Last week in Guady!

Ok, my brother, Ben, said (Hi Ben!) that I hadn't updated in like three days. So, here I am updating our blog in the midst of our chaos. We are moving in less than a week. Before that though, we are having a birthday brunch for Aletta, who is now three years old as of last week. Jessie is out running errands this afternoon and I think we have more last minute shopping before we go to Autlan. We are going to stock up on things like coffee and contact solution. There are other things we might not be able to get in Autlan, but only time and experience will tell.

On different note, I graduated from Harvest Language Center yesterday. Because we all can take finals and be done whenever we finish them, they had a little ceremony for us after the last day of classes. All I have to do now is finish my finals on Monday. I can't believe that I am done with language school. It has gone by so fast.

We are moving to Autlan on Tuesday or Wednesday. We will be packing everything up tomorrow after the party. Nothing like a Saturday afternoon project.

It was the other day I was talking to someone and I realized that most people do not have life changing experiences in that their life is completely changed. One day it is completely different than the next. We experienced this when we came to Mexico in January. We had lived in a townhouse, worked a job, and received a steady paycheck. Now, we live in a 3 bedroom house in a huge city full of people who do not speak the same language and I am going to school full-time. Next week, I do not know what our life will be like exactly, but we will be living in a rural town with cobblestone streets, and with another missionary family. I won't have homework. We will be teaching English to people who sound like me when I speak Spanish. Two times in less than a year that our life is changed completely.

This is just the step we had to take when the Lord called us to go and give up everything that we knew in our life. Things like seeing your sister fall in love and get married. Things like communicating to someone exactly what you need and they know exactly what you mean. All those little things that God asks you to give up, is well worth it. As God asks you to give them up, how can you hold them back from God, who gave them to you in the first place. He gives us the choice to do things His way or our own way. I would much rather do it God's way, than my own way. I am sure with time, I will see the reasons for us to being here. As one of my teachers shared with us, we are to be farmers who keep planting. We may not see the growth for a long time, but God takes care of that part. We need to be faithful in planting, even when there is no visible fruit. The fruit will come if we are faithful to sow the seed. I will get off my little soap box now, but I want to encourage you to ask God if there is anything that he wants you to give up for Him and His glory. You might be surprised in what He might say.