late night realization.

All of a sudden I had a beautiful revalation, I realized
I DON'T CARE

I don't care what the world thinks,
I don't care about my retirement plan,
I dont' care if I die young
I don't care to be "normal"
I don't care to live a safe life.

JESUS TAKE THIS BLESSED MESS YOU'VE REDEEMED AND MADE WHOLE.

FORGIVE ME FOR HOLDING TO WHAT I LACK,
FOR CLINGING TO MY WEAKNESS,

8 YEARS WAS NOT ENOUGH IN SOUTH AMERICA
and 1 year roaming the States.

USE ME GOD AS I AM,
I AM COMPLETE IN YOU!!!

I LACK NOTHING!

WITH YOU I AM MORE THAN ABLE!

I want to be in 3 places at once, all the time right now. i long to be in Rome New York, AT DELTA LAKE, Bible conference Center for Family Camp and in Elmwood Wisconsin, on "THE FARM" with my Grandparents, and RIGHT HERE IN BOLIVIA.

God you have brought this team of 4 college students from the States here with ME as their leader, to show them all the many things YOU are doing in BOLIVIA! This past week we were in an Ayore Indian village where YOU ARE MOVING IS VISIBLE WAYS! YOU ARE MOVING THERE! And in a small church in a town outside of Santa Cruz, where for our Bible lesson the church was brimming over with bright little faces who all listened intently to hear the SALVATION MESSAGE AND WHO ALL PRAYED TO FOLLOW YOU, TO BE RENEWED AND BECOME YOUR CHILDREN! Then today, we saw beautiful children at 2 orphanages! They shined through the ashes from where they have come. From brokeness they rise. Jesus YOU ALONE bring healing! Redemption is yours!

AND YESTERDAY IN THE FOOT HILLS OF THE ANDIES MOUNTAINS!

G  O   D,

YOU ARE WORTH WAY MORE THAN ALL I HAVE TO GIVE. FORGIVE ME FOR HANGING MY HOPES ON ANY OTHER MAN, OTHER THAN YOUR SON

JESUS CHRIST.

Blog of Blogs

Sunday night post...
Check out Julies blog -  myboliviaexperience.wordpress.com
and Wendy/and Thomas' blog -  tw-missionbolivia.tumblr.com.

Pray for my mind please, that I would think clearly and remember details, we have a big week ahead.
Orphanage, university English class help, travel, Ayore Indian village work...

Thanks.

It's been one wonderful week that we have been in Bolivia.

This is Wendy, Julie, Nathan, Thomas and me.
We are the South America Mission 2013 Bolivia Summer Team. We have been here in Santa Cruz Bolivia for one week. The interns are between the ages of 19 and 22 with varing privious experience outside the United States. It has been such a joy to spend time with them showing them the country I love. They are eager to learn about Bolivia and the various ministries that I have been able to expose them to. I am thrilled to see their world views broaden.

They have been surprised by joy as they  have interacted with the friendly people of Santa Cruz Bolivia.  We have spent time with; the family I lived with from 2004-2009, and university students that we helped learn English, and volunteers at a prayer meeting for a new ministry called Alfedero.  Our team has also interacted with many different missionaries, giving the students many different perpectives of missions. Saturday the four students moved from the SAM guest house where they had been staying, into Bolivian host homes. They are living with different Bolivian famlies now while we are in the city, so that they can truely see what the Bolivian culture is like. When another missionary and I droped them off, I had such a lovely feeling of God's hands on the whole situation. I know the Interns will be blessed by their time in those homes, and the Interns in return I know will be a blessing to those homes. These four interns have sweet and  sencitive spirits. We have had good times of discussion, prayer and laughter. They have been  transparent, flexable and optomistic.  God is teaching us all to trust Him more, and surrender our plans to Him. They are still in college and seeking God to know what is the next step. Monday will be spend the day with a missionary doctor in the orphanage Cristioviene that I had spend much time with through out the years.

This is Wendy with the missionary kids after the weekly Wednesday SAM prayer meeting.

Thank you for your prayers for the students and all  the people we come incontact with, that we would see Jesus as our only strength, and shine like to sun for all to see and be strengthened.
The Joy of the Lord is our strength.   

First Day back in Bolivia

It seems more like a week, rather that just  one day. The long flight was fine, and wonderfully uneventful. As soon as the plane hit the ground I felt like I was home. As my four college students were the last ones to fill out Bolivian Visa paper work and to get throught the line, I welcomed the extra time. As we were met by smiles familur faces, my stress melted. I did not seem to even mind with the car we hoped to take would not unlock with the key fob. Our problem attracted the attention of a near group of older American men,, seemingly ready to go on a hunting trip of some sort. Our deparcture took a while, and we were all slowed down as a few people figured out the problem.

