| alright. thanks for checking this out, I'm assuming you found it through the email I sent out or maybe from xanga.com/onee
dude my mouth tastes like sophomore year in highschool when i'd ride around in katherine's car, which had fruit flies in it that we couldn't locate the source of, and also smelled like coffee.
I'm going to try to stick to the topics I promised I'd discuss on here, but I had to share that..
boring logical logistics:
- My dad sent me $150 to help cover the ticket I just got for my registration being expired, since he was about to update it for me but it hadn't been yet. For those of you who don't know, my dad had been kindly providing me with a car to drive, in his name, and taking care of insurance, registration, repairs.. so that I wouldn't hitchhike anymore. I got into three wrecks this month, the last of which totaled my car. The two that involved collisions with other cars were covered by insurance, and the three tickets that I've recieved were for hydroplaning ("changing lanes without signalling" and "losing control of speed"), my registration being expired which my dad is covering, and for failing to yield to oncoming traffic (that's the accident that I totaled my car in).
My cousin rachel bought the honda civic from me, my old car that's been broken down in joplin for over a year. She's told me that the $400 to pay for that is in the mail. Thank God. That's what I plan to use to pay those other tickets off with. I no longer have a vehicle, and I have to pay for the library video that was in the car during the wreck; my grocery money was in there as well. But I have about $50 in my bank acct. for food and such, praise God, and anyway I'm afraid to drive anymore. I have a bike, praise God again, and good feet and warm shoes and coats and coffee. So I'm fine.
Monroe was going to pay for my passport fees, about $80, because I can't afford to and I need to get that done asap. Then I can pay for the student visa, which I think will cost $60 or so and has to be taken care of two weeks before departure, which God willing will be in July. I already paid for the passport photos, so now the things left for India are:
Two one-way plane tickets or one two-way, to Mumbai, India, for July 2005 and then December or January (?) 2005.
Medicine for India - malaria meds, primarily. I'm still getting information on this. I may need to get shots for a few things, like Hep A and B, even though I got them in middle school. Also diarrea meds and filtered water bottles and general medicines for fever and whatever. Hydration stuff maybe.
Tuition for YWAM Discipleship Training School. I'm going to have to double check this, but from the paperwork I was sent, the schooling fees are Rs8,000 for Americans/1st worlders- which translates into $177.00 a month. This covers food, lodging, and transportation.
Lastly, I'm going to need to buy a small "wardrobe" (read: 3 or 4) traditional sari outfits to wear for the duration of my stay. This may also include a pair of shoes, and then if there's any left, money for extras such as food from street vendors, money to give to beggars, gifts to send home, and I may need money for things like pens, pencils, paper, books, etc. for school. They haven't specified.
Before India, though, God willing- I'm moving to Ponca City, Oklahoma to be with my family for a month 1/2 or so- I end my internship at Mission Waco the 18th and leave February 19th ish for Oklahoma.
Then April 5th, I pray-- I will be moving down to Edinburg, Texas, to start dating Monroe Perez, and to help with a 24 hour prayer center. After that, we plan, and hope, to go to California, and do street ministry, and travel and minister with the Rainbow Gathering.
Then India. This whole time I may not have an income; I may try to get a job in Edinburg, but God willing, I won't have to work because I'll be fully supported by Monroe's family as we stay there with them. We'll see.
I'm really excited about this time in my life- Mission Waco has been absolutely amazing, and I feel quite a concern for them as I leave; we are so understaffed, even if someone 'lowest-on-the-rung' leaves, that's still an important rung in the ladder and everything slips a notch down in productivity and who we help and the quality of the help we give. It's distressing. Please pray for Mission Waco to get the help they need and for the staff to be refreshed as it's a hard job with little constant support, emotionally/psychologically/spiritually especially..
Also please pray for my decisions concerning Monroe and I. These are big, lifetime long decisions that I need not hurry to make.. and yet I feel pressured to rush. Pray for my dedication to Jesus' will and for the patience to wait on Him. Thank you so much. I'll keep updating as to how these things turn out.
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