...............When you wonder WHY?

Maddie <3

Yesterday night, I couldn't fall asleep, I did everything I could possibly do, but I couldn't, so I wandered through the list of blogs I often read, and tried to look for some new ones I could find interesting, and I came across this blog, and before I give you the link to it, just let me tell you that... It's been days, weeks and maybe even months since I cried the way I cried reading this blog. My heart broke for this couple and I just couldn't understand WHY would God allow this things to happen. 


Turns out that, this beautiful couple, got engaged, got married and tried to have children for a long time, when she finally got pregnant, they thanked God, she had a wonderful pregnancy, waiting for their baby to come out in the right time, took pictures of the entire 9 months and enjoyed being pregnant. 


Madisson was born like a perfect little healthy princess, she was beautiful in every single way. PERFECTLY healthy and they just couldn't be happier. They loved her with all their heart. Until the unexpected happened:


One day, her husband called her at her work, and his voice sounded broken. He told her that Maddie had stopped breathing (while she was at the babysitters), and all that, just like that, she just stopped breathing, she lost her life, she passed away. JUST-LIKE-THAT-


I was SHOCKED, I felt confused just by reading it, you know? I've lost many many people, I've been through painful situations-such as going to my best friend's funeral- but I just simply cannot imagine the pain they most have felt and what they've been through since then, it's been over a month since they lost their child, and I can't express how encouraged I am by them to have such strength is this moments. Blogging makes her feel less depressed and sad because of all the positive feedback she's had from people she doesn't even know. Though they don't understand WHY she died, and probably never will, they know that people have been touched by their lost, and has created conscience in areas that maybe people take for granted. Such as SIDS, which is the actual cause Maddie passed away, to read more about it, go HERE. And to read her blog go HERE. I hope you will be as touched as I was. This just lefts me thinking that the prayer I make for my children (in the future), will be heard by God, and also makes me want to believe that I'll be a good mom, just by researching subjects like this and worrying about the health and protection of my kids. And though I know that they will NOT be mine (because they are God's), I will be here to guide them in their lives as they walk step by step holding God's hand. 


God please give comfort to families that have lost their children, and give them courage to keep on going. 



 

............How beautiful

This is just something I read on a post a friend did on facebook, but this is the whole chapter, I think is totally worth reading/memorizing it. How beautiful it is to be a part of his awesome kingdom so we can count with all this blessings. I love you so much Lord.

Deuteronomy 28

Blessings for Obedience

 ¹ If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you HIGH above all the nations on earth. 

² All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:

 ³ You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

 ⁴ The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

 ⁵ Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.

 ⁶ You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

 ⁷ The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.

 ⁸ The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.

 ⁹ The LORD will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the LORD your God and walk in obedience to him. 

¹⁰ Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will fear you.

¹¹ The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.

 ¹² The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. 

¹³ The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. 

¹⁴ Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.

SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL!

..................Why I love Guatemala

So, this weekend I got the chance to go to Guatemala (AGAIN, YES), for my friend's wedding, which by the way, it was precious and beautiful, she looked amazing, everything was perfect, and I was so happy to see them both so full of joy, love and compromise. It was a beautiful wedding! I pray that God will always be with them through their journey in life together. 


This is gonna be just a fun post, not gonna tell detail by detail what I did when I was there, I'm just gonna tell you as many reasons as possible WHY exactly I frikin' love Guatemala with all my heart and how I SOOO want to move there. So here we go:

1. I love love love the weather there, you know I absolutely hate being hot and sweaty, and my country is pretty much all the opposite than Guatemala. 
2. I love the people there, I really don't know if they're nice to me because I'm just a foreign, but they're so special to me, very lovable people.
3. I have like a million friends and family that I love with all my heart there.
4. My best friend lives there and I think we would have a blast together.
5. I love their coffee places, and their typical food.
6. One thing that I DON'T like about Guate is the traffic, but I could live with that.
7. I love their culture, and how they're not ashamed about it, like at all. 
8. I love how you can be away from the city in a beautiful place in a matter of minutes.
9. I love Antigua Guatemala, I think is the most romantic place on earth (that I know of yet)
10. I love the diversity there, you can choose to go anywhere you want to go and find a place that fits to your kind of mood, or something like that.
11. I LOVE the church there, is so much different than mine here, and don't get me wrong, I love mine, but is just so different. 
12. I love their accent, haha, I thought I would never say this, but I do. Hands down.
13. I love how sparkly most of the people are. 
14. I love that I get to be "different" there, just 'cause of the culture I guess.
15. I love how Graphic Design is evolving there. 
16. I think that's pretty much it for now, hehe.

