I’m sitting on a roof in Peru,
hanging over the edge in my hammock. This is my life, real, wonderful, God glorifying life. As I sit here and reflect on all the ways God
has been blessing me I am overwhelmed with His love, overwhelmed with how he
has provided for me, protected me and given me the best family and friends I could’ve
ever asked for. We just got done with
church, thank you Holy Spirit for filling the room. We did the Lifehouse everything skit in front
of the church, so powerful and I know the Holy Spirit was filling the room and
rocking those peoples worlds. Nathan
preached and after we had a invitation for healing and we spent about a half
hour praying for people and praying for healing, there are no words to describe
what went on in that Church this morning. 
My birthday was this past Thursday,
big 23. I have never felt more
loved. I woke up and went to leave for
breakfast to find that my whole team and Nathans whole team as well as my
amazing squad leaders were all in my living room ready to start the day with
me, there was breakfast and cake and cookies, Happy Good morning Birthday. I got some sweet cards that about brought
tears to my eyes, a beautiful bracelet from Molly and a sweet little travel
sized dolphin (my favorite animal) from Joshua, which he named Lennard, Lenny
for short. 
The day was amazing, filled with
laughter, basketball, lolly pops, cake, cookies, ministry all amazingly great
things. I preached that night at church,
it was the first time I had ever preached. There is definitely something powerful about letting Gods voice be heard
through you, swallowing your fears, relying on Him fully and releasing His
voice into a room full of people with all eyes on you. After church I had to pee so I asked Kursti
to walk with me. Let me preface what I
am about to tell you with some things that happened last month. One day Kursti and Ruth came home from the
mall (while I was sick in bed on an off day) and told me they bought Prom
dresses because we were having a world race prom and we had gotten an email
about it. I got SOOO excited, giddy,
giggling so excited… well this was a joke, there was no prom to be had. So ever since then I have really wanted to go
to prom again. Ok so back to Thursday… I
walk into the area where we eat our meals and laid out on the bench are dresses
dresses and more dresses…. I looked at my family, wait?!?! What does this
mean?!?! Could it be true? Are we really having prom?!?! Yes Kristen we are
having prom!!!! Now pick whichever dress you want and shoes! WHAAAT! I about
lost it. The girls primped in the
bathroom while the men went and got all spiffy as well. They then blind folded
me and took me upstairs. When the mask
was taken off there it was, my prom, balloons shaped as flowers decorating the
walls, cake, food, piñata, a live band and all my loved ones waiting to have a
ball with me. It was beyond
perfect. We dance and sung the night
away, played a few games, busted the piñata and had a grand ole time. It was the best birthday I’ve ever had. I am in awe of how my Qodesh family loves me and
so thankful for them. 
