Update on my world... mainly for those I suck at keeping in touch with back home (sorry about that ;))

So here's a brief update on what life looks like right now.
Firstly my Mum is coming in less than 2 weeks to see me.  She is staying for three weeks and right now that is pretty much 50% of what occupies my mind.  I am SO excited to see her.  She will be coming on the New Orleans Mission trip with me which I am excited for, it is her first mission trip and I'm so blessed to be there with her.  I pretty much signed us up for everything together but what I'm excited for most is the Vacation Bible School we will be doing for children in the evenings.  It's cool to have to plan and take some responsibility in advance for the trip rather than just showing up and seeing where I can fit in as I always have before.  So spring break is the next big thing on my calender.  Then we have Chris then Rach coming over so our homesick hearts will be getting a lot of love over the next couple of months!

Beautiful is great but crazy as ever. Hol and I often find ourselves stopping and laughing at the situations we find ourselves in.  The other day we found out that one of Holly's (MANY) pursuers is supposedly wanted for murder and today we asked one of our friends in the kitchen about his girlfriend and it turns out he has five haha. But our friends there are definitely some of the funniest I know and most of them have stories that will warm and break your heart, which is good for me.  My heart could always do with being a little warmer and a little more broken.

Last weekend we helped out at the Disciple Now weekend at a church nearby that our friend Tyler Downing is the Youth Pastor at.  That was a really cool experience, staying in the house of a couple we didn't know and leading and teaching girls we didn't know and yet it was a weekend of laughter and growth and crazy games and appreciation of the body of the church. One really cool thing we did was a 'prayer journey' that was set up so for over an hour each of the leaders rotated through a number of rooms to be at different prayer stations.  A lot of it was to do with just slowing down and being still and letting the Lord talk to you.  It was pretty crazy for me how I can think I am taking 'quiet times' and I can think I am slowing down to be with the Lord but its not until ALL distractions were removed that I realised that my quiet times aren't so quiet after all and there are definitely some things that the Lord was desperate to tell me if I would only stop long enough to listen.

Then this weekend Delainey is home for her birthday celebrations and Priscilla is staying over so it's quality sister time ahead.  I have many many stories that I should have blogged on earlier but I will have to slowly catch up or I will get into the habit of infrequent blogging splurges.