Africa Update

I haven't posted here in a while. I've been pretty busy with things here in Africa and I've been updating my other blog. If you click here you can get to my other blog and read about what's been going on here.

On a more personal note, things have been going pretty well. I really enjoy it here in Africa. Yes, it is a completely different environment and yes, it would take a lot of time and effort in order to be able to construct a new life in a place like this, but it is all the more room for God to work and all the better of a situation for him to be glorified in.

I'm still not quite sure where I'm at as far as my relationships with people and where exactly God wants to take them. I know that most of them are destined to remain friendships, some even probably amazing friendships, and for that I am grateful. However, one question still remains in my mind. Will it happen? If so, who? Although I do still have two years left at Harding and God works on his own time rather than mine, I find it difficult to not wonder if I am meant to have a wife at some point and if so, if it is somebody I know or have yet to meet. I suppose I have been thinking about it a little more lately just because I'm in a setting which I could easily see myself in a few years. This type of place is a place that I can live in and the work is work that I can't do but would only be able to accomplish by God's grace and by His strength. I know its a little bit early to be thinking about that yet, but I really feel like God is calling me down that path. So I guess part of the reason I have been thinking about it more recently is because I've been seeing the role that the women have played on the team here and I think it is a very vital role and that the women, although working in a different context, are working side by side to accomplish the same goal.

I don't know how some of the women see it, whether it be missionaries' wives or female interns. Perhaps I will be able to sit down and talk to them about it more soon. Bottom line is, I don't know what God has planned for me and the best thing I can do is pray for patience and guidance and strength. I would ask all of you who are reading this to do the same for me. Thanks and God bless.