Packing

These past few months I have been preparing to go to Japan for a missions internship this summer. In a way it has been easy for me as I already have a passport (being an MK), and Bro. Mansell searched for plane tickets for me (thank the Lord for that!). Raising money was part needed and part requirement. In sending out letters asking for one-time only support, I was able to receive the needed funds, as well as gain the experience a missionary needs in communicating with churches. I very much appreciate how several churches reached out to help me do the Lord's will. Currently, the packing is taking shape slowly but surely. Packing ahead is strange, I am used to packing either the night before or the day of.  It is almost likely, though, that I will not remember something until I am on the plane. That reminds me...need to print out the tickets...and check the fly-out date still...and time... :\
While I am excited about this trip, I am sorry that I will not be able to attend my brother John's wedding to Bridgett (congrats, bro! I luv ya!!) Or see my parents when they return stateside from Taiwan after four years (sorry, I'll see ya'll in August!), but they are excited for me as well, so that is good. Whenever you have doubts about doing what God would have you do over what you would want, trust in God. He reminded me in His Word again that the time to serve Him is now. "Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; while the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: ...Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil." Eccl 12:1-2,13-14
So run, and keep on smiling! :)