Today (being the first of May) is basically three months to the day since I started sending out funding letters and prayer requests for this whole thing. It's four months and a week since I was asked to come down to Honduras. And looking back on the whole thing, God has been incredibly faithful through this whole journey. It's been a rollercoaster to say the least, and I'm pretty sure God's not done with this yet.
I bought my plane ticket this past week. It feels like "old" news, but it only happened 3 days ago, so it's still really exciting news to me. It indicates that I'm at least 80% funded. That was the first exciting thing of this week. (Well, the first exciting thing that I'm counting...I also spent some time working on Spanish and am finding that reading it is coming very easily, writing it is okay...so my hope is speaking it comes quickly once I'm down there...and I have a few people I hopefully can practice with once school is over.)
I had a couple come up to me before church today and ask me how things were going, we chatted for a while, and then at the end of the conversation they told me they are planning on funding me $100 per month for 12 months...which brings me up another 5%, which is absolutely incredible. God has been so faithful with providing funds. I can't even begin to describe how blessed I have been by my family, my church, my school, and quite frankly, a few perfect strangers, over the past three months. In the past it's been difficult for me to accept help on any front, and I really think that part of this lesson for me is just to realize how truly dependent I am, both on the support of others and the provision of God...for I know that by myself, under my own power, none of this would have been possible.
In addition to the funds, there were a few other things that needed to get taken care of before I can totally focus on moving. School is an obvious one, but I knew that would end regardless of whether I was ready for it or not. I have one month of that left. I also needed someone to take care of my cat. A family from church came forward in March and volunteered for that, so they will be taking Loiosh sometime hopefully near the end of this month.
The final (major) thing that needed to get taken care of was finding someone to rent my house. And as of today, that is also complete. I have someone who has known my father for a while who needed a place to rent starting in June...and he came over today to check it out. Within 10 minutes he said he'd take it...we just had to work out details. Some details have been worked out, others still need to be, but from the sound of things, I'll be moving into my parents' house in about two or three weeks, cleaning up/out my house (at least some of it, I actually will be leaving most of my stuff there). So I'll have a busy month ahead of me, but that's a huge prayer request answered! And that's the last major barrier to being able to fully focus on what I'm getting into...praise the Lord!
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