So, there you go, 15 reasons why I love Guatemala :), maybe someday I'll move there, who knows, I'll keep you updated.

Here are some pics of my trip. Just the ones I could take from my webcam. I'm with George in the pics. We had a good time in Antigua (basically working in this cool project I'm gonna talk to you about it in the future). But I had a good time. We are silly. And I don't know why we can't be normal people, but I love him for that, you are such a good friend G, seriously :)

..............When changes are good :)

Note: I really didn't want to post this without pictures but this internet is just really really slow and I can't upload them. :( So, they're coming later on!

I really don’t know how come I haven’t blogged about this before.

My church has had some serious changes in this last couple of years, starting off with the looks of it. If I had pictures to explain myself about the past it would be great and perfect but I don’t have any, so let me try and explain myself with words.

At about 7 years ago, my dad was the pastor of that same church, and by then, the floors were not ceramic tiles, or even concrete, it was a dirt floor. There were no individual chairs, just big wooden benches for like 7 people, they were not fancy, they were handmade, painted with this brownish kinda red, weird. The ceiling was not fancy at all, it had a million holes, so when it rained we actually could have used umbrellas inside the church, when my dad was preaching sometimes and the rain would fall down, he had to stop talking for a while and we would just be quiet for that while because the rain would fall SO HARD on us, that we couldn’t listen to any of what he was saying because the ceiling was just and iron roof, I don't know if that's how it's called actually, but you get the point. It was awful; it felt as if all of us were in this little shack  that was about to fall apart, trying to have a good Sabbath.

By this, I don’t mean to say that the looks of something is THE most important thing in a church, but it’s important, I think God is pleased to see that his house of prayer looks nice for him, that the people in church would work as hard as possible to get a nice church. Remember how in the past, in the bible we find how the people from Jesus time (and way before him too), would make the best out of the Church of God, they would use Gold, fancy design and stuff like that just to build the house of prayer, their church, because it was precisely for God. BUT, also by this, I don’t mean that it’s completely and absolutely necessary to have a BEAUTIFUL church, some churches just really can’t afford it. It’s expensive and they would rather use that money for things more helpful than the looks of the church. At least they keep it clean and as pretty as possible, with their hardest effort.

The point of this post is just to make a point, And my point is that is so beautiful to see how my church as changed in this years, how all my brothers and sisters have WORKED SOOOOO HARD to make it look like it is now. You have no idea how influent the environment of any place can be.  It looks brighter, cleaner and prettier, which makes you feel better. Being a designer, I know how much color and lighting affects even the mood of the people that are in that place. And so, we now have individual and comfortable chairs for each person, ceramic tiles, fake ceiling (we can now hear the pastor preach, and we can also hear ourselves, you have no idea how bad it was we couldn’t even hear what the person right next to us said, it was so so bad, and trust me, I am not exaggerating). And church is painted pretty J Actually, we have just changed the paint, it use to be half white, half deep red, and last week I went to the hardware store with dad and bought three different types of blue (beautiful colors), and recently painted it. It looks gorgeous. All to have a new year (since holy dinner), and start fresh with new energies and surroundings. I’m excited.

Ok, that’s from the inside… now, from the outside, it used to be like… I don’t know how to explain, like muddy? I don’t know lol. But it was awfully bad looking, so we worked hard (again) to cover it with cement and make it look smooth and not with different levels like it use to be. And so, 3 weeks ago, we decided to paint it just like a mural wall simulating the volcano (you know, ‘cause my church is ½ km. away from the San Salvador volcano), and It looks SOOOO pretty! And I think the most exciting part of everything was to see my children help out with the painting, aaagh they looked so pretty and cute helping out. They did a great job, there was a point where they wouldn’t even let me paint ‘cause they stole my paint brush haha.

