RE: Uruguay

Hey everyone!

Wow we have 3 days until we are back home how crazy is that? I have just spent the last 6 weeks of my life talking with students for around 5 hours a day. Being on my campus i realized the importance for what we are doing here. In the USA we can easily have 5 christian groups on a campus, but here in Argentina and all over the world they are lucky if there is one Christian movement in their city. God has really blessed our ministry here with over 1,100 spriritual conversations and almost 700 gospel presentations. Out of those 700 Gospel presentations 23 people came to know Christ and accept him as Lord of their lives. Wow is a word I use a lot but here it is the only one that suffices. God has shown up over and over again in our trip. He has blessed us with an awesome hotel that was actually sad to see us go. One of ourmaids actually made us a cake before we left. He blessed us with these 23 students who accepted Christ. He blessed us with awesome leadership that has been just so amazing through this whole trip. We are still being blessed because God has used us to reach students that had never heard the gospel, and a lot of these students are being followed up by the national staff in Buenos Aires.

This past week has been a blur from painting one of the campuses to tying up loose ends. We spent days upon days painting the agronomia campus, and this lead to us being able to share the gospel with students that were really surprised that people from the USA would want to come serve them this way. I personally was able to share the gospel with 8 students this way. This past week we also had a our " going away party" it was a time of crying besoing and hugging. We were able to share the ways that God has been teaching and expanding our knowlege of him, and the Argentines were able to share just how thankful they were for us. Please keep praying for our friends we made in Buenos Aires some are still searching for the truth and also pray for others that have found the truth and are now learning how to deepen their relationship with God. Pray for the national staff that have this new rush of student contacts.

See yall in a few days I would love to go to lunch or dinner when I get back,

Sam

Home Stretch

We are just 12 days away from leaving Argntina. We have 4 more days on campus(including today). This is insane I cant believe how fast these 6 weeks have flown by. By the grace of God I only have been sick once, and it lasted for like a day and a half. God has continued to renew my mind and body as I am on this project. I have enjoyed this experiance far more than I thought I would have. God has given me the chance to talk with around 100 students and to share the gospel with around 40 of those students. I am so excited about what God is going to be doing for these last few days we have on campus. These past few weekends we have had the chance to do various types of ministry including orphan, homeless, painting and repairing a church, and painting one of the campuses here. In all of these things we have seen God's amazing plan come to end. ove 20 people have come to know how to have a personal relationship with God through Jesus.  Keep praying hard cant wait to see you all

I cant express how amazing this is

So This past week went by faster than any yet. I am so surprised by how amazing it has been here. Starting off on Monday I was feeling a little discouraged to be totally honest, but God shows up in mysterious ways. The campus I am on has a few buildings and we normally try to get into gospel conversations in the design school. But on Monday Sarah and I decided to go walk around in the science building. There we found a student in the cafeteria. Throughout the survey and throughout the gospel presentation this custodian kept coming over. I didnt think that we were going to get anywherem, but this student became extremly excited and although she didnt accept Christ she wants to meet up more and talk through the gospel and where she stands in Gods awesome love story. Then on Thursday David and I were seaching for students who could speak english, and by searching I mean we would have taken anybody that knew even a little bit. God and his awesome providence hadf a student waiting for us we did the survey and it was obvious that she was wanting to hear the gospel. once we were done with telling her about everything that God has for her she said she wanted to lead a Christ centered life, but didnt know if she could yet. Even through this was a bittersweet conversation we were able to rest assured that God is going to take care of her. We have a meeting with her later this week so pray that her heart would be open to the gospel and that she would be ready to become one of God's kids.

Keep up the prayers thanks for them they are working! 15 students have accepted Christ!

RE: Hey yall

hey guys!

Wow This week has flown by I just dont even know where it has gone! od has shown up in the hearts of these Argentines. Even though it has been extremely hard meeting students who say "yes I know God" and then come from out of no where saying "but I also believe in reincarnation". God is still showing us his sovereignty six students these past 2 weeks have trusted in God and in the gospel of christ. Cant wait to see what he has in store for us next week. He is deffinitly teaching me about 1 Cor 3:7,8 and understanding that is his timing. If yall could be in prayer for these new believers along with this student I met the other day named Amelia. She is deffinitly searching for somthing in her life. hopefully she will fill that neede with the peace and love that God freely gives.
Ciao de Argentina,
Samuel

