Set A Fire: Hills and Valleys

AThe past 2 weeks have been a whirlwind of ups and downs. We are past that halfway point of project and it's seemed like summer has flown by since today is the first of July but I also feel like I've been here forever!

As I mentioned before, I had some test difficulties but finally heard from my professor that she had sent the info to the proctor. Well, I got there the next morning in a great mood and ready to ace the test and they didn't have it. I frantically called my professor and left a message and emailed her. I say in the proctor center hallway waiting for some kind of response. After an hour of waiting on what seemed like never would happen finally I got an email with the instructions to take the test. Praise Jesus! Of course he came through. Why I doubted, I don't know!

Parents weekend was really good and refreshing. I got to spend a lot of time with my mom and rested in a real hotel with a bed to myself and a nice shower. We went out to eat a lot and took a walk on the beach. We finished the day with church and prayer training at Faith. My friend and old teammate who is a staff wife at Clemson gave the talk at prayer training. It was really awesome! She talked about praying big prayers because our God is LIMITLESS! So true! She asked us all to draw a picture of the biggest prayer we could ever ask God that we feel like might not ever happen. I drew a picture of every player on our team coming to Christ. Funny story is, right after Mo shared her biggest prayer and it was equivalent to mine. We want to build a team of laborers for Christ! It was a short weekend, or so it seemed, but I was very thankful for groceries, a tank of gas, and some time to rest with my mom.

Last Sunday we also met our host family, the Gravley's. They are amazing! They invited us for a cookout and to swim in their pool at their house. It was a great day spent with them and they served us so well! David, the father went to PC and so did the son who graduated a few years ago. It was just really awesome to spend my sabbath with them. We also visited this Sunday for lunch and plan to make it a weekly habit!

Some other things that have been going on: we switched churches this Sunday to Trinity Episcopal which was sooooo good, Anna gave her testimony tonight at our theme meeting and it was super encouraging and awesome, my friend Meghan is getting married this weekend, we just had a theme talk on relationships which was really awesome, and tonight I lead the skit team for the theme meeting based on identity and it went really well! Well, have a blessed week!