Counting Blessings!

 

 

Hey Guys!! 

 

It’s been a while I know. But I’M here now so ya’ll can calm your panties. No need for them to be in a bunch. Haha. Just kidding. So I realize that maybe the whole video thing was not the best route, considering not many people saw it..well last  I checked. That’s fine, videos are not for everyone, and not everyone has the time or patience to watch one. ORR….Maybe you just never saw it??? I can hope, right? I can. I made up my mind I can and you can’t tell me otherwise. Got it? Good.

 

Anyway, I do still encourage all of you to go and watch the video or at least the part where I tell you about how Boot Camp went. Because guys that honestly changed me. That one week will stay with me forever. Right now it is at the top of my list for the best week of my life…until I do something crazy and completely AWESOME in CamRoRica. I bet it’ll be replaced soon enough. But for right now I’m okay with my current “best week of my life”. 

 

Okay so like I said before it has been a while, which means a lot in my life has happened. Most of it has been good lately and don’t really have anything that has gone completely wrong in my life. I am so incredibly grateful that God has made these last few months before I leave… well I guess there is no one word to describe it. But I could try to sum up.

 

 It has been fun, I’ve been able to spend plenty of time with family and friends. Meeting up with old friends and making new ones. And hanging with my bestie, though not as much as I’d like. We both have crazy lives and that is not good for making time to see each other. I hate that these last few months we’ve spent more time canceling plans or too busy to make plans. But I guess that’s what cell phones are for. We have made more phone calls in the last month than in all of our friendship. But considering we’ve only been friends for a few years,  I guess that’s not that hard.  And now that she has Hyperextended muscles in her arm it’s kinda hard for us to do anything. Okay okay, I can almost see the boredom in your eyes through this screen. I’ll stop with the best friends drama.  But seriously guys I’ve been having a blast these last few months. 

 

It has been stress-free. Okay well, not 100% stress-free, but pretty close. This entire time I haven’t been overthinking everything and worrying that I did something wrong. I haven’t had a major fight with my mom.

 

 *applause*

* I bow and I bow again*

 

I know I know mark it in the calendar. But I can’t say it’s been completely free from arguing. I just don’t think I can get away from that. I am wayyyyy too stubborn. But there have not been any “I’m gonna kill you ” moments. So praise God About that!! So not fighting with my mom has honestly relieved so much stress. I think we are both now on the same page, which wasn’t her fault it was actually me. Don’t go blaming my mom, she is the BEST! And I’m not really stressing over funds at all I’ve been so UBUNDENTLY blessed, which I’ll get more into later. Knowing that God is there and providing for me has really made me not stress over how I’m going to pay for anything and everything. God has proved himself over and over again. Though he really shouldn’t have to. I should be the one proving myself to him. So it’s been pretty stress-free on this land. I did have a couple of freak-out moments last week, including like three tears (not kidding). But pretty sure that was just the devil trying to get into my head.  But I said, “cut that out”. Now imagine the kid asparagus from veggie tales saying that during the song “God is Bigger than the Boogie Man”. Now if you haven’t seen that then go look it up right now on Youtube, you will not be disappointed. Anyway, life right now has been pretty stress-free. YAY!!! (Also imagine that from like the shows where they have people randomly clapping and saying things. This is one of those moments. And if you have no idea what I’m talking about…then well I actually have nothing to say about that, half the time I don’t even know what I’m talking about.) 

 

Okay so now that I’ve pretty much written a book…do you want to know how my funding has been going? Anybody….? Well since literally, no one said anything I guess you don’t get to know how my funding has been going. 

