AFRICA

Some news: I am going to Africa!  The story: 

Over the seven-week break this summer, I was having that "what-am-I-going-to-do-after-graduation" discussion with my mom.  I expressed that I did not just want to sit around and work a dead-end job before I start teaching in the fall.  We discussed some options, and I began looking for an adventure.  

A few weeks later, I was reading in our little community newspaper, The Holladay-Cottonwood Journal, about how the cast and crew of "Signing Time" (sign language videos for kids) went to Africa to meet and serve the Deaf community of students in Ghana.  They went with a program called Signs of Hope International.  I casually looked up the listed website.  

I watched the video and thought about it.  I read the testimonials and thought about it.  I looked at the pictures and thought about it.  I printed out a mission application and thought about it.

Needless to say, I applied.  The application process was interesting (and a little stressful: I still don't know my blood type).  They called for a phone interview.  I waited.  And hoped.  

Then, on Wednesday, they called to tell me I had been accepted!  And now I am going to Africa in May to teach in a primary school for the Deaf.  Thrilling!  Frightening!  Exciting!  And let me say this: Heavenly Father answers prayers. 

Now all I have to worry about is money and malaria.  Africa!  Drums. Baboons. Teaching. Students.  Sign Language.  I am just amazed.