slow down

Ok now I have a little bit more time to write.
So we got back the base last Wednesday and had a good time there but on Thursday night I started to feel bad. I had a throbbing headache and my lower back had crazy pains. I am a sarcastic person so I started pretending like I couldn´t walk and doing a bunch of things to just make it seem worse than it really was so no one really took me seriously in fact I didnt hink it was too serious. Then my head got worse. I went to sleep that night hoping it would be all better the next day, boy was I wrong. I spent the night tossing and turning not being able to find a position that would not strain my back. When I started to hear others arise the next morning I got up a well to find that I was in way worse shape that before. All of Friday I dealt with this horrible back pain. We were planning on leaving for Guanacaste on Friday but somthing happened with the ride and they postponed it to Saturday, lucky for me. Friday night I started getting bad and not just a little bad but to the point where I could no longer stand up. Then the worst part hit me, vomit was arising in my throat. Oh no. I was laying down trying to keep it down but I couldn´t hold it any longer. Friday night I spent throwing up every hour or so. I finally drank some tea and took some pills to try and make it better but that night of sleep was even worse than the one before. Two other girls were throwing up as well so I didn´t think I had anything special we thought we just caught a bug. Saturday our ride came at 6 to come and pick us up. I wasnt doing good at all. Katie and I, who was also sick, layed in bed all of Saturday until our ride came. Lucky for us our team really stepped up as our parents and was waiting on us hand and foot. Very nice of them. We made it to Guanacaste without throwing up and by the time we got there it was late. So we went upstairs and tried to go to bed. When I woke up I was doing a little better but not to much. Okay sorry guys Im making this way longer than it needs to be. It goes on and on and eventually a few days later we decide that I need to go to the clinic. Just to let you know where we were staying was in the country so the closest... anything was an hour away. So one of the base leaders where we were staying at drove me and another one of my leaders to the clinic. Turns out I had a kidney infection that wasn´t getting better. After they did some blood and other tests they told me what was wrong and what I needed to do. The funniest part about it all was that the doctor didn´t care as much about what was wrong with me as he did that I didn´t speak spanish! I was baffled when we went in to talk to him he started asking about our missionary work before he said even how are you doing. At the end when we were filling out papers he started asking the questions for my medications. He asked did I drink I said no he asked if I smoked and I said no and his response was.... BORINGGG! I was seriously shocked. I couldn´t believe it. For so long I have been dying to say that proud and then he tells me I´m boring. My leader told me...¨you should tell him that you used to do that but not anymore¨I was a little to upset to try and share my testimony but when we walked out of the room I said hey you know, this was in spanish, I used to smoke and drink but I don´t anymore and I have a great fun life! He was shocked I even said anything! haha
It wasn´t about shoving it in his face because that was not the point at all the point was that we could tell he was lost. I don´t think he really knew anyone like us. I don´t think he had ever met people who didn´t spend their life living for the night time. I don´t think he had ever had a good experience. So we showed him love and kindness despite the way he treated me. The way I told the story didn´t make him sound too mean but boy it was crazy how he treated us. I haven´t seen that in a long time. It wasn´t kind or right but thats how this earthly life is. But we need to be lights. We need to be the change. We cannot retaliate. Forgive always and in ever circumtance. Never drink poisen and hope it will kill your enemy. Thats what bitterness is. Thats what unforgivness is.

Anyways I am doing much better now. They gave me a shot in... an unpleasent place and a few medications. I am now able to walk and talk and laugh! Everyone said they hated the sick nina, that she was boring and lifeless. haha. So I´m back and I will be around the internet more so I can update you. While in Guanacaste we did Bible distribution. I wasn´t looking forward to it but it turned out to be one of my favorite weeks! It was so incredible to actually see the Bible trasform this communities lives. The base that we are at is pioneering the movement to put a bible in every home in Guanacaste Costa Rica. They have already handed out 5,000 they have 89,000 more to go! So if anyone feels called to watch God reach families by the Bible they need as many teams as they can to help them out. We saw 15 salvations. One drug addict was saved and got a job in just the week that we were there! These people are hungry. They wan´t God and they want that life. If anyone would like more information on the Bible distribution ministry let us know. Loren Cunningham, the founder of YWAM, has really felt from God that we are supposed to put a Bible in every home on this planet and YWAM is starting that job. Costa Rica is striving to be the first country and they are well on their way! We are the country that began before Loren even said anything to anyone so lets do it!!!!! but we are going to need help.

Tomorrow is our freeday and Katie and I are hopeing to go to the beach but we need to buy bus tickets and they will probably close.... soon so I gotta go!!!! But I will update soon. Tomorrow is freeday in Liberia, unless we leave somewhere else, then we go to Honduras on Sunday!!!!

PS. I GOT ACCEPTED TO THE CHILDREN AT RISK SCHOOL IN TIJUANA MEXICO! I am so excited starting Jan. 10, 2010 I will move to a YWAM base in Tijuana and work and learn about the risks and injustices going on in the world with Children and then going out and trying to stop it! I am really going to need your support the school is more expensive than I would like but I know God will provide. Please keep my finances in your prayers! I need to raise $3100. Thank you all so much!!!!!
I hope you all enjoyed this
Pss. MY BIRTHDAY IS IN 19 DAYS