To blog or not to blog, that is not the question, what to blog is the question. This week has been fairly similar to the past ones. I taught at my school, although this week I've found non-beating way of discipline: pushups. Oh ya. I'm starting to feel like I'm getting to know the kids and connecting with them. I'm super excited about the library. The 6^th graders and 7^th graders are coming up asking for books to the point where I'm running out of books to pass out, which is a great problem. God is really opening doors there in just random ways. Talking to the teachers, students and all the Gogos (grandmas) and parents, God is moving!    

Working with the youth group is bringing up challenges and joys. The kids are a lot of fun and it's nice to go and hang out with them. The challenge is simply learning how to rely on God 100%, I've got nothing for them without Him. They're just like American teenagers, same problems, same issues, just different country. I'm hearing me saying a lot of what my youth leaders said to me. Please pray a hunger for the cross over these kids. God has such great plans for them and so many of them really want to press in and grow. It's really encouraging to see the strength in them while hearing their story.

Oh! Almost forgot this! Both of the boys on our team and one of the boys on the other team are participating in this thing called "Walk the Nation." The Peace Corp is sponsoring it, it's a walk across Swaziland, border-to-border. It's two weeks, 12 miles a day, pretty sweet. They are stopping in towns setting up events about HIV awareness. The people from our team are doing a giant prayer walk. It's pretty cool. Please be praying for the walk!

My team is growing and growing by the hour. I love sitting out in the living room after everyone gets home and just hanging out as a family. Living with 14 people should be harder than this. Don't get me wrong, we have our "Get away from me moments," but on the whole, it's super evident that God formed this team. Please pray that as God continues to me, we as a body will continue to move and press into His will for us.

God has been just rocking my world. There may not be these amazing stories, or moments with fireworks or dramatic scenes with people falling over, but I know that God is here and moving. He's showing Himself in the students, in the beauty of this country and in the small moments. Simple glimpses of His hand guiding me and going before me are everywhere. The fact that His love surpasses what I've done, my inability to love Him in the capacity He deserves, and my shortcomings has bewildered and entranced me. God is good. I mean the idea that He desires to have a deep, intimate relationship with me is so great that I can't come close to comprehending it. God is good!!!!

In Him,

Chelsea