Back on Canadian Soil

So when I started this whole blog thing, I thought it would be a great idea, I would update it at least two times a week and people could keep track of what was going on in my life, in case it was too difficult over email. Apparently it was more difficult than I thought to keep it updated!

At this moment I am sitting in my room at the Mark Center, looking at all of the stuff I brought home, and the stuff that I left here to take home, and wondering where time has gone??? Sometimes I still feel weird being back in Canada. It's like I know that it's all almost over, but I don't want to actually believe it. I remember a year ago sitting in my friends car (who was also planning on going away and doind YWAM for 6 months) and we were just itching to graduate and begin new adventures. Now here I am, a year later and I can hardly believe how much has happened this year and how my life has changed. First off, I worked in a place where I fell in love with (MB House and it's neighborhood kids!) and God really showed me a lot there. Then I came to Abbotsford and spent two months with amazing TREKers and Leaders and Interns and Mentors and MBMSI Staff and learned so many things that will stay with me my entire life. Then I was sent off to Japan, to a country I didn't know, with a team of girls I thought I knew (but looking back I was oh so wrong, and I came to know and love them more than I thought possible!), and to work with a culture and missionaries and church that I knew nothing about. I know that looking back none of this would have been possible without my Savior in front of me and beside me the whole time. He has carried me each step of the way, and lead me to where He has wanted me. I know I haven't always done the right thing at the right moment, but I did try, and God's Grace is bigger than my mistakes.
Japan was an amazing time of learning about a new culture and people group and about team life and missionary life. Even though it's hard to remember it all, I know that the learning never stopped. I think that's how life should be, as long as we are learning we shoudn't be worried, but it's when we stop learning, and stop seeking that we are in danger.

Anyways, I will share more about our last couple weeks in Japan later, but right now all the TREKers are watchign a movie and I would love to join them. I am trying to just dive in and enjoy these last couple of days together. Debrief is a time of rest and relaxing and a time to slowly transition and re-enter our own culture. So far it's going so good, and I would say that I'm over jetlag already! I am really enjoying my time of hearing and sharing stories from the missionfield, reflection on good times on training, and looking towards the future. God is here with us and is going to guide us as we go out from here.