After thoughts

So, I'm back home from my first ever mission trip and wow did I learn alot. God is doing amazing things in Choluteca, Honduras and I was humbled to have been blessed to have been apart of the amazing works that are happening there. Our first day in Honduras we went to the home of a family of eleven whihch was living in unfrtunate conditions. The mother  (age 43) had a stroke 2 years ago resulting in the left side of he body being paralyzed, her 23 year old daughter, Doña, has epilipsy,  and her ten year old daughter, Lillian, has severe malnutrition and is constantly in and out of the hospital. Dona has an 18 month old son named Oniel who also suffers from severe malnutrition, although Oniel is 18 months old he is not able to hold his own head up, let alone walk or babble. The family told us they only have money to feed the baby juice once a day and he doesn't even get that on a daily basis. The family's home, a shack made of whatever the family was able to scrounge up flooded in the rainy season leaving everyone inside soaking wet and more vulnerable to illness than their conditions already rendered them. We worked extensively with this family throughout the week, building them a new home, taking them on their frist ever trip to a super market, and praying with them.
      Although Honduras is a "third world country" (I thought all the countries together made one world), and full of poverty, I did not feel sorry for the people I encountered and I do not believe that they felt sorry for themselves. I did not feel the urge to cry out and ask God how he could allow his precious creations live under such hardship and in such unspeakable poverty, as others on my team expressed they wished to do. Though I did not share these sentiments, I was still deeply affected by what I wittnessed. Deutronomy 15:11 says "There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded towards  your brothers and towards the poor and needy in your land." I realized from this experience that no matter what we do, there will always be people who will live in extreme poverty in this world. Because we live in a fallen world in which we have been seperated form the good and flawless plan that God originally created for us to live out, bad things are inevitable. It is not our job as Christians and Followers of Christ to save the world, God already sent His one and only Son to do that, but it is our job to show our fellow man the love of Christ however God charges us to do that. Read my next blog to hear the rest of my thoughts and to find out what else I did on my first ever mission trip. Glory, Honor and Power be to God!