blessed.

so this has been a really cool week. the other day, on wednesday i got a letter in the mail from a friend. it was a really encouraging letter about my trip to Romania. she said so many encouraging things that it made my heart miss her so much. you see, this friend moved somewhere far away to go teach. she is doing great things but i haven't seen her in almost a year and it is sad... but alone with this letter was a check for my trip to Romania. when i saw it almost cried. it was for $500. yes i typed that right. $500. WOW. that is so amazing. i am still speechless about it.

then on thursday and friday we had three of our kids from youth group in Newaygo here at GBC. they were here for Expedition which is a fun time where high schoolers come stay at the college for two nights and they hang out and do all kinds of fun stuff. So one night for dinner we took our kids out and just got a chance to hang out with them outside of church and outside of Grace. it was so fun. i am so glad that they came.

i also heard from Jodi about why my trip was delayed. it makes sense. i am actually glad because now i have a little more time to spend with my family. i also have the chance to go interview for a job outside of michigan, which i wouldn't have had time to do if i had left on my original date. things are really falling into place. i am so excited and i am so blessed.

i have 13 days until i graduate from college. and i have 43 days until i leave for romania. i am so excited.

deeeeeeeelayed

sooo originally i thought that i would be leaving for Romania on May 25. I just heard yesterday that I won't be leaving until June 7 and for the first two weeks I will be on a Tenderfoot team (two week teams) with a church group from Pennsylvania. After that team is gone then I will begin helping with preparations for the summer ministry. There really aren't many details yet, but the lady in charge (Jodi) told me that she is working on getting me more details soon. So, now instead of 38 days until i leave I have 51. This will be good because I will have more time to spend with my family. I also have an opportunity to go visit the location of my dream job in Vermont so this gives me a little bit longer to go take advantage of that opportunity and see if that is what I am going to do when I get back from Romania. Please continue to pray for funds for my trip. I still need a lot. Hope you are all doing well.

Also, if you remember from my previous trip I talked a TON about a girl named Elena. She was like my little sister. She is 15 years old and she had a baby like a week or so ago. so if you could be praying for her and her baby through this time that would be awesome as well. Please pray that I will be able to see her again... this is her and i during my time in Alexandria in 2008