Rachel's Reflections

2 ½ weeks, 3 camps, 20+ team members, language and culture learning, lots of work = a great recipe for good friendships to form. Elina is my closest friend and really acted as an older sister to me during the camps. She taught me how to wash my clothes by hand and made sure I knew what was happening and where I needed to be. We were able to work together in the cafeteria for the first two camps and I do not think I could have done it without her patience and kindness. Mattheus is my favorite little boy. He was just adopted by one of the missionary families and I fell in love with him. He and I would spend time together whenever we could. He loves to play with water. His favorite phrase is “senta la” (sit there) and he would pat a place next to him for me to sit at. Catarina was only there for two of the three camps but I really appreciated getting to spend time with her and talking with her. Her and her boyfriend really want to become missionaries. I’m hoping to spend more

Looking into the mirror of time I can see myself sitting on this same bed, in the same room, inside the the heart of Maputo during the month of April. But as any mirror reflection is not the same as the real object so the image of myself in that reflection is very different from who I am today.  Then I was spiritually dry ... Since then my life has become saturated with God's Word. Then I was struggling to place my focus in the right place .. Since then God has taught me to focus on Him first and place Him at the center of my life.  Then I did not know how to feed myself spiritually ... Since then God has shown me different ways to grow spiritually.  Then everything in Maputo was new: people, language, city, culture, ministry, everything ... Now I know people, I am beginning to know the language, the culture, and the city.  How different I feel. But looking in the mirror of time has shown me how much God has blessed these last few months.  Ministry : Word of Life Mozambiq