God's Children....

My beautiful friend, Kat, from New Zealand. Her eyes truly tell a story.
Nate Lynch, a good friend of mine; If you look closely you can see me taking the picture.
My friends Teya's brother Andrew.
Teya and her family.
Beautiful little boy here on campus.

A Race To The Finish

Literally only half of the bikes!

The Finish Line!!One of the bikers.

The Crew

This past weekend, I had the honor of volunteering at the IronMan Qualifiers. 70.3 miles total(and this is the half race! The full race is in October)! 1.2 miles swimming through choppy ocean water, 56 miles of biking the curvy hills of Hawaii, then finishing it off with a nice 13.1 mile run to the finish line. It is unbelievable to see the determination and strength these people have!

My friend Jonathan and I were set up at Check point #2, mile 4.5 of the running race. Our job was to write down all of the runners numbers as they ran past us. Imagine groups of 100 runners coming at you at and you having to read the numbers on their arms (which are moving) or the numbers on their tags(which were usually blowing in the wind). Let's just say I had quite the hand cramp by the end of the day, and my eyes took a while to adjust again.

People come from all over the world to race this race. All different shapes, sizes, and abilities; These people have unbelievable determination! One man stuck out to me in particular. About half way through the day, we had a mishap happen at our station. A man who had one leg, was participating in the race. For the running part, he had a bicycle that he peddled with his hands. This part of the race was a turn around point that had quite a curve to it. The man in the wheelchair came a little too fast and whipped around a little to hard, which made him go straight into the lava rock. He fell out of his chair and cut up his foot pretty badly. We helped him back up in to his chair but one of his pedals was bent up from the lava rock. Jonathan luckily was able to bend it back in place! If i was this man i would be done by this point!! I could not believe what happened next. I cleaned up his cut with what we had, we refilled his water bottle, he thanked us.... AND HE KEPT GOING! The strength of this man was so inspiring.

The day ended with meeting back up with the other 12 or so people that volunteered with my school. This day was so much fun..... It was quite the opportunity!

Home with my PAPA....

[Top Row from left to right: Keun-Ho(K), Andrew, Ben, Jonathan, Samuel, Alyssa, Malissa (our wonderful group leader).

Bottom Row from left to right: Cornelia, Sadie, Myself, Lili, Joanne, and Sarah.]

Almost two months in now.... Can you believe how time flies? It's been a while since I have posted something, so much has happened I just don't know where to begin....

I suppose I could start by saying where I will be going for outreach in July. I have been truly blessed with the countries God has chosen for me. I will be traveling to 6 or so different countries, starting in Mexico City. We will be working with efforts that expose human trafficking, working in a lot of Red Light Districts, and also traveling to unknown tribes in Central America. Tijuana, Panama, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Mexico City; All of the places my team and I will be traveling to. We will be flying to San Diego California on July 1st I believe, and there, we will be picking up our 15 passenger van that we bought. We will then all crowd in to our new home on wheels, and begin our journey of a lifetime.

Yes you guessed it right, we will be driving the entire way, to Mexico, all the way down Central America, then back up again. To say the least, my group will become incredibly close, very quickly. With nothing but our camera gear and one backpack, this will be the most incredibly experience of our lives.

To everyone back home and to all the ones who have supported me throughout my journey's, I would not be in the incredible place i am today, without all of your prayers and the love that you have shown me.

God is truly molding me in to the daughter He has made me to be. I am growing so much in my relationship with Him and am seeing the gifts and strengths He has given me. These few months have been challenging me to take God out of the box I have had Him in for many years now. I have always had an image of who God is, but He is much bigger then I can know. I am finally following His path without looking back, and He is showing me the stepping stones He has put down for me. I am free in Him completely and have committed my life to living for Him alone. He is my heart... my mind... my hands... my feet.... my lips.... He is my LIFE... and that is all that matters to me.

Use me Papa as your tool, use my lips and actions to be your light in this world, I am NEW in you and will remain NEW in you for the rest of my days... guide the way Father, for I am all in and will never turn back.... I know that i will be tested over and over again, but I promise to you Papa, and I commit to you Papa, that I will remain in you and stay faithful to you Papa. You are holding my hand and you are never letting go. Thank you Papa....

Remain in me and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; It must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

John 15:4

So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free and don't get tied up again in slavery to the law.

Galatians 5:1

These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold-though your faith is far more precious then mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.

1Peter 1:7

Papa... You are good.... I am yours... Take me Father

Daddy..... I AM HOME