This week has been phenomenal! I am currently “leading/hosting” a team in New Orleans. It has been great just being with a team again and watching them love Jesus. For many of these college students it is their first missions trip. It is just awesome to see them experience how we can love Jesus here in
New Orleans and back home.
We have spent either the afternoon or the morning just praying and asking what God wants us to do and then doing it. Phew. I stayed back many of these times and rested and it was beauitful just hearning their testimonies when they returned.
This morning we spent time at a homeless shelter. I sat by a man name Monte. We became friends because he said he liked my shoes.
I told him thanks, but they make my feet smell. He said he wanted to smell them. So I handed him my shoe, and he said they didn’t smell so bad.
He said his shoes smelled worse. I told him I wanted to smell his shoes, so he took them off. And I smelt them. And from there I was able to try and love him like Jesus was right inside of him.
It was awesome to hear his story and share about this God that I am madly in love with.
Another man came up to me and asked me to French braid his hair. My first thought was, “his hair is so greasy”, and I asked the Lord to forgive me, and brushed his hair with all the love I had in me and then I braided his hair. I asked a girl on the team to help becuase i was so nervous braiding a man’s hair and it was great to have her hands helping as well.
He told me in three more months his hair will be long enough to donate for cancer patients. It was a beautiful moment, here is a homeless man, literally giving all he had left to give.
Love God. Love People. Love the Nations.
