Day 13

HUGE PRAISE OF THE DAY: Got this email from Thali, my Guatemalan team leader this morning. Remember how I asked for prayer for the $12,00 needed for the medicine?
Here is how God answered!

"we all better get on our knees and praise our God. i'm at work and have

to take time to tell you that the medicine guy needed the money today to 

order all the meds, including eye drops, and the Lord arranged for $13,500 

to buy the meds and the eye drops."

WOAH! When I talked to them on Sunday, it was estimated that we only had $3600,

and somehow, miraculously, $13,500 was provided today! PRAISE GOD!!! 

WOOHOO! God is seriously lavishing His provision on this trip!

Anyway, today has been such a sweet Valentine's day. One of roommates, Julie, made the whole apt delicious strawberry  smoothies for breakfast (which I approximated to be $.50). I was able to study for Islam with Joan, who shared the cool story of how she married her husband out of complete obedience to God because she was not at all attracted to him for a long time, and then had "lunch" (aka sipping water) with a middle school friend. I then went to work to find the men of the office had gotten pink roses for all of the women of the office (there's a 2:10 ratio of men to women) with a hilarious note.Another friend popped in to drop off a delicious-looking red velvet cupcake, and then I had an awesome friend drop by to give me the very best Valentine's card I have ever received.

To be honest, as I am approaching the halfway mark, I am seriously praying and seeking God about increasing my dollar limit to up to $2 (or an amount slightly less than that). One of my main goals of this challenge is to be able to prepare myself in all ways for my Guatemalan trip, and it has been very trying with my busy schedule eating approx 900 kcal per day. Today, I had a smoothie ($.50), an apple ($.38), and a handful of pretzels ($.15), but went to a dear friend's apt for a surprise bday dinner. Going into it, I knew that I had the option of not eating at all, but I had spent the day in prayer about it, and felt like I had freedom to fellowship and celebrate this wonderful occasion by partaking in some food, so I had one small chicken tender, a medium dollop of mashed potatoes, a corner of salad greens, and a square of cornbread which I estimate all to be around $1. Therefore, I have definitely gone over today, but remain confident about finishing this challenge, though I will most likely change my limit. Please pray for wisdom for this.

I stumbled upon this very interesting video today! This is what one dollar will buy in Guatemala: