Traveling/Trips I've Been On

I did not even realize how blessed I have been until writing this out! 

Yes my dad abused me as a child and my late husband died, but God has blessed me in SO many ways! 

I have gotten to go on so many wonderful road trips throughout my life. :) 

God has been so good and allowed me to go on many adventures! 

And hopefully many, many more to come! :) 

lol It is almost ridiculous how many things I have already gotten to do and places I have gotten to see.  God you are AMAZING! lol :) 

Joyce Meyer often says when she speaks that God will give us a double reward for our former trouble, a double recompense.  Some feel that that is the prosperity gospel.  But we would all agree that He gives us beauty for ashes yes?  Therefore why not say that He wants to bless us?  He does!  We are his children and He LOVES US!  He will NOT ALWAYS bless us, but He certainly does tremendously at various points in our lives. :) 

Take time to log all the events and ways that God has blessed you throughout your life.  :) It will probably astound you as much as writing all this out astounded me.  We forget, you see, all that God has done for us, so we always need to remind ourselves where we have been to give us hope for where we are going.  What has God done already?  A lot!  So why not think that He will do so much more for us in the future?  He will!  Just believe.  :) 

My Life Timeline: Trips of my Life

1. Age 9, first road trip, a drive out to Nebraska from California.  It took our family about 5 days  to get there.  We pulled into Nebraska on the 4th of July and it felt like the were fireworks welcoming us! :) 

2. 10 road trip to Twin Lakes summer camp with church group, theme Dare to be a Daniel :)

3. 12 road trip to South Dakota to see Mt. Rushmore, fed prairie dogs lol

4. 14 back to California from NE with just my mom (We drove up Pike's Peak and drove through a lightning storm! We also visited the Focus on the Family base in Colorado Springs.)

5. 14 flew to India with YWAM, missions trip, gave testimony for the first time (Was taught how to do gospel related magic tricks and performed them in the 5 or 6 churches we visited. :)

6. 15 road trip to Sacramento, State Youth Conference, showcased the promo video YWAM had made of my India team, since we were the first YWAM team to go to India :)

7. 16 flew to Taiwan to teach English (ESL), gave testimony, we were high school students teaching high school students, that was funny lol :)

(16 gave testimony in church at Mariners in front of about 1,000 people, 4 times at 4 services.  I was shaking like a leaf lol) :)

8. 17 Spring Beak missions trip to Mexico, VBS work with kids, lived in "tent city" for a week, played a lot of soccer. :)

9. 17 snowboarding road trip to mountains with Mariners youth group

10. 17 summer camp, road trip to Hume Lake with Mariners youth group

11. 18 second Spring Break Mexico missions trip, gave testimony

12. 18 road trip out to the Grand Canyon, backpacked hiked down and camped out for a week with a group of about 80, missionary families, did some cliff jumping :)

13. 19 lived in Hawaii for 2 months with cousins (snorkeling, road trip around the coast of the big island with my grandparents)

14. Road trip to Oregon for Shakespeare festival
15. 21 road trip to Washington, choir tour, gave testimony

16. 21 family cruise to the Caribbean; Jamaica, Haiti, Grand Cayman Islands

17. 22 road trip to Northern Cal, choir tour

18. 22 road to Sacramento, CA, summer school type program (Berkeley)

19. 22 missions trip to Taiwan again, helped with youth summer camp, gave testimony

20. 23 family cruise to Alaska (won karaoke idol contest, dedicated song to God lol)

21. 23 missions trip to Mexico, painted the house of a pastor in a church there :)

22. 24 road trip from NE to CA with my mom and brother when Nate was back from Afghanistan, drove through Yellowstone

23. 24 road trip up to central CA, wedding, sea otters

24. 24 missions trip to Mexico, played sports with orphanage children, gave testimony:)

25. 25 missions trip to Mexico, brought Christmas presents to a different orphanage

26. 25 worked on Mexico cruise, 4 trips down to Mexico

27. 25 flew to Seattle, worked on Alaska cruise, 10 trips up through Alaska

28. 25 road trip from CA to NE to live with my brother, hiked in the Grand Canyon
29. 27 most recent road trip, NE to CA to live back with my mom, stayed in the Luxor in Vegas :)

30. 28 Australia..... :)

And God only knows what's after that.  :)