JET SKIING

Jet skiing is amazing, just that feeling of getting a rush and riding on top of the water its just so much fun! When we were jet skiing there was an amazing sunset,  so beautiful what God paints in the sky for us! He's an amazing artist. 

Jet Skiing

Jet skiing is amazing, just that feeling of getting a rush and riding on top of the water its just so much fun! When we were jet skiing there was an amazing sunset,  so beautiful what God paints in the sky for us! He's an amazing artist. 

First week of Coffee!

jThis is our friend Israel and He is the best cook ever! totaly seeking after the Lord.

 My friend Talia shes so awesome and joyful!!!

 Zoe!!!

This passed week, was the first week of the Coffee shop being opened. We had so many people come through, and had a cool talk with a lot of them. There was this one boy that is Islamic and he has been here everyday just hanging out, and we got to talk to him and this morning we got to go through the book of John and we each got a story from a chapter. We had to tell the story, who Jesus says He is, and what does He do. It was awesome I got chapter 4 of John. It talks about the woman at the well and Jesus says I am the living water, and if you drink of the water I give you, you will never thirst again. He says He's the messiah too. It was so cool because the boy was asking questions about Jesus and we all got to answer them for him. The girl Heather I was talking about before, She came back the next day and hangout all day and we got to pray for her and she was crying!!!! and happens her little sister is a Christian and she has been praying for her too. So awesome how God works!!!.. But Last night these two people from Chiagco were here and the girl needed a computer so I offered mine and we were just talking and getting to know each other and we were all cracking some jokes, but afterwards she came up to me and said, "You guys are the nicest girls I've ever met so loving!!.. I love you guys", "This coffee shop is just what Utila needs." Than after that our friend David he's a christian and it was his birthday and I made him a cake, first cake i have ever made by my self, but it was soooo good!!! haha 

"Modeling"

A about a month ago we were at "Deep blue dive center"  and me, Whitney, and Warren were all sitting on the couch. This lady walks up, asks us if we want some brownies and we were like "Yes!!!" then I was asking where she got her cute pants and shirt from and she went on saying how she makes all her clothes and that she's having a fashion show and how she needs help, back stage or even models. Me and Whitney looked at each other, said We will be models!!.. then Sivla said okay meeting is next week about the fashion show. We did all the fittings, then we had the "run-through" the week before the fashion show and Sivla was saying how she is so thankful to have us in her fashion show and how she loves us and we are so classy when we walk, and how were never late. That whole next week before the fashion show she kept coming over and bringing us banana bread and all sorts of bake goods. It was really cool how God chose me, Whitney, Alex, and Arielle to be in the show, how we could be set apart in that whole crowd, and how God showed up and He was shinning through us. We were talking afterwards to some people and they said "You guys were the classiest models up there" Like they knew something was different about us. It's so awesome to think that we were modeling, and how we are here on Utila "Modeling" Christianity, how we walk around, how we talk,  how we love one another, and people are watching just how we were "modeling" in the fashion show. 1 Thessalonians 2 talks about how Paul and his team were "modeling" Christian behavior. Modeling you don't have to say anything your just walking by example, same thing with being a Christian sometimes you don't have to be hanging out with people to be an example. But when I was walking down the runway, The Lord really gave me a heart to walk classy and just to be myself and He also gave me a heart for everyone that was there and in the fashion show. 

8/2/11

Today was August 2, second day in to the coffee shop!! The Lord brought in a lot of people it was awesome and got to know some more people. Me and Whitney went to a lot of the dive shops and passed out 10% off cards to the dive masters and they were all so excited and we got to tell them about what rio coco is all about.. This girl named Heather came and stayed all day, drank coffee, and SUPED. I got to talk to her a little bit and just get to know her, then this evening there was dolpins in the bay so me and Arielle went out on the SUP board and went over about 5 of them, so awesome!!!! Then I met a gill named Steph and she was from Australia, she just came from Hawaii 4 days ago and she went to Maui and went on the Trilogy and I worked for the Trilogy so cool!!! and she surfs, I was telling her about Rio Coco and how were Christians and she was all excited. Before I came on this trip, I was praying for a girl that I could have a concoction with and really click with and was a one and one relationship with. I feel like I met her so just be praying that we can hangout a lot before I leave because I only have 2 weeks left. Tonight me and Alex went out to dinner and Heather was there and I got to tell her about Jesus and I think a seed was for sure planted it was cool!!!...

