By His Grace

  Dear friends,   I hope you are doing well and staying healthy; this last week was my last week of nursing school. I finished finals and now I’m preparing myself for my FINAL exam. To graduate from college, I have to take a 3-hour exam that has everything I’ve learned in the past four years, I also need to prepare a clinical case study and present it in front of the nursing faculty board. Once I am done with those requirements, I will be ready to graduate. Isn’t it crazy how time flies? I still can’t believe I’ll be graduating in less than two months.    I’m so thankful for all of you who are reading this right now. Thanks to your generosity and support over the past 4 years I am now so close to accomplish this huge goal. I couldn’t have done it without your help and God’s guidance and providence. I know I still have a long road ahead and a lot of studying to do but for now I am cherishing this moment and looking forward to what God has in store for me.   ...

Dear friends,  I hope you are doing as well as possibly during this crazy time. Can you believe It’s been almost four years since I started writing on my blog about my college life and ministry here in Quito? Time does certainty fly. Doesn’t it? Today I start my last first day of class as a college student. It seems like yesterday when I was dreaming about going to college and becoming a nurse. Now, I am really close to become a real nurse and it’s freaking me out a little bit.    A lot has happened since my last blog post. I’ll try my best to catch you up with what has been happening here during the last months.    A Christmas out of the ordinary   I’m sure everyone’s Christmas was different this past year. Maybe you were expecting to spend the holidays with family and friends or had a trip planned that had to be cancelled. Maybe you were thinking about going away to the beach and couldn’t. I know COVID has ruined a lot of plans not just for you and me but...

  Dear friends,   I hope this letter finds you well. A lot has happened since my last blog post, I’ve been taking all my classes online, I’ve been leading two different bible studies, I’ve been giving English classes to some of my kids from and outside the church, I’ve been translating for some of the clergy meetings of my dioceses and I’ve also become a 24/7 nurse for my grandparents.   Life is crazy right now and I think we all are trying to adjust to our “new normal” It could be challenging but there’s nothing else we can do about it, right? This is one of those situations where the only thing you can do is pray and hope for the best. For me, having to lead online bible studies has been hard, especially when you are working with teenagers, I’m sure my youth minister friends will understand what I’m going through. It’s a little frustrating not being able to have in person bible studies with my kids, I hate it that I can’t take them to the park, to have ice cream or to t...