Happy 4th of July!

Hi everyone!   Happy 4th of July (and Happy Birthday Amanda!!!!) 

Things here are going great, and I've made the conclusion that I can't come home, so... yeah :)

I have to say this first because I'm so excited about it:  God is real.  SO REAL.  He is everywhere, and He wants to be close with you.  He actually does listen when you talk to Him.  Actually.. He gets pretty excited when you talk to Him.  I have talked to Him about so many very specific things, and those EXACT specific things have been answered in different ways and wonderful timing.  His presence is extremely strong and if you let Him He'll absolutely reveal Himself to you.  Ahhhhh and it's sooooooooo worth it. 

Oh, and this is also interesting:  If you know me well enough, you'll know that I have vivid dreams every night, and I remember them like 70% of the time.  Two completely different worlds... my dreams and real life.  But did you ever have a dream about a place and then much later actually visit that place? 

This isn't the first time, but in Costa Rica we drove past this one hotel and I wondered why it looked so familiar.  It was because I had a dream about that EXACT hotel, and in my dream I walked through it and everything.  It was exactly the same. 

When I first got here, I mentioned that I went to Aqaba and went scuba diving.  It was like dreams I used to have.  I went to Madaba yesterday, and there was a street that I saw that I knew I had seen before.. yes, in a dream.  It was SO VIVID and I was so creeped out.  It's seriously like I've lived in this country before because I've dreamed about it so much.. the streets, the buildings.. everything.  It's soooooo weird.

Then we went to Mount Nebo where Moses saw the promised land. The view was RIDICULOUS, pictures don't do it justice.  And as we were looking at the view, I heard Spanish.  So I looked over and there was a lady speaking to her Ecuador group about God.  The group left before I did, so I passed them on the way out talking again about God and I was so happy that I might have cried a little under my sunglasses.  They talked about how God wants to have that friendship with you.. not just a "pray to me because you have to" kind of thing.  It was so great.. just so great.

Oh I got 2 new pairs of sandals and they're sooooooooooooo comfortable and cute :) I also got a pair of handmade earrings... soo gorgeous :-o

I've been watching lots of soccer.  I took an Argentine flag into a bar full of Arab men dressed in Germany wear.  ...I was told by Tamara's cousin to put it away so I had to hide it in my purse :(  I would have put it away anyway cuz I didn't feel like getting beaten up by the whole restaurant. 

The people at the University here are amazing friends.  There's people from everywhere.. Moldova, Ukraine, Morocco, USA, France, Spain, Turkey, England, Russia, Holland.. everywhere.  This trip is so much more than I could have asked for.  It's like heaven pretty much. 

I PROMISE that I will soon put pictures on here... my laptop is dead and that's where my pictures are.  Please keep reading!!