halfway there!

Just wanted to write a quick post, marking the half way point in this crazy adventure I'm having! Tomorrow marks two months here, and two months until I'm home. I'm having a lot of mixed feelings in saying that. It's true that I'm having a once-in-a-lifetime experience here, and for that I'm extremely thankful. I'm also anxious to get home, because I miss familiar faces, a familiar language, and just the comforts that home brings.
Yesterday, the AUC middle school and high school group went to the Vision Conference in Lancaster, as they do every year. Since it's Amy's senior year, this was her last year going to the conference, and it caused me to think back to the 7 years that I went to that conference. Every year a similar message was spread: Break out of your comfort zone and be willing to go where God wants you to go. I feel like every year I would say I was willing to do that, but never knew how I'd live that out. I never felt God calling me to be a missionary in Africa or go to a country I'd never heard of for any length of time.
Now I find myself in Denmark, a country I didn't know existed until a few years ago, living for 4 months with a family I'd never met before, surrounded by a language I'd never heard before, and will most likely never hear again. It's funny how God works isn't it?! No, I'm not translating the bible or running a camp for children, or doing the typical 'missions' work, but I'm here. I'm living in a country where less than 10% of Evangelical Lutherans (the official state church) attend church on a Sunday. I'm living with a family that does not believe in God, and going to school with students who don't either.
Looking back to the many Vision Conferences I've been to, I've realized that God does work in us at a young age. I always thought that I'd say yes to following God's call, but he wouldn't call me until I was older, out of college, married, 2 kids and a dog. Instead, I still have another year of college in front of me, and He's placed me in Copenhagen. I'm so grateful to be in His hands, and that I can trust in a God that knows me inside and out and knows what lies ahead of me. And I'm pretty excited that He does, because that means I don't have to worry about it! So let that be a lesson to all the students who were at Vision yesterday... if you tell God to stretch you and do what He wants with your life, He won't forget it! When you least expected, He's going to change you, and you're going to be amazed!
Keep praying for me, as I embrace these next two months. Time will fly, and the homesickness will probably get worse at points, but God is the God of comfort, peace, and joy, and I'm so blessed to be His kid :)