Raíces.

Roots. (rye- E- siz)
What an answered prayer. Seriously. God just arranges things so wonderfully and perfectly.
Here's how:

So I met this girl "randomly" while I was in Toledo named Tori, and we started talking about all of the things we were interested in, and I knew she loved Jesus. It made me so happy to know there was someone here who wasn't solely wanting to party all the time, who wanted to study abroad for a different reason. We swapped numbers and promised to hang out soon.

Then, Tori "happened" to have a class with a girl from a totally different study abroad program in the same spanish level as her named Ashlee. Ashlee "happened" to know of a Christian campus ministry that was getting started in the city of Granada.

She said she had been talking with her pastor and telling him she was going to Spain to study abroad for a year, and she was wondering if there was anything there? He said as soon as she said "Spain," he started praying immediately in his head that it would be in Granada, because he knew they needed more students to attend their events and bring their friends and help spread the word.

How perfect is that?!?

So, last night, us three went. 

It was held at a couples' flat who had been living in Granada for three years, and the name of it is "Students for Christ." There were three other American girls there, but the rest (about 5-6) were Spanish. Which is incredible, because it's kinda hard to meet Spaniards our age right now. None of them are back to school yet, and all our classes are with international students. 

Shawn, (the guy in charge) talked while another guy named Simon translated. He told us their purpose and got everyone to introduce themselves. He said that they would be having an English girls' bible study every Tuesday night, Grupo Estudiantes para Cristo every Thursday, English church services every other Sunday, and a Festival de Comida, or Food Festival, on the last Friday of September, where everyone made and brought their favorite dish. 

Not only that, but this group is going to be working with Proyecto Rescate, or Project Rescue, to help work with women who had been rescued from the sex trafficking industry.

When he said that, I literally almost started bawling. (I told Tori and Ashlee later, and they said they did, too.)

How amazing that I could volunteer with such an great ministry while I was here? How incredible that God provided us a way to learn more about Him with other students from here? How crazy that it all fell so perfectly into place and was such a result of many, many prayers?

God is so faithful when we open our hearts to Him. 

We studied Juan 1:43-51 when Jesus started calling together his 12 disciples. I loved having my Spanish/English Bible! Then we prayed for each other and for things going on in the world and talked a little with the people there and got home around 11:15.

Gosh it made my heart smile so much.  

Please keep praying for me, that God can give me the spirit of power, of boldness, of truth. I want the way I live to show who I'm living for. 

I love you all so much.