Getting a job...

I am now in my third week of working at my first permanent full-time job. I am learning more and more of my fear of commitment, but that is beside the point. I started working at Westwood Gardens, where I can somewhat use my degree of horticulture; however I'm not fully utilizing my degree because I am just the retail girl who rings you up at the register and asks if you need anything.. oh and occasionally answers the phone if you call. It is disheartening to know that there are few horticulture jobs out there that require a bachelors degree, mostly if you want to live close to home (Arkansas), and my position would be one of those that does not require a degree. I also found out that we receive no benefits from working at this nursery, and I am getting paid close to minimum wage. I've been analyzing these things for the past week or so, and weighing my options. I have decided to stay there for at least a year, while living with my parents, and see where it takes me. Here are the possibilities after said year: I could move in to a position in the greenhouses at work, I could use the experience to gain a better position with another company, I could save up money to go back to school for teaching, or I will stay in the same position for longer. I foresee 1 or 3 happening.

There is no new news on the China team. They are still doing well and my rabbit (Kavu) is still growing! Emmalyn showed Kavu to me on Skype the other night and he is getting bigger and bigger. I am blessed to have friends like Emmalyn that will take care of my babies after I'm gone. :) Please continue to pray for their ministry over there, spreading God's light and His message to all the Chinese people. We are so blessed in America to have a government that will allow us to follow our God openly! I pray that some day China will know of this freedom and their people will no longer be controlled and suppressed. In other news, my student Doris sent me some photos this week of her new born child! Here they are...