RE: Follow ups and victories

Wow! can I just start out with that. God is legit sick nasty amazing! He has already been moving in the heart of the Argentine students. The other day on the Law campus one of our projects team mates had the priviledge of lead a girl named Natalia to Christ! God is already showing up! Pray for her that we can keep meeting with her cause wow. I met 2 students the other day agustina and lucilia while sitting with them just chatting 2 more girls came over celeste and maria. Tomorrow i have a follow up with agustina and lucilia, please be praying for them agustina has so many awesome questions and i can tell that lucilia is searching. I have another follow-up tomorrow with ash so be praying for that as well! but wow this week has been a mazing it has gone by so fast! we have had trainings briefings some campus time that has already been so amazing.
But yea thanks so much for prayers,
Sam

RE: first few days

Wow these past twoish days have been fast paced and amazing. God is deffinitly been teaching us how to trust in him more and that we need to rely on him for things that would be so simple in the states. for last night and today we had trainings and then we went to the different Universities. Yesterday I went to the medical part of the university, the universities are part of the university of buenos aires or UBA. UBA has 13 different caampuses. right now we are on 5 different campuses medical, economics, architecture, agromics, law, and... one more haha. Today after training we (my team of 7 out of the total 40) went to the architecture campus and that is the one we will be on mainly for the rest of the summer. It was a lot of fun once you go into the main bulding you see all these different people veding clothes. That because the architecture campus is also the design school. So, after the students make their clothes for class they can go upstairs and sell them. we kinda toured the school and then we had about 40 minutes left that we could actually go and talk to a few of the students. David and I went and talked to this one girl Ana, she is from Paraguay and has lived in Buenos Aires for about 10 years. It was exciting talking to her because when we did soularium ( a survey that get people talking about life and their beliefs through pictures) she started to answer questions that started to show she knew who God is and that she in the past has had a spiritual background. There is this one question that says "and pick a picture that describes your spiritual life now" she chose the one that had two people reaching for one another but going the opposite direction. so David asked her if she wanted to learn how to make her spiritual life more of a relationship. and she answered with a no. that kinda hit us both hard because she knows she needs God and Jesus but she just didnt want to learn more. after that she was kinda ready for us to go so we packed up. even though it was kinda of disheartening it was also encouraging because it was so simple to inter into a conversation with her. she was actually excited to start using her english with us. so hopefully other students will be like her. Its been a ton of fun getting immersed in the language and learning different customs. I know its gonaa be an awesome next 6 weeks thanks for all yalls prayers. Please keep Ana in them, hopefully we will see her again and she will want to hear more about what God has to offer for her.

RE: Almost Time

Three days, that is how long I have until I am on a flight from the United States to Argentina. This past week has been so much harder than I could have imagined. Besides the fact that I am a bit nervous for the flight, but earlier this week my little brother Joe went into the hospital. My family takes in hospice children, and we love it. Joe is one of these kids. He was born with some severe medical problems, and we took him in. We started taking care of Joe when he was 18 months, and the doctors said "he wouldn't live to be much older than two if that." Little did we and the doctors know that Joe would live to be 14. He has lived with us for the past 13 years. Even though he cant walk or talk he has become a part of our family. Earlier this week he had a stroke and has been in the hospital since. At first it didn't seem to be going well, but he is a fighter and is pulling through. I was thinking about it this week, and he has lived with our family for all but 6 years of my life.

God has been working on me this week. All through this week I was learning about relying on Him, with my anxieties of traveling, my worries that Joe wouldn't be better by the time I leave on Monday, and about how I need to trust in him to care for my family. Even though we, my family, always say that this stuff is just what we do, it really does take so much more of a toll on us. God has been faithful with a church family that prays, and prays hard. He has also been faithful with friends who care for us by cooking a meal or just by giving us a call when one of our kids is in the hospital. That is something that now I am so thankful for. This past week I had a much larger role in getting Donnie and Jasmine to all their stuff along with taking care of Benny, another one of our hospice kids, than I have had before. God has been faithful to us over and over again. I remember this quote that says " How many times will God need to bless us before we act." This trip is the fulfillment to God's blessings on our family. I am so excited to be able to participate in God's plans for Argentina this summer. Thanks to all of my supporters who have helped me reach this goal, and thanks to all of yall who have been praying for me.

If anyone wants to add somethings to their prayer list here is a few:
For God to give us safe travel to Miami and then to Argentina
For the Argentina Summer Project team to be relying upon God for all of our needs
That the students in Buenos Aires would be open to hearing the gospel
For Joe to get back home
That God would continue to teach us even before the trip

Thanks again yall cant wait to see everybody when I get back,
Sam