Together Again in Ames

Well, I finished my School of Photography in Kona, Hawaii last week. My class worked so hard to get everything ready to display at the exhibition & it was amazing. The whole day i just couldn’t believe that i was there, & that i had finally completed the SOP 1. I love photography & i want nothing more than for it to bless God and bless people.

As some of you know, i am here in Ames, Iowa for the month of April. The long & the short of it is that right now i must to stay in the USA while we get the proper legal requirements fulfilled so that i can come back into the USA after our wedding this May. I wish you all could have been in Hawaii with us last month (Ben flew out for a week to get some paper work filled out with me) to have seen the amazing miracles that God pulled off on our behalf! Things that normally take months to do took us a week with a lot of prayer. Important places that were booked for a month got us in a day after we called. Papers that should take weeks if not months to receive came in the mail that week. Amazing. Amazing God. With every new legal challenge came another opportunity for God to take control & show us just how big He really is. I am SO thankful to all of my friends in Hawaii who really supported us as the body of Christ, not to mention all of our friends & family back home who were also lifting us up in prayers! God hears! He is SO GOOD! Not just for what He does for us, but because that is the very truth of His character, He is GOOD all the time! We felt SO humbled & in awe of His power & His grace in our lives. He is MORE than enough for every need that we will ever have.
If you do not know the realness of this awesome living God in your life, or you write Him off as though He does not exist, stop for a second. Listen. Not to your mind. Not to unbelief. Or skepticism. Or pride, or false intellectualism. But to your conscious. What is your conscience saying to you. If you ask Him if He is real, to show Himself to you, and you mean it, there is no way that He will hide. Why? Because He is GOOD. All of the time. Even in the darkest night of your life. Listen.

I had planned on being home to help with the preparations this month, however God is just totally blessing this time together & i have an amazing mom and dad who are doing a fabulous job with the wedding preps in Canada!!!
Just this past Saturday, Ben had his last Military Ball for the ROTC program at Iowa State University. It was SO special that i was able to be his date, and also to see his mom and dad. I am SO proud to be able to call this man my husband. He deserves every bit of recognition that he gets, because his desire is truly to lead by serving.

Next week we’ll be on opposite sides of the USA! I am flying to Washington state to visit some close friends of mine (the Harness’ & Boltons)...also to do the fabulous final wedding dress fitting with Linda who is making the dress!
Ben will be flying to Virginia, this is one award that he earned in the ROTC, to discuss current events with other scholarship winners from other universities.

wow. long update. still missing OH SO much. like how good looking Ben is in his army blues. (the mil ball suit...maybe i can track down a photo :) okay he is probably going to make me erase that. unless i can upload it without his help..meaning if you read this, then props to me , i figured it out!