And so, here are more pictures of the painting and the makeoverJ, still lots of work to be done, we have to remodelate the children/youth room. We share the room with the kids ‘cause there’s no more space, so it’s gonna be a challenge for your fellow designer to make it look appropriate for both groups.  Let’s see what the future brings. 

God bless you all. I ask you please to pray for my church, all the people that make the best effort to make it look nice to feel better and have a nice place to come every Sabbath. Bless their hearts Lord.

...............A blessed Rested Sunday

Normally, I would be up to my forehead with homework on Sundays, that's a normal "Routine" for me, as my family split up to go work, spend the day with other people, go to church, etc, etc, I stay at home working. Almost always. 


Today it was different. Though I do have tons of work to do,  I decided to take the day off, I stopped thinking about anything that had to do with school, I needed a peace of mind, and so I did. I woke up late, had a yummy breakfast from Pollo Campero with my brother as we watched "House", helped grandpa with some stuff with his computer, took a long nap, had KFC cruncher ranch burger for lunch, read my favorite book, read my favorite blogs, listened to my favorite music, chilled on bed and just stood there and think, stopped thinking 'cause I got tired of thinking, watched "500 days of summer" which I loved. Took a late shower, washed my hair (finally, yuks)...btw, my hair is totally falling down :( don't know what's wrong with it :(...I'm kinda scared of losing my hair. Anyways, had the chillest Sunday ever...and I loved it. Though there were a couple of hours where I got depressed, have no idea why!, but just did. 


Thank God for days like this, I got to rest so much!...I'm thankful! And now I get to blog :) so fun. 


Just to give you and idea about my mood right now, I think this 2 songs describe perfectly how I feel right now, as I'm listening to both, I'm even getting sleepy hehe. Good night world, hope something good happens as I close my eyes tonight. 

Day is Done by Miss Amazing Norah Jones ft. Charlie Hunter

And...

Norah Jones & Charlie Hunter Quartet - More Than This

....................Inspiration!

Lately I've been inspired by several things and situations around me. From friends to conversations with people. Like last Saturday at church, I was talking to my brother, who 5 minutes earlier was talking to one of the man from church, he's young (aprox. 30 years old), and he's married and has 2 beautiful kids between the age of 3-7, his wife is pregnant right now. She's a beautiful young lady that works really hard at church and she's just a sweetheart. BUT, they've been having some serious economic problems. He doesn't have a job right now, she's not working, and they don't have money to buy food sometimes, it's gotten to the point that he's gone "Pigeon Hunting" to the woods to get food on the table when their kids return from school. This is hard, even to write it down, and I wish I had all the money in the world to help them out, because feeling sorry for them doesn't fix things, piddy them does not fix ANYTHING at all without ACTION. And so, I ask you maybe not to help THEM, but help anyone you can, a can of food can do a difference, if you can't afford so many things, don't feel bad by giving little. Don't feel bad by taking even just a piece of your food and give it to those you really really need it. 


This girl, Jessica Jackley, inspired me today, in THIS video, she talks about giving, poverty, money and love. And I think those 18 minutes with 34 seconds were WORTH watching. And I think you should totally totally watch it as well, it's gonna change your perspective on how you see poverty. It's amazing. And it made me remember about my long life dream....AFRICA!. And you see, is not that I'm those kind of people that "want to be like a famous person", such as Madonna, Angelina Jolie, etc etc. That get fame by adopting children from those countries. Nop, that's not me. I want to make a difference not only in my country (where some serious help could be needed), but to make a difference in other regions where necessity is a lot more urgent and my help could really be of importance and impact. I want to give them God, I want them to see the light, I want them to experience what I experience by believing in God and keeping is commandments and how precious it is to be a part of his people and how that makes a difference in my life. I WANT TO SERVE...so so so so bad!. 


I love my career, I love my family and I love my country, BUT, when it comes to serve, I don't care about dropping everything as it is and go SERVE. 


I want to make a difference in the world, I want God to use me to change lives so the people can see his glory. 


