El Salvador

We leave for El Salvador in the morning and I would love to have your prayers. I'm not really nervous or scared of the trip because I KNOW it's going to be awesome. I'm just nervous about getting there. It feels like Satan is doing everything he can to keep me from getting there. I've been so crazy today trying to get things ready to go. I waited until today to do anything because I've been busy all week mostly trying to get Harper ready to spend a week with her grandparents.
She went home with them yesterday and so far is having the time of her life (and they are too!) She has been so happy and good and I'm pretty sure we miss her a LOT more than she misses us. I'm not worried about her at all because she is in great hands. If you have Harper withdrawl this week you can always check my mom's blog - she is promising to post pictures for me!

El Salvador has been having hurricanes and floods and so far 124 people have been killed. That's not really helping my anxiety. And have I mentioned I don't love flying? But maybe we are going at a perfect time.

But because Satan is fighting me so bad - tells me that God is up to something REALLY special this week. See this little girl? Her name is Daniela. She turned 6 on Halloween and she is the child our family is sponsoring. We have sponsored a little boy in Nicaragua for 2 years (ever since I read about Boomama's trip to Uganda with Compassion). And now we have a little girl! And on Thursday I get to meet her and I can't wait to say "Buenos Dias" in my country Arkansas accent and hug that sweet little face.
I asked Shaun Groves this week what we could bring her for gifts and I envisioned all these cute outfits and hair bows and barbie dolls and do you know what he said "she would love toothpaste and socks. These kids don't have closets. They don't need elaborate toys. They just want a toothbrush". And then I thought about Harper's RIDICULOUS closet and I was very ashamed and very humbled. And it made me want to sign up to sponsor 10 more kids. And after I meet them this week - we probably will.
On my right sidebar is a compassion button and if you click it - you can go read all the other Compassion bloggers on my trip with me! And on my left is a button that you can click to sign up to sponsor a child!
And there will be much more about this later but I want to tell you about an awesome thing that I'm getting involved with and I hope you will too! You know how much prayer means in my life and how burdened I am to pray for so many of you! There is a new website called www.prayergates.com and I hope you will check it out. This is a WONDERFUL place to take your prayer requests. You can sign up and leave requests, join prayer circles, find other people going through the same circumstances as you, to be encouraged. You can read a guest entry by Angie Smith that is up right now. I'll be writing more about this awesome prayer community in the future but I wanted to share about it tonight because I'm so excited about it! I know how many of you are just in need of support and prayer from fellow believers.

Right now I just keep thinking about something I read on Shaun Groves' blog after he asked me to go on this trip. He wrote about going on his first Compassion trip (to El Salvador) and how it changed his life and that's when he started working for them and when he really realized that being a Christian didn't just mean that we are saved FROM something but that we are saved FOR something. And that something is to go and tell the good news and to pray and to help others and to be God's hands and feet here on earth. And I can't think of anything I'd rather do with my life!

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