First Few Days in Panama!

Beunas!

Como estas? Espero que todos ustedes están haciendo el bien!
He estado haciendo el bien!

(How are you? I hope you all are doing well, I am doing great)..

I will love to connect more personally with you all, so if you could please send me an email or reply to this post with your email address, that will be great!

I arrived safely in Panama on Thursday after approx 8 hrs of traveling! I was able to find my other team mate at the El-Salvador lay-over, which was great! We arrived at our housing later that night were I met up with my other team members (we are about 20 students).

Orientation ended on Saturday. After that we explored the beautiful city of Panama and I have to say that their cuisine is awesome (almost like nigerian food).  The Sunday service was a blessing, I got to worship God in Spirit and in Spanish. The church is bilingual so, we (english speakers haha) could understand.

One of my major concerns is the language barrier but God has been able to still minister through us to the students on Campus - Universitie de Panama (the National Campus). Our main focus is the "Electronica e Informatica" and "Ingles" faculty (that is: the electronics and information and english faculties) and also on another campus for the engineers called "U-T-P" .

On Monday, we started our ministry on the National campus just in these two faculties and the other university. I am with the team on the National Campus. GOOD NEWS: yesterday, two students came to Christ. One from the National Campus and one from the U-T-P campus. God has been wonderful.

Here's the story about the girl from the National Campus:
The National campus team split into smaller groups of two's and three's and we were told to go out and speak to students. I was a little bit nervous for a couple of reasons, the first one being that it's just scary sharing my faith and the second reason being the language barrier and hoping that they do understand and don't get confused as we try to speak in Spanish (or as our team members that speak a little bit of spanish try to translate for them).
Two friends and I approached this female student (yet to get confirmation from her if I can use her name in the blog) and she was interested in spending a little bit of her time with us and she said she understood some english words but couldn't speak. She was interested in knowing about this personal relationship with God and how to go about it. So we shared a little booklet called "the four spiritual laws". After talking for about 2.5hours, she asked us this question "how can I be 100% sure that if I die, I will go to heaven?"- that was the highlight of my day!!! So we said a prayer with her (the prayer in the booklet) on receiving Jesus, which she happily did. So join us in praising God!! She wasn't even in the faculty we decided to focus on. She is in law and the law building was on the other side of the university, so it was God's will that she was hanging out in the Electronics and Information building! :)

I still hope to keep you all updated through this blog over the next month or over summer :)

Some specific Prayer Requests:
- Pray for those who just committed their lives to Christ
- Pray for the students at the university that God prepare their hearts
- Pray that the language barrier wouldn't be an obstacle in sharing about this precious gift God has given us
- Pray for strength and energy for my team
- Pray for Safety

Thank you all so much for your continued prayers.

Hasta Leugo Amigos!
Ib :)

PS: Pray that I continue to learn and comprehend spanish well.. porque hablas un poco espanol!