field.

Boot Baby
So about two weeks before I left Costa Rica I was leaving to go to an overnight beach trip and realized I forgot my credit card in the house so I ran out of the Uber and inside the house and tripped really hard and smacked my ankle onto the concrete. After a three hour bus ride to the beach, I realized my foot was double its size and I couldn’t walk on it. So I went to the doctor and discovered I got a 3rd degree sprain pretty much tripping over air and would have to be in a boot for 4 weeks. Wooohooooooo!!! The best part about this entire situation is that at the same time my mom, my dad, and myself were all in a boot at the same time. Anyways… this made my first two weeks in Ecuador very interesting.

Life in Ecuador:
My squad will be spending the last 3 months of my trip in Quito, Ecuador. Prior to arriving here I tried to clear my mind of any expectation I had because I want the last three months to just be about two things; #1 falling more in love with Jesus and #2 loving on His people. Currently my team and I are serving at a ministry called Dunamis. This ministry is more towards the mountain region and we have been doing construction work for a home for women who have survived sex trafficking. My squad has been doing things like painting, building this giant wall, and overall just making it a safer place for these amazing young women to take refuge. While preparing for the ladies arrival all 28 of the women on my squad have been sharing a huge room and learning what it means to love each other well even in small spaces.

Like father like daughter:
This past week my dad had the awesome opportunity to join me on the field here in Ecuador and experience what it’s like being a racer. Something I struggled with all throughout Costa Rica is being extremely homesick so getting the chance to bring a piece of home to me couldn’t have come at a better time. This trip had been being prayed over for months and to me was just another sign of our father’s faithfulness. To sum it up the week was full of tears, laughter, and a ton of encouragement. The Lord revealed a ton of stuff to me this week but the two biggest things were that He has me right where He wants me, and that He is never finished. Costa Rica being a really difficult month in every aspect made me question all purpose that the Lord has for me but during the parent visit week is was confirmed that the Lord has me right where He wants. Thanks pops for coming to visit me 🙂

Bye bye bread.
Since arriving in costa rica I have been extremely sick. Almost every two weeks just as I’m feeling better its something new. It ranged from digestive problems, to stomach aches that put me in tears, to colds that put me in bed for a week. I visited the doctors resulting in taking antibiotics and nothing was working. Then about two weeks ago one of my squad mates suggested that I should stop eating gluten or dairy and see if it helped. So as painful as it was to cut those out I did it and haven’t had a single problem since …..thank God. So as of right now I am convinced that I have a gluten and dairy intolerance due to never eating those two at home. If it makes me feel better than I’m ok with saying “see ya “ to gluten.

Thank you to all who have followed my missionary journey for 7 months now! Please continue to keep me in your prayers as I enter the last two months of my race. Please pray for my health. Pray for where the Lord wants me next. Pray for the people who I will encounter these last few months. Pray for my transition going home. Pray that the Lord keep me present. With much love…. Han 🙂