My Baptism

Well im back from mexico and i am definitely at a high point in my life. Mexico really could not hav made any bigger of an impact on my life. i hav personally been on numerous different missionary trips all consisting in the vacinity of latin america. heres something many of you may not know about my personal life, me and my family travel to nicaragua in central america every year and bring medical supplies and many other household objects and toys for teens, kids, and toddlers and we give them away every year its a smalltime but effective mission i partake in.But no other trip has hit home such as this week. I could literally feel Gods presence as no other time in everything i did that week. in construction and being able to discuss and talk with this family and see what God has been doing in their lives and seeing how he has had his hand on them just overjoyed me. i spoke with the grandfather and we had quite a few conversations most of them just smalltalk. but i remember the last conversation we shared he kept on asking me about the organization we were with and about our church and why i was being a part of it and i really felt that it had big influence on him and being in his presence i even felt him to be overwhelmed and even though we did not have the oppurtunity to speak to him again i felt that God was working in his life. and that for me was an incredible experience. Also every morning the Yugo Group would hold early morning devotionals for us and we would sing different well known gospel songs and listening to the words as if for the first time i just felt the holy spirit. then the devotionals that we did as a group were amazing and i felt God speaking to me in every one of the different topics. and i hav always struggled with giving my life up to god completely and i just felt the lord pushing me to give it all up and so on thursday i talked with brandon and told him i wanted him to baptize me and dont let me forget the impact and influence brandon has made on my walk with christ this has been a long term work and it all started with when brandon became our youth minister and his sermons hav been also affecting me and it really all started their. So i told brandon i wanted him to baptize me and so after mexico i came back and told my family and they were all so excited and so on easter sunday the plan was to hav brandon baptize me but then mr. gonzalez our good family friend suggested that their was a possibility that my dad could also baptize and that just overjoyed me and so that morning i got up their with brandon and my dad to men i look up to and admire and they both dunked me under the water and so on easter sunday 3/23/08 i was made new and put aside my old sinful ways and became a new addition to the family of christ.

spring break

Well tomorrow is friday the end of the week. something teens and adults alike look forward to day in and day out. Spring break is coming up and this year i am going to be traveling with my Youth Group to mexico to build two different houses. Its my third year going and i am as excited as if it was my first time. I am looking forward to making new memories and having great experiences to look back on and i strongly recommend to anyone that has never participated in a mission to do so, its life-changing. Well with all this time to be on my own mixed feelings come into mind. Number one, im going to be away from home for a whole week away from my mothers cooking, away from my warm bed, away from my family, away from all electronic devices that are used in my day to day life and also last but not least my shower. but then also i feel excited to experience independence on a whole new level to have to financially and physically take care of myself with no help of family. if i mess i up ill be the only one to fix the problem no more excuses or having my parents call in for me to make up for it just me. Responsibility will totally be redifined in my vocabulary. but knowing how useful this experience is going to be will definitely influence me to make this as postive as possible. hope all of you are going to be having a exciting and eventful spring break such as I.

God Bless
Julio Ibarra

this is awesome

well it is really late right now so once i come up with something worthy of discussion it will be up as soon as possible.