Oh, my! Only 5 days before I leave for Africa! Sometimes it's not real to me that I'm going. It's like I'm going to the moon.. I know it's really there, yet it's so far away from everything I've ever known! Sometimes it's overwhelming to think about. It's not very often that someone gets the chance to go to Africa. I feel like God has been preparing me for this for a long time in the things he has taught me these past years. About who he is, and how he has worked in my life and changed my heart. I want to make the most of this opportunity. I don't want to waste this. But then today I realized that this trip is no different than any other day before it. God has set a task before me to reach the people of Mozambique this summer just like he has set a task before me each morning I get up. Yes, the location will be different, the culture will be different, the language will be different, the food will be different, the time will be 7 hours different, I will be surrounded by people I have never met, I will be out of my comfortable little "bubble" but the job at hand is the same. To serve and to obey.