New chapter begins

Tomorrow's the big day. My flight leaves from Lexington around 2 bound for Houston, connecting to Moscow to Southeast Asia. Monday will more or less not exist as I will be traveling the entire day, arriving Tuesday morning their time (currently there's an 11 hour time difference). Everything I own fits in two trunks, a backpack, and a purse.

 

Be lifting up travel, loved ones, and goodbyes. Thank you, once again, for all of the support and encouragement. You guys are awesome.

VISA!

Great news! Got my visa in today!! Now I'm all set, at least for the next two months. Thank you for all the pr-ers and encouragement!

And more great news - I get to see my family tomorrow! My mom, brother, and grandparents are coming in for the service on Wednesday, and then I'll be headed home for probably around three weeks. Now that we have our visas in, we're working on getting flights booked. This is for real! I'm really about to head to the other side of the world!

Call for obedience

Training is winding to an end as we pack and ready for our goodbyes on Wednesday. It's been an eight weeks jammed full of all sorts of information and stories that are extremely beneficial. What it all comes down to, though, is that without Him, all efforts are useless. We're just supposed to be obedient and leave the results up to Him.

He hasn't asked us to move the rock, simply to push.

To Him be all the glory, cause it most certainly isn't anything this weak, inconsistent, simple girl is doing.

"And he said, 'The kingdom of G-d is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.'" - Mk 4:26-29

Who knew visas could be so stressful?

M (my language school partner) and I mailed in our passports and applications for a two-month visa a couple of weeks ago and are still waiting to get them back. Our travel agency has to wait until we have visas in hand before they can book our tickets, and time is getting closer and closer, and so we're starting to get more and more anxious. Please be lifting that up.

Alsooo N emailed me and said he's still negotiating with a university about my long-term visa and requested that we be lifting that up as well. "We'll get you in one way or the other. No worries." Alright.

On a cool note, I found out this week from our big boss that B-town had some really exciting things happen, like starting their first gathering in January! What awesome news!

We've got a week and half left here, which seems absolutely crazy! It's definitely been a very helpful and, honestly, refining time. Thank you all so, so much for your support!