What I did expect:
- To be working in the cafe at my year anniversary.
- That God would be faithful.
- That I would learn more about God, missions, and life lessons.
What I didn't expect:
- To be here without Jed and Jaime.
- To have had SO MANY visitors!
- To have loved Keira as if she were my own daughter (the best I know how!)
- To have seen SUCH struggles amongst Christian Missionaries.
- To have made more WONDERFUL friends!
- To be teaching an awesome kickboxing class packed out twice a week!
It was fitting today, that on my one year anniversary, we got to talk with a couple in the cafe about God and Christianity. A couple from Peru/Holland came in with their baby, and the whole time they enjoyed their frothy coffee drinks and Chocolate Waffle, they talked with Emily and me! It was what I have imagined happening; people feeling comfortable to strike up converstations with the cafe employees! And about IMPORTANT things!
Although it's been a year of unexpected things, I am still just as sure as I was when I came, that God brought me here for a reason. Although I don't know how MUCH of this next year I will spend here, I can see that God's ways are higher than our ways, and His plans more grande than ours. Although things have not gone "to plan", I trust in God's plan, for the present, and for my future.