A little over a month ago, Paula and I stopped to visit my Cousin John Hepburn and his family in Aurora Colorado, on our way home from our looong road. We really only see each other for family weddings and the occasional funeral, which at our age happens more than the weddings. We enjoyed a dinner out, and the chance to spend some time talking and sharing about our lives, and really just getting to know them more. We invited their youngest daughter Brenna to come down for a visit before she finds a job, after just graduating from college. Well Brenna spent the week here with us and left this morning. But she didn't leave alone. She has Jesus in her heart. Brenna prayed to invite Jesus to take up residence in her heart and to live His life through her.What a great joy for us, for someone to see and experience Jesus in what we do, and then have the desire to know Him as well.
We spent the week just doing what we always do, helping people that need help, built a few things, paid for a lady to have surgery, gifted a Pastor with the money to hook up his church to the electric grid. Brenna helped us build a room fro Mimi, put up a sun shade for a Pastor, helped Paula in the sewing class, and after that learned to sew and made herself a huge quilt. She joined us as we celebrated Freddy Vaughns birthday the other night. She met several other missionaries that came over for dinner. She experienced a night of violent storms that kept us from going to Mexico for two days, which gave her and Paula the chance to make her quilt. She bagged up hundreds of bags of beans to give to the poor with Raul. To sum it all up Brenna "spent" herself on behalf of others and it ending up changing her for all eternity. Pray for her as she begins this new journey of Faith.
So I'm just thinking about how many family members Paula and I have seen come to Jesus that we have personally prayed with, I'm counting 8 in my head. It's amazing that God has a plan to reach everyone with His Love, but He uses me and you to get the job done. It's always our prayer that people would see Jesus and not us when they come to visit. We didn't preach or share the Gospel, we lived it and the Holy Spirit drew Brenna to faith. Paula was just there to lead her in prayer.
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