For now, I'm gonna help where I can help, I'm gonna serve where I can serve, and I'm gonna do it WELL, and I'm gonna do it for the Lord (Colosians 3:23-24) God will see about the future and he will WRITE IT as he pleases...This is where I am for now, this is where he wants me to be, I don't complain. I'm happy for now


What about you?


Blessings for all!, 
                           Love
                                       Jen

What I'm Loving Lately!..

Time for a fun update.


So, This is what I'm Loving lately:

• I'm loving... Finding new talents (specially music) in youtube or pretty much anywhere, such as THIS girl. Se is ama-zi-zing. And I'm obsessed with her, seriously. Her name is Melissa Polinar and I'm so glad she's not a commercial artist and she has her unique style. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVEEEE HER (listening to her music as I write)

• I'm loving... This song...Gravity by Sara Bareilles, I use to like to her before, but know I think I love her more now, she's honestly talented and underrated.

• I'm loving... Re-reading books that mean something to me, specially "Redeeming Love" by Francine Rivers, that book touches my heart.

• I'm loving... Finding cool jewelery to wear. Specially antiques. 

• I'm loving... Finding cute cute dresses :), seriously, is there a better look for women? I don't wear pants, I think dresses and skirts are the cutest most feminine outfit :). But that's just me. 

• I'm loving... Finding cute blogs! such as this. I don't know if I commented something about her in a previous post, but it's worth the sharing again :).

• I'm loving... Discovering new things about me, and trying to improve the things that I need to work on. Specially with my desperation and impatience hehe. 

• I'm loving... talking to someone everyday, anytime :) <3

• I'm loving... spending quality time with my sweet mom. Like yesterday, we went for a coffee together at Viva Espresso, and today we went to this Mexican Restaurant that we love it's called "Pueblo Viejo" and we had too much to eat!. I WAS FULLLLLLLL. 

• I'm loving... Stealing my brother's BB to chat haha. But still not enough to buy one for me. 

• I'm loving... thinking about the future, plan things in my head and create a new world in my head.

• I'm Loving... Typography!, check this out... Spaghettis, has nothing to do with typo actually, I just love the motion. 

• I'm loving... Thinking about what my next post is gonna be! :) 

• I'm loving... this Cuban coffee my brother brought from Cuba *of course*, it's SO good.

• I'm loving.. lactose free milk and skimmed! SOO GOODDDD

• I'm loving... distressing by writing! 

• I'M LOVING.......YOUUUUU!!!

.............(Insert description here)

Today, I had this homework about conceptualizing myself into words, and then I had to go and ask pretty much everyone I know about what they think of me, to see if I reflect what I think about myself.

I had some pretty interesting answers and different perspectives from everyone, it was fun. But the one that amazed me came from my dear dear friend, George :), he was the most honest person in the world to describe me, not only because he told me how great I am (JUST KIDDING HAHA), but he was honest by telling me what I'm not so great at. And he was right! and I appreciate it.

But later at night (like 5 minutes ago), he told me he had wrote a poem for me!, it was the sweetest thing ever and I LOVE IT. It describes me pretty much with his interesting writing. Not rhymed poetry, I like that. So here you go, it's in spanish, 'cause you know, it's my first language, just that I have no idea how come I can't blog in spanish!, maybe 'cause I'm a little crazy....just saying haha.

To visit his blog (interesting stuff), go HERE, you'll like it, I'm pretty sure :)

Lirel Mis Sonshain!

Te pido que definás amistad y hacés una locura, que definás locura y me ofrecés tu amistad. Así sos tú, rayito de luz, sonrisa luminaria, destello de vida, carrera contra el tiempo, abandono de sí: un amor de gente. Adelantándote vas, corriendo siempre, con el corazón en las manos, con la ilusión en los ojos, con la intención en la boca, así como siempre, adeltándote siempre, pintándole luz al mundo a cada paso, para recordar esos colores que perdimos de tanto andar perdidos en el pasado imperfecto del tiempo que no vuelve. Así vas, siempre, ofreciendo bendiciones, regalando tus sueños, construyendo momentos, adelantándote a todos, para dejarlo todo en manos del mejor sentimiento. Yo no pediría mucho ahora, si la bendición de encontrarte trae un buen augurio que de andar solos aprendimos que a veces aunque de formas raras y sutiles, Dios traza el camino para que las almas gemelas se encuentren y vayan tejiendo poco a poco, una amistad sincera como esta que venimos cosiendo. 

