Long Overdue---

So once again, I am the worst ever at updating my blog. Please know that even when it seems I have disappeared for the face of the planet, I am still so thankful for all of your prayers and support: I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for them....

School has been back in for about 2 weeks now, so I am just settling

back into the swing of things---This year I am teaching the K and Grade 1 class. It is quite in

teresting--there are 23 kids all together, and we are all in the same room. It was quite hectic in the beginning, but they are beginning to adapt the structured environment. Just pray for me as I face the challenge of teaching kids who are at various stages in terms of what they know and can do.

I do miss my kids from last year--thankfully they all come and visit me everyday during break. They have gotten so big!! I can already tell that they are learning so much--so proud of them :)

I am also learning so much from different situations and circumstances. The Lord is just blowing my mind with the way He is teaching me lesson after lesson. From giving me the strength and patience I need with the kids, to providing different people to help me figure out the best decisions to make, people who will pray for me, and sending some Americans over for a month to give me a small taste of home :)

The Lord continues to show me that He is a jealous God. The Lord will not settle for being

second in my life, not to anything. No matter if it is my comfort, a relationship, a possession, how I spend my time--He is constantly putting things in place so that I realize how much I need Him. He is the only constant, unchanging thing

in my life. Why would I want anything else? I am so thankful for the people He has placed in my life to build friendships with and grow alongside; however, He is showing me that no relationship is as important as the one I have with Him. He is teaching me to be comfortable alone--not wasting my spare time, but sitting in His presence focusing on Him.

Thank you all so much for your continued prayers and support---you have no idea how much of a blessing you are! Please pray for the team of 8 from Wooley Springs (including my mom and dad!!!) that will be coming out to visit the last week of March--pray that they will travel safe and truly be able to minister to the children and teachers at Aurora.

I'm attaching a few pics I have from the previous school year--I promise I am going to do a better job of posting pics :) Love you all!

My story is already written...

Sometimes I wonder what is going on---Sometimes nothing that is going on makes sense to me...Sometimes I wonder why thing happen the way they do--why I allow myself to fall over and over again...I'm sure we have all been there....

Thankfully, when I am wondering these things, I am not alone. I'm not the one in charge of my story. I am not the author. Thankfully, my story has already been written, and the end is a beautiful one where I meet my Savior face to face. That alone makes this journey worth living.

I know that He has a plan. I know that He is guiding me day by day. I am astonished by the fact that even though I screw up over and over and over again, He still has a beautiful plan that He is orchestrating. I am thankful that He is the writer of my story--that even when this life doesn't make sense to me or I don't know which step to take next, I know exactly where to look.

Today I am thankful for a family who loves me, supports me, cares for me, and is constantly there for me. I am thankful for friends, on both sides of the ocean, who are there for me no matter what the struggle. But most of all, I am thankful for a Savior who gives this life its meaning--who leads me each step of the way and reminds me that this is simply a chapter in the story He is writing with my life. And more than that, my insignificant life is just a line on the page of the story He is writing through mankind.