Updates!

Sorry I haven't written lately, I've been super busy with school. But here is the latest news on my Summer Missions! (I love saying that btw!)

1.I live for training on May 27 (not May 22). That's 33 days!

2. God gave me the brilliant idea on Sunday to make pray flashcards. Here's what you do: Take a stack of flashcards, on the blank side write a prayer topic (strength, motivation, love, family, friends, other missionaries, etc). Then on the other side rite a prayer. Something genuine and heartfelt. Something generic. What I mean is be topic specific, but leave room for the prayer to be altered to fit other days' needs. Then use the pray study flashcards. I personally love them. I didn't make them all on one day that would have been to spiritually draining. Each night I have added to my pile. I can't wait to use them this summer. They won't be all my prayer time, but they will help me to stay focus. Mostly they will help me to pray when I am too exhausted to think. I suggest every summer missionary do something similiar

3. Letters from home. My wonderful BCMers at Winthrop bought me a notebook and have each written a little note in it for me. I have an urge to read them. But I'm going to save them for when I get homesick, lonely, or discouraged this summer. And on that note, I have the most Amazing friends. No one can top my friends. God has truly blessed me with the best. On a tangent, God is awesome because he continues to bless me with new friends. There are weeks ever three months or so that I literally make a new friend everyday.

4. My very good friend/fellow summer missionary/future roommate Chelsea, has blessed me with an awesome gift. Long Story: She bought a Cannon Powershot, then lost it. Couldn't live without it apparently, so she bought a new one exactly like it. Then this week she found the original camera. She planned to sell it on eBay, but I asked if I could buy it from her, and I would pay her for it completely by the end of the summer. I know she needs to raise money for Bangladesh, so I'd give her as much money up front as possible. However she wants to hold onto the spare just in case something happens to one she's been using lately while she's traveling. She's going to let me borrow it for free for the summer, and if her camera comes back safely from Asia, she'll let me buy this one from her! Oh my Gracious! I'm so excited. If nothing else I'll have an awesome camera to take pictures with this summer!

5.I almost forgot, I'm the driver this summer for Kids Connexions. We are taking my car which is a 2007 Toyota Yaris Hatchback (two doors) so it will be a little tight but we can do it! I'm so excited!