Isn't cute?!

..........Let the children come to me...

I've seen her before, I've listened to her before, wearing an office baggy suit, tired eyes,  Is it a lie?, Is it true?...

Those were a couple of things I thought when I was in the bus this afternoon, I was standing way in the back of the bus, all seats taken, and then a lady started talking in front of everyone, asking for money for her sick child. Usually, I would think that is not true what they say 'cause most of the time is not, they just make things up to get money from all the people that are riding the bus. Some extralimit themselves by taking their sick children with them everwhere so the people can piddy them. I'm totally against all that for several reasons, but I'm not gonna talk about it now. The point is that for some reason, I believed that lady, all the time, everytime she stands there in front of everyone to talk about her sick child, I believe her.

This time was different, I hesitated about her words (same as usual), I questioned myself by thinking if what she was saying was true or a lie. After she finished talking about her sick child -Renal Insufficiency- she asked for money, lots of people gave her. Not me, not this time.

The seat that was right by me was emptied in a second, I Could finally seat, and for my surprise, she sat right next to me and started a conversation...At first I was like hostile and to be honest, all I wanted to do is question her about her child, wether was a truth or a lie...I wanted to take every question out of myself and see if she was a fraud. But her words kindly softened my heart. She told me the story about her other 2 sons, how she wanted to stop right there and have no more children but her now ex husband wanted to have a girl. She couldn't refuse and got pregnant. Her long time boyfriend, the father of their 2 kids, the one she was married for a long time and was with her since highschool, cheated on her with her best friend, and found out that her friend's kids were also her husbands kids. She was 8 month pregnant with his child (to find out that he was also a boy, not a girl like he wanted), she was SO mad at her husband and her best friend, that she lost all stirrups and had an awful figt with him. Next time she remembers after that fight, was waking up in the ICU, all beat up, with a sick child in her belly struggling to survive. That beating caused the Renal Insufficiency on her child, that's why he's now in the ICU fighting against death at only 6 years old. As she was telling me all this, her eyes were literally closing, her shift at work yesterday began at 8 p.m. and ended at 2 p.m. today, to start riding every bus she could and ask for money for her child and then go visiti him at 5:30 p.m. at the hospital. She was tired, she was so tired of life itself and all the things that she's been through. But she had this unexplainable peace in her face, the kind of peace that surpasses all understanding, the peace of the Lord. She is a woman that believes in the Lord and it was SO obvious in her. She shared how she managed between her tiredness and her willing to fight for her  child and how he was her reason to be alive. I admired her in that moment. I admire her now. I believe her story, and my heart breaks for her.

All of this, reminds me of one of my long time life dreams....that's having kids of my own. I pray that the Lord would keep them safe during pregnancy, when they are born I want them to be perfectly healthy and safe in my arms, I want to give them all the comfort and all the love in the world as possible. I want them to grow up knowing the Lord and making him the Lord of their lives. I want them to make him shine through their lives and in their friend's lives. I want them to be women and men after God's own heart. I want them to love him with all their hearts. I PRAY for that. I long for that...

This was a good lesson for me, I think it was no coincidence for me to seat right next to her. I think God sent her right in my way to change a peace of my heart, or at least remind me that he shines and that I not only live for myself, I live to serve others and pray for them, I live to make him known and to shine his love. This was a beautiful lesson. I pray for her and her child, hopefully things will get better in the future so he can dedicate his entire life to God, and I ask you to pray for her and to pray for your own life and future children. Already in advanced...

“Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Don’t be afraid or discouraged by the size of the task, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you.” 1 Chronicles 28:20

For now, I'm going to pick my nephews and niece to their house to have a beautiful sabbath together as a family, work at church tomorrow for God's precious children and make the best work I can.

Hope you have a wonderful Sabbath.

I'm waiting...

