I am feeling so grateful and so lucky this week.
I have been thinking a lot lately about how lucky I am that I get to have lived in Hawaii for my first year of college. That when I am not doing school I can just walk down to the beach and lay in the sand! This is the dream of so many people I know- and it's my reality.
Ever since my Sophomore year I have said "one day I am going to go on a volunteer program in Africa"
...... ok well so does everyone else.
But everyone else said "I am applying to BYUH"... but no one came.
And I did.
SO my best friend and I applied to go to Kenya, Africa this July and we got accepted. Through hard, dedicated fundraising... we are going to make this dream a reality.
All working up to us applying, I kept thinking to myself "there is no way" I didn't see how it was going to happen. I would pray and pray to put me in the position I am suppose to be in. To let things happen how they are suppose to be.
When I got accepted, I still didn't understand. I didn't see how it was going to work. I knew my parents would be worried about me and I know it has been and will be a busy year and this just doesn't match the schedule. I didn't want them to worry and I didn't want them to be upset with the choices I am making. Then last night I had this feeling to just pull out my patriarchal blessing and read through it. So I did. and wow. Heavenly Father speaks to us in ways we could never imagine. I read something that made my decision so much easier. I now know that I need to work extra hard raising money, and finding a job that will be flexible with me (which I think will work out well thanks to Tessa), because there are people in Kenya that I am going to go and help and they are going to touch my life in a way I can't even imagine.
It's not going to be easy. It will be much much different than anything I have ever done. And it will be HARD. But I am excited. And I am excited to share the experience with my best friend.
More to come on my Hawaiian, Utahn, and African adventures. Feeling truly blessed.
Now back to the studying for midterms.......