My First Thoughts

Well, this is my first post to the I-GO blog.  I was asked to consider this short term missions trip and at first thought…my thought was, “what?”, “me?”.  Well, after some prayer and discussions, I decided that since I couldn’t think of ONE reason NOT to go, that was God’s way of telling me that I should go.  So…here I am.  My feelings are two-fold; excited and anxious!  The group has had a few team meetings in preparation for the trip.  We are having spanish “lessons” and that has been interesting.  I went to Italy on my honeymoon and want to pronounce things using my limited knowledge of italian!  What a hoot!  We were asked, in preparation for our next meeting, to write, in spanish, a brief paragraph about ourselves.  Well, that put me a bit higher on the anxious meter.  A friend helped me to not stress about it, have fun, accept it for what it is…icing on the cake IF I can speak a few words of spanish.  OK…I feel better.  I have to trust that God will provide communication bridges when needed.  4 weeks till we hit the “road” to Argentina….One more thing…we were asked to limit our packing to ONE carry-on bag.  ”What are you kidding???”, I thought.  Well, I may have actually said that out loud.  Just one more thing that I have to “not worry” about!  It will be OK…I can do that! (I hope they have somewhere to do laundry!!)  :-)