This past week has been filled with many goodbyes. Everyday brings new reminders of things that I am going to have to leave behind when I return home. I am going to have to leave people I've grown to love, ministries where I've worked and a community that I've lived in. Although I'm sad to say goodbye to these things, something cool that I have learned is that no matter how much I leave behind there will always be the things I've learned, experienced, and will remember that I get to take with me.

                God did not intend for this trip to consist of three months of ministry and then end. He has used it to build me up into more of the woman of He desires me to be which is something that will last me forever. There are things that I have experienced here that I will never forget. There are lessons that I've learned that will benefit me in the future. There are challenges that God has brought me through that have further built my character. There are gifts that God has given me and gifts that God has shown me I already have that I can now use for the rest of my life.