It's been a long time..

It's been a very long time since I updated this blog, and now there is so much to say I don't know where to begin.
  Let me start with most recently. I just got back from a 10 day mission's trip to Managua, Nicaragua. I'd been planning for this, my first mission's trip, for a  long time, and can I just say it was the kind of perspective-changing that everyone associates with mission's trips but I never really thought I would experience. God did amazing stuff down there. What's more, he showed me that even up here he does amazing things. We just aren't as open to them as people who have so little.
It would take ten blog posts to update on the mission's trip. Here are some pictures that speak louder than words:

What an amazing Creator we have!

Children who just received what could possibly be their only meal for the day, or even the only substantial meal for the week.

We visited a public hospital, and the 2 pics above are in the NICU. Heartbreaking. My friend took these pics.

There is more, much more to say, but I have no words to say it. Rice and beans distributions, ministry through music and fun activities to 3 different villages, clothing distribution, baby items we made up in baby bundles and distributed throughout our time, struggles, protection, new friends, great translators - it's too much to hurry through. I recommend a short-term mission's trip for everyone and maybe you will understand why it's hard to blog about, and harder still to communicate to others just what all it encompassed.
  Now onto school: I took the LSAT in June, and got my score in July. I was very pleased with my score of 160, which is the 80 percentile and places me in a good position to get into law school with a scholarship. I have been researching schools and it's kind of overwhelming! Since I chose the June LSAT (which is Law School Admission's Test) I knew I wasn't going to attend the Fall 2012-13 term, but will wait until Fall 2013. Right now, I am actively searching for an internship either with my BA or as a entry to law. Finding a job being so hard, I should've been prepared for the difficulty in securing a good internship, as well. There are a few opportunities starting to open up, and I'm praying the right door would open and God would guide me to it.

   My primary occupation right now is best defined as child-care provider. Sadly, I've gotten to the point I never thought I'd reach - I'm tired of babysitting. C'mon, I've been doing it since I was 11 and I've finished a College degree teaching me all kinds of educational things to get me into a 'real' job! Truthfully, babysitting is hard work and I need a break! There is a family with a toddler and a baby who feel like relatives that I babysit for, but watching their kids is not work in any sense of the word. Now all the other babysitting jobs... I could live without.
Right now, I am praying for peace and patience. One of my favorite quotes reminds me of why I do what I do:

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker" Helen Keller.

Words to live by. (Words, as I edit this entry, that I put on my blog just a few blog posts before this, though it was half a year different to me! Oh, well, it's still relevant ;) And on that note, I end this entry. Hopefully, I will be back soon, with some "tiny pushes"  of my attempt to move the world that I can share :)