mais uma semana(one more week... in portuguese!!)

At this this time next week I will be boarding the plane. I will have already said goodbye to my friends and family and I will probably still be crying! I think me crying a lot is completely justified! I AM going to MISS my friends and family. I am going to miss my hugs from everyone. I am going to miss my church. I am going to miss pouring into my youth girls. I am going to miss leading sunday school class. I will miss ALL my youth. I am going to miss hot showers. I am going to miss good food. I am going to miss my bed. I am going to miss well, a lot....

BUT, I am going to see people get healed, raised from the dead, worship and dance for HOURS everyday, sleep in a tent for some weekends, share the gospel with villages, love on orphans, feed village kiddos, be a nurse, learn how to scale a fish and cook it completely, wash my clothes by hand, take COLD bucket showers, and just LIVE IN AFRICA!!! I've gone to Africa for a week and three weeks but that was just like "a trip"...now i'm actually going to LIVE there for 3 months!! What???!!!

I am excited. I am emotional. I am going to be DYING to myself EVERYDAY. I need Jesus MORE! I WANT Him MORE! I want to experience SO much... and I KNOW I will! I will constantly be in His presence! I am thrilled! I am anticipating and expecting it ALL... hard and easy. bad and good. I'm ready! Jesus is on my side. I'm in the center of His Will. I'm ready... let's do this together Jesus!

Please be praying for me as I leave. Pray for my family. Pray for my youth girls. Pray for my friends. Saying goodbye is NO easy thing. Pray that I understand the language and grasp it easily. I want to be able to talk to everyone.

So many things have been prophesied over me about this trip and I am just so excited! God is SO GOOD!

Please keep up with me on here and facebook while I am away! I will be posting pictures and updates! I know everyone wants to see ME scale a fish and then cook it, see what I have to use the bathroom in/on. Etc. etc. haha oh the adventures that await me! This is so funny... and i love it!!

This song keeps playing in my head... it's called "Follow You" by Leeland..
You lived among the least of these

The weary and the weak
And it would be a tragedy for me to turn away.

All my needs you have supplied.
When I was dead you gave me life.
How could I not give it away so freely?


And I'll follow you into the homes that are broken.
Follow you into the world.
Meet the needs for the poor and the needy God.
Follow you into the World.


Use my hands, use my feet
To make your kingdom come
Through the corners of the earth
Until your work is done
'Cause Faith without works is dead
And on the cross your blood was she'd
So how could I not give it away so freely?

And I'll follow you into the homes that are broken.
Follow you into the world.
Meet the needs for the poor and the needy God.
Follow you into the World.

I give all myself.
I give all myself
I give all myself... to you.
And I give all myself.
Yes, I give all myself.
And I give all myself... to you.

And I'll follow you into the homes that are broken
Follow you into the world.
Meet the needs for the poor and the needy God.
Follow you into the World.

compelled by love to go to africa....
Em