WOW

So being away for the summer in a place where I rarely had internet access and if I did it was amazing or I would rather talk to people than sit at the computer all the time.
So this post is going to be a list of things I learned this summer whether that's stuff about trip leading or stuff God taught me (and He taught me a lot so this could be kinda long... :)

1. God knows what we need so much better than what we think! My trip partner and I both came into the summer having not really gotten along the previous summer. And came out of the summer really good friends.
2. I came to the realization that although somedays I might want a guy in my life I am perfectly content where I am at and that I desire deep friendship rather than a boyfriends in particular.
3. God blessed me this summer with Maia Reissner and the rest of the Reissner family. That little girl has me wrapped around her finger... I'd pretty much do anything for her :) Just to illustrate her deep love for me, she would go around the table looking at Eric, Aaron, and whoever else was over giving them her attitude face and then look at me with the biggest grin and sweetest eyes and say "I love my Houser!" seriously though that girl would light up AND make me light up every time I saw her running across the patio to give me a hug when I'd get home from trips!
4. I met two amazing guys this summer who were such a great example of Godly men. Both of them are now engaged (one getting married in less than a month!) and I'm so thankful for the awesome examples of godly relationships they lived out for me. Words really can't describe how much I appreciate both of them.
5. One thing that I came into the summer wanting to focus on was my prayer life. It is one of the areas in my Christian life that I struggle with the most. It was so cool throughout the summer to feel God laying things on my heart and to see visual answers to those prayers whether it was the amazing attitudes of our first trip when it poured the entire week or one of the last weeks when one of the girls prayed for the mosquito's to go away and God sent dragonfly's to eat them!
6. to be continued