Eventful Weeks

A lot has happened over the past few weeks.

First, there were two possibilities for our mission trip this year, the Philippines and India. The mission team decided that the Philippines was the best choice for our group of kids this year. This was a tough decision for me to handle since I was the one with the Indian contact. I really don’t feel the pull to go to the Philippines (and really, neither does Matt).

Matt and I have decided to go to India to see what the program is all about and how our team may fit in, in the future. Right now, we’re still trying to figure out if we’re going to go during spring break (when VBS will be going on in India) or if we will go at Christmas break (when we’d have more time). Please pray for us as we try to make that decision. Pray for us too as we determine whether or not we need to ask for support for this trip (since airplane tickets to India are around/ over $1,000 each).

In the past week Matt and I have had three adventures too, to the hospital. Last Saturday morning, I was getting breakfast ready when my thumb decided to get in the way of the knife I was using to cut. Matt called our high school principal first since he’s a former EMT. He came over, wrapped it and went home. My biggest fear at this point was that I was going to have to get stitches. The slice in my thumb was pretty big. I waited about half an hour but the bleeding hadn’t stopped. So, I called one of the Korean ladies from school to take us to a hospital. We went, and I ended up getting two stitches in my thumb.

This is a picture of what it looked like today after I got the stitches out. I cut it from where you can see it to about the middle of my fingernail.

I know it doesn’t sound like much, but your fingers and toes are some of the most sensitive places on your body. Before I start this, let me remind you that I am practically terrified of needles. They gave me two shots in my thumb which was supposed to numb it. Apparently since I did cut my thumb and it was close to the bone, what they numbed was not what they stitched up. I will admit, I am a baby when it comes to needles.

Not being able to feel my thumb for a week (because it was wrapped) made pretty much everything an interesting task. Because of the stitches I couldn’t get my thumb wet. I really don’t know what I would have done had I still been in a roommate situation since I was totally dependant on Matt.

Speaking of things getting cut, I cut my hair even shorter. I’ve been looking at this hairstyle for about a year but I didn’t get it cut because of the wedding. So, this week, Matt and I went to a place called Miss Piggy’s (yes, that is the real name) and I got it chopped off again. I have received some very nice compliments about it which is reassuring.

As for school things, our discipleship program starts up this week. Matt and I are leading a group of about twelve 11^th and 12^th graders. The topic of our group is “Life After High School.” This will be my second year leading this group and Matt’s first. The size of the group from last year has over doubled in size and Matt and I can tell that the Lord really has some cool things in store for our group. Please pray for productive and fruitful meetings with our students.

More to come as the year progresses.