Well I guess I owe everyone an apology who was keeping track of these blogs and found out they ended in the airport and never got updated since. I appreciate all of you who took time this year to stay in touch and keep tabs on me while I was in Africa and especially those of you who would lift up my prayer requests, they meant so much to me, and I can't wait to be in heaven chillin' with Jesus and having Him tell me when someone prayed and how it affected my time over there. It'll be a good ole' awesome time.

Well quick update in JB's life. I am currently working at UAF with Native Alaskan High School students who come in from rural villages and try to improve their school skills and hopefully after they graduate from high-school move onto college. So I live in the dorm with 37 students and have been enjoying my job immensely, even with all the struggles that come with being in charge of students. We've had many students go to the hospital for 2 apenndix removals, one with some cist problems, another breathing stuff, it has been really crazy. In my 3 years of working this job this has been the craziest in that aspect.

It's been good though to see some of my returning students from last year and one that has been there for all 3 years. It's great to see how they come in and some are really struggling not only in the school aspect but socially, and at the end of the program seeing how far they've come. I started my job June 1 and it's already been a month! So we only have 2 1/2 weeks left of the program.

Other news, it looks like I will be going back to school in the fall here in Fairbanks. After praying about it, it seems to be the right thing, and what I feel most peaceful about. Even though I had other plans for the fall, I feel like this is where God is leading me right now and the next season of my life will be spent in Fairbanks, enduring the freezing cold winter when it comes.

So I'm waiting to finish writing a "paper" on how I think the trip has affected me overall and will post that when I finish it hopefully in the next week or so, and I hope you have time to check it out, and will be able to understand some of my thoughts and the processes that God has brought me through in my perspective and what not.

But also I just wanted to let everyone know that if you are ready to let go of these updates, there should be a un-subscribe link when you get the emails, that will take you off the list. 

I would like to update this every once in awhile, just to keep everyone informed on how life is spinning.

But I wanted to take this time and just thank everyone for all the blessings that they showed to me and bestowed on me by allowing me to go over to Safrica and Swaziland and represent my fellow Fairbanksians, and all my other brothers and sisters in Christ in the rest of America.

God Bless.

JB