I will be at Air Force ROTC Field Training (boot camp) from May 9th to June 3rd. I would really appreciate your prayers during this time - that I would be strengthened in Christ as I am physically and mentally tested. Also, I would love to hear from you! I have created this blog so that those of you who find snail mail a hassle can easily send me a note of encouragement. While I will not have internet access, I have a friend who is going to print your posts out and send them to me via snail mail. Thanks so much you guys! Your prayers and encouragement will mean a lot to me.
Tito
p.s.
For those of you who have don't have any issues with snail mail, my address is as follows:
Cadet Nunez, Emanuel A
Maxwell 1
501 Lemay Place N.
Maxwell AFB, AL 36112
AFROTC
I'm Ready
5 comments:
It will be a walk in the park, you'll see. Don't forget that both your aunts went through similar training, and...barely made it but that's another story! Luv ya and take care of yourself out there. Go AF! Titi G.
Tito,
You have my prayers and best wishes. I'm glad to hear from you. My family wishes you God's blessings and His perfect will.
Manny,
You're gonna so rock this. No worries!!! Dad & I love you and are praying for you and the other cadets. Hurry home -- we miss you!
Danya
Tito! I miss you bro! I am doing well in Bosnia. Please continue praying for me and jess. Things are going well. We had our first date last night and it went great. I am praying for you and hope you are doing well. Love you bro!
Cory
Hey bro, I hope everything is going well for you. I miss you! Here is my update that I sent out:
Hey everyone!
I don't know where to start. This last week has been really great. Getting accustomed to our places here is Sarajevo has been fun. The house that us guys are in is nice. It is two stories and has a lot of room. It is up on a hill just outside of the center of Sarajevo. The girls are just down the hill in an apartment building and the staff are spread out in nearby apartments.
We had a team meeting Tuesday morning to start things off. Then we headed out on campus for our first day of meeting students. The idea is to be in groups of two or three and have each group go to a different faculty of the University of Sarajevo. (Faculties are similar to the different colleges in a university in the States such as the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech, but the students do not go to other faculties to take other classes. They stay at their faculty for math, science, language, etc. Also, the faculties are not all together. They are spread out throughout all of the city.) At the each faculty, the group is just supposed to meet students and see if they are interested in talking with us. Most Bosnian students speak English at least a little so it is pretty easy to get into conversations with the students. Usually, the group will either get the Bosnian student's phone number and schedule a coffee with them later because the student is busy studying for exams or the Bosnian student go for a coffee right then.
These coffee appointments last anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours and can sometimes consist of a kafa (coffee in Bosnian) at one cafe then getting up and going to another cafe to get another kafa. At these coffee appointments the relationship building occurs. The conversations can range from sports to the economic status of Bosnia to George Bush to religion to whatever. It is a very relaxed atmosphere. However, the topic of religion is usually just brushed across the first few coffees because the students blame the war on religion and think that talking about religion can not lead to anything good. The great thing about the gospel though is that it is not about religion but about a personal relationship with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and how much God loves us and wants us to know Him. When we allow God to speak through us at these coffees, it is awesome to see what barriers and walls come down in the Bosnian students' lives and how the gospel can penetrate the hardest hearts.
One encouraging story from a guy named Craig from FSU is what happened last night. He was at a local cafe with two students, one that he met last week and one that he had not met before. As he talked to them the topic of God came up so he asked if they believed in God and they both said that they were agnostic. One grew up catholic and the other muslim. When Craig asked them what they thought of Jesus the muslim said just what he had heard in school and the catholic said he knew everything about Jesus. So Craig asked them what they thought about grace and he gave them some examples of the grace that God has on us. After sharing this with them, Craig said that you could see the guys' eyes starting to tear up and the catholic, named Dule, told Craig that he was now really going to start thinking about the things that Craig had said. This is an extremely exciting story and it is just one week into the project. I know that God is going to do great things this summer and that He is going to raise up students that will follow Him and lead this country to be a nation that praises God.
There are many other cool things that God is doing but I will cut it short for time sake. We did get to go rafting this past Saturday and we had several Bosnian students join us. We had a great time and some amazing friendships were built with the students that joined us. This week we have nine members of Christ Church in Atlanta here on a vision trip. There are three couples (one of which will be coming over with Josh Irby, the summer project director, in 2009 to stay long term) and three guys. One of the guys is Josh's dad who is trying to decide whether or not to move here and start a church. Another of the guys is here to give two business lectures to the Bosnian students. He is giving one right now and another tomorrow night at 8pm. Please pray for the success of these lectures.
Praises
-The vision trip team made it safely
-God is working and helping us meet many students
-God is helping us through the various sicknesses the team has been facing
-Taylor's back is getting better
-God is gracious and is working in each of the team members' lives to bring us to a deeper and closer walk with Him
Prayer Requests
-A friend of mine named Ahmed (I sometimes call him John Doe) doesn't not believe that God exists.
-We are having an English discussion tonight at 8pm and are praying for 100 students
-The lecture tomorrow night at 8pm
-Story of the Soul Thursday night where we hope to share the gospel with the students that come
-Basketball tournament Saturday where we hope to connect with the guys that come
-Rest and energy for the team as we get accustom to all of the walking and the hot sunny days (But God has given us some great weather!)
-A Turkish teacher named Nazim that I met last year. He is an extremely humble and generous but he needs Christ.
-Dule and the muslim that Craig talked with yesterday
-All other conversations that we have with the Bosnian students that we meet with
I love you all and thank you for your prayers. Please feel free to send me any prayer requests or encouragements of what God is doing in your life this summer.
In Christ,
Cory
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