I remenber like today, that first time I went with my friend anthony to Miguel’s house.
He was a missionary I had just worked for as a translator, me and my friend having been called by God to be missionaries previously, thought it would be a good Idea to ask this missionary to “teach” us how to be missionaries.
AS life takes its course, things go where you walk to, my firiend soon got involved in a job, (businesses of life) right now he’s working in Spain. All this while I’m planing my 6 months trip to China.
I had to decide to go to the nations to really see what it takes a random dominican to be a missionary. First of all the whole thing you have to fight, agains yourself wether being a likewarm pew christian or a bold follower of Christ.
The whole process of this project helped me to grow in a lot of things as well as getting an insight of the dominican culture. these are a couple things I would never do:
Ask people for money (fund raising)
Leave my family (being sent)
Leave my girlfriend ( value God more than anything)
Not listen to my friends (most don’t want me to leave)
I had to accept the fact that while some people are not missionaries, they are the ones supporting missionries, That I’m an oportunity for them to bless those countries. I could see how real is the promise of God when he said that if you leave your family you’ll be blessed a 100x with other families. One day Ana told me that if I really loved her I should express her that love by loving God more, my best two friends are getting married while I’m in the missions field they are reallly concenerd About my presence in the wedding, my aunt would prefer me to go to another country, (cuz of persecution)
Sometimes I feel like I’m following God but he’s going in the opposite direction, but normaly that’s what happens when you follow God. It encourages me to know that I’m not going where everyone is going.
As Time comes nearer the spiritual fight gets stronger (fund raising, paperwork, relationships, and the inner tiredness of working all these things out). the only source of strength is God. Litterally God.
While I’m going through this I think of all the other missionaries around the world, I think of those planing on going on a mission like me, and also I think of those that one felt the called to be missionaries and then didn’t respond the call.
Never forget to pray for us, specially those missionaries comming from a background like the Dominican.
Latin americans that were born in a poor background are supposed to work hard to financially help their famillis and accomplish success.
A bold follower of God is supposed to follow Him wherever He goes. That is our eternal success
Thanks for your prayers
