3 weeks...AHHH!

In 3 weeks I will be on my way to Texas! It almost seems unreal to me that it is going to be happening so fast. I am super excited to be at YWAM and to let God speak to me and use me in amazing ways!!! The next few weeks will be busy...and I am sure that it will fly by.

• The rest of this weekend, we have my nieces and it is always a blast hanging out with them!!!
  
• Next Sunday the 14th, they are doing my commissioning at church.
  
• I am also teaching the tech team to run media shout that evening, since I will no longer be there to run that for them.
  
• I am speaking at youth group on Wednesday the 17th, my last regular Wed night (as the next Wed is SYATP Rally), on the topic of Gossip, the last of our 4 week series on Surviving School.
  
• I am finishing up my time at Chick fil A on Saturday the 20th.
  
• That night will also be the last hurrah with my amazing small groups girls. God has used me to mentor them, but I have also been blessed by them in a million ways!!! I am over-joyed at the amount of spiritual growth I have seen in them over the past year. At Last Blast this summer, during one of the amazing worship times, my 4 girls joined hands and in tears stepped out of the tent to pray with each other. More than anything in the world I wanted to go with them, to pray with them, to hug them, to love on them, but as I sat there God said...Emily...let them go..you have done your job...you brought them closer to me, now you have to let them live for me. You have to let go. I knew He was right, He always is!
• The 21st my parents are having an open house good-bye party for me that afternoon, as it is my last Sunday in Indiana.
  
• There is also Shine Time that evening at the Parkers!
  
• Most of that next week will be spent packing.....AHHH!
• That Wed I will most likey attend the SYATP Rally with my students, one last event with them.
• On either Thursday or Friday, probably Friday! I will leave for my 16 and a half hour drive to TX! I will stop one night at Purdue, to visit Sarah and Collin and as of now the plan is to drive the other 14 hours in one day...yes I know..long day...but I just don't like the idea of staying in a hotel all by myself...so I would rather leave at like 7 am and drive until 10 pm then have to stay by myself!
  

Wow...I knew it was all in my schedule, but seeing it all written down...wow...makes me see how much I am truly going to have to rely on God to get through these next few weeks. I am pumped to get there, but not looking forward to the good-byes! I love so many people here in good old Indiana and have learned so much from so many people. Thanks for your continued prayers as I embark upon this journey! I will be doing my best at updated this site regularly to keep you all filled in on the things the Lord is doing in my life!