It's Tiiime

Oh my goodness, I leave tomorrow...
Our flight from Kona Airport leaves around noon, and then we change flights in Honolulu. We have a long, overnight layover in Brisbane, Australia, before finally landing in
Papua New Guinea!

We're all fully funded, we're all packed up, we're all excited, and we're all panicking. Three months in a foreign country, with little to no connection to the rest of the world- no wifi, no cell service, and a language barrier and culture shock. It's going to be grand!

I'm excited and can't sit still (honestly, I think that's due to nerves), and I kinda want to curl up in a ball and stay in my bed forever and ever. I miss my friends that left on Monday for other parts of the world, and I miss my family and friends back home. I get to celebrate Christmas and New Years and my birthday all in a foreign country. Honestly, it's absolutely going to be swell.

I'm excited to see what God does in my life and in my team members' lives while we're there, because I know it'll be spectacular, and probably life-changing.

I'll try to update when I can, but if I have any connection at all, it'll likely be poor, and I'll be working from my iPhone.

Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and God bless you all!

See you on the flip side.

Just Over a Week...

I have just over a week until I leave for Papua New Guinea!! I don't have any money for a plane ticket home though, so when I get back to Hawaii from PNG, I might be stuck here for the rest of my life! All's good though, I'd enjoy living in Hawaii.
Life has been the same; we're all very settled in the schedule, just in time to leave! Tonight I'm going to Walmart to get the rest of the things I'll need for outreach, and I'll pack next week. Every other outreach team is leaving on either Monday or Tuesday of next week, so my team will have a few days by ourselves. I've made a lot of friends who are on other outreach teams, and I'm going to miss a few of them really terribly over the next few months.

A lot of the people who are on my outreach team don't have their funds yet, so please pray for funding for them (if you want to help my friends out, just contact me and I can tell you how), and pray for smooth final preparations for everyone!