Blessed

So I drank about four cups of coffee this morning so please forgive how erratic this post is about to be. I have to post because there are things that happened to me over the past two days that I have to tell you all about. Well to start out, on Thursday I received an email confirming that I am in fact accepted into the YWAM Los Angeles school, so on Saturday, January 7th I will be heading out to LA to start my YWAM adventure. I will be returning on July 9th so I will be gone for almost exactly 6 months. I still don't know what country I will be doing my outreach at but I will find out the 2nd or third week of school. If you haven't watched the video I posted a couple of days ago about YWAM LA here it is if you want to watch it. After watching it, I am so pumped and ready to go. I am definitely going to enjoy every minute I have left with my family and friends, but I am excited about what's to come. This weekend is actually one of those moments with family that I am cherishing. My brother and I are in Orlando this weekend enjoying time with my sister and enjoying our Christmas gifts from our parents at Universal Studios. I was excited for this weekend just because I am spending it with some of my favorite people in the world, but let me tell you, God has so incredibly blessed me in so many ways already (we are still here for 2 more days) that I just have to give Him thanks. So to start out with, we flew out on Thursday evening around 545 p.m. and we had open seating, which means we didnt have seat assignments so we just had to find an open seat once we got on the plane. Justin sat toward the front and I made my way to the back of the plane where I saw an open seat by this older couple. As I sat down, I noticed the man was reading a book called Finding God's will for your life, so I just was kind of assuming that they might be Christians, but I wasn't sure. I was pretty tired because I had worked that day, and I was laying there waiting for the plane to take off (which makes me a nervous wreck normally) and the couple asked if I was okay. I told them I was just tired because I had worked all day. They asked where I worked, and I told them I was the secretary at my church. Just as me seeing the man's book told me these people were christians, I think me seeing this assured them that I was too. Having this mutual confidence that we could openly talk about Christ and what He was doing in out lives opened the door to an amazing conversation that was so encouraging to me. I told them that I was heading out to California in January to attend a discipleship training school and they were telling me that although She was a doctor, she felt that God was leading her possible on the mission field as well. they were from Asheville and invited me to come visit them sometime before I left in January. We had such an amazing authentic conversation about Christ and God that made me realize that this is what its supposed to be like and that although we went to different churches and lived in different places, we were part of the same family and we were placed in each others' lives. They told me that when they bought their tickets they were going to do a seat assignment but decided to do open seating to see where God put them. And so clearly I see God put them there for me because not only did they encourage me in so many ways and I could see God so clearly through them, at the end of the flight he pulled out his wallet and gave me $100 for my trip. I was so overwhelmed and the man was tearing up too, but as I thanked them continuously he reminded me, its not our money anyway. As we walked into the sanford airport, they asked if they could pray for me and without hesitation (as I would have probably done in the past) said yes. We just prayed right there and we hugged and we both told each other that we loved each other. I need to remind you that all this happened within about an hour flight. I was just so reminded how good God is and how when you are following Him he will bless you in ways that only He can. That is only the beginning, but this is pretty long, so I'm going to do another blog about 11-11-11, because it only gets better! Hope you all have an amazing day, and I promise you when you offer your life to God he will give it back to you in so many ways that you could not have even hoped or imagined for. Love you all! 8 weeks :D Pura Vida!