Okay, so I haven't written for a while. I stole the articles I do have off my World Race page lol Can you say lazy?!?! Or maybe busy?!?! Or maybe I am just trying to find excuses because I feel like I do not have a whole lot going on in life right now. I am kind of at a moment where it feels like everything has completely slowed down...but in reality it hasn't. I don't know if it's just because I work 6 shifts a week and go to school, so I have finally gotten into a bit of a routine. Or because I haven't really gone out lately (besides a coffee or two lol I know, my mother should lock me in my room). The world just seems busy, everyone seems busy, but I'm just kind of passing through it.

I realized that this is what happens with my faith. All this amazing stuff can be going on around me-answer to prayer, learning a really sweet passage, or hearing a sermon that just stirred my heart-and I will just kind of be there, shruggin my shoulders and knowing it is great, but not really embracing that it is.

I leave for my first missions trip to Mexico (and my first missions trip ever!!!) March 15 and I feel like I am just waiting for that day to come. I am not really excited yet because it seems so far off, though it's not at all. I think I am just looking forward to leaving for a week, to get away from it all, and to focus on God and the work he has for us, not the plans I make for myself daily. It is going to be a really neat trip because there are 10 of us going and I am the only girl. We are going to be working on a church-not quite sure what type of work, but really praying that God will make me strong for the task. I am looking forward to the trip as well because my dad is going and it will be a first for both of us so I think it is really neat we get to experience it together.

So there really is excitement in my life. I feel (ooh, hate using that word but it's late and I can't think of another term at this moment) like this trip is going to awaken me-awaken my heart and my spirit. I hope that God just shows me how he can use me and just stir my heart that I have for missions. I do not want this trip to just pass me by. I really want to embrace it and learn so much in those 10 days. Now I am getting excited!