The End of Chapter One!

Today is... GRADUATION DAY!!!

Man, it's so weird to think of having no more work for high school.
Of course there is always college, but that's not the same!!
Im soo excited!!

Congratulations Class of 2010! <3

Yum! Yay!

I love my friend, Amy! Look at what she made me tonight for my first small group night back from Fiji!



And it was totally vegan and gluten free. She is the best!!

After small groups, a few of us were talking about the upcoming Ecuador mission trip that I had not been planning on going on due to money, and everyone was encouraging me to go! Of course I would love to go, but I wasnt sure money wise. Amy brought up that maybe I could get a scholarship of some sort to help me with the funds, so she encouraged me to ask Rudy about it. So I go online to email her and guess what! Rudy had already sent me an email asking if money werent an issue, if Id like to join the team and go to Ecuador!! We all just about had heart attacks! Amazing. God works in incredilbe ways. Lets see where He takes me with this :)

Fiji 2010

We landed in LA on Sunday at 1:00pm from Fiji.. and man was it crazy to see the differences in culture. I freaked out.

The trip was amazing. I never thought I would have the chance to be a part of such a beautiful culture, even if it was for just two weeks. I wish I were still there.. I loved it so much.

For the last two weeks, we were at Homes of Hope: what this ministry does is it rescues young mothers who have been in different sexually abusive situations and helps them gather their lives back together and teaches them how to become in control of their lives and be responsible for themselves and their children.

Our first project was digging and building "shelves" on the side of a hill where there had been a mudslide to put up cages of rocks to prevent future mudslides. Our second project was to line those shelves with the cages of rocks. And our third project was to mechete down a hillside so that they could put in a drain and to plant some different kinds of trees to produce fruit(I think he said lemons and limes??) Aside from those projects, we worked in the nursery, kitchen, clinic, schools and the bead room, and our guys, Anthony and Joe, taught music to the kids and a song to the mothers.

We bonded so well with all of the moms and being there really tought us to simplify our lives and to focus on what is really important: our relationship with God.