Atlantic Ocean, here I come!

So I realized just a few days ago that I never posted the post I wrote for last Friday. The internet was down all weekend and then this week was a very busy week. I apologize, but I did just post it below.
An update on my geometry class. I did say I could not take it anymore and feel a great peace about that and a great burden lifted off of me. However, I have not heard yet if they have found someone else in my place until the teacher returns. So you can still be praying for a replacement.
Right now it is 5:08 PM on Friday and I am leaving campus when I am done posting this. I will then not have to teach for 10 DAYS!!!!! Wahoo! I am so excited. It is fall break, even though it doesn’t feel like fall, and we have a whole week of school off plus the following Monday. I am heading west with 20 of my closest new friends to a place called Kribi. It is on the ocean and a beach! I am so excited. There are indeed 21 of us missionaries either single or young married who are going from Sunday through Wednesday. I have checked 5 books out of our library for my personal reading over break! Those of you who know me well are either laughing or rolling your eyes. But I am so excited to sit on the beach and get lost in another world. I am also really ready for some quiet time with just me and my savior in a beautiful place.
I received several more things in the mail lately. Some birthday cards that I got about a month late, but it felt like my birthday all over again. Thank you so much for the letters and emails that you have sent. It really does brighten my day to hear from each of you.
I am making this post short because I am ready to get out of here and start my rest.
I hope you are well. I don’t know if it feels like fall there yet, but when it comes, enjoy the leaves for me and the apple cider. Each fall I miss the Pennsylvanian autumns. That itself seems proof enough to me that God exists. Well, you enjoy the fall and I will enjoy the beach. Different parts of the world, same creator, same God.
May God’s peace be with you this next week.

Blessings,
AMY

Look forward to a beach update and pictures next week!

Completion of Week 7 and two months

It is by God’s grace that I have finished week 7 of teaching. No great stories to tell. This week, I would say, was my second most stressful week of teaching. Coming in line after my very first week of survival teaching. The stress was due to geometry. Teaching in the classroom went ok. They have their test on Tuesday and I hope they all do well. (For my sake and theirs). The stressful part was planning for it and for my other classes. In teaching 4/5 more periods a week, that takes away from planning for my other classes which caused a lot more stress in my life. I don’t like stress. Right now on my mind is a decision I have to make. The geometry teacher is going to be delayed in returning, at least 4 more weeks, and possibly the rest of the semester or year. I have a choice as to whether I will keep teaching the class or not. I would choose not to. But it is not quite that simple. There are limited other people who have time and can teach it. I feel like I am the only person who can do it. But how conceited of me is that, when I know I am not the best person to do it and I know God is bigger than all this and will bring someone else if it is not me. I am really praying about the right choice. I have made a pro/con list (like my favorite TV character, Rory Gilmore) and the cons have come out on top. But I am still seeking God’s wisdom and would truly appreciate your prayers as I make this decision. For some it may not seem a big deal, but for me facing a new job, a new home and new culture, it is a lot to take on. So I ask, what does God ask of me?
I am doing an Ephesians bible study with some ladies and I want to share something from it that really sunk in this week. Ephesians 3:20 tells us that God is “able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us…” As a believer in Christ I have the power of the Holy Spirit living in me. That power is the very same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead. I so often forget that the power of the Spirit lives and works in me, in all who know Christ. A quote from the study says, “His power enables you to live a supernatural life as a man or woman of God. It is a life beyond your own wisdom or abilities.” This week, I feel I have lived beyond my own wisdom or abilities and the only reason is because of the power of the living God. That is something I hope to never forget. If God brought me all the way to Cameroon to learn that lesson alone, than it was well worth it.
I pray you too can see the power of God at work in your life this week. Thank you for your prayers, thank you for your support and encouragement!

“To Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.”

Amy