Tonights going to be a good night!

Henna going away party for me in about 30mins... Today I spent my last times in many places, finished christmas shopping and personal shopping. I leave tomorrow with my family for the city I leave from and will be taking a plane tuesday morning. Just so you all know I love you and will see you soon... pretty much thinking this will be my last blod here... :) I am eager to be with you all in person and not writting whats going on.

6days...

Yep.

My roommate has gone home, I said goodbye to her this Tuesday, the house seemed really empty without her. So now it's just me and my other roommate. I am trying so hard not to check out, but come friday I will probably just check out completly since I will be pretty much done with work and all I have to do is pack and a Henna party for me on sunday.... Wow... this week has just been busy and cant seem to grasp it all. :)

Ephesians 3:16 I pray that out of his gloriouse riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in you inner being!

My roommate has just started playing Christmas music!! :) Im excited to come home and be with my family and friends in the time where we get to celabrate Christs Birth!!

Packed weekend

Working from noon till noon. :) Parents went off for the night and come back tomorrow afternoon. I am going to make cinnamon rolls and eggs for breakfast! Twill be fun. Then later in the day I have to get my hair and makeup done because I am going to a wedding! I am very excited, but a little worried about the dancing part. Ill blog about it and let ya know how it goes.
the wedding will go from 4-12... maybe even later. Not sure why I am still up right now, I am pretty spent and need my rest.

SLEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!

The sweetness of it all

I stop and breathe
Most days I let life pass without giving them a second thought
I stop to think
Waking up and going about my day without considering those around me

I stop and breathe
Everything around me is about to change right before my eyes
I stop to think
Things may change but I hold those memories close in my heart

I stop and breathe
I have joy in so many things and been blessed by so many people
I stop to think
God has given me everything I need, Him, but also sooo much more

I stop to breathe
I am in love
I stop to think
"I love because He first loved us"

I stop to breathe
My past is not a reflection of who I am today
I stop to think
God has transformed my life and made me a new creation

I am His
I think this way because He made me this way
I breathe because He has given me life

Though my heart yerns that every thought would be to His Glory
And my every breathe would be in thanksgiving for all He has done

I am who He has made me to be
Nothing less

I breathe
I am His

Rain rain on my face!

And so as I returned late night, 3am, from a wonderful weekend visiting my old roommie. :) It was a weekend full of food, laughter, children, and dancing! tought by yours trully :) (eletric slide, and swing dancing to some of the couples who wanted to learn.) It was probably hands down the best weekend away I have ever had. A good finishing get away before I make my way home.
I plan on staying checked in to my life here all the way up till the very last day. I can not even explain how amazing blessed I feel right now to have just been here and experianced sooo much. Gods work in my heart has changed me forever. Glory to Him for everything that has happend!!

Today even though I got in suuuper late, the time with the kids was wonderful! I was filled with joy as I played the guitar and the others banged on drums or shook shakers, all in time together singing Jingle Bells! My heart swells with love for them, and I trully will miss them and all the fun times I have had with them. BUT! I still have a couple weeks ahead of me, and in each day I pray that Gods love will overflow into the kids lives. :)

Happy Late Thanksgiving everyone!! Love ya all!

A great adventure!

This weekend will be my last weekend of travel. My roommate and I are going to be traveling up north to visit my old roommate, who if you remember stayed about a month with me at the very begining. The trip is about 5 1/2 hours grand taxi, and 6hours bus. In the taxi we would have to make changes to another taxi and we didnt want to do that. So we planned on taking the bus, the times said that a bus leaves every day at 1:15, so we planned on leaving today thursday at 1:15 right after we finish up work. Well silly us people in this part of the world use military time, sooo when it says 1:15, it means 1:15AM. So after talking with my roommate about the whole situation we are still going to go, tonight/friday morning :) 1:15AM!! It shall be a great adventure!

