#1

Well, here I go. My first blog. Let me tell you about my life, shall I?

I live in Utah. Moved herea year ago this past June from South Alabama. The longer I live here, the more I love it. Now, some of it I don't really like. But, all places are like that. Alabama has wonderful qualities and then it also has things that I could definitely do without (like humidity and bugs)! Utah has beautiful mountains and I love the mountains! It has cool air, snow, beautiful fall colors, snow, hot summers, dry heat, snow,and lots of snow. :o)

I'm leaving Utah for the beautiful Arvada, CO in exactly 2 weeks! When my family moved here to Utah I was unsure of what I was going to do. I had just finished a 3 month internship at the International House of Prayer (IHOP-KC) in Kansas City, MO. From January 5th to March 25th I was spending nights in the prayer room and sleeping during the day. What an experience that was! Fire in The Night. A season of finding and seeing just who I was created to be. A season of seeing who God really is. Something that changed me. Forever.
Because of this experience, I fell in love with KC and wanted to move there. Stay there for as long as I could and just soak in the 24/7 worship and prayer. But, after my internship ended I went home and helped my family pack up the house and headed across the country to Northern Utah. Took us 4 days, but we made it. :o)
Right before I left to go home from ihop, I felt the Lord tell me to stay in Utah for 1 year and then He would give me the desire of my heart. At that time (and it still is today) I wanted to pursue training to be a Midwife. A few years ago when I was at YWAM Nashville doing a Discipleship Training School (DTS) I felt the Lord place this calling on my life and the desire to become one has just increased through the years. That said, that's what my plan was. After a year, here in Utah, I would pursue any way possible of becoming a Midwife. And I did just that. I tried every route possible. I really want to be a lay-midwife and work overseas. So i tried a Birth Attendant school with ywam in Australia. I tried a Midwife college in the Phillipines. I tried to start Nursing school and then get a masters in Midwifery. I tried to become a CNA and start there, hoping to get into midwifery in some way. haha, as you can see, I tried every way possible. I even tried findind local midwives to train me and I had no such luck with any of them. I did pray and seek guidance from Jesus. With each thing I would ask the Lord to either open or close that door, and He was faithful to answer that. lol
This past July I went to StudentLife camp in Durango, CO with my youth group. During one of our worship sets with Todd Agnew(who's pretty amazing, fyi) I felt the Lord say, SOMD. SOMD stands for School of Ministry Development which is a secondary school at YWAM Nashville. I felt He was saying it was time to go back to ywam. HAHA, boy did I get a big surprise! That was the last thing I was expecting. It wasn't in my plans. Not that I wasn't open to it, it just wasn't even a thought. I was just so focused on becoming a Midwife. But, I got so excited when He said that! YWAM! Seriously Lord?! So, I started thinking of where I wanted to go. I'm really close with the ywam lousiville staff. I did a summer internship with them and a few there were staff of my DTS. So, i thought of going back East. But, I've also become extremely close to my family. Something that hasn't always been. The move out here was, what I believe brought us closer. So, I wanted to stay close to home. And the Denver base came to mind. Peter Warren, who is the director of the ywam denver base came and spoke at my dts and I just loved his teaching and the week he spent with us. I also have several friends who have been to the denver base for schools and so I decided to check it out. After a week or 2 of further praying and talking with a friend, I applied for their Phase 2 school. A leadership school. And was accepted 3 weeks later!
The Lord has provided everything I need, and more! It's awesome to see His faithfullness! I'm very excited to begin this new season of my life. I know that Jesus has good good things in store for me. :o)