After a fantastic trip to Paris and Germany visiting my German sister Marie, and after heading to the Ukraine to pick up 3 gorgeous babies which i love so very very much life seemed to have taken flight in a positive happy ora of greatness! Then... i came home! At first i was on fire so excited about adoption and missions and just all around full of joy! Lately i have lost that joy that i had when i was around those babies.... So now... I am certain i have found the solution to my slight decrease of funk and stokedness of life... Babies. In order to find that joy i felt in the Ukraine with those children i need to get some babies! :) hahaha.... Of course i know that this will not happen very soon, i am also very aware that what i want to have caused the joy, and what actually caused the joy are two totally different things! GOD is the sole reason for any joy i felt there and will feel now. BUT babies did play a part in it! For months i have been shuffling back and forth of what kind of missionary work i wanted to do... Whether it be just helping people in their towns build stuff or cook for them or what not! Now i am fairly certain that i am called to be around children overseas... I really want to work in Orphanages overseas but we'll see where God leads me with that whole thing! Overall, even though my current battle with finding joy in my present circumstances(which just happens to be a boredom of life and a urge to be on a mission somewhere else right now) I know that God is teaching me, shaping me, helping me find peace and have patience in this time of waiting so anxiously for March to come around to find out where i will be goin on my mission come 2011. Its just that week or two long of blahhhh period in the year! I am praying it will leave my spirit soon but i am also grateful to learn from this time too. Oh and for anyone reading.... Because of my long lost older sister Terra Phelps whom i love dearly, I have decided to start blogging more regularly... Hopefully i will get around to adding pictures from the big trip i took about a month ago! Anywhooo... Much love and God bless your precious self!