25 de Octubre (Exams)

This week has been one of recovery from our great weekend. :) It’s also been exam week at ICPNA. It’s hard to believe that we’ve now completed TWO of our Spanish classes! Time sure has flown here. Two more months to go! Some days I wish I could slow down time and stay here forever and some days I desire to see those that I love back at home. The most important thing that I’ve learned is to love the time that I’m spending here and do all that God has called for me to accomplish here. I’m working on it. :)

So, we took our written exam on Wednesday and our oral exam on Thursday. Both went very well and I was pleased to receive a 97 in my class! I wish that could be factored into my GPA back home. Haha. After class, my teacher asked me and my friend, Eva, if we’d like to take a test to place into a higher lever. We’re going to do that tomorrow at 10:30. It’s not so much fun that we have to go to school on a day that we don’t normally have to go, but we’ll do what we have to, I suppose. :)

Tonight was NOOMA night. I really love this series that we’re doing and the wisdom that Rob Bell has scripted out for his viewers. We talked about trusting God and having faith that He can see the bigger picture. He described a situation of a father not buying his son a toy because the father was planning on buying his son an even better toy from the store across the street. The child whined that he wanted the toy, but the father just told him no. God does this in our lives; He knows the bigger picture; He knows that in the long run, we’d much rather have the toy from across the street. Sometimes it’s so hard to have this much faith. When faced with situations like this, where we can see an option but not quite the whole picture, it’s so easy to just want the thing that we can see. It seems easier to just take what’s right in front of us, what’s tangible, rather than trusting that there is something better for us later. I have struggled with this throughout my life and continue to do so. I so desire to give God full control of my life, but it can be hard to trust that He really is all knowing and that He really is going to come through for me. I’ve been praying that the Lord would increase my faith and fill me with hope and trust only in Him. He does know best and He does have a plan for my life and I need to stop worrying about my own plans.

“Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it’s the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” Proverbs 19:21

Katrina