Singleness defines a state in life where you are not involved with someone in a romantic way (relationship). Some people find it bad, some good, some don't even bother to think about it and just move along one relationship after another.

I'm not who to judge nor to say that I'm the best example when it comes to relationships, as a lot of  people too, I've messed up sometimes, I've broken some hearts and I've had mine broken as well, is not easy, and I don't mean to be involved in this situations, though I have to admit that some have gone bad because I don't listen to the Lord, or I do, but I just don't want to obey. My fault, hands down.

But, this post isn't about relationships or failure, this is about WAITING!...

Let me explain in words of my beautiful aunt (I know I've said this before):

Love is like a cake in the oven, you have to put it inside so it can cook, but if you take it out too early it will not be perfectly baked, if you take it out after is time...it will be burned. BUT, if you take it in the RIGHT time...it will be perfectly baked, ready to eat. Don't rush things, don't take things for granted, just WAIT in the right time, wait 'till is perfect, it will come along

That being said, I know for sure that God listens to our prayers, hears the desires of our hearts and gives us accordingly to his plans and his will, which is ALWAYS perfect.

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2

I could say a million things about love and relationships, but today, it comes down to one song that I love!... compliments to my friend Daniel who showed it to me today!. I think it describes EXACTLY how I feel right now about love and waiting...So here you go. Enjoy

It's a song by Brooke Fraser

the name of the song is 

"Love is waiting", how convenient?

And here are the lyrics!...BEAUTIFUL lyrics!

"Love Is Waiting"

In the autumn on the ground,

between the traffic and the ordinary sounds

I am thinking signs and seasons while a north wind blows through

I watch as lovers pass me by

Walking stories - who's and hows and whys

Musing lazily on love

Pondering you

I'll give it time, give it space and be still for a spell

When it's time to walk that way we wanna walk it well

[CHORUS:]

I'll be waiting for you baby

I'll be holding back the darkest night

Love is waiting til we're ready, til it's right

Love is waiting

It's my caution not the cold

there's no other hand that i would rather hold

the climate changes, I'm singing for the strangers about you

don't keep time, slow the pace

Honey hold on if you can

the bets are getting surer now that you're my man

[CHORUS]

[BRIDGE:]

I could write a million songs about the way you say my name

I could live a lifetime with you and then do it all again

and like I can't force the sun to rise or hasten summer's start,

neither should I rush my way into your heart.

Definition of a perfect weekend!

2 years passed, way too much to not go back  I'd say. 2 years, and it's only 4 hours away from where I am...I guess I just didn't have time to go, or just didn't have any valid, strong reasons to actually go. But I did have one this time...a very good one indeed, well actually two.

1- Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

My aunt, just recently lost her baby, she lived for 29 days, in pain, suffering and in a lot of hard conditions that I cannot imagine being in, specially watching your child go through that kind of pain. It wasn't easy for her, she cried a lot, and though she still doesn't understand why God decided to take her away from her, still she's there...but one thing I admire in her SO MUCH, that's her strength, though she doesn't understand (and probably never will), she just accepts God's will and she's fighting again all costs to stay strong but still letting it all out, pushing it away from her system. I am SOOOOO proud of her, and just wanted to be with her even for a while. That's one of the things that pushed me to go to Guatemala for the weekend, I really wanted to see her, be there for her, listen to her, hold her hand. And so I did. I was with her as she showed me pictures of her baby when she put makeup on her because she had injuries on her little white cheeks because of the tape that hold her tubes together. She cried as she went through the pictures with me. I couldn't say a word, I stood there, holding her hand, and that's all I could do. I couldn't find words to say to her, I freeze and just held her hand. Overall, it was good seeing her, after everything that's happened. Her older daughter is so tall and beautiful! I loved her. Please pray for her, pray for strength from God towards her and her family.

2- Friends that really matter and that I happen to love with all my heart.

The second reason why I went to Guatemala is because of this amazing young man that has stole my heart piece by piece and that I can call My best friend, HE IS SO FRIKIN' AMAZING!!!, seriously, he is. 

