So I have signed my letter of intent to stay another year in Ghana. I love it here and I love my students. Some of you have heard that I am looking to change grades here at AIS. Right now it is still up in the air of what I will teach but hopefully it will be either first grade or kindergarten which are totally different from 3rd grade.
The joy I feel when I see precious little ones in those grades and even smaller like the preschoolers is amazing. It must only be a small glimpse of what Christ sees and feels when He looks at us.Even today while I was waiting for my friend George to get done coaching soccer practice I was watching these little kids that couldn't be more than 5 or 6 playing soccer and how adorable they were trying their best to kick the ball and even when they missed the joy they had while just trying to kick it. Just seeing little kids with huge smiles on their faces with not a care in the world reminds me of how we are to be. Just think if we were to act a like one of those little kids trying to kick a soccer ball and failing but still have so much joy and excitement. Wouldn't our lives reflect the true joy of who Christ is. I am speaking to myself right now. The past couple of weeks have not been easy here. They have tough, lonely, and feeling of being left down time and time again. If only I had the joy through all of it as those little ones did. Have the faith that one day I will be able to stand and not feel any of those things. That one day I am going to be in the presence of the Lord everyday and never feel sad, alone, or cry a tear. Its only looking back on the situations and hard times it seems that I learn this. I wonder why I don't keep this in mind when I am actually going through it.
PTL
- George, he is a great friend to me that just listens and sometimes lets me just tag along with him doing errands just so I can get out of the house.
- amazing parents who really support the class.
- new principal at our school she is amazing and I have already had a bunch of meetings with her and they have been great.
Prayer request
- housing- there has been a lot of tension at my house between my roommate and me. I may actually be moving at christmas into an apartment with another teacher.
-deciding what i will be teaching next year. THe director sees me as a first grade teacher but I know God will put me in which ever one he wants me in.
- I have a student that doesn't smile and he told me I wasn't going to make him smile so its my mission to make smile. He is a sweet kid and want him to love Ghana as he moved from Ohio. He was the first student i met this year.
-George- He has been really busy and he is exhausted. He believes in Christ but we have been talking about it a lot and he doesn't really go to church anymore because he is tired and doesn't have anyone to go with. He is catholic and so just that he will feel the pull at his heart to go back to church. he needs accountability. Just ask for opportunities to encourage him and that we will keep having great conversations about life and things in general.
- my stress level it has been really high lately and it was to the point where I would get home from school and go to bed at like 6:30 and sleep all the way to 4:30 (4:45ish) in the morning and still wanting to sleep.
- I have also had the yearning to really want to be home. A lot has happened in this first semester with people at home. Like my best friends mom died and it was hard for me because I could not be there for him or just feeling like I am letting people at home down because they are going through something and I can't be there which I know I can't be because God has me here and that he has control over the situation at home but its definitely this week effected me.
- a good end to the semester only a couple of weeks left and they are going to be busy.
27 days until I leave to come home to celebrate the holidays.
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