1 Month...

So...I have been in Lubbock for 4 weeks! It's so hard to believe! I have come a long way in these past 4 weeks. I started out wanting to quit and go "home" in my first week. Then I started making friends (some of the best ever) and got settled into classes and the routine, if you can call it that, of AIM. Now, after 4 weeks I am LOVING it here so much! I have wonderful roommates and amazing classmates! I have the best of the best teachers I could ask for! I have met some of the other men who will be teaching us in the coming terms and they seem like they will live up to the teachers we have now, quite well! I love my area church and the group I go with! We started small groups, which I will tell you more about in a minute. I just can't believe how blessed I am to be here. God has put me exactly where I need to be! Now, we are done with mid-terms and we have a break week! 

So....small groups! We were assigned to our small groups this week! It is a group of about 5 AIMers of the same gender and 1 or 2 AIM assistants of the same gender. My assistant is Diana and the girls in my group are Kaylin, Karla, Kristyn, Clarice and Me! It is such a wonderful group! We all got in the car to meet Diana at the coffee shop and we realized that none of us have really gotten to hang out very much! We are so excited to be together and we had an awesome first meeting getting to know one another! We get to stay in this group the whole time we are in AIM from what I understand! I am so excited because pretty much all of our other groups change when we form teams for the mission field. I am excited to have a group of a few of us to just catch up with each other this week and keep each other accountable for things!
Well, thats's really about all for now! We have a long weekend this weekend and so we have Monday off and then on Tuesday the AIMers are leaving for Mountain View. It is a camp in New Mexico and we are just going for a retreat! We will be there from Tuesday until Friday! We are so excited to have this week! It is going to be so great to just get to hang out with each other outside of class and homework and such! It will also be wonderful to be in 70 degree weather in the day and 50 degree weather at night! WOO HOO!
Well, I hope you all have a blessed week!
Thank you for the support! I am so blessed! God has done some amazing things in me since I have been here and I am so amazed! He keeps me on my toes for sure!
Love you! Emily Rose