hello life. this is me.

Hello friends!! I realized I haven't updated in a while and so much has been going on that I thought it was due time indeed. Where do I even start?! Since May 14th I have- graduated college, got a job, moved to arkansas and have been learning crazy crazy amounts about the Lord and his grace and faithfulness and love. Here are few pictures to give you an idea of what I've been up to.

I laugh A LOT. Mainly because of these two boys I'm sandwiched between.

Pranks have been pulled- this one was a birthday surprise for the twinskies. We re-arranged their furniture. They still may not know we switched their laundry baskets. whoops :)

I hang out with these amazing people all the time. I have been so blessed to learn from them and with them.

Here it comes-THE UPDATE-

I moved to arkansas for the summer as part of an internship with Lightbearers Ministries. I'll be working for them until next may and I get to spend the summer in Fayetteville and this fall back in Springfield. I move back on August 5th to start living life with my "house girls" and pour into them all that I have learned this summer.

This summer has been AMAZING. I am exhausted, but in a good way. I have been challenged and stretched. I've memorized and recited. I've cooked and cleaned and painted. I've laughed and cried. It's been great and part of me doesn't want it to end. BUT the other part is so excited for August 5th. I finally get to be with my 4 girls, I get to see their faces and hear what the Lord has been doing in their hearts all summer. I get to begin this 9 month journey with them and I'm so excited to see where the Lord takes us. I feel ready and well equipped...and I don't say things like that often.

God is doing amazing things through Lightbearers and I feel unbelievably humbled that He chose me, a sassy girl from Missouri, to be a part of it all.

It's crazy to think that freshman year of college I thought I would be living in Nashville, married or engaged and working as an event planner. But nope. I live in Arkansas, I get to share the gospel and love on college students, and I am raising support...It's definitely not what I had planned but i'm so thankful. My heart gets so excited just thinking about it. God is so gracious to me. He spent my 4ish years of college loving and disciplining me out of my "fleshy" lifestyle and all for his glory and my joy. I'm so thankful he loved me enough to not let me leave college the way I came. Bitter, sarcastic, lonely, and "tossed by the wind"(lauren and becs did you like my james reference?!) He has helped me forgive and let go, he gave me amazing friends who love him too and point me back to him, I'm still a little sassy-but I'm learning thats ok :) its all the heart behind it. I now know things can be taken from you; your health, your job, your family, but he is my foundation and I trust him. It took me a while to get there and man- did we have a journey together- but I'm here. I'm thankful and I'm ready to share the good news with others! Here's to a great rest of the summer friends!!