Internships

It’s a rainy day today. Actually it was raining all of yesterday as well. I have now been in Mexico for about a week and a half. The time has gone by really fast and it feels like it was only

yesterday when we arrived.

This week we have been deciding our internships. Right away I thought that I would go to a school and teach dance. I decided that God would be able to use my skills best there since I was so good at teaching (plus the students could speak English), but he had something else in store for me. The night after I had visited the school and the next morning I kept on thinking about the hospital. Going to the hospital and chatting or praying with the patients was one of the options, but I had already decided to eliminate that option. I had made my decision without asking God first.

“A man’s ways seem right to him, but the Lord weighs the heart”

(Proverbs 21: vs2). I thought that I should teach dance because I would be able to accomplish my motive more effectively. Even though my Spanish is limited and I am more than uncomfortable praying out loud, God knows that I can actually accomplish His work more effectively at the hospital, not teaching dance.

Our first real day at the hospital was yesterday. Two other girls decided to intern there as well so all three of us went together. We decided to stick together, since it was the first day. We talked to this man who was sitting in his wheelchair outside of his room. We actually ended up talking to him for the entire time we were there. His mom came to visit him an hour into our conversation. Going to the hospital, I thought I would be the encouraging one for people; I thought I would help encourage this man. Yet again, God is humorous, because this man encouraged me in a big way!

I am not very confident in my Spanish speaking as I mentioned before, and I mentioned that to this man and he said “Poco a Poco “, which in English that means “little by little”. I need to constantly remind myself that I will not instantly know everything, whether it be Spanish or memorizing bible verses, but in time it’ll happen, and God knows that too. So I guess that’s all that really matters.