Things are really starting to roll now. I had my last day of work at Cook Children's for 7 months. It was very exciting but sad at the same time. I woke up this morning, realized I didn't have to work at all this week, and felt very weird. I guess its a good sign that I will miss work!
I'm leaving tomorrow to make my last visit back home to Houston. It going to be my last time to see some friends and family for over 6 months. Crazy! I've started packing my apartment, and packing my bags for Uganda.
Overall, it feels like it is really about it happen!! :)
I don't feel too nervous right now, just very excited! I'm nervous about getting all my papers and packing stuff together. I'm nervous about overpacking or under packing, or forgetting one document and not being allowed in the country... thats what checklists are for though right?!
About the actual idea of being in Uganda though- I am nothing but excited! When I sit and think about the last year I am in complete awe of God's provision during this entire process. How one year ago this wasn't on my radar. Actually, I had a very different life planned out before me. I remember roughly a year ago praying a prayer (in not a very nice attitude) that if God didn't want me on the path I was on, that He would have to rip it from me, because I thought it seemed quite wonderful and I didn't feel like changing it. I specifically asked Him if my small amount of discontent on my current path was that he still wanted me to go to Africa. If that was really what he had planned for my life then He would have to force my plans to change because right then I thought the plans I had made were just right... Never forget the overwhelming power of prayer! Never forget that when you honestly, even if begrudgingly, pray that you want God to take control, He WILL listen, and if you open your heart to His paths, he will guide you.
"Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." Mark 11: 24
