Rough Week

Erin and I have been here three weeks and the newness is starting to wear off. We are so glad to be here and feel very confirmed that this is where God wants us to be....but we were met with a harsh reality this week.
Ministry takes time.
All of the plans and dreams and work will not be answered with immediate results.
That is hard to take.
We were hoping that we would already be fluent in Spanish, started some life-changing ministry, built a factory or two to change the economy down here, and transform all of the lives of the people in this town.
Ok, so not really. But in some ways, our hearts desired this.
We don't want to be patient. We want to gain trust just because we are here. We want everyone to run to us and be healed because we gave up life as we knew it.
Even though I know the answer to this, that life takes patience, and ministry and growth happen over a long, invisible-to-the-naked-eye kind of way...it still is hard to go through it.
We feel very blessed and are grateful for what we do have. That has not been taken away from us. But we are slowly trying to change to the idea that we live here, that we need to be fed here, and that life is here.
So here is where we are....and here is where we will be.
Pray for us. Pray for our hearts to continue to be encouraged and for our hearts to have the peace that transcends all understanding....