11 down.// 1 to go.

You heard me. Craziness...
I've officially been in colorful Colorado for 11 wonderful weeks. (clever, right?)
Leaving me with ONE left.
How am I feeling about it?
I can't even think about it... Like, don't misunderstand here- I'm pumpppped for Thailand. Seriously- thrilled, ecstatic, leaping for joy. BUT I can't think about our group splitting up. 17 on team Thailand, 20 on DR/Haiti, and 5 to Brazil.

I never, ever... (for those of you who talked to me before I came can vouch for me on this one) thought I'd make as good as friends as I have. These people are hands-down my second family.
 I can't believe how different I feel either. It's so crazy. God has totally transformed me and I know He's still doing work in me. Praise the Lord! HA.

Like really, I'm learning so much. Life lessons, SO much about my Lord, my thought pattern is changing, attitude about a lot of things, so on and so forth.
What's been the teach these past couple weeks? hmmm. Let's see, I went home for a short little Thanksgiving break (which was SO nice to get to spend time with the fam and see some of my friends. real good.) Reunited with my Colorado after the weekend, only to JUMP back into the normal busy schedule of classes and such.

We've had weeks of lessons on Lifestyle of Repentance, Missions, and the Holy Spirit.
ALL of which have been... you guessed it, SO GOOD. I now have PAGES upon PAGES of notes which will take me MONTHS of Quiet Times and stuff to go through as thoroughly as I'd like, but I'm so excited about it.

Yesterday was our "Love Feast." aka: Our Christmas dinner/ big event. It was SERIOUSLY one of the best nights here. SO fun. Each room gave an "offering" plus some individuals threw in some extra acts. It was hilarious and so so incredible. They also gave out "superlative" awards... I am thrilled to share that I got the "Esther Award-- for being a woman of influence." I just wanted to cry. HA (yes, I'm more of a softy now..) Pictures WILL be posted on the big FB soon.

This week is Director's Choice, and I have no idea what that means. A WHOLE lot of packing and cleaning things up. Something just spectacular I'm sure. And it's undeniable that there is going to be some crying happening. I've just got to face facts sometime, right? I have learned that I'm better at change than I thought, but still. This is gonna be slightly difficult.
But if I've learned one thing (which, Praise the Lord that I have.... times like, a billion), I have no doubt that God is still gonna be faithful and hold me in tact. ha//

I've got a TON of pictures on Facebook. like really, I've taken OVER 700 pictures so far. It's actually a bit ridiculous.. but feel free to creep around a bit if you'd like.
which I guess in order to find this, you've already creeped a tad. GOOD. I'm happy you did!
Hope this has helped to fill [you] in a bit.

Have a blessed week, dear ones.