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October has come and gone. I don’t know about you, but it was definitely a busy month for me. I finished my job in Florida on the 14, attended training for the World Race the 17-26, road tripped back to Kansas with my dad the 26-31 and took my younger brother and niece and nephews trick-or-treating on Halloween. Here are a few of the highlights from these events..
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World Race Training
 Ignition training for the world race was phenomenal. I met 54 other incredible Christians who are on fire for God and are ready to fulfill the Great Commission with me this upcoming year. We spent the first half of training learning and working on our own individual spiritual battles and I have posted a blog already about the biggest lesson I learned through that. The second half of training was spent doing team building exercises so that the AIM staff could split us up into the small groups we will be traveling and working with throughout the 11 months. I am fortunate to have been put with an incredible group of 5 others and we call ourselves…”Tikvah” (that is Hebrew for “hope”). Check out my teammates blogsites by clicking on their links on my websites. They’d all appreciate words of encouragement and prayers!
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Road Trip! After training, my dad flew down to Atlanta to drive the rest of the way to Kansas with me. While the short easy route would have taken us a little over 17 hours (we could have been home in 2 days) we decided to stretch it out to 6 days.
 We camped out 4 out of the 5 nights. The weather was much colder than we had anticipated, dipping into the low 30’s at night. I was nice and warm in my 20 degree sleeping bag, but all my poor dad had was my bedding and fleece blankets from Florida and he couldn’t figure out how to keep warm all night. But he sucked it up anyway. We both love the outdoors so we made several stops along the way. We stopped at Amicalola Falls State Park and  Cloudland Canyon State Park in Georgia, Russel Cave National Monument in Alabama, David Crockett State Park in Tennessee, and Big Spring Campground, Round Springs and Onondaga Cave State Park in Missouri.
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Trick-or-Treating
I love kids and I think they are so cute dressed up and going door to door asking for candy. And of course since these ones are my relatives…that makes them even cuter! My seven year old brother dressed as 
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Upcoming Events
At this moment I don’t have a lot planned other than the upcoming holidays. I will be at my parents’most of the time, helping out my mom with chores and baby-sitting. I do have to get my vaccinations soon and am trying to set up an appointment asap. I also hope to find time to visit friends and family around the area. I love and miss you all dearly!
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Fundraising update
By God’s great provision I am getting closer and closer to meeting my goal of $13,800. Here is what it looks like now… In Account: $5,656.88 In Pledges: $5,843.00 Still Needed: $2,300.12 I need to have $8,280 in my account by December 21. With some pledges coming in before then I will have $7,659.88 as of right now. Thanks again for all who have donated and will be donating!
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Prayer Requests
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black spiderman. My 6 year old niece dressed as a ballerina. My 5 year old nephew dressed as a pirate (although he refused to carry around his sword or gun and his eye patch got lost early on in the game). And my 3 year old nephew was the cutest batman I’ve ever seen! They all felt bad for me and my older brother because they kept getting all the candy and we didn’t have any. So they shared with us!
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Have A Happy Thanksgiving! |