Cold, but warming my heart

I can remember when I started this blog and it was the summer I was always saying how hot it was. Well my friends, it is now just to cold. There is no heat in our house and we have to pile blanets ontop of each bed. If you know me at all you know I dont like to wear shoes to much at all, or socks for that matter. I find myself wearing socks and shoes around the house now because it is just so cold. (Though today while leading worship for our church I wore red flip flops.)
It has begun to rain, not as much as back home but enough to make me feel like I am back home. :) I hear it is snowing some there, the plan better be able to land when I get back!
I travel this weekend to visit one of my first roommates here :) I am very excited to see her and the work shes got going up in the north. I have been stay clear of sickness, but my temporary Mom has been down with a cold for a long time please keep her in your prayers.
well, life is stil life here, God is always good, worries seem silly and I know hes taken care of it all!
One of the songs I lead today at church is called Be My Everything. I think of those words and pray always that God shows me more and more of His wonderful plan and that in everyday He is my everything. With all that I do, He is my everything. Whether I am waking or going to sleep, resting or active, happy or weary "... Give me Jesus, you can have all this world, just give me Jesus!"
If God is not in everything then it really dosnt mean anything.
G2G!

Today

Got back last night from an awesome weekend in Spain! As I walked up my stairs to my apartment door the smell of a sheep filled the whole hall. My neighbors had most likley gotten there sheep for the hoilday and probably struggled to get it but all those stairs. I woke up this morning to a sheep upstiars making lots of noise, it probably knew that its life was going to be over in a couple hours. I was invited to watch one of my families do the deed to the sheep but I had woken up a little late and wasnt to sure I could have actually been able to keep my breakfast in if I did watch it. But its one of those exciting times and watching everyone on the streets bellow all waiting for the time when the sheep would be slotered. I didnt see it, but me and my roommate listend to it....... I cannot even discribe it. I am glad I didnt go and watch, I know now I couldnt have handled it. I can only thank God that He sent His son to take our sins and that we do not have to make a sacrifice of lambs or cows or anything. Jesus is the ultiamate sacrifice! THANK YOU GOD! I want you to ponder this question, as I did, what if you had to kill a sheep for your sins? would one sheep be enough? How often do we thank God for sending His son? I know I often just go about my day not even considering all the things He has done. My life is for His Glory and for his taking anywhere.
Dont let the day go by without praising Him! He gave you this day, dont waist it.

Mothers & Fathers

Thank you!!!!

God is Good.

I was able to call one of my grandmas and talk to her for a good while, I do miss my family very much and I am very eager to see them all again. I may have said this already but this month is going to fly by. Im traveling 3 out of 4 weekends and my schedule has and is going to change some more with watching kids. :) I like change so it is good.

The weather is now cooling down and I have layed down the rugs and added an extra blanked to my bed. It is alot harder to get a house warm here, there is no furnce or fireplace, but we make due with blankets and warm clothes. Its a little weird since it get way colder inside the house then it actually is outside. Not much rain as I hear its been typical weather back home :) I was born in the right state because I love the rain and whenever it rains just a little I become overjoyed and want to go run in it! (with no shoes!! :D i miss going bearfoot everywhere)

Gods pretty much He is always working. I have been learning alot about myself from living with other girls, seeing how I process things (verbal processer :) ) while my other roommates process things internally. I find that the areas He is working in me most is communication with others, not letting things go or just avoiding them but being able to talk them through and understand the other person not just think my way is always right. I have been humbled most of the time.

There is so much I wish I could write, about each experiance. I see that I cannot explain it all and some of you may never fully get all of the things that made living here such a great experiance. But that is totally a-okay! :) I wish I was a better writer and speller so my words could just paint pictures, but Gods given me other gifts then those and soon Ill be home to share in person with all of you how God has transformed my life and become the center and my world. :)

Love you all!!

Party!

Today the kids and I had a Halloween party, not anything big but we walked to my place and changed into costumes, made some decerations, colored pumpkins on paper, had snacks. It was alot of fun, I know its not like back in the states but it was good enough for me. :) The time seems to be drawing closer and closer that I return home, there are alot of mixed feelings in my heart. Like I was told by a good friend back at home I will fall in love with being here, and I have, I will miss the kids greatly and the family of friends I have made around me. But I know God is preparing me to come home and has many great and wonderful things instore for me I am suuuper excited. Sigh, it has been a long week but also ended pretty quickly. I am living each day to the fullest as I can beacause I know soon this will all just be a memory. :)

The Kids, The Gym, and other things.

The monster game, that is what we play. I run around tickling and catching them. They have so much laughter and sillyness to get out that the monster game is the best to satify there hyperness. We played music, sang worship songs together and danced around. It was wonderful fun! I have a wall of pictures that the kids and I have drawn, soon the wall will be covered completly and I will have to start putting pictures up on my other walls. :) They are a blessing to me and it seems soo soon that I will be leaving them. I will miss them.

