From: ifbj417@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
Subject: Missionary Trip
Date: 7 Apr 92 02:56:47 GMT
Reply-To: ifbj417@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu ()
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX


	I went on a missionary trip to Acuna,Coahuila,Mexico during spring
break. It was an exciting experience for me. I had gone to other missionary
trips with my family, being that my dad is a preacher, we go to a
missionary trip to Veracruz,Mexico every summer. But this was the first
time I went on a trip by myself. 
	I went with the school Baptist Student Union at University of Texas
at Austin. I was asked to go with them when I went to one of their thursday
bible study. I was told that they needed more translators, so I decided to
go with them. Little did I know that I was the only one who spoke spanish
fluently that was going. So when we got there I was doing most of the
translating. 
	I was put in a situation that I would normally wouldn't have. I am a
private individual so by being the only one who spoke spanish fluently I
could not isolate myself from anything. This really helped me to open up
more than I usually do. I was tramslating like crazy! 
	On the first Sunday we were there we separated into four groups to go
to three different churches. I was sent to the main church where we were to
spend most of the time we were in Mexico. We received a little bit of
critizism but we must suffer persecution for the Lord.
	On Sunday night we all went to the main church to show a film, "Jesus
Film". Well, when we were getting everything set up we discovered that the
film projector did not want to work. So here were all these people some
waiting and others still coming to see this film. What were we going to do?
We prayed about it and there wasn't anything that could be done. So we
figured that the LORD WANTED US to show the Jesus film by portraying the
Jesus in us. We got some testimonies and praise songs, and solos together.
We delivered a message that God wanted us to deliver. Everyone was coming
up to us saying how they saw the Lord in us. It was such a great experience
that the LORD HAD ALLOWED FOR THE projector not to work so that we could
show the people how He lived in us. We did just that.
	By that time I had been doing so much stuff that when we had our
group meeting before we went to bed on sunday night I told the group how
tired I was. Then it ends up that there were other people who sort of knew
spanish, from that time on about 10% of the pressure was taken from me. Hey
that was alot of pressure taken from me even if it doesn't seem like alot.
	From Monday thru wednesday we had breakfast, worked on the ranch we
were staying at, had lunch, prepared for backyard bible clubs, had backyard
bible clubs, had dinner, went to basketball tournament, had our group biblr
study, had COLD SHOWER, and then went to bed. This was pretty much our
schedule that we had during the trip. We came back on thursday, and life
for all of us has really changed.
	I plan to go into the ministry very soon. I'm still trying to decide
whether the Lord wants me to finish school here, or go to a Baptist
University, or go to the seminary. I will just wait and see what will
happen. 

***If anyone is planning to go on a missionary trip to Mexico and need
translators give me a call at (512)326-4923, I will deeply appreciate it.
					Hope you've enjoyed my experience,
						Love in Christ,
						Ezy Martinez