My day off :)

Hey guys!
So it's my day off! I'm hoping this'll actually work and I'll be able to get some pics up from this week!! :)

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Ok...so no luck. The internet here is SOOO sketchy. :P I'll have to try again after worship tonight.

This week has been pretty great! We only had one group- so it was nice and non-hectic. :) Next week we have three groups, so hopefully we've gotten the hang of it all!

I'm gonna ask y'all to pray for me. Whether or not you believe in God/Jesus, He'll still hear you if you pray, so do it. :)

Ever since I've gotten here I feel like I've been goin through what Jesus peeps call a "spiritual attack". I've been REALLY insecure, and just feeling really inadequate and useless. In my head I understand that's not true- and that God has me here for a very specific purpose. I know that there's no reason to be insecure. It's like these thoughts just creep into my head, and I have to fight against them. So- please pray. :)

That aside, I really love it here. :) So far I've used a drill, a tamper, a hammer, shovel- all kinds of stuff!! It's pretty exciting! The staff here has a really awesome mindset about teaching. They could get all the projects done MUCH faster if they just did it themselves. But they all are under the same "Give a man a fish- he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish- he eats for a lifetime" kinda mentality. And even though Todd had to show me like SIX times how to use the drill... he never once showed frustration. :)

We had a kid in the Hope program speak last night. (The Hope program was started because they were finding that once the kids got too old to live in the children's homes, they had no where to go and were falling into prostitution, and drugs simply because they had no place else to go. Plus, school after seventh grade (I think) has to be paid for. The Hope program brings these students onto campus to live with host parents. The see a functional Christian relationship, and get to be a part of a family. Pretty cool stuff!!) It was just so cool to see how God has taken something that started off so awful, and turn his story into something so beautiful. There are so many stories like that here- it just gives a person so much hope.

One thing this place is definitely teaching me is that with prayer and patience- God comes through. Every time. And it's neat hearing people's stories... While they're in their story they are so overwhelmed and hurting, then God comes through in SUCH a huge way.

I feel like I have 1,000 things to say- and can't manage to get anything out clearly. :) Forgive me, please. :)

I'm gonna go check my laundry, and maybe nap. :)

Love and miss you guys!! :) My Facebook e-mail works, if you wanna shoot me a hello!!