Well, I'm officially graduated from the New Tribes Missionary Training Center! Woohoo!!!!

It's really good to be done, but I know I'll miss everyone from my class. I guess now more than ever, I'm realizing that I'm not really ready to go on the mission field. I don't think I ever will be. But I guess that's where God wants me to be. He is the one who will enable me to go.

So anyways, I had a great Christmas with my family and Clint. It was a little bittersweet, just thinking that it may be the last time I get to spend Christmas with my family. I guess I never expected that it would come so soon.

We plan to have a few more days for relaxing and hanging out before we head out to the west coast to visit my grandparents and then Clint's family. Should be lots of fun!

My Class

It's been an amazing past year and a half here at the training center. Our class has been through a lot together. We've survived 4 hours of classes each weekday morning, working in a practice tribal village together, camping and killing chickens together, surviving various simulated situations where we were in "danger".

Our graduating class

It's been a fun time, but I've also learned so much from the people in my class. They've challenged me in ways I never expected. I learned lots by working on teams with various classmates and being in a small group with about 16 others. I'll miss these guys, but I am also very excited to see where God will lead each one of them in the future.

Some of them will be staying at the training center to start Linguistics or extra Technical training. Most, however, will be heading back to their home churches to start raising support to head overseas.

We have people going to Papua New Guinea, West Africa, Brazil, Philippines, Indonesia, Mexico, and Colombia. It thrills my heart to see all of these people with the same heart to reach the unreached. I can't wait to see what God will do through all of them!

Where from Here?

Many of you may faintly remember that I am graduating at some point soon. Actually, to help put it in perspective, I'll be graduating in 11 days. I am really excited! I will definitely miss this training center. It's been such an amazing experience, and I've absolutely loved it! However, I am also feeling ready to graduate, get married, and start the process of actually heading overseas.

So what happens after graduation? I'm so glad you asked.

Clint and I will both be moving back to Georgia a few days after graduation (and Josiah and Rachel's wedding!). We will be at my family's house for Christmas, and then we plan to fly out to California to visit my grandparents for a few days. After that, we'll fly up to Oregon to visit the Teeles. We'll be heading back to Georgia mid-January. I'll be living with my family and Clint will find an apartment somewhere nearby. We will be planning for our wedding until March 1. After our wedding, we'll start raising support. We would like to stay in Georgia until mid-July, and after that, we would like to move to Oregon. At this point, we plan to head overseas to Papua New Guinea in January 2015.

There will be a lot of changes in the next couple of months, but it's also exciting to see God begin a new chapter in my life.

And all of you, by the way, are invited to our graduation on December 20. I'm assuming a good majority of you won't be able to make it, but if, for some reason, you get a sudden urge to travel to Missouri on or around December 20, it would be a lot of fun to have you stop by! :)