Happy As Can Be

It is such a beautiful Sunday afternoon. This morning two of my roomies and another girl did church here on base in the classroom. We listened to a sermon and then blasted worship music for around 2 1/2 hours, it was so good. Then I had 2 great conversations with Carmela and Jessie and lunch and now I'm writing this! The past couple days, the past week, God has been just pouring out His love on me so that it completely overflows. He's bringing things together from middle school and all I want is more of Him. It's such a good place!
I got baptized on friday! I was baptized as a baby and I really honor my parents in that. I wanted to confirm a new life in Christ and the way that I live and giving control of my life to God. It was a lot of things and it was really good! When I came up out of the water I had this cool revelation of the name God gave me, Anneli meaning favor grace and just the love that God has for me. It's so powerful!!
Here's a couple pictures:

Everyone lined up! Nate joined in later too.

Rachel explaining what her baptism is for her

Mark talking to us and reading from the bible

In the river at Ashley Gorge with Gabriel, Mark and Nicki!

So yea, that was a really sweet time for me. All of friday was really good! Mark doesn't teach on fridays and they're used as a ministry day. One thing I did was get on top of an interesting stack of 4 picnic tables to tell Jesus how much I love Him. It was definitely one of the best things I've ever done in my life! That's up there with caving, climbing and all that kind of cool stuff. So good.

Prayer is always always always appreciated, especially right now for our outreach to Laos. I'm so looking forward to it! I miss all you guys at home and I can't wait to come home and see you all! 

God is soo good!