Surviving the Goodbyes and the Hellos

To update everyone, I am in England.

The past few months have been a bit intense, a lot of traveling, packing and unpacking then repacking, finding time to have my last hangout time with friends. And in between all of that getting ready to leave for England.

The days flew by fast, it was so hard to keep track. Then all of a sudden I am on a plane to Atlanta for a trip with my mom and sister. Those six days seem to fly by even faster. Next thing I knew I was having to say goodbye to them and get on a plane to London.

About three or four weeks before leaving I often found myself thinking “What on earth have I gotten myself into?” But I know without a doubt that this is where God wants me.

I have been at Holmsted Manor a little over a week, and it has felt like I have been here for a month. The first couple of days were chill and pretty quiet. When Sunday hit, there were people for all over Western Europe arriving for the Western Europe DTS Staff Gathering, or something along those lines. I had also been signed up for it. Monday through Thursday we had tons of worship, prayer, networking time, lectures, awesome speakers and tons and tons of information. Really good information. I am really glad I was a part of it. I have been felling very overwhelmed by the thoughts of staffing my first DTS, and this conference was a good way to help get me more out of the box. To see how other schools are run, that no DTS is the same or should be the same. How to disciple the individual, and what the lines not to cross are. There was so much more information that I am still processing.

There were a whole lot of pretty rad people there too, I have a lot of new facebook friends.

Holmsted, is an amazing place, and it is very easy to see that God is moving here, and that he is doing great things. The Manor itself is incredible, the detail that was put into building this place, is very inspiring. And even with how big this place is, it is still very comfortable and welcoming. The people here are even better then the Manor. I don’t even have words to describe how wonderful these people are. I am so thankful that God has put me here.

Well I think that is it for now. Hopefully I will get better at updating more often.