While  growing up, all the adults in our lives would always warn us to NOT to talk to strangers . They would repetitively  tell  us to repeat sayings like  “stranger danger ” over and over again until it was embedded into our DNA. Unless it was a stranger a our parents told us to refer to as “Auntie & Uncle” LOL But in true NkemLife fashion,  as you might have guessed, the saying didn’t stick with my sister and I especially during our trip to Mexico City .

Our trip to Mexico reminded us that a lot of the unexpected blessings in our lives that  we’ve encountered has occurred by trusting God. We’ve befriended several strangers who later went on to become our friends.

We know you are thinking , Wow! that’s crazy ….Two young females walking around alone without protection as they befriend random strangers internationally.

Well, the truth is, we see our actions as being active Christians.  We are merely, two young women acting on our faith , trusting in God and refusing to fall victim to fear. We want our lives and our actions specifically during our travels to be physical proof of our faith, and for our stories to be real testimonies that exemplify “walking by faith and not be sight “.

No matter how senseless our actions may look to a blind eye,  we truly do use our discernment, faith and gut to sense if there is God in the people we meet. We actively seek to see if our spirits genuinely  intertwine with them; our generation today calls that vibing LOL

We especially  tend to vibe and connect with the strangers we meet during our daily adventures. Like our good friend we met in Mexico City named Pedro.

Pedro is a young 25 year old  Mexican working his way through law school while working as a waiter at a lounge in mexico city to pay his school fee’s.

When we met Pedro, something in our gut was just telling us to follow our hearts. We did not know that by doing that we would be making a life long friend. In the beginning Pedro offered to be our tour guide, little did we know that he actually was healing from a relationship he had just ended with a woman he loves. He befriend  us , in hopes that our new friendship would help him heal and find laughter within his self again. Now looking back on it , we see how natural it is for us human begins to want to be loved through new friendships and adventures.

Funny enough, some of the everyday people is our lives who we have known for years and should call “friends” would not of done half of what  Pedro did for us .  Whenever my sister and I take that risk of befriending a stranger ( because it really is a risk ) we end up having experience where we swear that God temporarily  borrowed the person’s body to  help us find our way.

This  past December, God temporarily borrowed Pedro’s body to restore our faith in HIM .