Check this song out: None But Jesus by Hillsong United

I have been listening to this song everyday to and from school. We serve the most incredible God who loves us more than we will ever know. Remind yourself of that daily.

In the quiet, in the stillness 

I know that You are God

In the secret of Your presence

I know that I am restored

When You call I won't refuse

Each new day again I'll choose

There is no one else for me 

None but Jesus

Crucified to set me free

Now I live to bring Him praise

In the chaos, in confusion

I know you're sovereign still

In the moment of my weakness

You give me grace to do Your will

So when You call I won't delay

This my song through all my days

There is no one else for me

None but Jesus

Crucified to set me free

Now I live to bring him praise

ALL my delight is in You, Lord

All of my hope, all of my strength

All my delight is in You, Lord, forevermore

Last few days

On Sunday I went to the Recoletta Cemetery with my friend, Bridget. It's a really neat cemetery because it is all above ground. The graves are huge and really beautiful and reminded me a lot of the ones in New Orleans.

Last night we had a Valentines Day formal at the casa. I had been planning on asking a guy in our group, Nate, but he was at the beach for the weekend so I was going to do it on Monday morning. That day, I got to the casa and as I was leaving to go get the supplies to ask him, I happened to check my facebook and he had posted on my wall:


"I've met a lot of girls in my travels, but this Valentines day, I was hoping to get a little more PERSONAL with you. Will you come to formal with me?" (and then posted a picture of him under the "Personal" cell phone store sign! 


I found him around the casa and told him that he beat me to it and that I was supposed to ask him first, but of course I said yes and we had a great time. In fact, we had such a great time and looked so good that we won the "Cutest Couple" award!

 photobooth that David put together

lookin' fine!

One week left until the first long weekend!

Besos xoxo

p.s. God has blessed us SO much! We've had awesome turnouts to house church, girls bible study, and family time :)

Pi Phi/ATO mixer!

Thursday night the beautiful Pi Phis and handsome ATOs had a mixer! We all met up for dinner, the guys paid (aww!), and then we went bowling! There were six girls and six guys so it worked out perfectly. We had a great time and we are so blessed to have such amazing guys with us here in BA.
Thanks for a wonderful evening, boys! Y'all are awesome :)

 Thank you Mateo for not smiling...

 The enemy team!

So much love for this group :)

Besos xoxo

Nada mucho going on...

Not a lot has been going on around here. We finally got into the full swing of classes which is... nice. In two weeks, we have our first long weekend of the semester! And then a week after that, we go on our EFT! Ah, what a life.

First long weekend I will be going to...

BARILOCHE!

Our EFT will be in....

CALAFATE!!

I am SO excited to do some traveling :)

Besos xoxo

Lujan Zoo!

7 friends and I got on a bus and headed to Lujan Zoo! After about an hour and a half, we entered what is known in Argentina as the "World's Most Dangerous Zoo." This place has lions, tigers, bears, OH MY! (sorry, I couldn't resist). We got to pet tigers, lions, and elephants and hold lion cubs. It was kind of sad because all of the animals were heavily drugged but it was definitely an amazing experience to see them up close and personal.

 precious cub

 petting a lion!

 holding a lion!

 seriously freaking out!

 our fabulous group :)

Tiger!

Besos xoxo

Sickening Sin

Our first convo dinner was at Kansas so you know what that means... LOTS OF FOOD! Somehow I managed to eat some of an appetizer and a good amount of my main dish without feeling sick. But then the "Going Bananas" dessert came. For all of my BAers, you know how much I love that dessert. Warm banana bread with chocolate and dulce de leche. Oh my gosh. After sharing one with my friend Pat, I happened to enter myself in a little competition with my friend Brandon over who could finish the most dessert. After eating as much as I could (with about a third of the group watching, I might add) I threw in the towel (er... napkin) and gave up. Even though we had some good laughs, I found myself feeling really sick to my stomach. I know you're thinking, "Obviously!" But walking back to the casa it dawned on me that I had just committed the sin of gluttony. I would have never thought of that but I right before dinner, I had just finished reading a chapter in "The Good and Beautiful God" about sin and why it upsets God. The author says that the reason God hates sin is because "[sin] hurts me, and therefore it hurts God- because God loves me." How amazing is that? So many people think that God hates those who sin but in reality, He loves us SO much that anything that hurts us (sin) He hates! At that moment, I said a prayer asking for forgiveness not only because I had committed a sin that left me feeling physically ill, but also because I knew that it hurt my Father and I never want to do that.

Next convo dinner, and any large meal for that matter, I pray that those words come to mind and I am able to control myself in order to avoid pain; the pain in my stomach and the pain in God's heart.



Besos xoxo

Greater things are yet to come!

We had an AMAZING house church tonight and some of us girls planned a girls bible study for Wednesday nights this semester! My sweet friend April played this song today and it made me think of how greater things are still to come for our group this semester.

"God in this city" by Chris Tomlin

You're the God of this city
You're the King of these people
You're the Lord of this nation
You are

There is none like our God
There is none like our God

(Chorus)
For greater things have yet to come
And greater things are still to be done in this city

(then the song repeats itself)


This is going to be a great semester. God is going to do amazing things and I am so excited for what is to come.



Besos xoxo