Things have been non-stop for me that I didn't even feel the new year pass me. Is that a bad sign for the upcoming year? I hope not. Here's what I've been up to the past few months..

December/January- I went home, but left 2 days later to go to the Philippines. My grandpa had passed away the month before and so I was able to spend some time with my family. While I was at it, I went down to Davao with Jonathan and prepared for the wedding. I had my first wedding prep breakdown where I was just so overwhelmed with too many things to do before I left and too much advice from people who wanted to help. Don't get me wrong, I appreciated everything people told me...but it was just information overload and made me feel so AHHH...haha At that moment I just didn't want to get married at all! Well that one day of terror resulted in good and I'm happy to say we're on point with everything we have to prepare for with the wedding :)

After my trip I came home and stayed for a couple of weeks in the states, which turned out to extend for 2 weeks more due to ticket delays. The extra time home was good, especially since I was able to attend the FTW Recollection. That was such a breath of fresh air! Mind you I haven't been to something like that for the past two years since my training in the Philippines. Anyway, I was so antsy to start working again...it was like those long summers during elementary school where I would get so excited to go to school after such a long vacation.

January-
I missed the warm Caribbean air. I've definitely grown too accustomed to it that as much as I missed the cold weather in the states....I don't know if I can live in it for too long...hmmm. Yea I have always said I would settle in the states, but I don't know....maybe I'll settle in Hawaii or South Florida where it's warmer orrrr even another country. hehe Wherever God takes me.

February-
Serving the youth again was fun, but I do feel to move onto another ministry. We'll see what's next.

Anyway, we jam-packed their weekends (after their long long holiday off of YFC) before we left on a mission trip to St. Lucia.

St. Lucia has been a blast! Lots of events...1st National Conference, Youth Camp, and other meetings. The hangouts have been great....and tomorrow were climbing my long awaited adventure...

so please God, don't let it rain!

Last week Jon and I started our first marriage seminar. I was so excited for that. Last week's topic was on Parental Responsibility...boyyyy....i can't wait to have my own kids...but god willing, it wont be till a couple years. It was so inspiring to hear the man's stories and it just made me think about having a whole bunch of mini-me's and jonathan's .... i mean it's really our calling to have children who will become responsible, god-fearing people of the future. It took parenthood to the next level for me. funnnn.

...aside from all the things going on...randomn stuff i'm into right now are....
Jon and Kate plus 8, reading books on economics and investing (my newest dream is to be rich so that i can just keep giving all my money away), watching plenty of news (especially election stuff), Lost 4, wedding prep, going to mass.

So that's me in a nutshell.

This past week was sad for my host family cuz 2 of their pets died. The first one was this 2 month old puppy. He died from eating rat pee or poop, probably in his food. He was too cute to die. The second one was the cat. The laziest cat I've ever met. I would have thought that a 1 year old cat would have been more active, but this one was super lazy. It was kind of annoying cuz I would always step on it whenever I was in the kitchen. So, when it died I kind of felt bad especially cuz I would wish that it would just get out of my way...but i didn't really mean like getting out of my way and actually dying. :(

Sometimes when I wake up in the morning I look like this...

thanks to the mosquitos who greet me in the morning.

Aside from CFC/YFC affairs, we were able to attend the invocation of the new bishop of St. Lucia. It was really cool seeing the whole thing. It was like he was getting married with a reception and everything. The weird part was realizing how many bishops and nuns i knew...like the kind where I know them and them know me. All of a sudden my circle of friends becomes bishops and sisters. weirrrrd.


Nuns for Christ. Seriously...she went through the CLP and she started CFC in Trinidad and Tobago.

All of our Caribbean mom's and dad's
Though I wish I could have gone to the CLF in Costa Rica, it was just as good being at the Mission Core Retreat. God gave me a little booster up to keep on serving :)

All in all it was a great mission trip. One of the best....now, back to St. Maarten.