How many days?

I feel like throughout your life, you always have a countdown going for something. It can be for your birthday, Christmas, a big vacation you have coming up or something that you are really looking forward to. Countdowns are pretty much my life.
My real countdown has finally begun. 
Today marks our 10 day mark until we leave for Guatemala. WE ONLY HAVE 10 DAYS UNTIL WE LEAVE! Whatttttt? Has time really flown that quickly? All of our final arrangements have been made, I've gone on many of shopping trips getting everything I need, and lists have been made. I haven't been this excited and nervous at the same time for something in a really long time!
As we have gotten so close, I just want to ask a few things of you:

• That you would pray for our group in the next 10 days as we makes all our final preparations and get everything finalized. 
• That you would pray for us while we're on the trip, for safe travel to and from, safe travel while in the country
• That you would pray that everything runs smoothly while we're down there with our Vacation Bible School (with 670 kids!) and the construction we'll be doing at the local community center. 
• That not only would we touch the people's hearts who we will be helping down in Guatemala but that they would also touch our hearts. 
• That you would pray for the church we will be working with down there, their pastor and congregation, the school we will be working with and the community that is opening their arms to us for a week.

Please keep our group in your prayers for the next few weeks. This is such an amazing experience and I pray that God's love will shine through us to the local community. Nothing warms my heart more than helping others and showing them God's love. Not only are we making an impact on their lives, but they are making one on ours as well. ♥

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Time Flies

It's February. The first day of February. We have already flown through a whole month in the year of 2012. Dude, that's crazy.
The past month has been a good one. It's been a month of change and new things. We started off the new year with a group of kids from the youth group coming over and playing games with us and we just had a good time. The next morning, my mo and I got up early to drive across the state to go to my cousin's wedding. It was a small, cute wedding that fit the bride and groom perfectly. Later that week, we celebrated my birthday with some good BBQ from Famous Dave's, I got a Kindle and some real luggage as gifts.
Coming back to school was not at the top of my list of exciting things I was looking forward to. Why would I want to come back to a small, old dorm room to sleep in a bed that isn't comfy when I can sleep in my room with a bed that is comfy and get food made by my mom whenever I want? It was a new semester, plus I was getting a new roommate as well. New, new, new. All new. This semester I signed up for 5 classes with a lab. I had a full schedule.
Classes:
Public Speaking, Biology (with a lab), Music, GenEd, and Math
Now, it is the middle of week four, and I have managed to live through the first month of the new semester. My new roommate, Erica, is awesome. We get along so well. She is a cheerleader here at the school, and we just get along so much better then I did with my last roommate. We have movie nights and ice cream nights and we have a lot in common with the different things that we like. My countdown for Guatemala is now down to 36 days which just seems insane to me, but I'm so excited. Over all, this first month of 2012 has been a good one, full of excitement and new things. So February, let's see what you can do. :)