13. days.

we had our last meeting as a team on Friday. it's so surreal that we will no longer have meetings preparing to leave for this trip and the next time we are all together is when we are at the airport getting ready to fly to Uganda. this team has been such as blessing in my life and i know in Kirsten's as well. it's been so awesome getting to know each of the girls and learning how we can work together as a team to serve in Uganda.

during one of our meetings, we shared testimonies. i'm so glad that we feel comfortable enough with each other that we can all be vulnerable and open. after sharing our testimonies, it became obvious why God placed each one of us on the team together. the things we have gone through and each of our personalities relate directly to some of the things we will be doing in Uganda. God doesn't waste anything...even hard times. We will get to use those hard times to give hope to the children in Uganda, and I know we all are so excited about that.

please pray for peace for each of us on our team. finals will be going on in the next few days, and I know it's hard to focus on that when there is so much else going on. Also pray for safety and protection for each of us while we are at the different airports.

we will all fly out of Chicago after some members of the team fly from other states to meet us there. We will leave at 8:10 on May 25th, so if you want to pray specifically during that time that would be great. We arrive in London at 9:45 am which I believe is 3:45 am in Central time and 4:45 am Eastern. Then we have a 12 hour layover at the London airport. And finally we will get on the plane at 9:45 pm which is 4:45 pm EST and 3:45 pm Central.

We will then finally arrive in Uganda on May 10th at 7:45 am which is 11:45 pm Central and 12:45 am EST.

SO now that you know all that, please please pray for our team during those time periods. The traveling may be the most stressful part for us. Pray that everything will go as planned and no delay will happen due to the volcano...and lastly pray for safety and protection while we are flying and at the airports.

we are so excited to go. thanks so much for your support.