Arrival to the Uttermost Parts... but Not Alone

Sunday afternoon, January 8th...

Chuuk sure is the uttermost parts of the sea. Thank you so much for all of your prayers. The assurance of your prayers brings overwhelming gratitude and peace. I know to Whom they're being offered.

I was just thinking in church this morning about how there's just no way to explain what something really is like unless you experience it for yourself. It's been hard these first few days. My stomach was asking me what in the world I was doing which made my heart and mind ask the same question. God is with me. He brought me here to teach me about Himself. Yes, to minister and encourage and teach and be ministered to and encouraged and taught... but to know the God that I love because He loved me first.

Keep praying, please. I covet your prayers more than ever.
Specific prayer requests:
- School starts tomorrow for me and students start on Tuesday, that communication would go well between the other faculty who know what they're doing and me and also betweeen the students and their new teacher.
- That I would learn names and families, for correct pronunciation.
- That Linda Chiles and my relationship would blossom and we would be able to encourage one another.
- That my roommate (Junotte) and I would get accustomed to each other's different ways of living and be able to live in our little apartment well with each other.
- That God would give me loads of wisdom on how to teach and how to love and how to proclaim the name of our Savior, His Son, Jesus Christ.
- And I read in my devotions the other morning that our Lord gives "strong calm sanity"... pray this for me, please!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

"I thank you my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ." Philippians 1:3-6