 

So I was sitting in church the other day and we had a guest speaker. Which isn’t really the point, but thought I would put it out there. Anyway, I wanted to share something with you guys. So he was talking about discipline. And not the type that kids are all so in love with. Especially when their favorite toy is taken away. No, he was talking about discipline in reference to our minds. He talked about how much we rely on the “tomorrow” of our lives. We spend so much of our time saying “I’ll do that tomorrow”, and we all know how that usually ends up. We don’t actually end up doing it tomorrow. This is something that I find myself doing wayyyy too much. I’m constantly saying:

“nah ill take that run tomorrow”

“it’s okay if I don’t do my blog today I’ll just do it tomorrow”

devotions? Psh “I’ll do it tomorrow”

Laundry? Who needs it?  “I’ll do it tomorrow”

Trust God? “I might think about doing that tomorrow”

That last one is the cold hard truth. Sometimes it’s not even conscious. It’s just avoidance, and sometimes it’s a lack of motivation. But I just heard something from our guest speaker, John, that “motivation is crap”. Especially when you’re sitting in the house saying you’re going to get up early and be productive in the morning, take a run for example. But when you wake up and snooze that alarm….eight times. That motivation you had last night did you nothing. Did it? That is when we start with the whole “I’ll do it tomorrow” thing. Now if ya’ll can imagine how well that works for me. It doesn’t. It doesn’t work well at all. But good news is now that I know my subconscious mistakes I can work better on the whole “I’ll just do it tomorrow” things. 

 

Also, update the last time I said that I was going to get rid of social media in order to stay more aware of how much time I’m not spending time with God. And truth be told honestly that lasted like a week, because then I went to Georgia and had plane rides, car rides, delays, and an extreme amount of downtime. Then I guess I got addicted to it again and then remembered how little of it I’ll have when I’m away and been using that as an unhealthy excuse. So again I’ll be removing some of those distractions from my life. Though not as strict as I was before. But I will be giving myself time limits and restrictions on my distracting things… So I’ll be updating you guys on how that will go. Hopefully better than what I’m doing right now. But anyway if ya’ll could pray for me on how that will go, that would be great!!

 

Okay did ya’ll seriously think that I wouldn’t give you guys an update on how fundraising has been?? If ya did, I’m sorry. That was just meant to be a joke. I just hate how serious this gets. Sometimes I can’t help myself from having fun. 

 

Anyway ya’ll do want to know how much God has been providing for me riiiight???? If you do…Drum roll please!!!

 

*me prentending that there is a giant drum roll*

 

$14,864!!!!  

Okay, so that is the total number that includes cash and pledges (money that I haven’t received but is part of my monthly donations that I will receive in the coming months). 

$12,896! is the number without the cash, which is important because the cash is used for many other things and I’m hoping that I don’t have to put it in the online category. Basically, I have online money, money given in checks and sent in and money that was given online, then I have cash money, the money given in the form of cash and check that was not sent in and has been put aside for different uses. Don’t be mistaken ALL the money is still going directly to me, just not all of it is in the pool online where you can see it on my blog. With that being said…  $3,004 is the amount that I need to be fully funded!!!! *and the crowds go wild!!* Yep you see that number clearly. I only need $3,000 dollars till I will be fully funded. It’s just such a crazy thing to see! AND an even more crazy thing to say! Give it a go say “dang Trin only needs $3,000 till she is fully funded!!” Now I’m really hoping that ya’ll said that out loud and made people stare at you!! HAHA, that would be totally awesome!!! But if you didn’t you didn’t get to feel how awesome it is to say that “Trin is almost fully funded!!”. Friends I couldn’t do it without ya’ll and am so very very very VERY  grateful for all the love and support you have been giving me on this journey. It has meant so much to me to have my family and friends be on my side rooting for me. So thank you guys soo MUCH for that!!! 

 

Also know that you will not see that giant number online at my blog, that will only be seen on here because I don’t actually have that right now. That number includes all my pledges and my future monthly donations. 

 

So I think that I have officially written all that I can about my life, and I’m sure all of you are bored of reading this, so I’m going to end it here.  Do share with friends and family, and if ya’ll want my info to pass along ya can have that too!!! Just comment and ya’ll can leave!!

 

Have a GREAT day!!! Be HAPPY!! and please please please remember to PRAY!!!! Love you guys! And I’ll see you guys next Saturday!! <3 

Like actually guys I will see you next Saturday, I will be going back to weekly blogs. Until I can’t because I am in the middle of no where in some random place of CamRoRica