Have you ever found someone that you can truly share every detail of you and your life and know that that person would never ever judge you, think bad stuff off you and pretend that he knows everything?...well, that's him right there, He is the kindest man I've ever known in my entire life, giving, selfless, hard worker in the work of the Lord (and he does a great job), and not only goes to church "just because", believe me, he really really cares about the doctrine and I truly love him with all my heart!. Makes me a bit sad though, cause we're so far away from each other, I wish I was there or he was here to share life together not only through a screen, but real life, going for a coffee together and talk about stuff that we find interesting and work together at church (I told him that we would make a heck of a great team). 

Bottom line is that, he got baptized this past Saturday, and I planned everything to make sure that my visit was a surprise for him, and so his parents were my accomplices, haha, they did such a great job keeping the secret. And for sure surprised him!...I wish I just had a camera right when he saw me, you should have seen his face haha, it was priceless!!...and so, I had lunch with his family (nicest people I've known so far in my life), and they treated me soooo nicely!, it was great spending time with them. 

We went to the applebee's and they laughed about my accent a lot, but I had so much fun. Then we went to  this hilarious play to the theater and I almost peed my pants, literally, it was the funniest thing...EVER!...

Next day, I got to spend the day with him!, it was sooo nice. We went to this place called San Lucas, very Guatemalan place, very cultural (with all of their weird but yummy food), he bought a lot of treats for me and things for my mom and my best friend (though I felt kinda bad making him spend all that money on me, but I didn't do that on purpose), but he was a gentlemen and a good host. We went back to his house to be with his family for a while and seriously, again, they are the nicest people! and I love the way they treat each other and how they say "I love you" straight away and with no complications at all, a family that worships the Lords and puts him on a pedestal and make him the Lord of their home, and for me, it was so obvious to see it, and made me want to have a family like that for my own. I hope I can someday :)

King's speech was the movie of the night (hardly paid attention to be honest) but it was good hanging out with him on the couch. Perfect ending for a perfect little weekend, Didn't want it to end, but unfortunately, I had to go back to my own place...after all, I have a life you know. haha. But THANK YOUUUU sooo muchhh for being so frikin' nice to me sweetie, you are the best friend someone can have and I'm so blessed to have you in my life! Love you sweetpea.

Here are a couple of pics to show you a lil something from my weekend (stole it from his fb but shh)

His beautiful mom, Cristy! I love her!!!

Oh my sick poor child! (he had the flu and a horrible cough)

like 3 hours after I surprised him!

At the Applebee's with his family! :)

More pics to come (he's just taking so long to post them that I'm getting tired of waiting hahahaah, so, You'll see them later :))

P.S: miss you already you silly head!

..........Ahhhh!!!

I'm so so so so so sooooooo happy today!, even I'm so stressed out and I've been sitting on my desk for 11 hours in a row (just got up to go to the bathroom), and my back is KILLING me, can't feel my butt (hehe) and my eyes are burning. I'm happy!. Everyday, the Lord shows himself in my life and his light shines right through the ones that love him. My friends, my family, my brothers and sisters in Christ and people that he puts to bless my way in this world.


I'm not complaining over the tons of work I have on my shoulders and how stressed I feel, his word is simple, very easy to understand, but very hard to practice:

"Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Matthew 11:29-30

I'm living it right now. I'm putting my weight on him, I'm deciding to rest in him!...and you now what? It's WORKING! He is sooo faithful! :)

Side note: Yesterday, I had an exam at 7 a.m. That means I have to wake up at 5:30 to leave home at 6:20 a.m. to get there exactly on time...

I woke up at 6:15 a.m.!!!!! yessss...I had to leave in 5 minutes with both of my parents cause they had to dropp me off at school. Couldn't skip shower cause I needed to wake up. Somehow, took us aprox. half hour to get ready...I stepped into my classroom at 7:10 a.m.! Don't know how it happened. Seriously, it was  a miracle, my exam went great, everthing went great the whole day! And plus I wore this b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l dress that I happen to love love love. Here's a sneak peek :p 

Sorry it's such a crappy picture but I took it from my webcam! hehe.



As in right now, I'm all done with my homework (which is also a miracle), I even had to jump on the trampoline and blog :) yay. Good night world!  xx