First day of RIO COCO

The coffee shop has opened, we've had 11 people so far, it's so awesome how God gave us the strength to finish it in a month! The Lord is attracting people to the coffee shop, it's supposed to be a place where people can come and feel at home and feel like there loved. Thats exactly what people are saying to me!!! its sooo awesome. The team we have works so well together, everyone that is on the team has such a good attitude and they just trusted in the Lord and we have all become like family. We have been building relationships with everyone around us, my relationship with God has grown so much I feel closer to Him everyday. This past week I went stand up paddling with Moselle, Tom, and this girl named Baya, I had a cool conversation with Baya about what were doing and she was saying how she feels like she just needs to go somewhere on this island where she can feel at home. I said thats what Rio coco is all about, then we went on talking about what I believe and just getting to know each other. After we were done paddling I said come over anytime you want and get some coffee, tea, or just come hangout and she said "Thank you Tehani" and her face was glowing and I could tell she felt loved but she didn't know what it was from. Who evers reading this, please pray that I would get another opportunity to talk to Baya and tell her about Jesus!!! 

3 week period

We have been here for 3 weeks, it's been awesome. I was thinking before I came here that when the 3 week period came I would know if I would want to go home or not go home, I definitely don't want to go home, or I know I want to come back. The Lord is doing His big work in me, personally what I have been learning is really dying to myself and giving everything I got to the Lord, because I am living with other people and its not about me, If I don't die to myself, I know that its going to be hard and I would grow in the Lord. I am not here on Vacation but to serve our Lord Jesus, and to bring people to Christ. Just being humble like Jesus and trusting in Him everyday knowing that He's going to make away to talk to people and open the door for Him to come into conversation. In Psalms 2:12 it says "Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him." What that verse says to me is that, if I put all my trust in Him, He's going to provide for Me and if I stay Obedient and keep abiding in Him, He is going to bless me beyond measure both on Earth and in Heaven. I was reading Luke 4 and it talks about, how Jesus was tempted by satan and I can apply that to my life, because I have been going through a lot where satan will throw a lot of lies, and stupid thoughts at me. At first I was kind of taking them and I asked myself, why am I here, I want to go home this is stupid. Right when I read Luke 4:18-19 which says "The spirt of the Lord is upon me, Because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor, He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." I feel like I have grown so much in the past month, and I am so glad and thankful to be here serving. 

     These past couple days have been such a growing time for me. On Monday in the morning we went scuba diving with Zoe and she invited us to go on a boat trip with the whole "Deep Blue Divers" crew, I was like yeah for sure I am going. They were leaving at 11am and we had a couple hours to work around the house, like painting benches and etc. It was like 10am and I was asking if anyone wanted to go because I thought it was a perfect opportunity to talk to people. Everyone decided they didn't want to go, truthfully I was pissed so I was like I am just going to go alone and everyone was like okay yeah your a strong girl "I'll be praying for you. I walk over there and I am talking to my friend Warren about his dive and stuff then I turn around and Dust is right there saying "let's go I don't think its a good idea." Right at that moment my spirit wasn't stressing it was the weirdest feeling. That day we got everything done around the house and all the benches, pillars, and tables are all done. The team came together and we all worked so well together it was awesome!!.. Looking back on that choice I made to obey dust and the LORD, He blessed me beyond measure after we worked, with surf, down winded paddle, and 4 bright pink conch shells! hahaha so cool I obeyed and the LORD blessed me. And when me and alex got back from paddling we saw the lady from the river in Honduras, and we met a lady that wants to go on a down winder with us. That night I painted all the girls nails in the dive shop and they told me they felt so loved. 

