October is creeping up and I still feel like there's a lot to be done before it's here. I need to go shopping 1st of all to get all my gear so I can survive this trip; but wow do the costs add up with that list! I'm a nanny for a living and everytime I think of saying goodbye to my family I could just burst into tears, they mean SO much to me and I will miss them dearly. My friends have been so good to me and they are so supportive which definitely makes this process a whole lot easier to get through. I'm so thankful for them and for my family who's always there for me, it will be hard to say goodbye for a year.  

I'm really excited to just go and be on this trip already, but it's all the stuff that comes before hand, all the preping that really gets to me sometimes. I'm super excited to see how this year will change me and how i'll be a whole new me, because that is what I want. I want God to use me, I want to allow Him to work in me and to make me into what He desires me to be. I want to change for the glory of God's kingdom, I don't want to be average and just passing through life. There are too many adventures to be had and  there's to much land to journey to just stay here and continue on in the way that I am. Life with God is an incredible, yet difficult journey, never boring and never constant. I'm getting ready to go on this crazy adventure, and I pray that it will be all that it should; and that change will happen!