I'm such a slacker.

Sound I haven't blogged in a while... and I def. haven't been keeping up in Romans! AGH! I've been in the habit of starting a book and then starting another one... mostly Christian books. But now I'm reading a book called "A Sunburned Country"... it's about Australia and it's pretty funny.

But yeah... I need to get back into the word regularly! I don't think just looking at my facebook bible verse of the day is enough. Even though I haven't been in the word as much as I'd like, I have reconnected with God a lot in the past week. We had an evangelist that spent 35 day at the Lakeland Revival come to my church for two nights in a row (last Friday and Saturday) and it was amazing. People were healed of pain, hearing issues, etc. We also spent a large amount of time praising God and dancing and having fellowship. It was really amazing to feel a heavy presence of God and it was contagious. God really ministered to me the first night and I was "filled" with the spirit. (see Eph. 5:18). I let God take over again and He's been doing a huge work in me, which is good, but somewhat painful. So it's good to be at home and back at my church.

I saw Rob this past Sunday & Monday. It was fun, but now we have a little over 2 months until we see each other again. We both believe that God is separating us for a reason for this time period, but it's really hard. Rob leaves for New Staff Training on Monday and I'm really excited for him and a little jealous! He was talking about some of his texts books and it sounds like he's going to be learning a lot of cool stuff. I'm sure I'll be learning cool things too... which will be fun to talk about when we get back from our summer adventures!

I'm working on getting some sort of cell phone for when I'm in Australia, but it's such a pain. If I use nextel, it cost $1.29 a minute and if I go with a local Australian number I have to buy a phone & sim card... which will basically pay for itself in comparison to nextel. So I'm trying to figure that out (if anyone has any advice let me know...). It's frustrating and adding unneeded stress. I just really want to be able to talk to my family and Rob when I'm gone because I'll be lucky to get online once a week since we can't take laptops.

But other than that... things are good. A girl that I was training last week at my old workplace asked me how to know if she was saved... which she was and just needed to be pointed towards scripture. So that was cool... I didn't even bring it up. God is good. Things are a little rough but other people have it way worse than I do. I'm getting excited for Australia but I'm still nervous... like really nervous. But I know without a doubt that God wants me to go, so I will. :) I know this is a divine appointment in my life. I like to look at it like this: God is stealing me away from everyone I know, especially Rob, to take me to a country I've always wanted to go to, to use me to do His work AND to romance me at one of the most beautiful places I could imagine. So keep me in yours prayers friend... this blog was pretty random so I appreciate it if you made it all the way through. haha.