God and Gifts

After a nine hour flight to Frankfurt, a four hour layover, and a two hour flight to Tallin WE HAVE ARRIVED. This post is going to be my first journal entry which was on the first portion of the flight. Haha, I didnt even make it to Estonia before God was already at work. He is THAT good.

So, we are on the flight watching movies and talking when we notice this guy creeping on people in the back(we didnt know if he actually knew the people or not but it turns out he did). Anyways, I started being a goof, messing around, making odd faces whenever he would look our direction. Then when he began walking towards the back of the plane, returning to his seat, I noticed he had a KSU Day shirt on. KSU? As in Kennesaw State University? Where I go? I couldn't believe it. I mean, yeah the starting point was in Atlanta but I wondered what the odds were of another Kennesaw student going to Germany on the same day. Anyways, about an hour later I had to go to the bathroom. I was going to try to avoid using the airplane potty but I guess God really wanted me to walk up to the bathroom at that time so He made the urge INTENSE. Haha, sorry if that is too much information. When I went up to the bathrooms that same guy was standing next to another lady. Not wanting to make it awkward I asked the obvious question "So, you go to Kennesaw?" His answer: yes. Duh Tricia. But the question turned into conversation and this is what I found out. The guy was with a group of people going on a misson trip with ISF meaning International Sports Federation. His trip was to Kazakistan where they were going to hold sports camps for kids. The woman standing next to him, whose name I found out was Cheryl, heads groups like this all throughout the year. The organization takes groups of people, particularly athletic teams, to run athletic camps in different countries. I mentioned being on the track team at KSU and Cheryl seemed pretty psyched, even more so after finding out that I want to go on a mission trip to Kenya in the future. She ended up giving me a brochure and they have a trip next summer in Kenya. CRAZY, right? I thought so. I have wanted to go to Kenya since I was in the 9th grade. I think there may be meaning to God's timing. I mean think about it... a mission in Kenya playing sports with kids? YES PLEASE. I'm in. Well, thats all I am going to say about that. After Estonia I am going to start praying about it.

Now, more about our first few hours in Estonia. We got here around 6 PM, 11 PM back in the ATL. Innar came and picked us up from the airport and took us back to our hotel to get settled in and freshen up before dinner. We are in Tallin for training tomorrow then going to camp Sunday morning. We walked to dinner from our hotel, the roads and buildings are GORGEOUS. The atmosphere is refreshing. The city is exhilarating. After dinner, we toured the city a little bit with Innar, Andres, and Sam. The tour was brief but we have next weekend to toodle some more after we debrief from camp. We just jammed a little to Andres playing the guitar in a mini worship sesh and now we are getting ready for bed.

Travelling complete.

First Night in Estonia: Fantastic.

Today was great.

God is greater.

And to my number one blog follower... I love you momma. =]