Time flies when you're having fun!

"Taste and see that the Lord is good" has totally taken on a new meaning...

Reading the bible should always be done with chocolate and mountains! Try it.

It is hard to believe that I have already been in Kenya for two weeks! The country and the people are beautiful and I am truly loving it here.

My mountain 

Go wings!

I spent most of the first week feeling like an alien. Things that seem so simple in the United States like picking out shampoo or making a phone call took me forever. I definitely am learning how to laugh at myself! But now that the initial culture shock over I am beginning to settle in and I'm falling in love with the way Africans do life. They are so generous and kind and when you talk to someone you feel like you have made an instant friend. 

It is really cool how being removed from what is normal and comfortable can cause you to learn more about yourself in 14 days than you had in the past year...hopefully this keeps up and 5 months from now I look a lot more like Jesus! 

Let the adventure begin!

Surprise! I'm still in America!

I was originally supposed to leave July 1 but thank goodness the Lord's plans are so much greater than ours and I will officially be leaving for Africa this thursday!!  About two weeks ago I got an email from AIM with the idea of helping out with a children's program for the kids of their full term missionaries at a thing called African Based Orientation (ABO).

Change is never easy and so often I get my mind made up about what I think I'm supposed to do that the thought of last minute changing my plans wasn't easy for me. For the past few months I had been preparing and praying for my time in Kibera and for the girls there that I would meet and in a lot of ways I already felt like my heart was there so the thought of leaving from July 17 through August 7 was hard for me to imagine. But the Lord is a God of detail and through a really sweet process He showed me that ABO is exactly His heart for me. How cool is it that we serve a savior who lovingly gives us what is better even when we so desperately cling to what we think is best?

Right now I am in a hotel in Peachtree City, GA and will get to spend 2 days in the states with the kids that are going to ABO with their families before we all make the trip to Kenya together! I feel so humbled and blessed that I get to be a part of something so much bigger than me while I am in Africa.  These families that are going to be at ABO are going to Kenya full term and I cannot think of a better way for the Lord to allow me to be apart of his body than by loving on these children!

Please be praying over these kids as they are all about to go through a huge transition and please be praying that I will have a servants heart and be able to listen and love on them well.

Also be praying for my family and me as we are saying goodbye. If it is possible to dehydrate yourself by crying, I think I have accomplish it in the past two days... Goodbyes are never easy, especially when you are leaving a good thing so please be praying that we will choose to thank the Lord for the gift of family instead of being sad.