Continually Encouraged

This past week I've been struggling to believe that I could raise $5,500 by the time I leave in June. As of Friday I hadn't raised any more support and was stuck below $1,000. I realized today that my problem was thinking that I was going to raise the money I needed, when the reality is that if God wants me to go to Uganda this summer He'll raise the support I need. I wasn't trusting the Lord to provide for me, I was freaking out and trying to control things on my own---clearly that wasn't working out too well. Last night I called my parents to chat and I remembered that my mom told me I recived some support letters throughout the week (4 letters to be exact). I didn't want to wait until I went home this weekend to open them (go figure...me impatient) so I asked my parents to open them for me and let me know what was inside. Along with some encouraging notes there were four checks for financial support. To be honest, I was expecting the checks---ususally when someone sends back the self-addressed envelope I put in with my letter it has money in it. But what I wasn't expecting was the amount God would give me from those four checks. For the past couple weeks I had been "stuck" below $1,000 and I was stuck thinking that I was in control of this support raising process. With my phone call last night that all changed. From four checks I received $1,120 toward my trip. That brought the grand total of support raised so far to.....$1,835!!! Nearly enough to buy my plane tickets to Uganda :) Ten of the eighty something people I sent support letters to have sent me financial support, and from those ten people I have nearly $2,000! In less than a month the Lord has blessed me with more than 1/4 of the money I need to go to Uganda!! I don't expect support raising from here on out to be easy, but I do know that God does/will work all things out for my (our) good. I know that He has encouraged me through people throughout this support raising process, and He's done nothing but confirm that going to Uganda is what He wants me to do this summer. I just wanted to share that exciting news with all of you and thank you again for all of your support!