Half A Year!

Wasn't it just several months ago when I narrowed an entire house down to 4 boxes and 4 suitcases, left a job I loved and said goodbyes to my friends? Wasn't it only several months ago when Andrea and Heather took me to the airport on an early rainy morning and said our tearful goodbyes and I wondered how I would ever get by without them right by me? Wasn't it only several months ago that I couldn't speak or understand a lick of Spanish?

It was SIX months ago today!! That's half a year!!! Wow! I'm amazed at how far God has brought me. He is teaching me so much! He has brought me through some major valleys of sadness, homesickness, inability to communicate (even the easiest of things), loneliness, and even the wonder if I heard Him wrong about coming here.

The amazing thing about Christ, our Savior, is how patient He is with me. How He is always there ready to show Himself to me. Ready to remind me of my identity and how He provides for me from the littlest ways of just needing a cat to love on for a few to the big things of financial support. He loves to love us and this is one of the things I am learning. He desires us, me, to fall madly be in love with Him. I pray for this daily, though at times it can really hurt as well.

I am blessed by how He has provided for me in friendships, strength to make it through Spanish classes, and an amazing group of like-minded people who are vulnerable about their struggles and who are ever seeking after God. I am also blessed that God has given me a passion for Costa Rica and that I have fallen in love with her people and it feels like home.

I'm still amazed that it's been half a year. It sure doesn't feel like it. I am overwhelmed that Christ has given me such an amazing opportunity in serving Him here. I look forward to where He takes me in the next 6 months. By then I will have just finished language school!

Thank you all for your prayers and financial support that has made this journey possible. Though you are not here physically with me; you are here every step of the way because I wouldn't be if it wasn't for you. Thank you!