I'm already wanting to visit!

2. We're a total spectacle. My field director, Kelly Jo, who is a lunatic and who would get along like white on rice with one Juliette Hughes, decided to lead a group yoga session outside at the mission today, and by about two minutes in all of us white folk in yoga pants rolling around in the dust had attracted a crowd of 20+ Rwandans, looking at us with a healthy mix of amusement, horror, and disgust (incidentally, my favorite emotional cocktail). We're wearing our weirdness proud and it's sweeeeeet. -Jo.

So many butterflies!

Peppermint hot chocolate
Laughing laughing laughing
That little drive was so worth it!

Can I ask you a serious question?

Is it worth it to try to transcend space yet again
just because timing appears to be so pivotal?

but i never really needed a Reason

I have good reason to believe God exists.

Everything that I have asked for (truly desired),
I have received.

Any questions that I have had,
have been answered (in due time).

Perspective always came after patience kicked in.

I am not fulfilled.
I miss being challenged!
I miss feeling as if I have a purpose!
I miss feeling utilized and needed!
I miss being around intellect and ingenuity!
I miss being around optimism.
I miss being optimistic!

On my bike rides in the morning, I draft combinations of words in my head. Upon arriving at work, I always forget to put them down on paper somewhere. Thus they are lost forever. They must have been words only meant for me I suppose. I'm officially done with 1/3 of my JVC year and I can already tell that leaving here is going to be one of the most difficult things I've ever had to deal with. Lauren, Cassie, Eileen, and Vanessa will never know the effect they've already had on my life. To live one day apart from them in the future is going to make me cry. But for now, I'm just going to rejoice in the fact that I get to go home for Christmas in one week and chill with Art and Vicki for awhile. Then I'll come back to the cold Phoenix and pick up my life right where I left off. :-)

I, quite possibly, just saw the most majestic sunrise I've ever seen!
Oh, the beams of light!
Oh, the radiance!

Today I feel...

especially happy!

Definitely a Thanksgiving for the Record Books

My first pie!!
The Thankful Tree

Twilight

"Shenanigans"....

my favorite!

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