On the Eve of Training!!

           Hey blogging world!! It’s me!! Super nervous yet again as I inform all of the readers here that I am officially on my way to New York to start this crazy adventure they like to call mission service.  I like it call it my new life! (But totally not in a bad way) I am super excited and nervous at the same time.  I think the last time I blogged I mentioned that once I made my way to the infamous JFK airport in New York City I would have to take a cab all by myself and that wasn’t something that I was willing to do.  Ok that is definitely a lie; I would do it but in a nervous scared child kind of way.  Nothing scares me more than being tired in a cab all by myself.  Not like I ever have taken a cab all by myself but I digress.  Anyway, we recently got sent a list of all of the missionary candidates and their flight time and silly me for thinking I was the only one flying into JFK when in fact there is someone else and I get to meet up with her and take a cab with her.  Of course it would be a God thing that this person is someone that I do not know and in fact she has already been to New York I believe.  Experience pays off.  This is what I keep telling myself about my move to Oklahoma City at the end of August.  I am super excited and I can’t stress it enough but on the off chance that something happens when I am there, who I am kidding I am going to bring the wonderful Seattle summers to OKC and fill the state with JOY!! 

Anyway, I did recently learn my address and through Google maps and the CNN website my dad had determined that I am living about 5 miles away from the last place tornados hit in southern Oklahoma City.  This brings fear in my heart but also knowledge of something different.  Many of my good friends will tell you that I am someone who needs change, at least now that I am young and able for change.  I would agree.  After living in Ellensburg for 4 years of my life I have become to love small areas (JK)!!!  Seattle is starting to shrink on me.  The same people the same drama, and I’m tired of the same people making life more and more difficult.  I don’t know how many of you all who read this knows all about me already (don’t tell me that would be creepy) but I am excited to get out and explore a new part of the country.  Even though I have already been there, I can now explore on my own.

Sorry this post is getting long; hopefully it is interesting to be in the mind of Kristina.  A nervous but excited Young Adult Missionary Candidate as I venture off on my own (and I mean really on my own) in the world.  I have decided that me going to Oklahoma to work with school children, especially 3^rd graders is God’s way of telling me that I should be a teacher and he just took the long way to tell me that.  So if I do not completely despise the school system when I return from service in 2015, I will look into getting my masters in teaching or whatever else God is calling me to do next.  However that next step is going to be in Seattle, I do not think I could truly live elsewhere for longer than a few years.

On to even better information for all of my readers, if y’all want to support me please feel free.  Support can come through prayer, thoughts or even through a money donation.  All of the money we raise has to come through my advance number which is 3021852.  I will be learning more about this process in the upcoming three weeks so don’t fret about doing anything right away, because y’all have two years to help me in my service to the people of Oklahoma City.  More information to come and if anyone wants a mailed letter, I am not talking email, I mean like old fashioned snail mail directly from me in Oklahoma City, comment with your address or send me an email with your address to Kristina.thorson1022@gmail.com.  Ok one last thing, maybe two, on August 12 we are all being commissioned in New York and thanks to technology everyone can share that experience with us.  Log on to www.umcmission.org at 11am EST to view it with us (this means 8am for anyone on the west coast). 

Alrighty, my dear friends, I will leave y’all with a verse that means a lot to me.  I learned and memorized it in Colorado when I was there working in a child care and it goes “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith- and this is not from yourselves, it is the grace of God.”  Ephesians 2:8 TNIV.

Have a wonderful evening!!!