Since I've been home...

Heeelllooo My dear friends!

How are you all doing? I just wanted to give you all an update on what I've been up to now that I'm home cause I get asked a lot :) Thanks for caring about me!!

Ok, so I am now living at home with my family in the beautiful California... I truly am blessed with that alone. I am exactly where I am supposed to be at this time in my life. God has called me here with purpose and it's SO great! Everything continues to fall into perfect place :) I start school at the local community college next Tuesday the 20th. I will be taking 16 units- most of which online- Eng, Spanish, Math (online) and Econ (online). Can I just say I am really excited about it too? I love college and I've been waiting to go for a while now so it's very exciting being able to start up again. I am currently working on getting a job as a nanny. This is a perfect job for me and it's exactly what I wanted, but I didn't know how many opportunities there were near my home, but sure enough, I met a girl at church who is a nanny right down the road from my house and she said she can get me a job too :) Talk about a blessing (Let's just pray, Lord willing, it will work out). Now, all I need is a car (please pray for that if you remember). My mom has been a huge blessing in this and has been letting me take her to work at 6 AM so that my granny and I aren't stranded at home all day and hopefully she'll let me continue to use it as I start school :) I also am very thankful to have miss Ica Nau in my life... some of you may know her, but we've been able to hang out a lot and it's such a blessing. Ica and I were in the same RD group last year and now we get to be best friends ;) hehe

Oh, Home is so great though. I was sick for, well... about a month- I'm still working on getting over it, but I got sick 3 days after I got home, then last week found out I had strep so, I've been on medicine since. I think that whatever has been going around is finally about to leave my body!! Praise the Lord. Also, the Lord has given me SO many opportunities to preach the Gospel to my family!! My 16 year old bro isn't saved, and God's opened up many doors for me to talk to him, and my little bro is 5 so it's been good being able to talk to him as well. I've also been able to just talk about the Bible in general with my step dad which is HUGE and it's totally God doing all the work!!

Also, my long distant relationship is going well too... It's hard, to say the least, but it's good :) Tim and I get to talk just about every day through phone, texting, email and IM... Yes, I am thankful for technology!! lol

All around, I miss you all... a lot... but I AM SO happy to be home. It's just such a great feeling knowing that you're exactly in the center of the Lord's will! I remember sitting in Tom Svitak's office telling him that I was going home after graduation and how I thought the transition was going to be SOOOO hard, and he told me "Mel, if it's where God wants you, it's not going to be that difficult."- wise words from Tom right there lol but it's so true, it really has been an easy transition and I am very thankful for it. I also think that my GI year really set me up for coming home and I can't say how thankful I am for that.



I hope this gives you a little insight on what's been going on in my life. Talk to you all soon!!

<3 Melonie