home sweet home.

I wasn't able to write while in North Carolina due to lack of free time. Also... I had to pay extra for internet. That wasn't so bad. I mean you can expect that you may have to pay for wireless if you go to a hotel... But this hotel... you had to pay $5 a day to use the workout room. Which still... ok, i have never heard of that, but I guess it keeps the place clean and only serious people will use it. But you also had to pay $5 to use the pool. That is per person, not per room!
Turns out none of that mattered either since the times I was around the hotel the pool was closed anyway.

Enough of that. My time in NC was amazing. I met some women that truely have a heart after God. It was very encouraging. One woman came to the North Central booth where I was standing to talk about the interpreting program. She asked me a couple questions, just normal questions that i had been getting all day, and it was like the power of God just fell on us. Both of us started crying and really got into an awesome converstaion about what God is doing in our lives currently. She was so inspiring to me! We exchanged information and she said she would be praying for me. I met another woman who is Deaf and she asked my why i was interested in her Culture and we really got into it and she prayed with me right there and said that she wanted to keep in touch and that I need to continue what I am doing and bring advocacy around the world.
So... I will. :)

Last summer I talked with some Deaf missionaries in Ireland. They wanted me to come and intern with them this summer. So i told them I would think about it. After I came back from the Philippines is about the time I would have went to start my internship there. However, I just didn't really want to go at that time. So i forgot about it and started my internship here in Minneapolis. The first day in NC my professor from NCU came to me and said that she had some Deaf missionaries from Ireland contact her and ask if she could send an intern to them next summer. She told me she knows that I will be graduated and not need to fulfill any internship hours but when she prayed about it I was the only one that came to mind. Turns out... it is the same couple. SO... I am seriously considering this option. I need to really be in prayer about it all before I get too excited. Because more than anything right now, I want to go back to the Philippines. But I know i don't have enough money to work this out. But God will provide if this is a road I am to take.


Possibly traveling some more sooner than I thought,

Toni