I'm currently in Colorado doing five weeks of training to get ready to go back to the mission field. It's amazing how often we have our own agendas, and God has something else in mind. My purpose in being here is to learn how to learn another language (linguistics and phonetics drills...things like that), and how to adapt to another culture. Before I came, my expectations were to learn what I was supposed to learn and get to Czech as soon as I could afterwards. This is happening, but God had even more plans than just that. I've been blessed to have built some really amazing friendships here. This picture is of Dan, Ellie, me, & Ryan (heading to Zimbabwe, Brazil, Czech, and Slovakia). A couple weeks ago we had an extra long weekend, so the four of us decided to take a road trip together. We had 72 hours, so we spent 24 of them driving to the Grand Canyon and back! It was an amazing trip! I feel so blessed that God put us all together for our training. It's amazing how God can bring friendships together even though we'll eventually end up all over the world.
