yeah guys it sure has been a really long time since I last wrote to let you all know what has been going on in my life since getting back 6 months ago.... Well since my blog page is still up and running I thought I might as use it.
It was about 4 months ago when i mentioned going to Montreat College and the time has flown by so fast. The closer it gets I get just a bit more nervous and anxious about leaving but since ive been through it before I want to tell myself it wont be much different..... WILL IT!!! I dont know thats all i can really say since God has had, (so many what i want to call them is random moments in my life : which He calls them divine appointments since He knows what the heck is going on in our lives and i am clueless most of the time. Anywho the point of me writing a blog is to just let you know that i will be moving to North Carolina in 5 weeks to start school for the spring semester. thank GOD for just allowing my friendships to grow more with people i have yet to meet and for the ones that I know that happen to live close that i can continue to see and love. the process of everything such as paperwork, physical and all that jazz that comes along with this college stuff has gone so smoothly and i look forward to the adventure ahead. I will miss you all very much and do want to keep in contact with everyone, which you can do so via email, phone 907-306-9707 or even facebook. just look me up by name. I will be heading out on dec 22!!!!! if I dont get to see you well i hopefully will hear from you later.
I am just updating you on this new place that God has brought me into and the continuing on of my desire to do missions out of the United States. As of today I am currently working a couple jobs and living at home to save money to pay off the remainder of my mission to Africa and to help pay for college.
I was accepted to Montreat College, in North Carolina where I will be attending in January as long as that door stays open for me. I believe that that is where God is calling me to go for the next season of my life and all I know is that I have to be obedient with the peace that I have in my heart. The school is a very small christian college in the black Mountains, which happens to be home town to Billy Graham. Most students that attend Montreat are missionary kids or have some mission background. I am very excited to see what the Lord has in store for me and to continue to make me into the person that He has made me.
I arrived back in the states on May 16th, where I was picked up by my twin sister Brittney, my mom, my dad, and my 2 little sisters. That was a huge surprise to me since I thought Brittney was going to be the only one there, but with that all in mind we stayed in Las Vegas for the night and then off to California for the next nine days. We visited and stayed at a family friends house for 2 nights and left to continue our travels up towards Fresno where our family lives. On our way through we stopped at Six Flags for the day and then off the Visalia where my aunt Barbara lives. There I stayed for a week where I attended my cousins wedding. Then just a week ago Brittney and I took what is called the AMTRAK from Visalia to Bakersfield, where we got off onto a Bus which took us to Los Angeles and from there we got onto our last AMTRAK (a train) for the next 10 hours to Flagstaff, Arizona where I am currently living for the next 19 days. It has been quite the adventure the last couple weeks and I have enjoyed much of it, although it is a very different life back in the states, I enjoy the freedom, the people and the places I have traveled too. Now that I am back I have been seeking the LORD for the guidance to the next season of my life. I am looking at Christian colleges all over the united states and I have found quite a few that I really like. I have a peace about going to school and continuing my education so that I can also continue my life doing missions and supporting people on the mission field. Right now in my life I am just waiting on the Lord to bring me to a new place where I will start a new season of my life. I am very excited to see this all come to play and I will be returning to Alaska on June 21st ,a Saturday. I look forward to seeing those familiar faces and catching up on life itself. Please feel free to contact me via email or phone to make coffee dates or whatever you want to call them. That may sound weird but there are lots of people that may want to hear what I did and how it went and I would love to share with you in more than just 3 words that sound a lot like this " IT WAS GOOD"!!! that is not really the way I have in mind to answer your question about my trip to Africa so please do feel free to ask me to hang out and I will spill everything to you. Thank you guys. Love AUBS
to all you moms out there. I am in Nelspruit South Africa for the next 4 days where we are preparing to go into re-entry to the United States. Well worth the time to talk about things because it is going to be difficult to the changes and the differences that have occured over the last months. I am very excited to get home and share God's glory and who He is with all of you.
Tomorrow is my 21st Birthday YAHHHHH!!! Holla, and we just so happen to be going on a all day game drive at the best game park in the world. KRUGER NATIONAL PARK!!!!!!What a way to celebrate an important day. right eh!!!! Im stoked and it probably will be the first time I get to see WILD animals. seriously I have yet to see any crazy animals. I want to keep this short and simple so there you are and I will be emailing you all when I get to the states in a few days. thanks for all your support and love. miss you much and I look forward to the moment I get to see you.