Im sore, three nights a week we go and work out (me and my roommates) tonight we had a dance party with everyone at the end of all our sweating. It was good, but I know Im going to be feeling it tomorrow. Tonight we are going to relax and watch a movie :) I cant belive how blessed I am to have such wonderful roommates who do put up with alot of my crazyness. (Im sure some of you know what Im talking about.. maybe all)

The other things. I have come to realize that my life is going to change so much when I get back, It has already changed, but even more so the way I live my life, and everything... just going to be diffrent. I know its going to be a little crazy once I get back, wedding plans around christmas time. >.< mmmmmcrazy. But God is good! And he is rocking my world every day! He is my sustainer, He completes my life, is my life, He is the only one who makes sense of my life. He is the everything I search for, He loves me like no one ever could. He blesses me and keeps me safe, cares for me, and forgives my silly mistakes. I can not understand, and maybe ill just leave it at that He gave his sons life, and now I live mine for His glory!

Looking out the window

Looking out my window
More then 9 tall trees
houses right across
kids playing in the street
a diffrent world
Ive yet to explore.
I shouldnt just wonder
but take the step out my front door.

But sometimes its the hardest thing
Just walking down the street

but God has put me in this place
to bless those I know
so instead wasting my time
ill stop looking out the window.

I made

Swedish Pancakes for the kids. I got up at 530 to start workin on them, the kids wake up at 630!! but it was worth it, the oldest woke up early around 545 and helped me make the batter. :) she loves to cook and make things. The rest of the day was pretty chill, they played lots of fun games outside with eachother and we ended up walking to my house to play there. My roommate if I didnt say before was amazing and came the other night and just was there as a second pair of eyes and hands. It was a blessing to have her help!! not sure if you can see the time I write this, but its clear its around 11 your time, meaning its 6something my time.... I should probably go back to sleep :)

One Night, Three Kids!

Tonight has been fun, I watched the kids from 3 in the afternoon till... well tomorrow afternoon sometime. There parents have gone out on an early honeymoon :) and Im spending the night with the kids. Im used to the night time part of it all, I give them dinner and put them to bed, normal babysitting gig. But in the morning I will be getting up at 530 to get a special breakfast of swedish pancakes going so I can have the food ready for when they wake up at 630. This should be a good run :) Im enjoying the extra time with the kids and Im excited for the fun day awaiting us ahead. Im off to clean up the heap of dishes, and the massive fort in the living room! And Praise the Lord for all of it and how wonderful these kids are!

Good

Hi
Praise the Lord for what he has done in the last couple weeks in my life, I find myself really focused on the day to day things. I know at this time my return seems nearer then ever but still far enough away I have to keep my mind on the things here. And Praise the Lord!!! He has been so good! somtimes I think we miss that, God is good!! was sick with a virus sunday/monday but God is still sooo good! The kids where a little emotional couple of the days this week, but God is still sooo good! I have to stop myself sometimes before I get upset at something and just say the word in my head "good" and then "God" then my mind explodes to think GOD IS BETTER THEN GOOD! My life is short and the best I can do with it is do all I can to give him the Glory forever and ever! AMEN!

God is good.

Coming Back...

Coming back from Italy was a little weird. Italy was amazing and a wonderful break, but I felt like I should be flying back home. Its a little hard at this point, Im feeling like I am on the home stretch, I really only have a couple months left and a few days, and so far all of this has been going so quickly. Its hard to the fact I am trying to keep my mind here and not worry about the things that are going to be at my door when I come back. I keep having to give God back those things that are on my mind, and I know hes got them taken care of.

Since the kids have started school my schedule is a little diffrent, I am finding that there are alot more emotions when they get home from school then when they used to spend the whole morning with me. It has been a challange on my part to have to really figure out how they are feeling and how I am able to help so they can get out those feelings or whatever that have been bottled up through the day. I am teaching them basic card games and we are spending lots of time on that, Im excited also for the weather to be changing cuz we will be able to go outside more. I had the feeling that I am really going to miss them when I am gone, but temp mom said that they will miss me all the more.
This Journey has been God led, and he is still working in my life to show me so many things while I am here. I know that he has plans for me when I return, but right now I am trying my hardest to think of all the things day to day. Praise Him for all He has done and is still doing!

soon return,
Hil

Dialogue

When my roommate is talking to her boyfriend on skype with the head phones in, I like to talk to her even though shes responding to her boyfriend and not me. lol just a little something that gets me through the day. So I was starting friday and have been fighting something for these couple days. Prayer because it seeems like I keep getting sick, I dont remember the last day I felt 100% better.
My new roommate is pretty great as well, she comes from a family of 10. 8 kids, 7 boys and shes the only girl :D its crazy! its nice to have another person in the house to chat with and show around this city. wednesday I go to Italy! Im pretty excited for a couple days of adventure.
Umm, less then 3 months and im home... thats kinda crazy...

