My yearly post. . .

Well, here I am again, I am absolutely TERRIBLE at blogging. . .quick update. . . of the last six months. . .I went to Germany on a missions trip. It was my first time to Europe. I LOVED it. I'd really love to travel more now throughout Europe, but Germany was a first great trip! We helped with a new church plant. I absolutely loved all the people I met there. It was really cool because the whole group of people planting the church were very young-mostly all younger than me. It was cool seeing young people taking initiative like that and really reaching out to their community. I loved the food, the people, pretty much everything about it. I would have liked to travel around a bit more, we were mostly in one city, Mainz, but I am very blessed and glad that I got to go on this trip! Had some fam visit during the summer which was really fun. . .hung out w/ friends from church a lot. . .the summer really flew by.

I absolutely love my small group at church. It has been an absolute blessing this last year. I've made some awesome friends through this-especially a great group of girl friends.

The school year has started, been in school since late August. It is by far the busiest year for me yet. I'm taking two classes at a time, rather than my usual one, so that's keeping me busy. It's been really challenging to find a balance in everything. I've been way more stressed than any other year. I have been reminded though several times of why I'm here. God is faithful and has given me many opportunities to speak truth and love into my ladies lives. I do think it's a very good possibility this will be my last year here, so I'm trying really hard to not take it for granted and also to completely dedicate myself to these ladies. I don't want to check out early.

I have no idea what I'll do when I'm done here; I have so many different ideas! It's scary and exciting at the same time to think of possibilities! That's enough for now. . .here are some pics from the last six months!