No matter how long it's been, I always can picture your excitement when I read what you have posted. And no matter how long it's been, I genuinely and truly miss you after I read what you have to say. My heart misses yours.

Anyway, I apologize for not being more responsible when it comes to writing you. I just finished my first full year of nursing school, and it was a bumpy ride. These last couple of weeks have been a sprint to the finish and I feel like all I've been able to focus on what getting one foot in front of the other. Honestly, Gideon, it scares me to death to think that at this time next year I will be graduating! I feel like I have way too much to learn in the next year for me to be a nurse. It's just crazy to think that I will be holding people's lives in my hands within 12 months... crazy and humbling.
Remember that conference about AIDS in Africa that I was telling you about? Well, some of my friends and I got together and we decided that we could not just leave that conference the same people that we were when we went in, so we formed kind of a club at our school that is going to raise money as well as awareness about that issue. It's going pretty well so far. We've had to do a lot of detail work so far like writing a constitution and planning goals and institute leadership so I feel like we haven't done a lot to advance the Kingdom yet, but I have to remind myself that God is pleased with details and planning as well.
God has been teaching me many different things lately as I look to our school break for three months and realize that I have no idea what any of it is going to entail. I don't know where I'm going to work or where I'm going to live or who I'm going to be spending my time with. It's all up in the air. But I think that amidst my solitude this summer, God will help me find a part of myself. I think that these next couple of months are going to be difficult and refining- one of those times that I know will be good for me, but I'm not really looking forward to- you know what I'm talking about I'm sure. I am putting my hope in the fact that He who began a good work in me will carry it onto completion.

I am thrilled to hear that things seem to be going well with your schooling and ministries. I'm so happy for you that you are working with Moses. I remember him from the time I spent with you. Please tell him I said Hi. And please, please let me know how your concert went. I hope so that it went well. I will be praying that your ministries are mighty and efficient and that God will use you as a pure and empty vessel.
And Gideon, I just want to thank you for being such an encouraging friend. You have been such a powerful example in my life. After hearing from you, I always want to go make more of a difference than I wanted to before. That kind of leadership is a powerful and effective gift.
In Him,
Bethany