God Update: How im really doing!
Since I got here I haven been going through diffrent books of the bible. went through Romans, 1 Corninthians, and now Acts. (im going through 1 corinthians still with a friend) I wake up most mornings (unless I skype) but after that normally an hour before work I sit at the window looking over our street and read my bible. God has been showing me alot in this time, and other times that im in the word, I have already finished one of my journals I started before I lefft and now im on to another one. I am not a good enough writer to paint words of the heart change thats been going on. Maybe its not my heart changing but God just going in and replacing my heart with a brand new one. A new heart that is built on God fondation, and is strong in him! :) there have been hard times here for sure, but God is good and im filled with his love! awww I cant explain it!!! :) G2G! Glory to God!!! gunna go worship him while I clean!
Love ya all!!

Its life

Pretty much. I have come to the conclusion that I have adjusted fully (at least adjusted to living here), and that there seems to be nothing new to write about because its life. I wake up, go to work, come home from work, rest, back to work, home and whatever party me and my roomies have... that could be just sitting on our lappy toppys.
Its hard to find things to write about when its just normal ever day stuff.
I got my hair cut... its pretty short. (lol maybe not everyday stuff, but normal life stuff)
I am going to be nannying for another family since I have two morning off I wanted to bless others with my time... sooo I guess thats new :) and very exciting! Its going to be a change up in my normal day.
Also the kids have started school, so three mornings a week I am only watching one kid. :) thats new...
Getting a new roomie, shes a nanny :D she comes... tomorrow!! WOOT WOOT!!!
well, thats all fokes! guess there are some new things

:)

Me and my roomie

Sick, once again and pretty much colored all my coloring pages so here I find myself writing on my blog.... sneezed like 13 times just now. ugh. I am wondering what it is I should be writing about, really there isnt much to tell. Its kinda just been normal day to day stuff going on. Me and now my one roomie have alot in common though I am a little more extraverted then she is I bring out a little of her random side. The other day she came prancing and I mean prancing into the room to tell me she had got the oven to start! haha I will never forget that moment. there are many more moments that have just been a blessing in connecting with her and learning how to live with someone else!
But I am still trying to figure out what all I should say... what all I should update you on. This heat keeps us inside and its pretty much going to be like this for the next couple weeks. I know back at home its been pretty cold, you can have some of my heat if you want.
well... thats pretty much all I can say... im stuck inside, sick, with the day off and already gotten to much sleep so I cant take a nap. God will get me through it, I am going through the book of Acts so I have been able to fill alot of my time in prayer for others and just going through Gods word! suuper good!
well Good morning, and if I dont see ya, good afternoon and goodnight!
Love you all and I am praying for you!!

So,

It has been a while since I wrote, at least it seems like forever. Just a little update on how everything is going. Last weekend I went on a short vacation to Casa! It was wonderful to be staying in a house with couches and be a 5 min walk from the beach! Hopfully Ill be able to get some photos up on here or on facebook soon so you can see what it looked like. One thing though I got a really bad sun burn... lol a little less bad as my Miami sun burn if you remember that one. I did blister all over, not too bad tho :) (No worries mom!) It was great to ride the train there and back, I am sure I will be able to do it again, I know I want to!!
My brain status... well, Im hanging in there, I have never really gotten the home sick feeling before, but I skyped my mom and to my delight my Grandma was there as well!! I was able to talk with her, at that point I did feel very much so home sick. But it was good, my new roomie (not sure if I mentioned her) is soooo great!! she is just lots of fun. we are able to relate on many diffrent levels, and our taste in movies is pretty much the same. (Dad, we were going to watch the Sting but it wasnt working on Itunes, she hadnt seen it and was really interested to see it!! Im hoping I can rent it again and watch it!)
Well I wont say things are always easy but I am blessed with a glass half full mind and most of the time I can find the good in all situations. Pray though for my heart, and Gods leading in my life. There seem to be some doors opening, but also doors that are closing, pray that I am able to not try and force doors to stay open!

