Thursday, November 19, 2009

Back in Arizona

I flew into Arizona on Monday, and my house has never seemed so quiet. That's not necessarily bad, but I am so used to my peers being everywhere. Especially mealtimes are hecka strange. Since I ate with 10 other people for the past 6 weeks and much more than that in the cafeteria for three months, our four-person dinners seem so small.
On the other hand, when I walked into my empty bedroom, it seemed enormous! Everything is extremely different, except for the people. They are mostly the same. It's me that's changed so much. I still enjoy the same things, but they don't drive me the way they did. I miss the worship times we had at YWAM. I think I'll have to learn guitar better in the next seven weeks so I can have some personal worship times.
I want to tell more about Brazil soon, but right now I'm just processing being back with my family--which is wonderful--and figuring out what my priorities are in the next seven weeks.
Oh, I suppose the phrase "the next seven weeks" may not have the same significance for you that it does for me. Hmm. Basically, I feel that God is calling me back to do the second school that YWAM Tyler offers, the School of Evangelism, which is also five months long and starts in January. So if you could be praying for God to make that abundantly clear and to show me what it is that I need to do to cooperate in preparing and fundraising for that, I would so appreciate it.
If you live in Arizona and you're reading this, call me and we'll get together sometime soon! I've missed people so much...don't think that I'm JUST pining for YWAM ;)
God bless everyone who's reading this, and if you want prayer for anything, feel free to shoot me an e-mail or comment at outofthebox.beautiful@gmail.com :)

with peace,
Camila

Friday, November 13, 2009

Outreach...in one post? I don't think so

So I know it's been just about forever since I wrote, otherwise known as almost a month, but I am now back in Texas as of Tuesday morning and I am bursting with everything that God has done and is continuing to do now! :) Wow, that was a long sentence! Were you out of breath reading it? I was. ;)
So, wow...How do I explain my outreach in Brazil when I haven't even completely processed and communicated what happened in my lecture phase? Well, let's just say that God not only used me to bless people in Brazil, but I really fell in love with the country, the people, the culture, and the work that he's doing there. Even when we were told to pray about where God wanted us to go on outreach, my heart was jumping out of my chest for Brazil, and it still is.
Some of the main things that we did were street evangelism and working with all sorts of schools, as well as partnering with both the Recife (a main city in Brazil)base and a church. I was actually a clown for my outreach, so I got to see a lot of kids smile and laugh at our skits. I was also a part of a drama called Silent Movie, which helps people understand the seriousness of battle in spiritual warfare. It was a little too heavy to do for some of the younger audiences, but we got to do it at churches and the beach. (for evangelism)
I will write more later, when I can really gather my thoughts and write cohesively. I have 4 hours 15 minutes sleep last night. ;)