Pray without Ceasing

This has been our first week of real ministry work here in Honduras, and it has definitely taught me and stretched me in ways I wouldn't have thought. The three main ministries we are working on are English classes at the school, working on the property, and street ministry in La Kennedy. At 8:40 we go to the school to teach English to the sixth graders. We each have two students who we are working with for the rest of the time that we are here. I have to girls named Annie and Yennifer. They are extremely smart, and I am excited to keep working with them. We went to school on Monday, but then we were told that we were not going to have school on Tuesday or Wednesday. Then yesterday we got to school and were told that all the kids were going to the soccer game during our class time, so we went down to the field to watch with them. After English class we work on the property until lunch. This week I have been working on the rabbit enclosure. We are trying the construct this building to house rabbits that Zion's Gate can sell for a small profit! The work is hard. We are digging rocks out of the ground and putting a cinder block wall around the floor. In the afternoon half of our team goes to La Kennedy for street ministry and half our team stays at the property.  I have been on the team that is staying at the property and when the other team leaves we pray for them for 30 minutes. After that we keep working on the property. Around dinner time we get to play with all the kids living here. With all this said, we have a pretty full day. 
This week I have felt like the only real ministry that I have been able to do has been through working on the property. In all honesty by day 3 of work, I was sore. I was having to constantly remind myself to be a cheerful servant, but it was not easy. I really felt like I wasn't making a huge difference. I was discouraged because I started to feel my time here slipping away. I was frustrated that my body was causing the one thing that I was doing to be more difficult. I was overall just thinking that I wasn't making an impact. 
Then our beautiful Lord set some conviction upon my heart. On Wednesday I realized that I wasn't excited to pray for the group going to do street ministry. I was being selfish and wanted some time to lay in my hammock. This is when The Lord asked me why I  was believing that prayer was not part of the ministry. I had an expectation that The Lord would show up on this trip, but what I didn't realize is that I was also expecting to be able to witness His work first hand. Just because I am not in La Kennedy does not mean The Lord isn't showing up there. When The Lord asked me about my prayer life, I had to humble my heart. I had to start trusting that if I asked in prayer that He would listen and answer. So when Thursday prayer time came up, I was ready to talk to The Lord about the group going to the streets. I had talked to a couple team members who had already been to La Kennedy this week and asked them how it had went. One of my team members told me about someone she had met  named Caesar. She had mentioned that they had gotten to know him pretty well, but they had never opened up a conversation about The Lord. When we were praying I really felt The Lord  calling me to pray for him, so I asked The Lord to open up his heart. I asked that my teammate would be able to build a deeper relationship with him. Yesterday morning I was able to ask about him and amazing things had happened! He had brought up God! And he had asked if he could go to church with us! He is hungering for Jesus and it is so beautiful that The Lord heard my prayer and answered it for His glory! I have never met Cesar, but my heart loves him so much! So yeah Jesus is working and I love it!