Lasts

Waaa!  Lots of stuff has been accomplished in this week!  Including: paying my taxes... which only took going to 3 locations to accomplish.

It was a really good week though.  It started off on Sunday-- I gave the message at my last Fuse for this year.  I shared about what God was teaching me shortly before meeting Vicente and the process that He brought me through.  It was Valentines Day (and my last Sunday, which I already mentioned), so it made sense to kinda talk about my next steps. 

Anyway, I got a lot of really good feedback from people and Mark said it was probably one of the best messages that I've ever done.  I was like, wow!  But, hey, the Word of God that He puts into our life is powerful.

At Fuse they gave me flowers and prayed for blessings over Vicente and I.  I didn't even cry.

What else... oh yeah, did taxes.  Finished up work for this week (including leaving work and semi-lesson plans for people).  My students gave me lots of notes, some of them rather hilarious.  But yeah, it was really nice.

This will be a very bittersweet weekend.  I'm looking forward to the conference and later to seeing my fiance, but it is sad to leave my friends and Japanese family. I've learned a lot-- grown a lot in these 2 years.  I think it's been the biggest period of growth in faith and leadership in my life. 

Looking forward to married life.  The best is yet to come... and we will be excited to be back home in Japan.  :)

PS: Enjoy this:

PS- Pictures (apart from this one right here) are courtesy of Abigail Lafleur-Shaffer.