Realizing What's Important!

Being home for the holidays has opened my eyes to see what really is important! With my grandpa having cancer and fighting that battle it has made me realize how important time with family can really be. It's sad that sometimes we don't realize this until something tramatic comes up such as a loved one having cancer. And not knowing how long or if they will survive. So this season has been really special this year, to be able to see my grandpa for christmas. Especially when I thought I wasn't going to be here. It's hard to be here when I want to be in Brazil but I now see that this visit home was God ordained. To take hold of every precious moment that I get with my grandpa. God is revealing how important this is! So I thank him for the wonderful opportunity to be here with my family, when we all haven't been together for christmas in quite some time. I have learned something very valuable this christmas season and that is to never take granted the time you have with your family because it could soon be taken away. So I thank Jesus for allowing me to be here at this time.
Happy Birthday Jesus!!
Blessings to All! :)

Good News...:)

I'm so glad to finally inform you all that I have received my visa!! Praise the Lord! The long hard wilderness was worth it! I officially got my visa approved on November 13th. So I sent in my passport and fees and I'm just waiting to receive my passport back and then get my plane ticket from there. But I am the only one from my group of six that got my visa. So please please keep them in your prayers as well so we can all go to Brazil as a group. We are believing that they will get their visas very soon. All we need is one and the rest will come! Also please keep Jamie our first year in your prayers because her visa paperwork has not been legalized yet and that has to happen first so pray they legalize hers and it' s a quick process! Through the wilderness God has made himself faithful to me! I would never take this precious time back all God has taught me will not only help me bless others in Brazil but in the future as well! Thank you all so very much for your prayers...we couldn't have gotten this far without them. Please continue to keep me in your prayers as I pray God will bless you in return.

Learning Patience

So as of now I'm in Sacramento, California waiting to get my visa for brazil. The waiting has definetly been hard, I'm wondering alot what this is all about. Why am I stuck here? And why am I not in Brazil? But through my frustrations God has made himself real to me. It's like God told me I placed you here for my purpose and that is to grow closer to me. And because of that, how can I complain? I don't think I have ever been so close to God and that is definetly a blessing! So through the frustration of being here God has flipped my world upside down by teaching me how to have those intimate moments with him that I was to busy to find before. He took away all the distractions to show me how beautiful he is and how much he cares about me. And God has definetly Rocked my world...now I know how it feels to really have a relationship with God! To yearn to be with him everyday...I can't get enough of him...to pray once a day doesn't satisfy me anymore I want to pray and be with him 24 hours of everyday. He's taught me that its not okay to just be comfortable with the ways things are...I need to always keep striving for more and more of him. It's like he's put a whole new passion in my heart that wasn't there before. A passion not only to be with him but to dive into his word, to learn more about how he feels about me and others. So though this wilderness I'm in right now has definetly been trying he has used it to do something amazing for our relationship! And that I would never trade for anything! God is good! James 1:3 For you know that when your faith is tested your endurance has a chance to grow.