Quick "Home" Update

I went back and read my old posts to see how much I actually explained about YWAM and stories and such. Eventually I'll try to put in some more details about what YWAM is and what they do, and I'd definitely like to share some things I learned during lecture phase, and also still answer questions about Peru/Outreach -you can ask me in comments, facebook, email, whatever.

But one of the things I noticed is that I was talking about job interviews recently so I should probably let you know what I'm doing the next couple months. I'm working for my Aunt Pat right now, doing some office work basically, she wants to go 'paperless' and needed me to teach her how to do it, thus providing me with a part time job because it's really time consuming and she still needs to do her normal work. I had been hoping to get a serving job at a restaurant after a couple weeks of working for Aunt Pat but I think God had other things in mind. I was really planning on making a lot of money between coming home and leaving again, but God kept telling me I needed to let go of that and depend on Him more. And it's not like I'm not making money right now, it's just not half as much as what I wanted and know I could be getting waiting tables. But I've realized I'm doing just fine for now, and God is going to provide for me after SOMD so I need to quit freaking out about it.

I've been decently content the last week, going to work during the day, spending time with friends and my sister at night, and I've found this super random volunteer thing to do on the weekends. I'm stringing origami paper cranes together (there's over 106,000 of them) to represent the number of people in Minnesota that are affected by brain injuries. My mom found it online somehow (craigslist), so we went last weekend and they do it a few times per week, so I'm gonna keep going. I guess it's for the Brain Injury Association of MN now that I've googled it. Like I said, it's super random, but I needed some place to serve at anyways, so this is a good short-time volunteer thing I can do right now.
I've been sending out update newsletters the past week or two to everyone that was on my support team list that I have addresses (and stamp supplies..) for, so if you're not getting letters from me and you'd like to, PLEASE get me your address somehow! It's obviously way cheaper for me to continually update here, but I can also email you my updates (whether you want the mailed copies or the blog posts).

So yeah! Things are good right now, and I'm aiming to update this at least once every couple weeks while I'm home, so keep checking back!
Chau everyone :) -that's how the Peruvians spell Ciao-

this is me and some of the stringed cranes. yeah there's a LOT of them. like this is one corner of the room that was full of them. there's sooo many!