My God is awesome! That is all that y'all need to know! :) but I'm gonna tell you about the rest of my story anyway.
Okay so a few months back Loren Yoder and his family came to my church and they talked about needing a girl down there and right away every excuse in the book came to my head but the two most major were I was hopefully getting a Korean Foreign exchange student for 10 months and also I am so close with my family that I was positive I could never leave them for 2 years. Well the beginning of January we found out that exchange student fell through because our school here doesn't accept 15 year olds and then I went to Ebi and was literally surrounded by people from Mexico. Loren's son was there and Brother and Sister Roth and a few others had connections down there and two of the girls were going down for two years after the term was over. I got the privilege of taking Brother Allen's Missiology class and Sister Carolyn's Woman of Faith class and one item that they talked about was not holding your family above God. Convicting much?? I still didn't think to much on it until my friend calls me and tells me that she was asked if she would be willing to go to Mexico and help out for four months. She was quite torn on what to decide and I told her it was a no brainer if it was me being asked. I'd say yes in a heartbeat. She contacted me later and informed me that she had turned it down and a few days later I got an email asking if I would be willing to come. I had already been thinking about Mexico and praying about it some so it was almost a no brainer. I called my parents and we talked and prayed about it and everything fell into place. I emailed Donna back two days later and said I was more than willing.
Some people are like, it's only four months it's not really that big of a deal but to me it is. I'm so excited to go down and be of service and help further God's kingdom down there. I truly pray that I can live out what I learned at bible school. Seeing God move has so incredibly humbled me and I'm learning to have faith in him. A few instances where I have seen God work is my tax return was almost the exact amount I needed to get down to Mexico, a little more actually. I wasn't sure if I would have enough money to get home from EBI and some angel anonymously paid my way. I don't know who it was but if your reading this thank you soooo much. I literally started crying when Kara told me. I also needed contacts before I left and I thought I might just half to where my glasses but then somebody slipped the exact amount I needed for them into my mailbox at church. (once again thank you!!!) Every time I felt so incredibly humbled. Why do we doubt God?? I mean come on think about it! I did have to quit my job but they sent me down there with their blessing and I feel more than confident that God will provide me with a job when I return. Oh and I know a lot of you know I have an absolute LOVE for Korea and God showed me at bible school that it had gotten more important than him so I gave it all to him. It was one of the hardest things I've done. My life was truly obsessed with South Korea for the past two years so it wasn't easy to stop cold turkey. A week before term ended my father calls me and said the school completely reversed it's policy and we actually will be able to get the girl we wanted!! I was humbled once again. I thought God was gonna take away all my Korean stuff but no, he gave me back a little piece. To say I'm excited for her to come is an understatement. She will come a few weeks after I get back from Mexico and she will live with us the entire school year. So basically I'm getting a Korean sister!
So yea I am home from Ebi. I got home late Tuesday night and Friday night I leave for Florida with my family for a week. I'll get home late on the 28th and the 29th I'll talk a little bit at church about what how Ebi went and what I'll be doing in Mexico and then the following Sunday, the 5th I'll be flying down to Arizona and busing to Mexico. None of this I knew about four weeks ago. God is Good All the time. This year has been a lot more eventful than I ever expected it to ever be. Well that's it for now. I'll give an update on what I'll be doing down in Mexico after I tell my church. I'll try to keep you updated over the four months from my blog.
Cheerfully Bethany
