Aaron Proffitt

I’m back after an incredible 7 days away in Puerto Rico. In case you hadn’t heard we took a team of five to the island on an evangelistic mission. There will be more on that later. The only negative about the trip was that I had to leave Ashlee and Drew behind. I didn’t want to risk anything with my wife being so pregnant, so I left her and Drew (and the one in the tummy) at home.

We were scheduled to land in Dulles at 11:20pm last night which, because we had to catch a cab to go pick up our cars, made it so that we wouldn’t have arrived in Harrisonburg until 2 this morning. Our connecting flight was in Atlanta and we arrived earlier than scheduled so we were able to miraculously catch an earlier flight and I was able to surprise Ashlee by arriving home at 11:25. Usually I can’t keep surprises from her but I played this one off pretty well. It was so amazing!

Our journey to Puerto Rico and our time there was nothing short of God-directed. 9 people committed their lives to Christ for the first time. Emilio’s grandparents gave us their condo for the week so we got hooked up big time there. JR was able to audition for American Idol…Yep that’s what I said. AI was holding auditions in San Juan and we randomly got off at a train station one day to stumble upon it. Of course I was too old so JR was our next best option. It was so funny. I will definitely be posting a youtube video of that one day soon. He sang “Jesus Paid It All” and explained to the judges why we were in Puerto Rico.

The trip was unique in that we didn’t have the overwhelming amount of opportunities to share Christ with people. This is true especially when compared to the past trips we have taken to other Latin American countries. Since we quickly realized this after the first couple of days being there, we started asking God to send us to those few people who were so ready to hear the Gospel. And that is exactly what God did. I think we shared the truth with 15 people while we were there and 9 of them accepted Jesus. And those 9 people were so genuine in their commitments.

Other than being away from my family for so long, and experiencing the worst sun burn of my life (trust me if you saw my face right now you would run away), this trip has to rank up there with the top mission trips I have ever been on.

Thanks for your prayers and thanks to Emilio, JR, Dad, and Mom for their willingness and sacrifice to go on this trip to reach out to the wonderful people of Puerto Rico. Trust me, the stories we have of changed lives are worth writing a book for. Ask me about the encounters we had sometime and I’ll fill you in.