    Yesterday was Wednesday, we had a dive out to Black coral hill. First free dive I were so excited. We got up ate breakfast and the Bagby's came over and we had a team meeting. Uncle Maik gave us a really encouraging word that really encouraged me to know that, I could go on the boat being like "YAYY DIVING" and mind my own business. Or I could go and work with the Holy spirit and declare I have the authority by Jesus christ to speak into peoples lives. Guess what me and the Holy spirit did, I got on that boat and made that statement and asked God to give me a oppurnunitiy to talk to someone. It was the captain his name is Cookie, I got to tell him about Jesus and how he loves him and what He did for us on the cross. Seriously when you ask the Lord to move He does, because He's standing right next to you. 

     

    

     

     

The Lord is doing big works in these people here and in there hearts, and for sure in my own heart just learning how to live with a lot of people, so just learning how to be unselfish and think about others and working as a strong team so we can get the work done in a good attitude and by being an example and just showing people love and just asking the Lord for strength to do that. It might look all perfect on face-book like were having this awesome time which we are and were doing amazing things and Gods here, Hes working and putting the pieces together for us but I do have struggles. Last week I felt like I was getting attacked by the enemy and I didn't feel normal but thats when you just gotta rebuke the enemy and say NO! and keep your eyes fixed on Jesus and really just remind myself the Lord has me here for a very big purpose! so the girl Alex that we met down here thats a christian she got to really encourage me and I told her what was going on.. because I was kind of forgetting why I was here and what was Gods purpose for me here and how I keep on praying for opportunities to talk to people and just having that person where they can come to me and get loved on and I can encourage them and this is what Alex said to me " Tehani you have impacted "Tams" life by loving on her and inviting her over that morning if you didn't say "come over!!!" we would have never came over and then she said the Lord has those people for you to talk to but you just have to patiently wait and let God have his way and just know that Jesus is standing right next to you while your talking to them. Let him speak through you but you just have to trust Him and keep having faith that He is going to provide those people for you to talk too."... I really love this girl shes awesome!!! so sweet and easy to talk to, shes a woman of God!.

Gods work

Utila is amazing we have been scrubbing down these pillars under our house where the coffee shop is going to be and then we just painted them and I have been having awesome quiet times and been stand up paddling and just learned how to scuba dive its been so cool!.. So uncle mike and Aunty Laura were at lunch and they saw this girl pray at her table and she was alone so after wards she comes up to them and ask what time it was.. turns out she's a strong Christian and she has been praying for atleast one person to have fellowship with and God gives her 10 people!!! I think thats so awesome how when you ask he provides. So she has this friend that she has been hanging out with her for 2 weeks and she's been just planting little seeds and stuff but didn't really get to talk to her about Jesus for share her faith and so Me and Alex go out to dinner with them and kind of just get to know her and let her tell us her story no pressure or anything like that, then the next morning I see Tam and Alex and I invited them over for coffee and right when they got to the house aunty Laura showed up and then Tam goes on about how she's very fearful of scuba diving and she was saying how she doesn't want to leave Utila without doing it. So aunty Laura starts telling her about how she use to be fearful of scuba diving but Jesus gave her the strength to do it and she would just pray and ask God to take away the fear. We were all telling stories about how we had fearful moments then we just asked God to take it away and He did and does!!!... So we got to pray for her and she started crying and Alex told us yesterday that Tam said right after they left that she was baffled because we don't even know her but we can love her and care and encourage her and like she has been telling everyone she has been talking too about how we prayed so turns out yesterday she went scuba diving and had no fear and did a 47 min dive and she said "I prayed before I got in the water."This morning we got to pray for her again and I really feel like God is doing something in her life its so cool! I have faith she's going to get saved.

Utila mornings.

I woke up this morning once again to Beautiful Utila!.. and me and Whitney, and Arielle went running and found a beach, then found SURF!!!!!!.. then we came back and went SUPing and I found another conk shell. It was so amazing I was just talking to God in the middle of the bay it was so awesome. Then I had quiet time and i read Psalms 1:2-6 and it really spoke to me I would really encourage you to read it and really look at the context of the verses and ask the Holy spirit to teach you. But today were going to be moving some wood for the coffee shop and then were going to paint down stairs. Pray that the Lord will open the doors to talk to more people and the Lord would open there hearts.