 God you are driving. This is your show. Julie from the team and I enjoined looking at the different low trees with the strange long green bean pod. Eventually the probelm with the car were solved and we all piled in. The morning was long at the South America Mission guest house, as we had a traditional breakfast with other missionaries. Then the team went to their rooms, and I went to dana's house to rest.... A few hours later we went to the plaza down town, had lunch, then walked through the Sunday craft fair behind the principal Cathedral. At 6pm our group plus seasoned missionary dana wilson drove to the guest house. The hours that followed were full of many people there to meet the Interns with me, or to fare well the 3 younge school teachers who were leaving the contry after teaching 2 and 3 years in Bolivia. The fellowship caried on until late. But it was sweet. Thank you Jesus for a great first day back here in Bolivia. It feels so familiur. I feel this is my life I'm coming back to. This is more my home that any where.

In the Miami Airport waiting for our flight TO BOLIVIA!!!! In moments we will be on the way to the land that I love. The four college students with me are amazing people! I am thrilled to lead them through Bolivia!!!

Almost BACK IN BOLIVIA

HELLO FRIENDS!!!!

I AM THRILLED TO TELL YOU THAT TOMORROW I WILL FLY TO CHARLOTTE!!!!!

God is so good to me. I am brimming over with gladdness to have been asked to return to Bolivia to lead this team of four college students! I can see God's finger prints all over the preparation for this summer ministry. I will lead them in an orientation to this summer ministry, then we will fly together down to Bolivia SATURDAY NIGHT!

It has been a whole year since I have been in Bolivia. It seems like a very long time. Our six weeks of ministry has been all planned out by Bolivia feild missionary, Dana Wilson. I have the awesome job of carring out her plans with this wonderful team of college students who want to be used of God! Stay tuned! I will write when I can to fill you in on what we are up to!

VAMOS A BOLIVIA!!!!!!!!! LET'S GO TO BOLIVIA!

It has been a month and a half now that I have been back in the States.

Fuente de Luz, Iglecia Evangelica del Oriente en SAN FERNANDO, may 2012

Hermana Bella is in the middle next to DAYSE AND JOSE LUIS

JOSE LUIS AND DAYSI are young Bolivian missionaries from the city of Santa Cruz

Pray for them. They continue the work in San Fernando right NOW!

MaryLuz serving Mate. She was one of my closest friends in the village. I miss her a lot, and having mate with her.

Doris is another of my good friends in San Fernando. She grew in the faith these last few years.  She made this cake and empanadas for my going away party.

Jose Luis and family, and I are waiting for the canoe.  This was their first time to cross the river, to meet the nice people on the other side.

My solar panels.  Praise God for solar power.  Because of it I didn't live in the dark like the rest of the town, and every one could enjoy light with me in the evening church services, of which there were 3 weekly, plus occasional movies.

Lurdres is very happy with her big piranha catch for dinner. She is a joyful lady who invited Jesus into her heart in April 2012.

This is taken in one of the classrooms at the school, between classes I was teaching.  On a break, some little girls came in to look at the pictures of my family that I had let the older girls look at.

SAN FERNANDO

Praise God for all He has done. As I sit in the guest room of my parents' home, in North Syracuse, New York, my mind is back in San Fernando.  I am so humbled that God worked through me to do such an AWESOME work out in that remote village.  I do not want to be a glory stealer.  God did so much in that village in two years. It was not all me. I was only the vessel through which He worked. The Church is beautiful, inside and out. And Jose Luis and his family are happily ministering in the village, as national missionary pastoral leaders. I have communicated with them.  They said that some men for whom some women and I had been praying, are now coming to church, and others want to be baptized.

Thank you so much for following me on this blog as I have been in San Fernando these last few years. Many times I would talk on the HF radio (like a Ham radio) and different friends of mine in the city would write up a blog entry for me. Other times I would type up something and save it on a flash drive and give it to the missionary pilot when he came in to the village once a month, and he would fly it back to the city, and upload it. Now I am back in the United States, thinking back to my life in the village. I am so thankful for God's blessing and protection. I could tell many stories of how God kept me safe... like unknowingly stepping on a coral snake... as I had flip flops on.. and I flattened it's head; or swimming in the river that I later found out had Anacondas. God protected me! There was much drunkeness in the village, but no one ever assaulted me, though they came to the church services and stood outside. Amazing. God is great. God is doing a great thing in San Fernando.

Continue to pray for the work God is doing in San Fernando!  I will continue this blog as long as I feel

like I should.

On a personal note: as of the end of September I am going on a long-term leave of absence from South America Mission, which means that I will not be recieving funds from South America Mission. Rather, I will be looking for a job, and praying about what God wants me to do next. Thank you for your support and prayers. Stay tuned.

I praise God every time I think of you. God is so faithful!

Because of your prayers, and God's Grace

WE WILL FELLOWSHIP TOGETHER WITH

BELIEVERS FROM SAN FERNANDO IN HEAVEN SOMEDAY!

Gratefully,

Katie Wells