It is hard to believe that I leave in 2 weeks for my World Race!
I feel like it was just yesterday that I was nervously filling out the WR application, and now I'm sorting clothes,buying the last few essentials,and trying to figure out how to get everything into my 65 Liter pack!
It has been so Amazing to watch God provide for my needs! He has used my family,friends,church, and people
I don't even know to bring it all about! I have almost all of my gear (except for a few minor things
which are available to get right here : http://www.rei.com/GiftRegistryDetails/GR2479095 ) , I have made
my current deadline of $6,500 with a total of $6,714 (and I have faith that God will provide for my next deadline). I have gotten all of my vaccinations, and just recently God provided the money for my Wisdom Teeth to be removed before I leave!
I am still currently looking for either a laptop or an Ipod touch so that I can
1) Update this blog weekly/monthly
2) Use Skype to keep in contact with my family
If you would like to help provide one of these items or know of someone else who would, then please let me
know either in a comment on here, facebook, or email me @ [email protected] Thanks so much!
Another way that you can be of help to me right now is to say a prayer for me as well as my family.
I am currently in denial (I know that I'm leaving soon, but yet I don't know….or don't want to know I guess) about how little time I have left with my family. I am the youngest person going on the WR this January, and I have never been out of the country or away from home for so long, so I admit…….that I am scared.
Ok I said it WHEW! Now that THATS off my chest let me say this.
Yes I am scared. Scared. SCARED. S . C . A . R . E . D .
But GOD is Bigger than anything that scares me………. so I DON"T have to fear. 
This is the picture I get in my mind when I think about leaving for the World Race.
Picture a Cliff, and on the top of that cliff its covered in Lovely green grass. Now when you look down into the open chasm below the cliff, its deep and dark and you have no idea whats down there. Now picture that YOU are standing on the edge of that cliff, and the ground behind you is nice and safe, and more comfortable then the edge your standing on. And Yet you know that its OK to jump, despite that little voice in the back of your mind saying "NO don't Jump, stay here where its safe and warm" …… Despite it all, you actually feel that it is ok to jump. Because you know in your heart, that no matter what you go through, there is someone who is with you through it all, Who is waiting to catch you if needed.
So you say Goodbye to the safe and comfortable.
So you throw off the fears and take a step back.
…. AND YOU JUMP!
