There goes my phone again...

THERE GOES MY PHONE..... for a second time.... Well today was just another day in the life of Conner. This time I found myself in Georgetown Guyana walking away from the US embassy where I had just gotten a new passport since my other one is almost full of stamps in its 51 pages. I was just less then 2 blocks from the embassy as I was on the phone with my mom about my new passport... as a man comes up behind me and violently tries grabbing my phone. I’m NOOO match for any thief but I have a bracelet-type thing connected to phone that I loop around my arm whenever I have my phone out especially after having my phone stolen in Cambodia. So ha the thief didn’t have my phone, well he kinda had it but so did I since the bracelet was still in my hands... well that is until this super angry faced man flashed his 6inch or so knife. And just like that I faster then lighting slip that bracelet off. My heart was beating probably at least 1000000000000000000 miles per hour. All of this happened in probably no more then 5-7 seconds! With my heart going so fast I start screaming like a freaking maniac yelling “thief thief thief yooooo that man wearing all black and the white hat STOLE my phone!!!!!!!!!” Within 2 seconds I got like 5 or more rough and though street dude chasing the little mugger man down. More and more guys came to my help and as we were running in the thief’s direction they all assured me that whatever would be gotten back immediately! Well they sure weren’t lying as less then a minute of my phone being stolen it was in safe hands and within eye sight. I came running up to the thief in the grip of super strong dude. Around the thief were probably 20+ dudes yelling at the crook about how ashamed he should be and saying how glad they were he got caught. Ha I wished they could know just how HAPPY I was but in the moment everything was crazy and my heart was still going way to fast to think straight. I kept on thanking everyone but it just didn’t seem enough for how amazing they were for chasing him down and saving my phone with thousands of unbanked up photos. A random truck passing was chosen for me and one of the dudes who chased down the robber to jump in to go to the police station. Meanwhile the crook and the strong dude rob in the bed of the truck. Even an after 30 minutes of sitting the police station my heart was still pumping way to fast but it finally settled down after seeing the Bible verse on the police station wall... Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. - Psalms 37:1. Woah it hit me just how good my father God is!!!! He has my back ALWAYS and I never have reason to fret the evil doers! The police reports took nearly 3 hours as they were super super slow but within that time I found myself praying for the thief who I could see across the room handcuffed. I prayed that God would set him free from his spiritual chains of sin and let him of a super incredible story of salvation. At one point the thief had gotten my attention from across the room and had said something to me but between the distance and the super hard to understand English of Guyana I couldn’t really understand what he was saying even after he repeated it. I thought he said something about sorry but regardless of what he said I wanted him to know that I forgave him so I shouted it twice and he look at me kinda confused but with smile of sorts and said “you forgive me?” I told him one more time that I forgave him and that was it. I so badly wanted to speak with him for even a minute to tell him how he could find freedom in Christ but they wouldn’t let me. So yeah just another day in the life of Conner. It seems getting stolen from us becoming apart of my life as this is the 5th time this year I’ve been stolen from. But this is also the 1st time that I got my stolen thing back. Things are things and really they are worthless but I sure do feel blessed that not only I got my phone and photos back but that I wasn’t harmed at all! Learning that everything I have is God’s really so holding onto those things with opens hands is really a good way to live. So with all of that this thief is now behind bars for at least a bit, I sure do pray that God will bring this precious dude to Himself and His saving grace! Like how awesome would it be to get to meet the guy who tried to steal my phone in heaven one day!? I also pray that this dude would really know that I forgave him and Christ literally DIED the worst death and came back to life to forgive him and ME!!!! Wow wow wow just WOOOOOOOOW God is like literally sooooooo GOOD!!!!!!!!!! My life sure isn’t dull y’all and I hope it never gets dull because living each day with Christ is an epic adventure even during the scary or though days!!! Please praise God with me and pray for this thief! Peace out fam! !