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Hmmm, where to start? There is so much happening around here, and there is always something happening or going on. I have reached the 9.75 month mark, and am 9 weeks from coming home. As that time approaches, I find myself thinking about it more and more. However, I am still called to my work here and need to continue, to keep my focus. This is my desire, but sometimes it is much easier to desire it than to carry it out.

I have had some rough classes this week, I don’t know the cause of the increased difficulty, but my students have been harder to teach. I’m glad it’s not like this all the time, or I would get discouraged. It is a good reminder that God is in control, and that I should give my time to Him, and allow Him to work in my classes. Today was rough, but I’m looking up, and know that He is in control.

There are a couple of fun events coming up in the next week. First, my team is hosting a “teacher night” for all of our teachers. We are planning and ice cream social for Thursday night (tomorrow night). If everyone shows up who is a possibility, we will have over 50 people here, wow! If only part of them show up we will most likely have over 30 even then. I’m looking forward to a great evening with teachers and friends. I know the rest of my team is looking forward to it also.

The other thing that is coming up quickly is a week of vacation starting Monday. My team has planned a trip to southern Taiwan for a couple days, and we are really looking forward to that as well. We will visit Kaoshiung and Kenting, two places I have not been yet. It is a lot of fun making memories.

Please pray for strength, patience, and endurance for myself and my team. We are approaching the summer break very rapidly and that means camps for some, and home for others. Until then, we still have a lot of teaching left to do, and we need to keep our energy and efforts on that. Pray that God would use us in these last weeks of the semester.

From Ying Pan,
Chase Hiebsch

Psalms 125:2 As the mountains [are] round about Jerusalem, so the Lord [is] round about his people from henceforth even for ever.

Today during one of my breaks at school. I sat looking out the window at the mountains that surrounded my school. As far as the eye could see there were mountains. It was impossible to see all of the mountains that took up a majority of the view from my classroom window. There was a light fog that covered some of them making the view quite peaceful. As I took in all the beauty that was in front of me my mind started to think about the plans that God has for my life, particularly the months following my return to America.

It is like the sand on the sea, the hairs on your head, the vastness of the mountains, or any other part of his handy work. Only God knows exactly what plans he has for each person. As I reflect on all of this I think about all the many plans that God has for me. As of now I do not know what all of those plans are, but I do know that God cares for me. He will show me step by step what those plans are, and how they are to be accomplished.

I am Going to be leaving Taiwan soon to go back home. I am a little scared at all that God has for me. I know that it will be time for me to go home but thoughts of going home do, at times, leave me feeling a bit uneasy. This uneasiness would cripple me at times if it was not for the fact that I know that God has the mysteries of the world figured out. With that in mind I can rest assured that he has my life figured out also.

Sarah Deluca