Okay so I'm going to attempt to keep my blog for the next few days while I'm exploring London, but i'm horrible at this blogging thing so bear with me please.
so first off London is not at all what I expected it to be and at the same time it's exactly what I thought it would be. everybody here seems so emotionless and just drained of everything yet they are all dressed up quite nicely. This aspect will probably take me the entire week to get used to because I'm used to the exact opposite in South Africa-kids with only one outfit who are so excited to be alive. So far though, even though it's been very exhausting it has also just helped solidify that God is in fact calling me to be a missionary, so that has been very exciting for me.
Another positive aspect has been when we got on the plane to London from North Carolina my dad was sitting by a woman who "happened" to work for a non-profit company in the Accounting side who had also worked retail earlier in her career!! for those of you that know me well, you know that right now I just changed my major to Accounting and am trying to decide whether to take an internship this summer with a non-profit or a big retail company. So that was very wonderful that God would give me that reassurance and let me talk to the woman for a few minutes. It was even more perfect that I happened to be wearing my 147 million orphans tshirt so I got to tell the woman about that organization and how they are helping the children of God.
But anyways, London. Sorry, I told you I'm bad at this blogging thing. But we arrived in London around 7:30AM London time, which was 2:30AM Birmingham time and had a full day planned of activities. Unfortunately, it took us a couple of hours to find our hotel/get unpacked but it all worked out and we were very thankful to find our hotel! it's amazing what God can do and how He is faithful in even the smallest of things. God definitely gave me a good attitude today with my measly 3 hours of sleep, so I am extremely thankful for that! But after we got all unpacked and kind of settled in, we spent the afternoon shopping. The main place we went was in Harrod's, and I was honestly taken aback by how much people were spending on things just cause it had the name "Harrod's" on it! It's amazing how God can gave your perspective so drastically in a short period. For instance, there was a notebook there for about $47 American dollars. If I had gone on this trip a year ago I might have considered buying that notebook, but today all I could think was, "i could just take that same money and give it to a charity and let it feed children in Africa for about two weeks....or i could have another notebook i don't need." So while I'm extremely thankful for this new perspective, it might make souvenir shopping a tad bit more difficult. but God is good, always, so I know it will all work out.
So all in all, our trip is going pretty well, but please pray for the people of London. They need God desperately. You can just tell that some of them are walking around aimlessly trying to find their place in life, and they need God to find their place. And please pray for the people of Japan as well. This is such a devastating tragedy for their country and just pray that God will comfort the survivors and reveal Himself to them in such a way that they will not be able to deny God and His love for them.
"Jesus paid much too high a price for us to pick and choose who should come"
PS-whoever prayed for me to want to do God's will with my life rather than my own, thank you. Your prayer has definitely been answered. I realized today that I do not really like this vacation as much as I thought I would so far mainly because it's not a mission trip. So your prayer as answered and then some :)
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