Life is like a box of chocolate covered coffee beans

*DELICIOUS*

Happy Sunday Everyone!!
It's a beautiful 80 degree day here in Kona. You know, being here I want to find a church that I can hear God in. There are several vans from various churches that come to the campus to pick up students so we can visit. This has become really important to me. I miss my church at home and I am hearing about all of the incredible things that God is doing there! His presence is felt and there have been numerous healings! God is pretty cool, huh? Haha. So last night I was asking God where He wanted me to go and not just because they're serving lunch (which is really vital for poor university kids!), but where I would be with Him. It's a really great feeling knowing that you are in a place God specifically chose for you to be. So I opened up my bible and read a verse that confirmed the name of the church I felt like I should go to this morning. Sure enough, I got there and the message pertained directly to what I have been feeling. No, everything is not perfect in life but God knew exactly what has been troubling me and He wanted to talk to me today through this message. It was like taking a deep breath, sitting and relaxing in a conversation with Him. As if I were sitting down listening to Him tell me the exact steps I needed to take and the things I needed to be reminded of that He is doing to get the situation handled. What better Father, right?

It's funny...I'm sitting here writing this blog and have my music on shuffle and the song right now is saying: perfect love, his name is Jesus. Perfect love, love, love. His name is Jesus. And like most of you know, I don't toss anything up to coincidence anymore. He knows how to speak to us and I am so grateful to Him and His love for me :)

I miss you guys and I hope you're all doing well. I think of you all randomly and rerun memories together with each of you. Honestly it's a beautiful thing. The other day I was missing a friend of mine and I went to sleep that night and had a vivid dream with them. I woke up feeling as if I had spent the whole day with them. I took that as a gift from God. I'm praying for you guys and am truly excited about how He is moving in everyone's lives. (If you want to email me personally I would love that! urias.melissan@gmail.com )

I see God moving here constantly. It's funny watching people pray for others on the sidewalks of campus and then having the person start laughing because God just healed them from things that were not going away beforehand. There's a community of faith very strong here. "As iron sharpens iron, so a person sharpens his friend" Proverbs 27:17. We all kind of have this unsaid agreement that we're being prepared for hardcore battle against the things of the enemy. We have teams going out even to North Korea. If you don't know, there is intense persecution for even uttering the name of Jesus in most countries we're going to be sending our friends to. Please keep us in your prayers.

As for battle in Kona, there is a serious Meth drug problem here. I've already had an encounter on the street with 3 addicts just being silly and mocking me as I walked by. We are praying for them and I would like an opportunity to show them God's love. I'm not afraid. I don't know how to explain it but, I just feel and can see the heaviness on them. Ok I feel that God is saying this to explain it to us: it's as if someone has a cut and they don't know it until someone points out, "Oh! You're bleeding!" except this is all over their body. We'll see what happens!

This has been a week filled, jam packed with emotional healing and new revelations, and much more. Things that needed to be given over and talked about with Jesus. It was hard but worth it. I know there is so much more for my future and the future of the church. You all saw how excited I was before I even left, you can't even imagine how I am now. It's so much more. I'm running and can't stop :)

Oh! I forgot to add, after church today, the person who gave us a ride decided to take us on a tour of the Hawaiian coffee lands. So we traveled throughout the Kona coffee farm lands and stopped at several different farms to sample and it was surreal!!!!!! SO beautiful and delicioussssssss!!!! I felt like that was another gift from God. All for wanting to go to the church He wanted me at!!! An amazing time here so far :)