Monday the 4th of July

Today I woke up to beautiful Utila and the sound of the ocean, I got up and first thing I wanted to do was get into Gods word and pray. It's so awesome how God is stilling changing my heart everything I learn something new in the Lord and others. I felt like yesterday I was getting attacked by the enemy it was crazy but thanked the Lord I noticed it and prayed!! I've learned that prayer is so important just talking to God. In Matthew 7:7 ""Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." I hope this encourages you to pray more. But the Lord is so good and Holy!!! so anyways today we moved all the stuff for the coffee shop off the the boat called (big time) and then we set everything up in the house and then we made lunch and its so awesome because I've been praying for unity in the team and its so awesome because we all get a long so well and we work so well as a team and God totally has us all here for such a big purpose. But yah so I went shell diving with Moselle and she found this huge conk shell that was pink!!! so cool!.. then I was asking God to help me find at least one and He gave me SIX! haha so amazing its crazy. But in my quiet time this morning I read Psalms 1:1 "Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers" The Lord is going to bless us if we do not walk in the way of this dark world! I think thats so sick... stand firm!!!!! 

Second day on Utila its amazing here God has blessed us with the house were staying in and with masks, shells, and we have met a lot of people that are searching and seeking for something but they don't know what it is and its so awesome how were here and we get to talk to the people and make relationships with them and listen to there stories and plant seeds and tell them about Jesus! and God is working in my heart like no other, putting me out of my comfort zone and i just trust Him and He helps me and i learn and Hes changing my heart and how i think! Utila is awesome i really feel like the Lord has a place for me here. Today in Church we read out of Isaiah 6 and it was about how Isaiah saw a vision that the Lord was cleansing him from his sins and after that he knew that he wanted to live for God even if it was in the worst place in the world. Then we talked about how when we get to Heaven Jesus is going to show us a video of our whole lives and how he was right there the whole time even though we can't see Him right now Hes here and in that video we will be able to see Him!! so awesome!!!!... and how God knew our stories before He saw "Let there be light"... so yah its really encouraging to me and i hope for you too whoevers reading this. Uncle mike asked us this morning "why were here?" and "why God wants us here?" I think I am here not out of chance but because this is apart of Gods plan for my story and this is where He wants me right now and hopefully in the future...and the second question i didnt really know what to say but i thought about it and I think God wants me here because I can speak to people really easy and i can make relationships with people here and tell them about Jesus while were swimming or SUPing or snorkeling or having a cup of coffee.

Philippians 2:10-11

"That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father."
this is such a powerful verse! let it soak in!!!! is awesome.
Today were going to Utila finally so excited! we leave at 4pm today were all very happy to get there and unpack and settle in haha but keep PRAYING for us, Gods already doing a huge work.

EVERYONE

everyone go to Friday night church at hope chapel were going to be talked about if u want the download!!!!!

This little girl we met at the Honduras river and they were from Utila and i invited them to the coffee shop and to zumba and there gonna come!!! so awesome Gods gonna do something big!!!...

this is a picture from the airport we were waiting for our flight!!!! to HONDURAS cheee

Made it to Honduras last night was crazy! our flight was delayed until 2am and then we got in Honduras at like 4am and we had to sleep and wait for our Bus to come so we slept at Wendy's hahaha it was crazy then we took a 3 hour bus ride to la ceiba and now were here and God totally blessed us with a free house to stay in with food and beds!!!!

Airport to Utila

Right now were in the airport waiting to get on our flight to Honduras were super excited were all healthy and ready to go Me and whitney are going to be doing "Zumba" classes and Alex is going to be doing art classes and Im going to be doing Suping! Gods doing big things there! its awesome.

                                     Answer to prayer Arielle and aunty Laura have been praying for arielle to learn how to make bikinis for free or someone who knew what they were doing and I taught her how and she totally did it all by her self and they came out so good shes so gifted!...

A couple more days!

some pictures of Florida we went to church this morning and it was really good!!!.. I have been learning so much from just living with the Bagby's its when a really good experience so far. Tuesday we leave for Utila at 11:30pm everyone is so excited we have to drive 2 hours to the airport then fly 2 more hours to Utila!!!! soososososososoos excited