Love you all!!
Hil Joy

Time Change

We have now moved back an hour, so instead of 8 hours ahead of you all I am now 7.
Its monday, the 9th.
104 degrees.
This morning when working with the kids we had a scavanger hunt all over the house! A little later a fed them lunch, around 12. The parents get home normally at 1230, but when it was around 115, I was a little puzzled... I sent them a txt and they said they would be home at 1230... I had to look at the clocks even my phone. Yep it said 115... I soon figured out that all the clocks had not been set back, and neither had my phone!! the kids had an early lunch and I had more time then I knew. :) silly silly me!

Last night before I went to bed I wanted to read something, I normally study my bible in the morning and after noon and so wanted to read something a little diffrent. The books I had where either a deep thinking read from John Piper, or a realtionship book (Boy meets Girl given to me by my loving mother) It was night time and I didnt want to read John Piper, my brain didnt want to wrap around such knowledge right at this moment. And I didnt want my head focused to much on relationships since it already does enough of that. I looked around my room, and for some reason I hadnt seen it before but on there shelf tucked in a corner was the book Captivating. I had heard lots about it from my sisters and the bible study girls, also its the book that the college group girls are going through. Thank you God! :) I went through the first chapter and I am excited to see what God shows me.

Well back to the kids, we will probably go swimming!! :D

PTL!

Dear all,

I wish I could write down everything that goes on every single day. I know that I could if I tried, but Im trying to limit the time I spend on the computer. I cant belive that this week is pretty much over, alot has been going on, heart stuff and God just working in my heart to show me so much. Pretty much thats whats been going on! Every day God shows me my need for him, and how often I try to rely on my own strength to do things. God is the maker, creator, he knows my heart, my desires, he knows what is best for his glory, and I am a fool because my whole life I have not realized that he is everything I need and I have not given it all fully to him!! I am coming through the path of healing from the past and looking towards Gods will for me. As I spend more and more time in his word his voice becomes clearer and my desire for him has grown and still grows to a fire of passion daily wanting more of him! So I really cant explain it :) I desire to fallow after him to give him the glory for the rest of my life, it is such a short time here, and I dont want to waist it on myself.

In the arms of His love!!

Things are going...

Good, for the most part. The kids are doing well most days but they (like everyone) have there days. but they are teaching me alot about myself and the way my heart needs to change alot of the times. :) also I have realized there seems to be an on going body adjustment. Please pray that my body is able to adjust, as best it can. there have been many days where I have had diffrent kinds of sicknesses... and it hasnt helped.
But besides all that things are going well, there was a lighting storm and if you go on my facebook and watch the video I just uploaded you will be able to see what I got to see all night! I have made a wonderful friend here and she and I though there is the launage part that makes it hard to communicate we have been able to use gestures and a little english she knows to talk. We were able to sit next to eachother at snack time and sing songs we knew, she has a great voice and it was so cool to be able to connect in that way! :) I am so happy to have a friend and be able to get to know here even tho we can have long talking conversations.
Thats it for now, :)
Love you all!!!

Love my roomies!

Its almost like having all three sisters back around :) tonight we went out for thia food, we soon found out that we all... well almost all like to have dance parties. We are now playing music and dancing around in our pj's! And now singing moulin rouge!!! :DDDDD Thank you God for them!

I miss...

My car, what is up with that. I miss my friends and family, but I was sad yesterday and really wanted to drive around in it. Flip up the flippy lights, bffzzz. Work and pick up caleb and calvin have them ride in the back in there booster seats!! Play some Jon Foreman, or Classic Crime, windows roled down. Pick up Heather and drive off, talk forever and end it all at Cutters point... Man I miss my car! (or the car I drive....)

Gotta love it!

Well Guess I am getting two new roomie today... coming in about an hour! Yikes, everything here is kinda last minute and speratic, good thing that how I normally role! They will be staying with us for two weeks, hopfully we can figure out comfortable places for them to sleep. It will be busy around here, or at least more noise. Food will go faster but it will be less since more people will be paying. I enjoy this living on my own, buying my own food, cleaning up because its my place not cuz I have to. haha :P
Today I went swimming with the kids and told them a Jeffery the Banana story, actually told them two and was going on three but the two ours for me to watch them was up. :) Thank you God for my crative brain you blessed me with!

