I guess it has been awhile since I have updated this blog. But then, I don't know if anybody even reads them, so . . . Anyhow, no matter. The fact is that over the last three months my plans for my future have changed ever so many times. Its so frustrating trying to figure out what education I should get in order to be the most useful in God's work. My dream as a little girl was to be a nurse, but somehow as I got older, nursing training in the U.S. did not appeal to me. So then I headed towards a pre-med degree in order to get into Physician's Assistant school. But that also did not seem quite right. There was something wrong with being in school for so long and incurring so much debt.
So I left off that plan and came up the Black Hills Health and Education Center for a few months, thinking that I would then go to Wildwood Lifestyle Center and take a course being offered there. But God was trying to get through to me that even that wasn't where He wanted me. So then, where do I go God? Do I go for massage therapy, or midwifery, or what? That option in the Phillipines for midwifery looked so wonderful, but that door was shut. Then a midwife program at Wildwood is in the process of being put together and I could go there. But even that is uncertain. They might get the program started in January of this next year, but they might not.
Then my dad brought up an option that had been on the table for a long time that I had been ignoring. In fact, I had completely forgotten about it until a friend called and I told him about it. Then my dad made the comment that he has been trying to get me interested in doing this option for some time. So I started thinking and praying some more. This option involves going back to Papua New Guinea and being the only American student at the Adventist University in Port Moresby, the capital city. The school year starts in February so I would only be here in the U.S. for another eight months. I would be doing the nursing program at Pacific Adventist University, so I would be there for at least 3 years. Kind of scary to think about, to be honest. I love the unknown and I love international travel. But I still get nervous thinking about it. However, I know that I would love it once I got there!
But anyhow, thats where I'm at for now. I really believe that PNG is where I should go, just because a nursing degree is much more broad and will open many more doors in mission work. Later on, if I need to, I can pick up a specialty in midwifery or in any number of other areas. So it would be smart to start out with the nursing and then get the specialties, instead of starting with the specialty and limiting myself to that. So that is the goal. If God has the same ideas I do, then by February I should be on a big 747 jet on my way to the other side of the world.
What an adventure!
