Long past due update

I rarely get on the internet lately due to the fact that I've been living in a studio behind Ricky and Michel Andrade's house in La Mesa, California, to whom I am extremely grateful for their love and hospitality in letting me stay here for as long as I have (I owe them bigtime!). It's been over 2 months now since I packed everything in my little Accord and drove down here from Seattle, it seems like I've been here forever now....weird. It's been good, although pretty difficult at times, to kind of start fresh with something, especially since when I first got down here the only person I knew was my girlfriend. God's good and faithful (not that He never is) and has been growing me in many ways I didn't know I needed to grow in, or in ways I hadn't planned on needing to :-) It's funny how we think we put ourselves in situations only to find that God had much greater reasons than any we could have mustered up.

Well, I just got approved to rent a small yet very nice studio in La Mesa and am set to move in on Thursday, April 1st. Getting a place to live is alot more difficult than I thought and it was definitely a test of faith and patience in knowing God would work out everything I needed, and I'm very thankful for all that He's done.

I'm still praying and seeing what God has for me in England, whether or not I will go this summer is still to be determined, but even so, it's been a blessing to be able to keep in such good touch with Ben V since he moved back to the states from Siegen, Germany, I'm praying that things would continue to move along and that Ben would continue to be encouraged by all the  people who are expressing interest and asking about the church, there is still much to be worked out for everyone who is planning on going but we are comforted by the fact that God is in such awesome control over the whole thing, after all, it's all His anyway!

Hopefully I'll be able to get on the internet more often and keep things updated on here :-) Thanks everyone for your prayers and I hope to start getting in contact with more of you who I haven't heard from in awhile.

Hosea 6:2, 3: "After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth."