The Latest on Laura

How am I doing?

I’m doing pretty well, overall!  I think we all feel the fact that we only have 2 months left… I had my first leaving-NCSA dream last night (and woke up crying!)… It was very tragic, actually.  I’ve said this maybe a hundred times to a hundred(+) different people, but– this year has flown by for me, which I didn’t expect!  Before coming, 10 months sounded so long and I wondered how I could make it that long without family & friends from home, and my fairly comfy American life… But now we wonder, “Where did the time go?!” And as we get closer to the end, momentum continues picking up and things only feel busier & faster.

My ministry at the Lerato House is going well; I only wish I could spend more time there.  There are some girls from Germany who are working there every day for a year, and I have to say I envy them a bit– they get to be a part of these girls’ day-to-day lives for longer than I will.  Today I took some of the girls to their weekly hip-hop class at School of Creative Arts (part of TLF), danced with them and had a blast!

We’re also in the midst of the Life Compass process, which has been good– it really synthesizes our life experiences (timelines we’ve each put together), all the personality/gifts/strengths inventories we took earlier this year, values, interests, passions, influential people in our lives and much much more.  We get feedback from our community on our natural gifts & abilities, spiritual gifts and personality traits (which, for many of us, was both an affirming and painful process!).  We look, from many aspects & angles, at the ways God has wired us and discern/ craft a vision statement for our lives based on all this.  I’m excited for the culmination of this process… chances are, you’ll see vision statements popping up on our blogs in the next week or two!