So we only have 13 days left on project! I sit here and think how fast it seems it went by but then I realize it has only been 6 weeks and I suddenly change my mind and think it's been slow. However, I am thankful that the summer is ending soon. It's at the point where I am seeing so much of my own sin and the sin of the girls in my room so much that I can only ask for God's strength at this time. It's about to get to the point where I am so worn out that I just can't take it anymore. We only have 5 days left of work!
This past weekend we joined our host family for an after church lunch at their house and as always they served us so well in so many ways. Then, following the lunch we had our employers banquet at the church. Only 2 ladies came from our Bi-Lo, both of whom work in the bakery. Props to my girls Anna and Erin for making such a beautiful impact on those ladies. Today I can check two things off my bucket list: writing a song a performing it in front of a large crowd and singing opera in front of a large crowd. I performed both during hipster night at the Fresh Brewed coffee house. There were a good 65 people there!
My family is in Pawley's for vacation and I am SO thankful that tomorrow I get to go visit them. My room as well as 6 guys from another room are joining us on a dinner date at the beach! I've ironically been very homesick the past few days--I think it's from seeing all of the Instagram posts from family together and Snapchats from my sister who I haven't seen in months either. So, I'm super excited to see them!
Also, today at work one of the guys from project that works in the Deli with us was off but was just doing some grocery shopping. He ordered a cake and came to pick it up. Erin went to the cooler to retrieve it and came back to give it to him. He calls us all over and asks us what is wrong with it. I'm sitting there criticizing the grammar and I really didn't see anything wrong. My whole room understands and is like, "what's wrong with it?" Eventually, I finally got it and realized the cake was for us and they were asking us out on a group date! It was so sweet and our co-workers got to experience it for themselves!
Sunday night after prayer and worship at the church, I rushed back to project to take my test for statistics. I knew the material very well and thought it was all very easy. I get back and I'm working on it and I get to problem 27 out of 33. I begin missing every single problem and each number has 2 parts. I was getting very discouraged because I knew my grade was just dropping but I didn't understand how I was missing all of the problems. I was about to just call it quits but Anna encouraged me to finish it strong even if I was missing the questions. After the test I emailed my teacher and asked for an explanation for the problems at the end that I missed. I am so thankful for Anna and her persistence to keep my eyes focused on success because had I not, I probably wouldn't have finished the test and definitely wouldn't have gotten a 25 point addition from at 62 to an 87 because I actually did get all the problems right, it was just computer errors since decimals aren't always exact! Pure joy in my heart in the moment I saw my grade. And, I'm very thankful for my teacher's time and effort that she put in to look over the test.
There's a lot I can praise Jesus about today! And, here is a memory verse that my room learned together this week: "As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, as you have been taught abounding in it with thanksgiving." -Colossians 2:6-7
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