Radio Silence and Attitude

[Normally this is the part of the blog where I apologize for having not written in a long time. But I do that every new blog, so I'm just going to say that 12 days is unacceptable; I know.]

What to write about? Hmmm. A lot has happened to me in the past two week, and of course, I've happened to a lot of things as well. However, the thing that's currently on my mind is that I received another care package! So exciting! This time it contained: peanut butter, post-its, Mere Christianity, 2 nail polishes, instant Starbucks(!), bobby pins, and lots of letters :) I feel so loved. Yay!

Hmmmm. A vision trip from Minnesota has been here this past week. What is a vision trip, you ask? It's a week-long trip to check out the ministry here. It's been great to have more UofMers here with us! They've been so encouraging!

What else? I ran into some Mormons today, and I'm just going to say that Minnesota-nice went out the window. I wasn't rude, but I was definitely blunt. Oops.

Oh! I gave a presentation on Wednesday. It was supposed to be for 10 minutes, all in French. I talked for about 14, then my professor and classmates proceeded to ask me questions. For 11 more minutes. It was great! What did I talk about to spark such great conversation? Christian rap. The 116 Clique actually. I know, great idea. And it was so fun to talk about them and share samples of music with me class. Way to go, God, for the inspiration!

I've been teaching my friend Lea really great American-attitude phrases like "Girl, please." "What did you say? (With hand on hip; this one's in French though)", and some others. I also taught her the model walk. So much fun. She's awesome, too. I feel so blessed to get to know her better recently :)

We had an outreach-type thing tonight. Basically, we got together, made sandwiches, and went out in small groups to distribute the sandwiches, bananas, and soup to homeless people. There was about 40 people who helped! French, American; believers and non-believers. It was so cool!

In general, life here has been really great. God is still doing great things here. And I trust He will continue to do so. I read a verse in Luke today that I thought I'd share:

"After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves." - Luke 10:1-3

I've read these verses a lot of time, but today they really hit me. I just thought I'd share that. Sorry if my thoughts are jumbled. I'm tired.

Love.