can I take your picture/put it in my billfold/you'll never believe where I will take you

*sigh*
I'm going to India.



i'm going to india


I'M GOING TO INDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's pretty much official now. Sorry I haven't been on much this last week either, but it's been very crazy trying to figure out whether I'm going or not, so I think that's a legit. excuse, haha. ;) so I'll be on the Visual Communications team, writing and taking pics for three weeks in India, and guess who my guardian is going to be?

my mom.

yep, my mom, who said she'd never go, didn't feel called to go, thought she was one of the "senders," is going with me for three weeks to India in January. I'll be spending my 16th birthday half way around the world in a foreign country with jet-lag. FUN!!!!!!!

So Mythraie called my mom on Wednesday and said, basically, the team had no person to handle logistics and administration (getting plane tickets, passports and visas, exchanging money, helping with reserving the hotel, etc....all the things that hold the team together basically). And it kind of caught my mom off-guard, because she didn't feel called to go. Two days earlier both people I had hopes of possibly being guardians said they couldn't go this year. I really didn't have any prospects left. BUT, Mythraie is a very persuasive talker. :) My mom thought about it for the whole evening and next day, and then said she would come to the first training, which took place today, then make up her mind completely. Somewhere between Thursday and today we have been looking at all these stories from Scripture...Moses, Jonah, Ananias (who gave Saul/Paul his sight back)...people who didn't really want to do what God called them to do, but knew God was telling them to do it. so she decided to move forward with it unless God decided that it's not time. But so far everything is going great, and I really feel that this is the year. and I couldn't possibly have a better guardian than my own parent!!

I'm so excited I just burst out laughing sometimes when I'm by myself, and then it turns into tears, tears of joy. She'll see Singapore, and all the kites in India from the kite festival...and taste the real Indian food (not American India, sometimes very very yuck! like dal...no comment), and hear the stupid elevator that plays Fur Elise mechanically all the way up to the fifth floor, and meet Mandolay, and see elephants and camels and dogs and goats and cows.....and smell the flowers, and eat milk bikis, and and and.....

can you tell I'm excited, just a little bit?

we got our notebooks and I'm already working on my support letter to send out, which all of you should get (Lindy and Lucy I want to send you guys one so I'll need an address as soon as you can give it to me...that'd be great!)

And Mike and Tom and Barbie and Mythraie and John are going....and Joe and Melissa are meeting us over there, and Ben and Libby too!!!! And Barbie has Libby's old clothes for me to wear again probably, which I'm totally in love with. and you all have no idea what I'm talking about, but you're smiling and nodding, and I know you're all very excited for me because I'm excited about it!!!

I'm going to India!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!