life in south africa!

Well i have been in south africa for 2 weeks now, but it feels like 2 months. So far i feel very comfortable at the Golden Eagle Guesthouse, our comfy MtV crib. :) Today is my sabbath, and i got to do one of my favorite things- sit outside on the balcony and chat with Em!!!
This week for the first time I have felt homesick and really out of control- God is teaching me alot about how much i want to handpick my life and have control myself, about how much i love comfort, and about how selfish I am. Even though we dont even have it bad here, some comforts that i have had to give up have really stretched me and made me see how much i really depend on things that are beautiful in my eyes to satisfy me. for example, it is depressing to me that there are no gorgeous suburbs or shooping centers here.
So last week we went to the JWC, like our ATL here, from sunday to friday. It was at a camp, defintitely not the hotels at our atl, but beautuiful. The good thing was that it wasnt as cold at all as the jwc last year!! Overall, the whole experience taught me alot about myself and about how much i rely on muyself in ministry and not God. I really got to know my ministry partner, Ashton better!! But it was a hard week for me, just feeling far from God at times and striving to realte to the girls in my room from the res was very hard.
this week I have felt somewhat tired of not being able to be independent, but I am content in the Lord here..I feel like He is revealing enough of Himself to me, but I also am still struggling with the reality of God. I am excited to be doing some labor at Paula and Haileys house this week ( they are on staff) and to be back together with the team. I love our team :)
Here are somehighlights of this week:
-hiking up a beautiful gorge with Christine and Brittni
-getting to share my testimony with Lesh ( a girl in Jasmyn Res in my room)
-hanging out with Ashton!
-going out to dinner at cafe 41
-praising God in all different languages at the JWC
-praying for the students at the JWC

now for some hard things
-feeling stretched thin
-had a couple breakdowns
-missing em
-had to fix toilets like 5 times
-sometimes seeing the end of CCp as the end

I will write sometime this week maybe, we have the net at our house :)