http://chelseadymond.myadventures.org Chelsea Dymond - First Year Missionary en-us Fri, 4 Jul 2008 15:32:34 GMT 30 http://chelseadymond.myadventures.org/?filename=update-week-7 http://chelseadymond.myadventures.org/?filename=update-week-7 Soniboni! Yebo! (Hello, Hello in Tswati)So this week has been crazy and stressful...So much has gone on, a lot of it I can't talk about right now but hopefully will know more by next week. Thank you for all your support and for reading through all my emails...Amazing things have been happening this week and its crazy because every time I go to ministry I have had nothing left, I have been completly emotionally, physically and spiritually drained, and I have walked into the hospital while praying Fri, 2 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chelseadymond.myadventures.org/?filename=update-2 http://chelseadymond.myadventures.org/?filename=update-2 (Just so everyone knows, I am just posting the same thing I write in my update emails)     Hey everyone!   So another week gone by! This week we have been in SwazilandIts been incrediblefor one, a Godsend, there are mountains here. Praise him! Ya'll know how much my heart longs for mountainsits beautiful here though.   Ok I don't even know where to begin. Firstly, thank you all for your prayersI have been learning so much more about how powerful prayer isand it means t Fri, 5 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chelseadymond.myadventures.org/?filename=week-1alabonzasurrender http://chelseadymond.myadventures.org/?filename=week-1alabonzasurrender Quiamora, Sonibonani and Dumela (Hello in 3 of the languages we are learning to live in South Africa....africanse, tswati, and Zulu) Hey All! First week in Kenya!! Woot woot!!! its been awesome and its so clear that this is where God wants me...Thank you all for the emails, they were wonderful and i so enjoyed them and they were so encouraging...so let me see...we got here after 2 days of travel and that afternoon went out into the community on a cultural-dip...exciting...then we came bac Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chelseadymond.myadventures.org/?filename=going-to-africa http://chelseadymond.myadventures.org/?filename=going-to-africa Hey ya'll today I leave on the plane for Africa, we leave in about ten minutes so this is going to be pretty short...My life and struggles this past week has been in having a passion for Africa and for missions because instead I have had such lazy desires to live in the world and not leave and go serve and also I have felt kinda burnt out from my past trip and also very guilty for all those thoughts because God has lead me so specifically here, but last night I just realized that all i need is a Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chelseadymond.myadventures.org/?filename=4-days-and-counting http://chelseadymond.myadventures.org/?filename=4-days-and-counting Hey everyone! So I as I am writing this I am sitting up in winter park contemplating the mess of this room that I have to fit into just 2 suitcases...lol....In only four days I leave for Georgia, where I will be at training camp for a week. I am very nervous but when I look at it from a different point of view I don't have anything to be nervous about. There is one thing in knowing something and another thing in believing it...I am working on the believing end of it. I was thinking thoug Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chelseadymond.myadventures.org/?filename=god-give-me-a-sign http://chelseadymond.myadventures.org/?filename=god-give-me-a-sign There have been so many things in my life over the past year that has lead me to the decision to do FYM this year and I would like to share them and my decision making process with you... Last november when I signed up for messenger (the 2 month program) I really felt this strange hunch that I wasn't going to be back to CU in the fall, but I ignored this because I thought it was crazy, I only told my two closest friends and I also remember talking to my small group leader who had gon Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chelseadymond.myadventures.org/?filename=bwana-asifiwe http://chelseadymond.myadventures.org/?filename=bwana-asifiwe Praise God. Praise God again! I can't believe it...I mean I can but I am so amazed. I opened up my support account the other day and had over 60% of my funds raised, enough for me to be able to leave this tuesday. I no longer need to get a loan from my father because God has provided all the money I needed to be able to go. Praise him. I only sent my support letters out three weeks ago and it is so crazy how God provided. I prayed that God would open the doors and bring in support money if t Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://chelseadymond.myadventures.org/?filename=prayer-requests-sept-7th http://chelseadymond.myadventures.org/?filename=prayer-requests-sept-7th Hey all, Thank you so much for all your prayers. My hopes and prayers for myself this coming year is that I will know God so much more. THat I will learn who I am in Him. I pray that God will give me peace and comfort in him and him alone, no matter where I am that I can be content in him. Please pray that I will go to Him for all comfort. That I will learn to depend on him daily. That he will use me for his kingdom purposes. That I will just learn to love and be humble and to live th Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT