A foggy day in Valladolid....

Well good day to everyone...and HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my sweet sister Sammie! :) It is such a blessing to now have 2 sisters! and I hope Sambo you are having a fabulous day...I love you and miss you!

also this week was Kaylyn's birthday...(one of my best friends from high school) so happy birthday to you to Kay! :)

Well here are a few more pictures from my time with my dad! We had so much fun together, and this is in the Plaza Mayor in Madrid....


Well I wanted to share a little bit about what I'm learning and what has been going on lately. Well as you know I have a solid group of girls here that I have been hanging out with...I love each one of them so very much! Some are Christians...some are not, and God has been giving me a really cool chance to have some awesome conversations with different girls...and everyone of those has been challenging to me in different ways. Last Saturday night my dad took me and some girls out for dinner, we had a blast...but towards the end (or not so end as discussion started!) of our meal he asked us this question....
"If you had 15 min to talk to the world, in a language that everyone understood, what would you say and why? What is most important to you to share with the WHOLE world?"
That as you can imagine opened up the table to a lot of things...super challenging and interesting...how would you answer that question?
For me, I would talk about the way the Christ has made such a difference in my life...that in this broken world there is hope in Christ...that is the only hope, its not anything we can do or not do...only in Christ do we find freedom and eternal life...how exactly I would express that I'm not totally sure...but it was a really cool way for me to talk about it, because that's the first time, or most blatant time I've shared my faith with some of the girls...and I do get nervous, but I know its truth...and I so badly want them to be apart of my "family"...so that was an awesome conversation, it was great to hear what the girls thought, and how they would answer it, but it really just challenged me to be praying for each one of the people here...praying for opportunities to be real...but more than anything its challenging me to be in the Word more than ever, because I know nothing I can do will ever make a difference...only through Christ...so that is super exciting, challenging, scary, and awesome...and I would love your prayers for that...for boldness again and just good good time in the Word....
Through all that God is teaching me a lot about judging and loving in a way that we are called as Christians to love...without judging...and through that we had Bible study on Monday and talked about 1 John 4-God is Love...and what that looks like, that perfect love drives out fear...and just thinking about what fears keep me from loving like I'm called to...fear of rejection, of being broken, hurt....left alone....but God is so gracious with me and is just teaching me so very much!

So thats kind of where I'm at...I would love your prayers...especially for time, time in the Word, time to stay connected with people from back home because that is getting hard, and I don't mean to slack on it, I'm just so busy...time for my studies....
thank you so much for your prayers...I am so blessed to have such an amazing support system...
Much love to each one of you and I hope you are having a phenomenal day! :)