This week I bought my plane tickets to Africa!!! It is both exciting...and scary...and almost hard to even believe. I feel like this step actually makes it real...I am going to Africa. Wow. I am so blessed by how God worked out the flights. I had been looking for weeks and found (what I thought) were some pretty good deals on flights, but when I went to book them it wouldn't let me or would take me to a site where the flight was almost $500 more expensive than what it had originally been. So I kept praying about it and checking the flights. But they kept getting more and more expensive. It was a little discouraging but I just kept trusting that God had a plan. Then this week one of my friends at work, who is from Kenya, suggested looking at flights from D.C. So I started looking at flights out of different cities and found a flight out of Seattle for $1300! I still have to find a flight to Seattle but even so it will still be much cheaper than the other flights I was looking at. I am so thankful for God's faithfulness in this and all of the answered prayers. I feel this is further confirmation that this is where God is calling me next summer. I leave May 17 and return July 4th. I can't wait! There are still many details to work out but I look forward to seeing how God works in all of this.
This week was Thanksgiving and I feel like this is just one more blessing that God has poured into my life and one more thing to be thankful for.
