Let's get real!

I have already been here a week! Yet, it feels like a lot longer; I have already learned so much and met so many people. It is very exciting to see and share an island with so many cultures. Yesterday, at a cookout (on the beach :) 4 continents were represented!
A few fun things:
~ I went on my first big Hawaiian hike, up Pu'u ma' eli' eli
~ Found my way around driving by myself (a great accomplishment anytime you move to a new city!)
~ Been able to meet many international students
~ AND The team from OBU comes in just 2 days! If you could continue to pray as the team and we prepare for their arrival.

I titled this entry "let's get real" because I wanted to address an issue before too many entries. A woman once shared with me how discouraged she became from reading blogs from other Christian women. She felt so defeated from reading what seemed to be their perfect lives'. So I will try my hardest never to be "fake" on this blog. Of course people don't share every detail of their lives' on the internet (as it should be) BUT my life is far from perfect, I have good and bad days just like everyone else, but God's amazing grace helps me through! On this blog there will be posts of all emotions and want to share those with you following my ministry here, so we can pray through them together!

Well that is it for now!

God Bless,

Christie

Jeremiah 20:9 (NIV)

⁹ But if I say, “I will not mention his word
    or speak anymore in his name,”
his word is in my heart like a fire,
    a fire shut up in my bones.
I am weary of holding it in;
    indeed, I cannot