my heart is broken.

so, for english we have 2 essays we have to write and we get to pick the topic, rob suggested we pick something we are passionate about (fyi, these essays arnt due till late oct and early dec....and im starting research now! wow. thats growth :P plus, im just really excited to write them cause i get to pick the topic!)

i started looking up sex-trafficking. my heart is broken. here. i will share some statistics with you, i highly recommend you dont just read over these and move on with you day, really think. pray. ask God what YOU can do. for me right now, i feel my job is to pray and make ppl more aware. it doesnt seem like im making that big of a difference from the human aspect of things, but i know how powerful prayer can be!
another thing. make it personal. imagine its your child, your sibling, your parent. what would you do if these statistics included a loved one?

my first focus was India/Nepal, so thats where most of the information i have at the moment is from.

every year 5000-7000 Nepali woman are trafficked for sex work, over 200,000 Nepali woman are currently working the sex industry...200,000! and thats JUST Nepali woman!!!

Girls are most often trafficked into India because prostitution there is legal, it is illegal in Nepal.

up to 20,000 Nepalese girls are trafficked into India every year.

3 million (!!!!!) women in India fall prey to trafficking annually and 40% (!!!!) are minors.

thats just a few...as i discover more i will share :D
keep praying!!
all these statistics are from internet sources.....
(http://stanford.edu)
(www.unicef.org)
(www.merinews.com)

WEEK 1 (of school, that is :P)

FRIGGIN AMAZING!!!! OHMYGOSH!!!

that really. sums it up. hehehehe. but, i will go into more detail for yah!

school, school, is incredible! my classes so far are amazing and i am learning so much, rob buzza has even made me desire to do english! (before his class i did nothing but complain, and rob helped change my attitude by what he said in our first class!) i had spiritual formation and a guest speaker came in and recited the whole book of philippians...FROM MEMORY!! he only messed up once....thats pretty incredible! he challenged us to memorize more scripture in case we are ever in a situation where we dont have access to a bible for whatever reason. philosophy of youth ministry...hahah the teacher, terry janzen is fantastic!! so halrious. but knows what he's talking about!
and yah, thru homework and reading i have had to do this first week i have learned so much im afraid my head might explode! lol.

i am making some awesome new friends, i even became friends with this girl (well lady, shes 27 years old, married and has 3 kids) who lives a few blocks away from me so she will give me a ride to and from school on tues and weds so i dont have to walk 20mins and bus for 10mins! thank you Jesus...and already, she called me up this morning to see if i wanted to go to the library with her...i sense a good friendship coming my way :D and yah, making new friends is one of my favorite things to do! so its been good, cause i have been able to do lots of that :D oh! and i also made a new friend on the bus, her name is Demitra! so pray for more opportunites for me to bring up Jesus in convo (not that its very hard considering im going to bible college and Jesus is my life, but yah, just pray for her :D thanks!)

oh, and the best part. i have felt God's presence 24/7...and our relationship is going to new and deeper levels, i freakin love it! I dont think i have ever been more in love with Jesus than i am at this moment!

well, i feel this is long enough for now...im off to dye my hair since the purple has faded to this nasty color! bahahah...anyways, if you got any questions or wanna hear more just send me a facebook msg...i have tons of great stories :D

Your are good...all the time...and all the time...you are good!

So, here i am. in surrey. wow. still hard to believe im here :D its been a rocky couple days, but through it all God has been with me!

so to start, my first day was really rough, i got super homesick, then ended up watching 12 hours of criminal minds with the family i live with lol (nothing like 12 hours of creepy killers and gruesome murders to bond ppl :P bahahahah) but yah, the family i live with is fantastic!!!!
the next couple days after that i just relaxed, went through waves of homesickness and being ok...

yesterday was registration for school...which was crazy and stressful, i mean, for example my textbooks alone cost me $600...ouch! that one hurt a little! but yah, i got to meet some new ppl and hang out with some of the guys in my same course (as far as i know, my first year class is 4 guys and myself, but Clint said there should be more ppl...so we shall see!)

and so yesterday once i came home i was really not doing so well...luckily i have a few friends from powell river that have moved here recently and so last night i ended up hanging out with an old friend mike. Back when i first became a Christian we met that way and then realized we had lived across the street from each other for a year or two so we ended up hanging out after school lots, for awhile there i think i spent more time at his house than my own lol!

anyways, it was nice to just chill out with someone i was 100% comfortable with! and it gets better :D He hasnt been doing so well with his walk with God and neither are his other Christian friends so im really excited to just be there for him, willing to talk about God...actually, more like i cant help but talk about God since He is such a huge part of my life!!

and yah, then today i woke up really homesick and i knew steve is on the mainland and i texted him and we are gonna hang out today :D
i love how at my lowest moments God has not only comforted me himself, but sent people for me! I am not alone!!!
i am so in love with my heavenly Daddy! He's the best :D :D :D