As my semester is coming to an end we are beginning to clean up and say our goodbyes to the relationships that we have built while here. Spiritually, physically, and financially I need closure - Physically I am saying my goodbyes, Spiritually I am praying for Gods guidance and for discernment in this season of my life while I have been out on the mission field, Financially I reach out to my friends and family to help withthe remaining balance of $3,137 dollars that is needed in my account with Adventures in Missions, the non-profit organization that I am here with. The money that I have raised has gone towards the food I eat everyday, my housing, transportation, and ministry supplies. I have been here without all the money because but I have to raise the rest so that the team account will not be in the negative with the money that was used during the time that I have been here in Africa. I thank you guys for supporting me, so that I can live over here and go out to the high schools and share with young swazis about God and so that i can go out and do ministry in the rural with the people far away with barely anything to their name. All the money that I raise goes towards everything that I do while I am here in Swaziland, Africa. So many times people get so excited that you are going to a place where there are orphans and that you are doing such a good thing for the people over there. Thats true to some extent, But if you come over to a place that is the unfamiliar to you, you are in for something different than just the joy you have when you are holding a little child. I say this to you because when I first arrived here in Africa my mind-set was completely different from what it is now. I have experience the life here and seen so many things that i would have never known if I didn't say YES to GOD to Him calling me to the UNKNOWN. God has changed me into the person that He has called me to be and I am very thankful for this experience I have had here in Swaziland where God has used not just me but my team as well for the GLORY of HIS NAME. I appreciate you all who care and read my blogs and have continued to pray for me in good times and in bad. The last 2 weeks have been filled with just reading the word and soaking in God's presence . I believe in God for mighty things, signs, and wonders to happen all over the world. I am coming home to the familiar and to people that I know but that do not know me like they did before I left, all because of great change that has happened since arriving here, I want to say the same for you too as well, I hope that God has rocked your world over there since I have been gone and I can't wait to hear stories and see the faces that I know. I no longer want to live for the world and the reason I say this to you all because I will need accountability and for the 200 or so people who receive my blogs that is a lot of people that can see for themselves that I am proclaiming it out in boldness. Friends and family, I pray that He would speak to you all. We are the body of Christ with many different parts, some are the hands and others the feet. We need each member of the body to play their part in order to continue in Unity and to do the things God calls us to. I love you all and will see you all very soon.
1 John 5:14-15: 14This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15And if we know that he hears usā"whatever we askā"we know that we have what we asked of him.
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hey guys, Right now I am at the Pratts house in Mbabane, Swaziland, they are missionaries who were sent out from Abbott Loop Community Church. Which just so happens to be the same church that I attend while I am in the states. I have spent the last couple days with them at their place and its been great. Their family is wonderful and very FUNNY!!!! I have enjoyed so much just getting to know them a bit more and I encourage those that read this and would like to support missionaries out there in the world, that their organization is a awesome one to support. I have seen the Sandra lee Center, a home for orphans. they have more than 4 homes with Makes ( mothers) that live in the homes with children in each home ranging from all ages that stay there till they are maybe 18-20 depending on their situation but they grow up there until 18 or so.
So far life in Swazi has been very rewarding( blessings all around) !!!!!
I do have prayer needs !!!!!!
Treasure _ 19 years old she live with us in our team house and has been there since Feb. What an amazing help she has been too us because we fall short of the language considering it can be a barrier for us who no very little Siswati. Well she had her appendix taken out a week ago. It was an emergency!!! it was unknown and had to have it done immediately due to lack of knowledge that it was about to burst. although she was in a great amount of pain the doctors just gave her meds thinking it would take it away and it continued she finally went to get an ultrasound and was told go to the ER now!!! well I want to throw out an opportunity to HELP with the cost of the surgery which happens to be 1700 american dollars, we have lowered our budget for our food for some time so that we can help out from the team budget because its quite too much for her family to pay. If you would like to help you can contact my mother who will be more than willing to put the money in my bank account where I will take it out and give it to my leader Kate who will use it to re-imberse her account where she has so graciously taken out the money from her own savings to help pay for this surgery. Treasure is doing amazing in recovery and is thankful for all the help that she has been given. please continue to prayer for her and the teams that are here in Swaziland doing God's work. love always AUBS
also I injured both my knees a month ago and have been very discouraged due to having to lay low a little because it is worse than last semester but I am not going to go home early this semester, there is one month left here in Swaziland and I refuse to leave even though I have been limited to things that I can do but during this time GOD has been rocking my world and I am spending lots of time in the word and with Him...... I will write much more about this on my next blog, I just want people to pray for me, whether it be for healing, or just encouragement. whatever you would like.
One week ago we passed out the bibles to the students and it was very successful!!!!!! The day looked a lot like this....... We arrived with the bibles and set up to hand them out to the students which was a little over 80 some students and over 10 adults that received the bibles.
they were very excited to get their very own bible... I am so sorry but I have to pay for the internet and I was not able to upload pictures in a timely matter because its very slow so when I get better internet I will post more about this. thanks love aubs also known as Nobuhle
hey guys so the bibles that I have asked for donations for were ordered last week and have arrived. katie and I are going to pick them up today from the store and in a week we will be distributing them to the students at ROADS PARK. I am very excited to play a part in giving someone the word to have for themselves, considering there are so many people here that do not own their very own bible.
Also an update on the strike that I last blogged about.... there was to be a resolution by this friday and if not other matters would take place and so we are taking pre-cautions for our safety this friday and jsut staying out of Manzini. So right now we do not know if they are going to resume into strike but we are praying so that we can continue our ministry here and I believe that things will work out. Just keep praying that soon a resolution will come about. otherwise we are safe and having been living normally as if nothing had happened. thanks love aubs
