you’ll never guess how many pb&j’s i’m at now…

we officially have less than two weeks left on the field. wow. time has flown by. lots has happened since my last blog and i want to share it with you guys! from ministry to walking through town to spending time with my team mates to meeting new friends, j bay has been such a rewarding time.

today is actually my mom’s birthday, a tough day for me but my teammates have made me feel so loved. i woke up to a letter from caity and was surprised with flowers from alicia & even a ladybug hand-made card from faith. she would have been 37, that’s so young. for some reason i thought leaving home would help me feel less sad when times like this come around but i also sometimes forget how fresh her being gone is. its been a-little less than two years and it still takes me breath away when i think about it. i’m just so thankful that the Lord has blessed me with people who can still teach me “mom things”. our house mom, Wendy, has healed a-lot of open wounds i’ve been struggling with. i can’t wait to get back to Charla or “Cici” as Coralie calls her, she always knows how to fill in all the “mom gaps”. i don’t know what i would do without them.

ministry has been so good, the kids have been on holiday the past two weeks so we’ve been helping out around Beats and Books where we can. we’ve also had lots of free time to hang out with our team. we’ve played so many games and had movie nights, i’ve had the chance to share my testimony. which all makes me so heartbroken to think that in a couple weeks, we wont see each other again (unless we plan something). luckily i won’t have to leave faith and caity just yet!

some of us have been going to another church off campus and we love it. it reminds us of home. since we’ve gone there, we’ve made some incredible friends who have shown us so much of j bay. hopefully they’ll come visit us in America!! on easter we went to the church on campus and had a huge easter lunch with lamb and potatoes and other sides. it was so good.

what i feel like the Lord has been teaching me right now is to prepare for home. i’m so ready to come home but i’m ready to come home changed! everything in me wants to just preach to all my friends until they love Jesus but i feel like the Lord just wants me walk like Him and let other’s see that and want that to. but i’ll still drag them to church 🙂 my heart breaks every time i see posts of people who are struggling. people that i love so dearly. i used to always wonder why my aunt tata would immediately pray for people when she would notice things about people or see something, but now i know because its my first reaction. & i used to think she was crazy, i guess i’m crazy now too haha. tata, if you’re reading this, i hope to be at-least half the woman you are one day!

and the moment you’ve all been waiting for. so far i’ve had 93 PB&J’s. crazy. i would be past 100 but my appetite hasn’t been the same the past few weeks since we’ve started going to the gym regularly haha. please just continue to be praying for unity on my team and my anxiety about bungee jumping this weekend😂.