My 18th birthday

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Ok, Ok...

I know it has been a long while since I wrote, but it's been a long and busy week! As most of you know today, March 16 is my birthday. I am turning 'dieziocho' and I guess that means I will be officially an "adult". Anyways... I am glad that I don't have to move out yet, HAHA since my brother Sam moved out just a little before he turned 18, but life came at him fast and it wasn't easy! So I will calmly finish this next school year, without worries and the year after that, I will move to Mexico (for good) and will teach a pre-school age group in a remote village. In that year of teaching I will also be studying french (and maybe latin or Greek). After that I'm going to finish college stuff over there too! Although I will probably come back every summer to work (since the pay is better, thus I can raise more money to live through my college life!)



So these are the plans of an 18 year old gal! I hope to keep posting when I move to Mexico... Even though only a small amount of people ever read my blog and less people comment so I feel like I need a little more encouragement sometimes... Thus I have been constantly doing a devotional (every morning) and have been keeping a journal type thing in which I write a prayer to God, and each prayer is different every day. This has helped me to get my frustrations out and leave them in God's hands... God can do what I can't and it's been something He's been trying to help me understand because I gain nothing by worrying!

I hope that my blog posts have been of use to someone who may need uplifting in a spiritual sense, but most of all I wish that everyone who visits my blog understands one thing about me:

All the riches in the world may take me far in this life... All the friends I may have can help me feel happy while they last... All my life I can live with people's love around me...
But the love of God will get me into heaven where I will live for an eternity, where His friendship never ends... He will spoil me too but in a way that won't hurt me, He will always love me......... HIS LOVE NEVER ENDS!

"And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." - 1 Corinthians 13:2-3

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