Hey, Gids, how was your traveling? I hope that everything went really well and I'm really excited for you and your Bible school plans! I think that is really awesome. Life has been good for me. I'm in that stage now where I know that I need to be thinking about colleges and such but I don't really have any desire to do so yet. I am working at the same daycare that I have been for a while this summer. Let me tell you that it has been some adventure. If I'm not trying to heal someone's scraped forehead, then I'm trying to stop them for being run over by a motorized vehicle- what a day THAT was. Well, God has just been blessing and blessing me. I'm thankful for it. I really am, but at the same time, I'm just waiting for something to go wrong. It's been a long time since my life has been so problem free and I'm not so sure how to handle that. I just hope that I am still growing as much in the easy times as I might in the hard times, you know? Just the other day, I almost accidentally created a problem for myself. Do you remember the girl that is living with us? Well, she decided that she was going to stay the weekend with one of her friends but she didn't come back for a week and a half. Man, I was really worried that she had decided that she liked her old friends better and that she was going to move back in with them. It was a rough couple a days. I kept smacking myself for not loving her like I should have or for enjoying my sister more that I did spending time with her and for not working hard enough at making her feel like part of the family. But now she is back, and I guess that she didn't really enjoy her old friends as much as she thought and she hasn't said anything about moving out so all is well. It was just a good reminder to me that God is in complete control.
My sister and I are having all sorts of good times, she has all these wedding and housing plans that she needs to flush out before Jeremy get back from Iraq and she has heard so many different things about when he is coming back that she actually has no idea as to when it will be. It could be as long as another 2 years. That breaks my heart for her. I can't imagine what that would be like. Jeremy is really good to her though, in all the letters that he writes to her, he tells her everything about what is going on except how much danger he is actually in. His unit is the one that is drawing the most fire but he always fails to mention that- and it's probably better that way. I just hope that for her sake, he gets home very soon.
Well, here's what I'm thinking: I really, really want to go back to Africa next summer. But I'm not making as much money as I thought I would be this summer and I don't know what I'm going to do about college. I know that God will provide, but I'm just afriad that I might not be being a good steward of my time. I'm also not so sure what my parents will say if I tell them that I'm not working next summer, I'm just going to trust God to take care of me because my parents are VERY practical people. I'm not really sure what to do. I have a little while to think about it but will you please pray for wisdom for me? Thank you for still being my friend.
Good night, Gideon.
Bethany

Well I'll be leaving for western Kenya in about two hours and I got a chance to say hi.Please pray for me cause its a long long trip.Mombasa is in the extreme east of kenya and Busia is in the extreme west of Kenya so we're literally travelling across Kenya and I'm so excited that I'll see major towns like Nakuru,Limuru,Kisumu city,Naivasha and many more!Take care and bye.
Giddy