As I end my last week of school as a high school student the idea that I'm really going on this missions trip is beginning to become real. I have 84 days until my full amount of money is due and I'm so close! Just a few more dollars and I'll have enough not only the $7,000 for the missions trip but for the added expenses of travel insurance, flights and such as well. What else is there to say? I'm preparing for my final diploma exams of high school and gearing up for the summer. I don't have a official job for the summer and in all honesty I'm so happy. Instead I get to help out at both Salem Acres Bible Camp as well as Crowsnest Lake Bible Camp for the month of July. In August I'll be nannying for one of the kids I currently babysit on a regular bases. A few weeks of summer are still up in the air which is a new experience for me but I'm positive I'll end up where I need to be. Some sad news is that one of my dear friends was planning to come with me to South Africa but she was not accepted into the program. The whole situation could have been handle better by Experience Missions and for the first time I started to doubt whether this missions trip was the right one for me. I even went as far as to look into what steps could be taking for me to choose a different missions organization. But after I took time to calm down, God and I talked it over I know that even though the organization didn't accept my friend and got her hopes up before they told her she couldn't come I know that this is what I'm meant to do. Finding God's will has been one of my big struggles in the past months. I'm the type of person who likes all her ducks in a row. I like to know where I'm going what I'm doing. No surprises. When all my ducks aren't in a row I'm not a very patient person. So when I'm told to "wait and pray" It's often very hard for me. I want to take action and have everything decided and in place. I'm all for spontaneity when it's something that's a small potato like going out for a movie last minute. But when it's a big potato like whether or not to quiet my job I find I often try to give God a deadline. So I'm working on that and God's teaching me some good but hard lessons through it.
No Q&As for this post, but feel free to leave a comment if you've got a question about anything.
-Naomi
