Weddings are beautiful...

Hello Friends!


After getting back from 5 crazy awesome days in Houston, tying up loose ends, and repacking my bag, I drove back down to Houston for the wedding of one of my best friends! It was such a privilege to be part of such a special day :)

(Me, Juni, Angie, Meg)

We did a lot of shopping! Shopping= happy girls :)

(Angie, Juni, and Me)

We ate a lot of delicious food and got to hang out with Meganne's crazy-awesome family... I love them! :)

Meganne's mom even paid for all of us girls to get our nails done... that was a super neat blessing! :)

Angie and me helping Meganne pick out the perfect dress for her rehearsal dinner.. :)

Me with the beautiful bride at the rehearsal dinner :)

My first time wearing makeup in a really long time... :)

And I did Meganne's hair! Thank you Jesus for helping me not mess it up! haha :)

I walked with a nice guy named Joseph.

Me, Juni, McKenna, Angie, and Kaleigh... The bridesmaids :)

Chilling at the reception :)

(Me, Angie, Juni, Kaleigh,and Macarena)

Celebrating a successful week of celebrating, wedding preparation, shopping, rehearsal dinner, wedding, reception, and send off... whew! :)

Our trek home... my car decided not to start after we stopped for lunch (one hour into the 4 hour trip...). I called my wonderful dad and he walked me through fixing the problem. He's the best! :)

Meganne's mom and sister decided to decorate my car before we left! :) I loved it... so sweet!

All in all, it was a really fun time. I got to spend quality time with some of my best friends in the world, from all over the world. :)

And even though we're all totally different (different backgrounds, different personalities, different work styles, different preferences, etc), we all love Jesus and we love Meganne, so we worked together and had fun together. And by the end of it all, Meganne's family members were trying to convince us to come and live with them. :) haha. 

Anyway, I had a blast. I am so thankful that Jesus lets me travel so much and have such awesome friends. 

I am so blessed. :)

Ay! Crazy busy!

Wow! Life is so full these days! :)


First things:

- We just finished a ten day Catholic SST for high school students from the Tyler area, San Antonio, and Canada! It was fantastic! These kids were so hungry to know God in their hearts. They know so much about God, but most of them had never personally experienced God or felt like they had heard his voice. It was so awesome to be a part of them hearing His voice for the first time, and responding by giving him their hearts! The coolest thing was that God did it all! We didn't have to preach at them or manipulate anything... we just let God be God, prayed our guts out, and did what we felt He was asking us to do.
Highlights:
I had the opportunity to lead the school and the outreach with one of my best friends (Seth)!

We got to start and end each class...

I was overwhelmed by the joy of the Lord at the Catholic Healing Mass...

I got to lead worship twice a day, and even at church in the park on outreach :)

I also got to hang out with a bunch of really awesome kids and disciple them... hah. God is so cool. :)

Added to that, we had the most awesome nun and priest with us for the whole ten days... such a blessing! mad props to Father Bill and Sister Maria! :)

I was seriously blessed by God's faithfulness during these ten days... I have never been a part of something this huge before. This is the first Catholic SST we have ever done, and it's major! God is unifying his church, and it's starting with the youth! SO exciting!!

And! This was the first SST that Seth and I have ever led. We were responsible for 30 students (47 people total) for five days in Houston... God gives so much grace :) There were so many times that God worked out stuff that we didn't know about... 

for example! We planned to do prayer walks around Planned Parenthood twice. We weren't really sure why, but that was how the schedule was working out. 

The first day we went, we found out later, was the day that the Catholics honor St. Girard, the patron saint of expectant mothers... haha!! We planned to come back two days later, which happened to be the day that 39 women would begin a 21 day walk from Houston to Dallas for a prayer movement called The Esther Call... a call to fasting and praying to see the end of abortion and to ask for God's undeserved mercy over our nation for the innocent blood we've shed. 

We had no idea!! We witnessed a press conference, and Lou Engle was there... I'm in the background on the left in this pic of Lou with Wes (the director of SST) and Lori (co-director of YWAM Kerygma TX - Catholic):

This is Lou and some of the women who are walking right now...

ha. wow. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. The 39 women have all had abortions, and have come out with it and are living in the freedom of God's love and mercy. 39 of them are walking to represent the 39 years of abortion in the US since Roe v. Wade. This is an absolutely phenomenal event. I was just weeping realizing the reconciliation and restoration that God wants to bring to our nation through this. It's epic! :)


hah. yes.


So we had an awesome time with these guys. Just wonderful. Even just in ten days, there was dramatic, night-and-day difference in the lives of these kids. 22 of the 29 gave their lives to Jesus!! Victory!!! :) These kids know so much about God, but they didn't know he was personal. Now that they do, they were so on-fire and ready to share His love with everyone. And they're still blowing up facebook about it! 
Some of their recent posts:
"Every time I think about God, I can't stop smiling!"
"I never knew I could be this close to God... it's amazing!"
"Trying so hard not to go to my old life!!!"
"I miss it like crazy already! All the staff and all the students, I consider y'all a part of my family, it was such an honor to spend my spring brake with you guy and I would do it again in a heart beat!"


Students are starting prayer meetings in their schools back home, they're wanting to join the worship teams... serious change! It's so awesome! :)


All because they were willing to let God in...

Anyway. I'm still just amazed that God would use me. Hah. Who am I, to be teaching in Korea or leading a group of 47 people to Houston? 

I've learned that all I need to do is know God, listen to what he says, do it, and make Him known. Lift His name high in everything I do. Not the easiest thing. But! It has gotten so much easier.

Because the more I get to know Him, the more I realize how worthy He is. And how much He abundantly blesses me. :)

Life is so full. God is so good. :)