The Roller Coaster of Life...

Welcome back :)

Missed writing yesterday cause I stayed the night at Rose's house and didn't get online, so I knew I couldn't miss writing tonight. It's around 11pm right now...

**Random Irish Fact - All digital clocks are in military time. When someone says the time they would just say "nine" but yet the clock shows "21:00"! And also when writing or typing out the time you use a period instead of a semi colon. So it would be 9.00

Yesterday was hands down the hardest day out here for me. When I wrote on Wednesday I didn't actually title it thinking things were gonna be much harder...I was just trying to quote MLK...little did I know how things would turn out just a couple days later.

It was a rough day in the office and it got me to my breaking point. I remember shutting my office door and saying; "Ok God...why the heck am I here? You better show me like ASAP." - Haha I know real Christian of me...but hey, we're all human!

I put on some worship music and prayed. Spent about a good hour having the ugly cry (You know the kind with the snot...but you are so broken you don't really care how you look) - I really began to let a lot of emotions sink in that I had been suppressing since moving out here. Hannah, who works with me, came in and gave me the biggest hug and some tissue and listened to me talk about how hard things were, and how homesick I was, etc...I am so glad she was there for me. (Later on that day my mom told me the Lord woke her up in the middle of the night and prayed for me....it was right around the time all of this was happening - Ah the power of prayer!)

Later that evening I went out on the Street Reach Outreach. It went well and I was able to talk to some teens and get to know them a little bit. Afterwards I went to Rose's house and hung out with her family until around 1am. I love that family so much! They are all very close and remind me of my own.


Today was one of the BEST days ever! Ah the roller coaster of life...

This morning we had our first Adopt-a-Block here in Belfast. Praise God the sun was out and the weather forecaster's were wrong about "morning showers". 12 volunteers showed up to help (10 of them being teens from the youth group!). We went to a local housing community about 1.5 miles from the church. We were able to knock 60+ doors, trimmed a man's garden, and pick up litter around the area! Everyone was very open and receptive to us. And the youth were amazing at reaching out and serving! I am so excited to see where the Lord takes this! Please keep it in your prayers!

Later on I met up with Alan and Rachel in Belfast. Rach and I (and Benjamin) walked around the shops for a couple hours while Alan worked and then we all met up at a little cafe to get dinner. Ahhhh! The stores out here are amazing!! And Belfast has some of the cutest baby/kids clothes and accessories I have ever seen! (Good thing I don't have a child or I'd go broke!)

Tonight we watched the X-Factor again. There are SO MANY good contestants! I mean I still have my favorite from last week but there is going to be some tough competition...


Well church in the morning so I better call it a night!

Love yall!
-J