Side note/Goal: I need to learn how to cook yummy amazing food in these next months.

one thing that make me smile, or three!

Three boys watching Chicken Little and laughing at every little thing! :) its making my sickness a little less annoying. I have company of some good friends I met a couple weeks ago and who are way better friends with my roomie. The boys are great fun!

The long and short of it.

the forcast for today calls for Hot Hot Hotness of 104degrees and hotter. Thankfully to some extant I was not able to experiance this weather due to a nasty cold that has kept me sleeping inside this afternoon. Im thinking in my past if I have ever had a cold in summer.... not that I know of so its a first. It was also a first to lead in song at a fellowship, 2nd sunday actually being there and I was blessed beyond anything to do that!

Yesterday I went to the Medina, or some people would like to say the old city! It was great! I loved walking through trying to figure out where we were really supose to be since the taxi driver dropped us off at the wrong place. Me and my roommate went and met up with one of her friends who does tours there for small groups. anywho we saw just a very small part, but it seemed like alot :) I got a leather purse/bag its great!!! and for a great price and im not just saying that it as a good deal!
I will probably go there in the next couple weeks to shop and actually take some pictures.

thats about it... miss you all in so many ways!

The good, the bad and the ugly

The Good- Its pretty much all good, I love my place and my roommate came two nights ago!! Its been fun working out food and who is going to do what around the house. We both get along well together, so far haha, but i have no worries shes great! The kids lots of fun, today we played party and they set up the party and i wrapped presents to give to each of them. (Toys that they already own) they love art projects and to some it maybe sad for how many trees we are cutting down with how much paper we use, BUT! we are making lots of wonderful pictures. There youngest girl and I made crowns for each family member, so we had a daddy crown, Queen mommy... ect. it was great fun!

The Bad- Really there isnt much that is bad, and I really can't complain, but let me just say one word that I have to live with that could be considered bad... for me its just nasty... one word... Cockroaches.

Side note funny- my roommate has never seen Wall-e.... GASP!! since we were talking about cockroaches and I asked her how to spell it and then said isnt there a cockroach in wall-e... and she told me she hadnt seen it or heard of it!! GASP!!!

The Ugly- It was inevitable I would get sick, just from the water or food or something. There was no way I could avoid it, my tummy just has to get used to it here. the uglyness of it...(STOP READING IF YOU DONT WANT TO HEAR THE GROSSNESS) lets just say for the sake of your stomachs that number 2 was more like number 1.

But all in all its going well!!! today is the 15... i just realized yesterday the 14 was my ill be home in 5months... hum funny thought, I have been here 20days... fun facts. :) love you all! Blog to you soon... thats really lame sounding. :P meh, whatever. peace out home skillets!

Moved in!

Well its offical, I am moved in! Tonight is my first night by myself, I can hear kids playing out on the street, people going in and out of the other apartments. Lol, people stay up pretty late here, but for me I am content in my place with chocolate milk watching You Got Mail! :)
We went shopping this afternoon and got supplies for the week. Its cool to look in the fridge and know that whats in it is yours to do with what you want. lol im silly. Good Night all! :)

Heat, house, Fire?!?!

Today its around 98-100, its very Hot! we are keeping ourselves cool with fans and they have a pool ontop of there roof the kids have been playing in. :) It was my first day of school, to help my learn some phrases and stuff. There is alot to learn, but my teacher said i was clever and would get it pretty quick. at least the basics. haha
Also today we went and looked at the house I will be staying in! Its is such a blessing, its all fernished, with the salon my favorite colors! its so beautiful! I will be the mother I guess you could say since ill be staying the longest. I move in Saturday, :D first time living on my own. I kinda dont know what to think. haha its going to lots of fun!
Yep! Fire! lol there was a brush fire across the street from my PTPs house! Im pretty sure they got it out now, but it was blazing pretty high up.
thats it for today! :D
todays a good day!

Made it!

Woke up at 430 in the morning to fly out of Spain.
So far the weather is Hot, and Humid :) Its great!
I am enjoying this blessing of my family here! They kids have just loved on me and made me feel like a big sister. my PTP (part time parents) have just been amazing! they have taken great care of my and I am nothing less then blessed by them. Ill be living here for a week then moving out with another girl I met at spain camp. It will be my house, but there will be other girls who come for short periods of time through the months. :) its going to be great to live out on my own. Ill be having a crash cours in language starting tomorow at 8. about a ten minute walk from the house, TM (temp mom) also has to get a little cought and is taking a class the same time so we will be walking together.

