Life Goes On....

This week flew by for me! I cannot believe it is the weekend already. (And I didn’t even have Labor Day like you folks!) I am now done with classes for the day and off to home then to a wine tasting with some other ladies. It will be interesting. The only other wine tasting I’ve done was in Homer, Alaska. I KNOW this will be different. Saturday night we have a ‘girls’ night planned, movie, chocolate, sweats. A great time to be had, I am sure. Life here is different, but you can see it is similar to what I know and treasure at home.
More and more I am settling into and enjoying life here. Two things I have deciphered from my subconscious thoughts about myself. I brought a year worth supply of toiletries, which I think will last me most of a year. I have been slowly watching those supplies diminish. I realized at first I wanted them to diminish, because that meant the year was passing and I could return to all I know and still say that I followed God to Africa. Now I see those supplies slowly diminish and I feel slightly disappointed that time is passing me by in this great land and am reminded that I need to fully experience life here and what God has brought me here to experience. That is the first thought. The second is this. In realizing I am over 1/8 of the way through the school year I get excited and wish it were passing faster. This has not changed from when my first week passed to my fifth. I still get excited another week has passed. I have come to this conclusion about myself: I am enjoying life in Cameroon and growing to enjoy it more each day, even amidst the days of missing home that I go through. I will say I am getting more comfortable with teaching, but my thoughts tell me that it is not something that I have yet relaxed into like life here. I wish it would pass because it causes me more stress than joy right now. With that said, I am improving, I just don’t see it as my ideal job nor a job I am ideally suited for. I have come a long way, but that is something I could always use prayer for.
I got my first piece of mail just this Monday. I was bummed because it wasn’t personal but a check statement from my mission organization. It was still very exciting to receive mail though. It was sent on Aug. 8th and arrived on Sept. 3rd, just short of a month. Then when I really looked at it I got very excited because it listed numerous deductions that I just tested my students on in Business Math. I was able to use it as a current visual tool to show them how what they learned can apply to real life. That day I felt like teacher!

I continue to say, and pray that I always will say, that God is good. He is constant and will never change. The sun rises and sets, school days pass by, toiletries disappear, but my God still remains and ever will remain right by my side.

Summer is now over. Fall is beginning. Enjoy the beauty around you. Praise God for the blessing of life lived in each day. Praise God for his faithfulness and his love. I pray for each of you who read this, that you may encounter God in his true form. What a blessing.

Enjoy your weekend!
In God’s care,
AMY