So i have failed at the whole write in the blog once a week thing. I will try my best to summarize the past....hmm...two and a half weeks.
"For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless. O Lord, Almighty, blessed is the man who trusts in you."
This verse has been very encouraging to me as we get ready for outreach. I leave in 10 days! It is crazy to think that i will soon be in Egypt and sad to think that half of the people that have become my family will be in two other countries. The DTS phase has gone by so fast! It hasnt really hit me yet. We have been learning some Arabic as a team and getting things organized before we go. I do not know exactly what we will be doing, but i know for sure we will be working in an orphanage and refugee camp for part of the time. If you could just be praying for the unity of our team. There are 17 of us living in one house, but thankfully we are split into two ministry teams. Its a really good team though. Today we started the "no physical contact practice" because pretty much the only way we can touch the opposite sex in egypt is by placing our hand on their elbow. should be interesting....maybe a little difficult.

Thanksgiving was a good time. We had a celebration here and the americans put on a thanksgiving skit (which included indians, pilgrims, and a turkey) to make sure that the other cultures knew what it was all about. It was hard being away from family, but if i had to do thanksgiving any other way it would have been exactly the way we had it here. This place has really become my home.

Big News in my life: I am staying an extra three months! One of the base leaders here talked to our class about the Biblical Core Course. It is a course where you read through the whole Bible in three months and learn tools to dig deeper. When he started to talk about it more, I was drawn to the idea. The Word of God is supposed to be a foundation in my life and the most important book...yet i havent even read through it all and there is so much i do not know. I want to discover more of what i believe based on the Bible, not based on what i have heard. I know that this is what i am supposed to be doing and it is so exciting that God has made that clear. The school starts on april 4th and goes until june 24th. So, that is pretty much the update in my life at the moment. Its been a crazy journey but probably one of the best decisions i have made in my life so far.

"Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this."
Pray that I will become a woman of faith. I want to fully trust in the Lord. What is the impossibility that God is going to challenge you with? It is us who decides how much of god we want in our life.