A NEW DAY HAS COME

Dear Wallabes,

You guys are on my mind today. We have five days until we leave!!
Car-azy...

I hope you're prepared for the time of our lives becuase I know God has awesome things in store for us. I'm so excited to share the gospel and see Harry Potter. Perhaps even at the same time. I feel like I should warn you... I'm scared of butterflies and I'm what you might call a "cry-er". Whew, I'm glad I got that off my chest. Now you know the real me : )

I know some of you guys are scrambling to get the last of your support money in and I just wanted to throw this out there...

2 Kings 6:24-7:20 

Consider it thrown.
I know this passage is a little intense and possible just a touch crazy (Old Testament, what's to be said?) but I always think of it when I think about "impossible situations" like ours. Overnight God completely changed EVERYTHING in a way everyone thought to be impossible. I think He can do the same for us. The least of our worries is money. So don't worry. He has a plan.

Can't wait to meet y'all!

A THOUSAND MILES

Only six more days! So you know what that means...

PACKING. 

The good thing about a trip that lasts six weeks is you know doing laundry and taking one or two trips to the drug store while you're there is going to happen anyways. It takes the pressure off. But the bad thing is you feel like you're leaving for your entire life. I don't want to forget ANYTHING! I've found it's helpful to make lists.

Things I know I have to take... 

-socks

-toothbrush

-Justin Bieber album with bonus tracks, poster included

Things I wish I could take...

-my overalls ("Over all" they are awesome! Buh dum chhh! Drum roll. That was a drum roll. They're shorts though... so you know... probably won't work with the climate.) 

Things I know I can't take...

-fireworks

-lucky rock collection
-all nine seasons of Little House on the Prairie (probably going to have to pick four or five)

-egg salad sandwiches  

Things I know I probably shouldn't take...

-Justin Bieber album with bonus tracks, poster included 

And thats all I have so far. 
Oh! That's not true. I also have this helpful visual aid. 

Any advice for me, reader?? 

ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR

Did you know...
For at least 40,000 years before European settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians. 


You probably didn't. 


And did you know..
Australia is the flattest continent. 


You do now. 


But did you know...
I leave for Australia in one week!

One week.

Seven days. 

10080 minutes.

604800 seconds. 

I found all this information on wikipedia. Except I did all the math on yahoo answers. But I searched for both those sites on google. So google wins. But that is not the point right now. By the way, I did try to ask yahoo how many moments were in a second but it told me not to push it.  

UPDATE!

I have officially reached the $5000 goal! Thank you so much to all those who supported me with prayers and/or money and/or encouragement and/or hugs and/or cake and/or snuggling. I LITERALLY couldn't do it without you. Especially those who offered snuggle support. I require three times more snuggling then the average person, I think... 

You know what I'm looking forward to? In Australia, I will be the one with the accent. I can't wait to be the one to smile and pretend I don't know how strange I am pronouncing my words. 

I will be doing my best to keep all y'all at home updated. (I say y'all now) But who knows? 


It's been a long day and my brain is mushy. So I'll have to post more tomorrow. I just wanted to take a moment to let y'all (see?) know that operation summer project is a go!! 


side note:
The Australian national anthem's title is way more B.A. then ours. We need to work on that. 


I love you, reader.