i wish she was my baby.....

see this sweet little baby girl? i fell in love with this little one while in china. we were given the opportunity to visit a foster home that our church sponsors. click here for more info on this wonderful place.

when i saw this baby, she immediately stole my heart. i was informed by ale' (my sweet "lil sis") that she (that baby) had cried for two or three other people. so i was sure to be careful. i came up to her to say "ni hao" and to my shock, she didn't cry. i think that's what made me fall in love with her the most.

anyway, i have claimed her as mine. i even found her again and was able to hold her the second time we were there. i would have brought her home with me, but that would have been frowned upon by the chinese government. so now, i'm hoping and praying that i could possibly support this sweet little one.

DQ Ji (18 August 2011)">

this picture was taken august 18, over two weeks after we got home. she has already gotten bigger! don't you think so?

this blog post was inspired by my friend, Augusta's blog post. she fell in love with a sweet little face as well. hop over there and see. click on Augusta's name.

God's timing is perfect no matter what

i'm straightening up my room today. thanks to some lovely ladies, my room was nice and clean when i got back form china. but after being back, unpacking, house sitting for a week, starting school, etc, it got a little messy. NOT NEAR AS BAD AS IT WAS, i can assure you. just needed to be straightened up.

well i was putting a book on my bookshelf and i noticed an old journal of mine from when i started high-school. i started flipping through in and saw how weird i was was in ninth grade. haha.....ever get embarrassed when looking at stuff from the past? it makes me laugh.

as i was flipping through my notebook, i saw a page of prayer requests that i had written out to remind my self to pray for as i would write in this journal. it was really awesome to see that God had answered those prayer requests.

one was of a girl we had gotten to know, that she would receive Christ; she did.

a couple others were for the missions teams of that year, that everything was going well; those were successful trips from what i had heard.

then i went to look at some personal prayer requests for me. the one that stood out said, and reminding myself to pray about, "if God is leading me to go to South Africa" and apparently i wanted to go that year (2009) and was in the process of filling out the application.

well it obviously wasn't in God's plan that i go on missions trip to South Africa in 2009. and not to go to china in 2010. But in 2011. perfect example of God's timing. i wasn't ready for a mission trip. He knew that 2011 was the year for me to go overseas, and NOT TO SOUTH AFRICA. i never knew that i wanted to go anywhere other then SOUTH AFRICA. don't get me wrong. i would still love to go there. but i was brought to the last place i thought i wanted to go. AND I LOVED IT.

i am so thankful that i was able to go to CHINA. we were so welcomed there. we fell in love with the children that we came in contact with. and i know God was glorified through what we were doing over there.

"There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven...." Ecclesiastes 3:1

God's timing is perfect no matter what. :)

a blog project and some exciting news......

Hi friends.

i know its been a while since i have written to ya'll. sorry. i'm going to try and do better.

i promise.

i want to attempt a blog project. according to a friend of mine, the month of march is women's history month. so in honor of " women's history month", i am going to try to post a quote of an ( in my opinion) and influential women. it isn't going to matter whether they are a women of history or an infamous women. they may be of history or influential women in my life. and this will give you a chance to hear from them.

i expect you readers of mine to keep me accountable. please. :)


now.......to my exciting news.....

as you may have seen in my twitter feed on the side of this page, i have the opportunity of going to china this summer on a missions trip!!
the trip is two weeks long. while we are there we will be teaching English.

i won't go into too much detail today but i wanted to share this news with ya'll.

please join me in prayer as i prepare for this trip coming in July!


and here is an influential women quote #1: "Don't Meet the deadline, beat the deadline." - claudia gay.