Leaving for Haiti...

Today is the day that I leave for Haiti and I am very excited! I'm not feeling so great right now but I trust that God will give me the strength for today and tomorrow. We leave church at 3pm and fly out of LAX at 10pm, arrive in Florida 6am, leave for Haiti at 7am and arrive in Haiti around 9am. I hope I will be able to sleep on the plane. Since I don't feel good I'm thinking I will be really sleepy. We'll see. I'm all packed and just waiting to leave. I just can't tell you how very excited I am to be able to go on this trip. I've only been out of the country a couple times and it was never on a missions trip. I'm excited to grow, be stretched, learn lots, have my eyes wide open to others around me, get out of my comfort zone, serve God, be broken, and see God work. Please pray for safety as we travel and that no one will get sick. For some reason this year I've heard about a lot of people getting malaria in foreign countries. No mosquitoes bitting me!!

I've been thinking a lot this week and about how if things had happened differently then I probably wouldn't have been able to go on this trip. I don't know maybe I would have but God's good and He has a plan. Oh for instance, if July had gone differently we never would have had the opportunity to host Sandra. She is such a sweet girl and a lot of fun! I think we got the best foreign exchange student there is!! :) Last week was hard but my family and friends (Tiffany) kept me busy, so that was good. We went to Santa Barbara on Saturday and went to this awesome museum called Karpeles Manuscript Library. It was very cool. Their exhibit was on old maps. One of the maps was of the Northwest Territory and Duluth was in WI because there was no MN, it was crazy! Oh and speaking of Duluth there is a Karpeles museum there. I wonder if I saw it last summer...

Here I am with Abe at the museum.

I hope you all have a lovely two weeks and I will update when I get back.

Hebrews 12: 1-2