Well, Time to get a late lunch and then going on a walk to see where the Hanut is and where I will be moving (thats about a 5-1omins walk from there house) :)

Love ya all!

Blessed

Well, I am here! at least almost, we are all spending a week in Spain, then going to Africa. Its been really great to spend time with them, and see the kids again. They are such a blessing and have just loved on me like I was there big sister. I have been able to get a little vaction time in, and been blessed in alot of hours to spend with the Lord!
The jetlag!! oh i didnt know it could be so crazy. Sunday I couldnt really function, I felt like I should be in the middle of sleep but it was a bright and sunny afternoon! Its hard at times but I am blessed with internet acsess that goes in and out when it pleases. but I could have no internet.
If the kids havnt woken me up in the morning, the Birds will. :) It is really beautiful in Spain, and yes crazy when they win there world cup games. there is always much rejoicing to be heard for miles!
This all seems kinda gumbled, but thats probably cuz its around 6-630 in the morning. :)
I will try to update soon.

So it begins

Thank you all so much, for just everything! I love you all and will miss you all! I am sitting waiting to go in the air port, is wasnt as stressful as i thought. :) once again I love you all! Ill let you know as soon as I can about how I am doing!

Soon and very soon!

Today is my last full day.

wow... it really hasn't hit me. lol. I have gotten everything pretty much set. This last week I have had so many good byes, its kinda numbing. My brother is now married! to my new amazing sister Shannon! I said good bye to them, and then my sisters Monday! Tuesday I went to pray and say good bye to PA! then went to say good bye to my grandmas :) that night the high school girls surprised me with a good bye party! I love you girls! then Wednesday I said good bye to the college group, I will miss you all! I have also said good bye to other people, cutters friends, and all the church staff! there is just alot to take in, I am so excited for this trip and to just see how it will all unfold.

Through all this there has just been some amazing support from two very Godly people. My Dad has just been there, comforted me and taken care of alot of the detaily thing I just am not good at doing. He is such an amazing Dad and I have no words that can describe how great he has been through all of this! My Mom... I don't even know really how to phrase it to make it perfect. But my mom is one of the most loving, caring, and humble people I know. She has done so much for me for this trip that cant be explained. She has made me clothes, taken care of supplies, gotten more things then i need haha but has just taken care of me so much! I am so grateful, even though i know with this stress I do not always show it. I love both of my parents so much, and we have for sure gone through alot this past year. I couldn't ask for any other parents and even through the really hard times they always point me to the one person I need to go to, God! Its been hard, but if they were not there it would be so much harder! Thank you!

And thank you all, it maybe a while till I can get Internet and update you all. lol the 7 followers i have now! woot woot! tell others they can look for updates here, I will not be able to write everything, and i would love it if you would not comment about names or locations and how I maybe doing at so and so place haha. I will try to keep this updated at best I can.

Blessings to all,

Hilary Joy

On the edge...

My sister Heather and I drove down to Portland today and arrived at our sisters home. This weekend we are getting ready for our brothers wedding! :) Yay! On the way we both talked about how we are feeling on the edge... right up there standing over a vast unknown. She is going off to camp right after the wedding and 5 days later... I am off. Right now I cant grasp it all, I feel (just like I said) that I am on the edge and soon I will take a step and its all going to go swishing past. haha after that the analogy dosnt really work. but you get the idea I hope.

Not much to say, just a random thought.

::: Hilary Joy :::

First Post Woot woot!

Hey everyone,

By the suggestion of many people I am going to be blogging along my journey as much as I can. To keep everyone updated on how I am doing and what all is going down. I'm not sure how this whole blog thing works, but it doesn't look all that hard. I'm going to be limited to what all I write on here, but I will try to let you all know as much as I can! :)
Those who are following or will be should know why I am going, I leave the 25th of June. 11days from today! I am very excited to see the Smiths and just finally be there. I have alot of packing I still need to do, but not to worried. I have my brothers wedding this Sunday thats going to be a good time to say good bye to most of my family! A bitter but mostly sweet day!
Well, I think that is all I have to say for now, thank you all for your prayers and encouragement even if its not direct to me. I am at ease about all of this :)

"Nothing Less than Blessed"

Hilary Joy