end of an amazing week...

This has been an amazing week so far!  Getting here was rough but the process, from my dinner with friends and family last weekend to today have been unforgettable!  Overall the week has gone slow since I have been here.  Not a whole lot to do, we usually have a lot when the teams are here with us, then it gets crazy!  Everyone tells me to be thankful of the quiet time I am getting, but I say, "bring on the teams!!!!"  I'm so ready for everyone to get here!  Especially my friend Kayla who is interning with me for a month, I know it will go fast when she gets here!

Today it was so nice that I got to sit out on the beach!  It was so warm and nice!

Time is flying by so fast!  I was thinking the other day as I stared out the window, "what am I going to do when I have to leave!?  How can I leave?!"  But then I remembered I have two months, sixty-one days to be exact!  So I think I will be okay!!!!

There are a lot of things I am learning around the house, it is so big and there is so much to manage around here!  It's crazy, but I love it!  When I pulled up the house with Richie when we got here on Wednesday I just wanted to go hug it, I know - you're thinking, she's weird! But if you only knew the experiences you wouldn't think I was so weird after all! - ANYWAYS, so I wanted to hug the house and I was telling Richie that I couldn't believe that I was here!  It was all SO UNREAL!!!!  I still can't believe it, it's like a dream!  It is so crazy!  One thing I will definitely miss tomorrow morning is going to the church I have been going to back home with my best friend and her family!  Oh gosh, have fun guys!  Enjoy it double for me tomorrow!!!

Well... I think that's all for today!  Talk to you guys soon!!!  Love you all and miss you!  See you in no time!!!  Keep up the prayers, they're helping loads!

All my love and God bless!

safe and sound...

I have arrived!!!!  Well actually, I arrived yesterday... but this was the first chance I could get to write you guys!  So the plane ride was not the best, but I'm here and thats all that matters!  Everything came to the house with me, nothing was missing or broken, just how I packed it, it came!  I made it out of the airport and onto the bus just perfectly... I had no trouble getting where I was supposed to be, especially being brave and smart enough to ask questions!  Then Richie, the director (a.k.a. my boss) came to pick me up and we got a coffee, which is SO much better then Starbucks!  But I didn't feel good throughout my whole entire trip over here, it wasn't nerves, I know that.  I think it was just that my body was adjusting, it knew what was coming and it said... "alrighty then, I'm gonna treat you bad since you're screwing with me!"  And I'm really excited that I didn't yack in Richie's car, cause I was pretty sure I was going to!

Anyways, I'm having a great time already and its almost end of day two, I just have to go to Crosspoint tonight, which is the nightly youth hangout thing!  I'm so excited to see people from last year, but I'm kinda scared that they won't remember me.  But oh well, it's okay!

I miss all of you, but I have to keep looking at it in this way: it's not like you're not going to be there when I get back!

To a few of my IAW ladies, I love you and miss you so much, KEEP IT UP!  I don't want to recognize you when I get back!  I want a shock and awe effect!  You girls are amazing and beautiful, I hope you remember to wake up on a daily basis and feel that!  Look at what you've accomplished!

Time for tea! (thats what they call dinner over here!)

Love and miss you all!

Hopefully you all have gotten your letter!  Keep up the work, crush the devil!  Have fun in the nice summer weather!!!

A picture worth a thousand words... and there's over 500!!!! Thats a lot of words!

Okay, so, I have all of my pictures finally up from last years trip to Northern Ireland!!!!  I know, FINALLY!!!!  It's pretty awesome too!!!  God's creation is amazing and all you can do is stand in awe when you're over there!!!  So take a peep... I know some of the pictures are blurry, I had a new camera so it's not my fault! :) hehe okay well maybe it is just a little bit, but it was being difficult!  It's all going so fast, I only have a few more weeks!  I almost want to go now, only because I'm so excited for the journey I will be taking for God!

Keep praying, it's working!

Love you all and God bless,

Elyse

My site for pictures would be nice to have wouldn't it... hahaha, finals really do take a toll!!!!

www.elysepurtilar.shutterfly.com