If you had asked me three years ago if I would be here in Montana doing School of Dance right now, I would have said no. If you had asked me two years ago, I would have told you I was probably going to do it last year. And if you had asked me last year, I would have said “possibly…” with a doubtful hope. Yet it is amazing to me how God knows just the perfect time and place that He wants us. I had thought I was going to do School of Dance last year, but God told me it wasn’t the right time. So I stayed home, and because of that I was blessed to be in Uganda for 6 months with two teams last year. And I saw even more of His plan for calling me to Montana for “such a time as this” as soon as I arrived. It was my first full day here and I was talking to a very dear girl, Kelly, who is on staff with YWAM Montana. She had been staff here back when I was doing my Discipleship Training School (DTS) and I have always admired her! She is staffing this current DTS and told me that she is leading an outreach team but their outreach location had fallen through because there were more students than they expected and the location could not cater for all of them. So I just threw out in the conversation “well just go to Gulu!!” Then that led into a longer conversation about what God is doing in Uganda, and a few days of prayer, and… to make a long story short, she is now taking the DTS to Uganda to work with Soldiers of Christ for two months!! It was such an answer to prayer! We had been praying for another team to be able to come to Gulu and serve and help out while I am away and the staff in Gulu is furthering their training… and only God could have orchestrated it in such a way! If I had come last year, we wouldn’t have had such an answer to prayer, and the DTS wouldn’t have had an outreach location! 
Besides that beautiful treat (which would have been enough in itself!) Montana has just been such a gift from the Lord! I never could have expected that I would have an opportunity to dance this much again, and with such incredible people, and for the Lord! He is showing me more and more every day about what it means to focus on Him and utilize the giftings and abilities he has given me. It does make me laugh that the main correction I get in dance class is that my moves look “too African”… I guess that is just a what happens when you live in Africa for two years J haha and although it may not be exactly what my teachers are looking for… hopefully it’ll give me some advantage in the future for our training with the students in Gulu! Although going from the 85 degree weather in Uganda to the two feet of snow we have gotten in the last three days has been an adjustment… I wouldn’t change being here for the world! It has been such a great reminder that Uganda (and my life) is in GOD’S hands, and HE is the one orchestrating everything. And it has been such a wonderful time to get to spend with my Daddy! As it is said “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him” I am learning what it means to be content in ALL situations and know that my value is in my identity…and not my performance. God is so good!!  |
| Montana is cold!!... but beautiful! |
