Praise Report

I thought that this month was going to end quietly today with the thoughts of what happened throughout this week.

BUT

That is, of course, just my thought. God works outside the little box that is called my mind. His goodness, grace, and blessings blow me away everytime.

First my little precious blessing came last night. Sharon, one of the students here that also come from an island of Hawaii, blessed me with chocolate on my pillow with sweet little note. A little comfort to my heart.

And the mind blowing one came this morning, which I want to tell my parents and that is the reason why I am here on skype waiting for them to get on. Maybe some of you know, but affording to stay in Germany for the whole year has been a huge issue for me ever since I decided to do so. I absolutely had no idea what was going to happen. My 3rd semester ended...and with the grace of God I was provided throughout the summer with a place to stay, eat, and also some extra to pay for my tuition. I still didn't know how I was going to afford anything this semester.

The whole time I have been here, He has been telling me to just trust in faith and stop doubting. He comformed His promise in many ways countless times, but since I am stupid so I worried time after time until I finally had to really just stop worrying. And that happened during summer when I was in England. I came back to Germany with more blessing than I have ever expected, and He even provided a babysitting job in Germany for couple days before the semester started.
Another thing happened in September while I was laying sick for about a week. When your sick and just feel like doing nothing...you pray. I prayed about few different things, and one prayer was for continual providence. I prayed, got out of my bed to open my locker to get something. In there is stack of few paper looking thing. It was dark and I thought that I had put my receipts there. I take out and look at it in the light...I couldn't believe what I saw. Someone had blessed me with a gift.

And another blessing, the euro to yen rate has gone down. I had taken some money out to pay for my tuition. I paid a little more and saw how much more I had to pay. I told them I wouldn't be able to pay the rest until I get home. We talked for awhile and left the office. This morning as I was walking, David Guzik came up to me and told me to go into the office and tell Miriam "hi." So I go into the office, I tell her "hi." ...praise the Lord! I got an European discount! I told my friend about it, and tears of joy came out.

I can't believe it, but He is so good. I usually don't cry too much but this week I cried twice...once because of frustration and what not and another because of joy. Thank you.