God is Good

I don't know really what to say except that God is just so good! This whole world that he has given us is just filled with his goodness. Its amazing, even the suffering that hes taken me through seems awesome in hindsight, like he was just giving me a hunger to be where he wants me to be, so now that I'm here its just the best feeling ever! God is so faithful that he can use any situation and any suffering for his glory and the blessing of those that he carries through.

Thank You and Goodbye!

So this is my last day in Sisters! It has an exciting 3 1/2 weeks leading up to this moment! There is so much thankfulness to given out!

I would like to thank God first and foremost for putting so many people in my life, his provision, faithfulness and love.

Much thanks to my parents, who have prayed with me, cried with me, forgiven me, bought me underwear, helped me pack, encouraged me, support me, gave me a house to live in and food to eat, and believed in me even when I didn't believe in myself. I am forever in debted to them, and I think the only time they will get paid back is in heaven.

Thank you to my teachers, Mrs. Spear for doing my recommendation and praying for me when I really needed it. Mr. Rexford for helping me get tough and always encouraging me. To Mrs. Johnson, for being full of life and letting me pray in class. To Mr. Cotner, for being a friend even when we're not at church. To Mrs. Sampson, for giving me so much freedom in school to work. Thanks to Mr. Hodges for hosting an epic year of FCA. To Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Novotny and the rest of the aspire volunteers.

Thanks to Mr. Macauley, for being an encouraging and positive coach no matter the record. To Mr. Stewart for giving everyone the "ticket to the show" and always smiling when you did it. Thanks to everyone in the office, to Pinky, for being kid's second mom, to Shelli, for getting the transcripts and everything together for kids, to Dan and Cindy for keeping the schedules and credits in line, to Mrs. Nielsen, for keeping the funds together! Much thanks to the janitors/custodians for keeping it clean!

Thank you to everyone at Sisters High school for 4 great years of awesome education!

I would also like to thank everyone that has been praying for me ever since I was born. I know there's a lot out there, and I hope you're encouraged by the way that God has totally rocked my life!

Also, thank you Jesus for dying for our sins, and rising from the dead to prove what you said!

Thanks to Tim Kizziar, Dan Keels, Kevin Marks, Paul Rawlins, David Yost, you guys have pastored an awesome flock! Truly shining the light, and its just shows that God truly has a hold of your lives completely!

Thanks to Sheryl Whent, Stu Ehr, Mindi Cotner, for just the church an enjoyable place to be!

Thanks to Kelly and Eli Pyke, for taking us into the wilderness without once wondering if we were going to die!

Thanks to John Colter, the Bensons, and everyone else at Younglife!

Thanks to all my friends, for always wanting to have fun no matter what, and I hope all you guys continue to seek God with all of your heart, for if you seek him faithfully he will never disappoint you!

Thanks to YWAM for letting me in! Praise the Lord!

Again, all glory to God forever and ever.

HUNGRY

This whole past year has been an amazing experience. I feel like God has let me experience a hunger in my heart and in my spirit more than ever before! Its always interesting when God will give you a desire to do something that seems right but then he makes you wait. This is what the whole past 2 months since the earthquake in Haiti has felt like. I've wanted to go ever since my dad (yay little daddy and big daddy!) left on January 13th. It's been on my family's heart and mind ever since it happened.

For the 5 weeks my dad was in Haiti my mom was emailing, researching and calling almost non-stop to either keep my dad or keep the world informed. As a family we prayed more frequently during that period than any time I can remember. During about the third week of Dad being gone, my mom and I received word that we would have a great chance to go and stay with my Dad, for at least 2 weeks if not more. Now that'll make you hungry :) So Mom and I were just praying and asking (almost begging) God to let us go... and then a week later we find out that it wasn't going to work out at the time. Now this is how I am convinced that God has a sense of humor. My dad got back from Haiti on a Tuesday, and on Wednesday Mom found out that she was leaving on Friday!

During this whole time I really felt that I should graduate high school a trimester early, because I felt that with that I would be able to go to Haiti for a much longer time than two weeks. So I'm praying and asking God what he wanted me to do, and I kept hearing YWAM... Haiti... YWAM... Haiti. God just kept making me hungry to seek him. So then, I emailed the peeps at YWAM base in St. Marc, Haiti, and they strongly advised that I trained at a different location... haha I wonder why? (maybe the earthquake kinda "shook" them up a little bit :)

So then, after much research on the internet and word of mouth of experienced people, I found an awesome base in Kona, Hawaii. When I found the class named Call2All I felt my heart and the angels around me sing! It totally described the passions that God has given me: to pray, to see the message of Jesus be carried to the farthest reaches of the earth, to experience a spirit-led life, to cultivate intimacy with Jesus, and and to surrender to God's will in all parts of my life. After a couple weeks of working on the application, getting reference forms and getting health tests, I finally got in! I'm really thankful to John Colter, Jordan Rudinsky and Samra Spear for helping me out with all of that! And God for informing the people making the decision that it was in his plan too!

I still haven't had God's promise of going to Haiti with YWAM fulfilled yet... but I know that the hungrier I get for God to work the sweeter it will taste when he does!