3 Months...

Today is our 3 month anniversary! It has been an awesome, fun, exciting, learning filled first 3 months! We have been learning more about ourselves and each other than ever before in our lives. We are loving married life and thankful for the gift that it is.

A few weeks ago Brett and I had the option to visit our future town (Jonesboro, AR) to look for a place to live and visit campus. We just so happened to choose one of three days out of the year that it snows in Jonesboro and that's what we got, snow all day! It was still really great to get to see campus and begin to picture ourselves there. We looked and looked at apartments finding only one that we loved. We were looking for closeness to campus, decent size, in our price range, and a good part of town . The one that we found that we are praying will work out is all of those things above! There are none vacant right now but we are praying that one will be open when we will be able to move.

(Above is a picture of me enjoying some coffee from what I'm sure will be our favorite coffeeshop in Jonesboro.)

Speaking of being able to move...We are on a month to month lease right now and we have recently decided to sign another month for Feb. 15- March 15 since we are 80% of our support. We really believe that we could be moving to Arkansas April 1! We have had some really great support meetings lately with a few people and churches that are really excited about what we are doing and where the Lord is leading us. God is so faithful, as if we ever doubted that!

This week are are dog sitting and house sitting Brett's parents house while they are on vacation is Jamaica! It's been a fun different change of pace and we have really enjoyed having a pet again!!

(Brett and Gibson)

Time flies when you are having fun!

Wow! We have had quite the busy past few weeks! As I'm sure many of you have had as well :) The Holiday's can be such a busy and hectic time, I hope that you all found time to thank the Lord from whom they are all about. Brett and I had an awesome time together as our first married Christmas and New Years!

Our lives Have been a little busy lately with my 40 hour a week work schedule and his support raising! We recently just got home from a trip to Nashville. It was that time a year again, the New Year's Conference. It was bigger than ever with 1,800 college students from all over the US! It was so great to get away for a little while and renew our vision! Brett had the opportunity to spend time with some A-State football players while I spent my time with my Murray disciples. It was such a blessing to see them and encourage them and hear what God has been doing in their lives over their breaks at home!

God was so sweet and faithful (as He always is) at conference. One of my disciples best friends was able to attend conference with her this year. Hannah had been praying for this girl for over a year now and she surrendered her life to the Lord at NYC this year. Another awesome thing God did: for about a year I prayed for a girls salvation. THis was a girl whom I didn't know really well, I had only had a few encounters with her but I felt the Lord laying her on my heart. I moved and never saw anything come of this girl. But I received a phone call a few weeks ago to find out that one of my disciples at Murray actually led her to Christ!!! The Lord answered my prayer a year and half later through one of my disciples! It was so amazing and a wonderful blessing.

While i have been home the Lord has been sharing some valuable information me about distractions. How often do we get distracted or side tracked and allow for God to take the back seat for the day? I know that can happen in my life often if I allow it to. I have been debating buying a game to play during my rest time (not that there is anything wrong with games) but have recently decided against it because knowing myself I probably would not only play it during rest time but it would consume much of my day and it would probably find priotiy over other things that I could be doing. The Lord led me to this in my time alone with him the past few days and also from this video:

http://dbcmedia.org/sermons/if-i-were-the-devil/?st=shopp&s=ecclogy

After I saw that video for the first time it was alarming how true I've seen it to be in my life as well as many others that I know. I would encourage you to take an introspective look at your life and see where you are being distracted and rid yourself of those distractions.

Prayer Requests for Brett and I:

- We have recently had some big support meetings that we are waiting to hear back about if they are interested in joining our support team. Pray that they are interested and that they will join for at least $100 a month. If the Lord provided 8 families that would join our team for $100 a month we would be finished with our support.

- Pray that Brett and I would be continually thankful for the jobs that God has provided for us during this time of transition. And that we would go into them everyday with a heart to glorify God through our work and through our attitudes.

- Pray that we would continue to learn how to be a husband and a wife and that we would be each others biggest encouragers, supporter, and fan!!