Here we go!

All things change…

All good things must come to an end…

When it rains it pours…

I will survive! :D

Those are all short liners that are running through my head right now. - Life is exciting peoples! I’m on a roller coaster, things have been incredibly “out of norm” these past months, and they don’t seem to be calming down at all, but I know that it’s all going to turn out okay and that I’ll look back some day and thank the Lord for these changes.

I had a great two months though! The XDs were both awesome, each one alike yet so different in their particularly unique ways. I’m so thankful I was able to be at both! I know weariness was like MAJOR, and there were days when I didn’t know what in the world I was contributing to be around there, but even just being able to meet all the YAs and SGAs that came to these was awesome, and though I know I didn’t have a chance to form a special friendship with all, I now know them more personally and feel so much closer to them too.

These are such inspiring times to live in! I feel as if I’m literally caught up in a majorly huge wave - we all are - and though the crashing and the tumbling makes us feel totally out of whack, breaks us and throws us around, that feeling of knowing that I’m totally in the Lord’s hands is really the life-saver. - And rather than trying to fight against it and get to what I think is the top (and where there’s hopefully oxygen and air) I’m realizing that I just need to just let the wave move me and carry me, and I’ll get to the surface and shore in God’s good timing.

I was reading this prophecy vitamin today and realized how true it is.

(Jesus:) I’m feeling very generous these days toward My obedient children. I’m like a rich man who is handing out gifts and blessings right and left. You who please Me deserve everything that I have to give… It would be My delight to fulfill your wish. (“Prophecy Vitamins, Part 1,” ML #3587)

The way the Lord supplies and spoils me never ceases to amaze me! I just got to spend a week with my aunt and mom in Florida, and though it was low key (aside from the special driver license ordeal, and the mega running around with errands and shopping for others that took place) it was needed and I’m glad I was able to get away.

I also got to spend a few days with Loana and Eman and their family out in Atlanta! Thanks for having me, guys, and thanks too for letting me drive your car! :D (Yes, they have a stick-shift car, which I got to drive. Yay! – Man, I miss those here in this part of the world.) Loana, thanks for taking me out and showing me a good time. – Eman, thanks for letting her! ;) Thanks for introducing me to your friends, and for making me feel so welcome. Please thank Marie too for her fun self, and for joining us (and for that Long Island Tea that I didn’t even finish…heh) and thank Tim too for being the man. – I still think he overdid it with the butter and sugar though! :P

I really am spoiled, and I know it. Sure, life has a way of coming at you fast and you think that you’re not strapped in well enough to take it, but if you’re anything like me, well, so far I’ve survived. So far I can look back and see the improvements, the changes, and the blessings from things that happened to me, and I even see how the Lord is extra good to me, so heck, bring it on.

I’m now back in Mexico City and basically packing to move back out to the CTC. It’s been such a weird feeling to return to my Home for this past year - a home full of people I love and want to be with, only to know that it’s just for a time as I prepare to pack up and leave. I’m going to miss this place so much (though it seems I might be able to visit with the excuse of their wanting me back at least once a month to help them with their parties – lol), but I guess all good things must come to an end, and I keep telling myself that the future is as bright as His promises. – Yieldedness, that’s a big word!

I went to the market yesterday, to basically say “bye” to the contacts and let them know that if I see them it won’t be with the common pot team, but with the CTC (I sure hope it works out). – After two months of being gone I was pretty popular. So sweet!

At any rate, pray for me? I’ll be out of here any day so I need to get to the packing, not to mention the HUGE backlog of work that’s built up these last two months. - And I’m sure that life at the CTC will be great too! There are so many cool people there, so I hope this doesn’t reflect negatively on them (ooops), but forsaking and change is always tough and I think that’s the big issue now.

Sorry this got long…I’ll leave you with some pics of my time in the US. – Ciao to all! XX