Prepare Me to be a Sanctuary

HEY!!!! Long time no post! I'm just here letting y'all know that one of my dear blog friends is having a giveaway!!   So cool right!!  She is giving away a leather bound KJV Bible, from Rustic Journals.  another lucky winner will receive some super cute note cards from Delightful Daisy.  She would really love it if everyone who can would participate in this!  The giveaway is limited to people that live in the United States.  So head over to her blog and check out the rules for the giveaway.  here is the link to her blog :)  creating precious moments Ciao for now! -Anna

Hello friends! :-) This is Anna, returned from my travels around the world :p lol. My mission's trip was amazing, I learned a lot.  It was the most amazing summer for me!  I am so blessed that God allowed me to go. I don't have much to post now, as I don't have time. But no worries, I will be updating soon :) Thank you for all your prayers! -Anna

Wow!! it's been like, forever! since I've posted on here!!       Terribly sorry dearies!  please know that it's not that I don't love writing for all of you, My life has just been slightly on the crazy side lately!  lol.   So my brother came back home for a week in May, that was great getting to see him!  we didn't do much while he was here, just relaxed.  We did go bowling one time though!  lets just say... you don't want me on your bowling team! :p  I am not the greatest lol.     Now on to my Mission trip update!...   I leave this Saturday from the Air port to fly out to Wisconsin.  In Wisconsin I will be training with the other people going on the trip.  We will be working on being a team, and on our skill groups and stuff.  I'm not totally sure how it all works, but I will let you know what we did there when I get home.   After a week or so we will Fly out to Kenya!! whoop whoop!! SO!! excited!!  I will not lie, I am nervous, but I am trying to fo

Mission Work Update:   I have raised enough money out of the amount I need to cover my plane ticket to and from over seas!!!  God is being SO unbelievably good to me!  None of this is me, it is all God.  I could do none of this without His will.  Everyone is being supportive, and praying for me, and I thank you all!   I have only one cost expense that I have to cover myself, and that is getting to training camp in Wisconsin.  My mom informed me today that my plane ticket has been bought! I get on the plane 6:00am June 20th, and arrive in Chicago, 8:00am that mornign, where I will be picked up, and taken to the church, where all the people going will be meeting :-D This is all so very exciting!... but, it is also scary.  I got a lump in my throat when my mom told me that I will be flying alone from here to Chicago (when I fly overseas I will be with our group.)  I have never gone anywhere by myself before, much less flown by myself.  Please, pray that God will calm my spirit, and f

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Mathew 26: 41 How often I get distracted.  I have so much going on, Mission work, my ACT, and then there's thinking about college.  I get so worked up, and stressed, trying to figure out how I'm going to get everything done, that I forget to Read my Bible, or I remember, and just put it off... planning to do it later... always later.   I forget to pray, and then when I do pray, It's more than often a short prayer, just so that I know I said my prayer. My spirit is willing, I love reading my Bible, I love spending time in prayer with God.  But my flesh.. my flesh is so weak.  If I let my flesh control me, as I have before.  I don't read my Bible, and I forget to spend time in prayer. When I am reading my Bible, and praying, I feel close to God, I am happy, but when I don't I "fall into temptation"  I do things I shouldn't, my mind wonders to pla

Y'all know that I am going on a missions trip right? well, the group doesn't require me to to read any books before I go, or memorize a book from the Bible.  But, they do have this little tract, that they want me to memorize. The tract itself isn't that long, but there are several verses inside it that I have to memorize.  29 to be exact ;)  I have 7 out of these verses to memorize.  I know the verses, I have heard them, and read them several times.  But I do not have them memorized.  Please pray for me, that I will study hard, and not get distracted with other things, so that I will be able to get these verses memorized before I leave.  I leave June 20th :-)     I am getting very excited!! and a little nervous... going to another country is scary!  I know I am doing what God wants me to do.  And I know that God will bless me.   Please keep me in your prayers!! :-) -Anna

Hey Everyone!  So sorry it's been so long since i've written.  My mind has just been so busy, between mission work, and the two week vacation we took, and studying for my ACT.  Every time I sat down to write something, my mind wouldn't just settle in on one thought lol.   Anyways... Concerning my mission trip:   I told ya'll that I had sent in my passport application, well....                                                                           MY PASSPORT CAME IN!!!!!! I am so happy.  It was kinda funny when I got it.  It was the first day being home since we got back from our two week vacation.  I had been hounding my mom all day, telling her that I HAD to go check the mail, because my passport may have come it.  She told me she would check the mail when her and my dad went out...                        So she gets back, and I'm like "did I get anything??" she was like, "yup, quite a few things actually" she handed me like 5 return