It's A God Thing!

Well, hello everyone!

God is so Good! This past weekend we took a trip to Clovis, New Mexico. We left Saturday afternoon and stopped in Amherst, Texas (one of the area churches) and we had an ice-cream social with them. They were so amazing! They love AIM so much! It's crazy! They had such great stories of past AIMers and the things that they got to do with the church. It was so great to be there!
Then we left for Clovis. We got to the church and practiced our first ever flag presentation! Then we had lasagna  for dinner. This church also LOVES AIM so much! I am amazed each time we meet people who love us and they don't even know us. Well, later that night we met in the auditorium to meet our host families for the night. So  one other girl and I were with the Southard family. We were driving home and they asked us what we had been doing up until AIM. So I started out telling them that right after high school I interned at Mision Para Cristo in Nicaragua. Then they both said "with Benny Baker?!?!?" so I said "YES!" Then they proceeded to tell me that Mary (the mother) and their daughter went there this summer! It was so great! So we started talking about the people and the places and, of course, I started crying! So goofy! So we talked some more and then when we got to the house she showed me her pictures and told me that her daughter had a video! So at church Sunday morning Jill (the daughter) showed me here video! It was so good!
I told you all I was a little homesick at the beginning of my time in Lubbock. Well, I feel just as homesick for Nicaragua when I am not there. It was so good to see pictures and hear stories of  the place and the people that I love so much! How amazing is it that God somehow made it to where I was put with this family! It was a "God Thing." I have been hearing that phrase a lot lately and it seems like the perfect way to describe this.
God NEVER ceases to amaze me with just the smallest, yet biggest, things! It was such a great boost....to remember why I am here!
I am excited about the next 8 months, now more than ever! I am in the Denver City area church group! We are going to have a lot of fun!
Well, I hope you all have a blessed week!
Emily!