As my time in the Philippines draws to a close, I figure that its about high time i do a Final Filipino Funtastic Phenomenal Fact Filled blog. At least, I hope that its all of those things. It very well…

This past week, the JAZ girls had a basketball tournament in Boracay, run by the ministry First Love International. I know, right? Ministry on one of the top five beaches in the world? What is my life? It was such…

This Christmas was different than any Christmas before, and it will forever be near and dear to my heart. There’s just something irreplaceable and iridescent about spending Christmas Eve holding the hands of small street children and dancing barefoot in…

“Catalina, tu eres fea.” “Catalina, porque tu cortas tu pelo? Esta feo ahora.” “Catalina, tu pelo es malo.” “Catalina, tu pelo es como un chico.” “Catalina, no me gustate porque tu pelo es pequeno.” “Tita, are you a boy or…

The longer I’m in the Philippines (which…. If you think about it, embarrassingly hasn’t been that long…) the more the Lord reveals to me in another embarrassing subject – the things that I fear. It’s a seemingly uncharacteristic thing of…

One of my biggest frustrations in Nicaragua was feeling like I wasn’t doing anything – like I was just part of another missionary group passing through Bethel, that someone else had done exactly what I was doing and in a…

Nicaragua seems like another lifetime. It’s crazy to think of who God changed me from and into during my time there. It was long, and complicated, and painful, but it was beautiful. This being said; though it was beautiful, I…