Nearly 4 Months Later...

In the past 4 months since the last post, this is what's been happening --

* My team made it home in June/July. Yay! Praise God for safe travels and arrival. :)

* I turned the big 2-4 on June 30th. God has been so good to me during my first 24 years of life. :)

* I left my job at Westwood Gardens in Fayetteville to take a gradate assistant position at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, starting August 2nd. God has big plans for me! :)

* I moved out of my parents' house in Fayetteville, and trekked on to the big (little) town of Stillwater, Oklahoma. I found a pretty awesome roommate to live with. She's from China. Work started a couple days after moving in. God never left me during my kind of rough transition period. :)

* I started attending Stillwater's Church of Christ regularly, and started getting involved in a weekly bible study (that I love!). It's been kind of tough making new friends, and starting over, but this is where it all begins. God is teaching me commitment and patience, for sure. :)

* In early September, I decided to get a mini lop-eared bunny on a whim. She's been a handful, but definitely a blessing as well. God knows my heart for animals! :)

* A few weeks ago, I sent out a catch-up email to all of my students in China, and received a few emails back. One of my students, Eli Wu wrote me back and told me all about his long lost childhood friend that he was recently reunited with, who had been living in Oklahoma (of all places!) to attend MIT. God has a way of making this world so small. :)

* Class has been going well, and I have enjoyed it a lot. Strange. haha.

In all of these things, God has been at the center, and I try to see through this world to get to the beautiful blessings God gives us every day. Recently I have very much so realized how crafty the devil is in using this world to bring down our faith in God. The world tells us this, the world tells us that - NO. it's the devil manipulating the things of this world to make us think it's the world, and that it's good to fit in and follow it. God has allowed me to see this, and he never stops teaching me. He is my Father, my Guardian, my Guide. There is none other like Him. :)