I'm a wife

Wow, I can't even describe how amazing being a wife is. I am just going to back up here a little!

On July 25th 2015, I married the most amazing man ever! The week before the wedding was crazy, we had a family reunion, and had family staying with us which was awesome but what really wasn't good was I got sick. I had a nasty cold and a few days before the wedding I lost my voice! That was terrible and the day before the wedding I was feeling not the best but God gave me health for our wedding day! I remember the day before the wedding, getting my nails done, finished setting up the hall, and setting up the church with decorations and then came the rehearsal..I was so nervous but after the rehearsal I was so happy and and confident and I just wanted to get married already.

Wedding day!!

I woke up and and actually ate breakfast, got ready to go down a 1,000 foot waterslide which was tons of fun! When I got back, I got my make-up and hair done, got my dress on and veil. We made it to the church and we got married!! I will never forget the feeling of finally being married :) We went and got some pictures done at the lake and on our way to the hall for the reception we got stuck in a massive thunderstorm which was a huge blessing. The reception was awesome, we incorporated a few African traditions which made me happy! Overall, we couldn't have asked for anything better and we are so blessed by everyone!

Being a wife is amazing, I love making supper and cleaning the house and waiting for Grant to come home from work. There are struggles but with God we can do anything together!

Being a bride-to-be!

I can't describe to you the amazing feeling knowing that you belong to someone! Being God's daughter and then having a man who is after God's heart loving you unconditionally! Ever since I was a little girl, I always knew I wanted to get married and to have a Prince Charming! Then that day came when I got asked an important question,  and of course I said "yes!" My dream is coming true, I get to marry the love of life! Planning a wedding is lots of fun but it can bring tears and eventually it can be overwhelming! As we are are getting married next month, I am feeling very overwhelmed by the fact that I'm starting my life with my man and im
Moving and will be living in a new city!  So many emotions!

Being a bride to be is such an amazing privilege and such a blessing! I am honestly so blessed to be marrying an amazing Godly man! God has truly given me a treasure! Knowing that I get to be a wife and eventually a mom is just another incredible blessing! I pray that we will have a Christ like marriage and that we will have unconditional love for eachother and for our one true love God! I also pray that the excitement we have now to get married that we will have the same excitement for when Jesus comes back to take his bride "us" to heaven to be with him for eternity!  I don't know what marriage is like but I know that it is an incredible blessing from God and we have to treasure it and guard it!

My prayer for all of the engaged couples and even married couples is that you guard your marriage and that you will love eachother unconditionally and keep Christ in the centre of his amazing blessing!

I miss it....

I  was really missing Uganda today. One of my favorite songs came on the radio this morning called "Overwhelmed" by Big Daddy Weave and God sure knows when I need to hear that song because it comes on when I need to hear it. That songs reminds me of how amazing God is and how amazing His love is but it also reminds me of my home in Uganda, Africa. I am so overwhelmed by their love for God as well as their love for us. 

We "Power Team" have been back for two months already and God has shown our team so many things and have blessed us! 

Coming back this time was hard which it gets harder every year but this year was a little harder because as I am getting married this summer, I'm not sure when I'll be going back, the past few years I was able to say "count me in, I'm going next year." Whereas this year, God only knows when or if I'll ever go back which hopefully I do. I couldn't stand living the rest of my life not going back to Uganda. 

There are days where I literally just want to hide from the world because we have EVERYTHING...we have money, food, clothes, houses, cars, jobs and do you know what I see wherever I go? Grumpy people who complain because their apples weren't as sweet as the last batch or they are returning unopened food at because they don't need it or don't like the taste. Really?!  It's rediculous and really sad. I go to a Uganda and do you know what I see? I see people praising The Lord because He has blessed them with a new chair or clean water, even a new pair of pants. I see people who give their guests all the food that they have where if they take it to the market they could sell it for some money but instead they give it to us. Whenever we would go visit a family, they would be singing and praising The Lord because they were overwhelmed to see us and they were so happy because they know that God is watching over them. Yes we see some sad things such as dying kids, kids who can't eat or drink clean water. People who can't afford to get treatment from the hospital, people who live in small tiny huts with 10 kids and only 1 blanket. It's sad but we know that God is doing some amazing work! 

While we are trying to buy the next best thing, someone is trying to buy one banana.  Yes I would like a better camera or I would love to buy a bigger phone but I'm going to be patient and wait for those things, I don't need them, I want them. I'm not going to waste me money on things like that but instead I'm giving my money to God and saving it up for my next trip to Uganda whenever that will be. 

I was in the food court just a few days after I got back and while I was there I cried and I cried because as I was looking around trying to figure out a place get food, I literally was ready to run out of there and hide because there were so many options of food and yet I had just stopped eating the same thing for 17 days which I won't complain because it's good but I was so hurt because there is so much food here yet people there eat the same thing over and over again for years and years, they don't have the variety of foods we have here. 

It's almost a culture shock coming back because like I said earlier we have everything wheras they don't have much! If we brought 5 Africans here, they would probably go in a huge shock because they wouldn't know how to contain themselves and they would feel completely lost. 

As we live our lives, let's be thankful for what we have and not be grumpy people who complains about everything. Let's enjoy life. Remember that when we leave the tap running, someone is dying because they can't have clean water. 

God loves YOU sooooo much!!!

I can't begin to tell you how much God loves you....he made you, he died on the cross for you...he LOVES you!!!

- I am getting the chills right now writing this, God just amazes me sooo much! Does he amaze you? What amazes you about God? Is it the ground we walk on, the beauty in the scenery such as mountains, rivers, animals?

Go look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see just some person who doesn't think their beautiful or handsome? Do you see a person who has no worthy or who doesn't think they belong in this world, or who doesn't feel loved?

Let me tell you something....God knitted you together in your mother's womb! He carefully put every piece together and he spent time making you!



Psalm 139:13-17 says
"For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be."

How awesome is that?

Romans 5:8 
"But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."

Luke 12:7
"Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows"

You are worth more than Gold and God knows your name and what is on your heart. He loves you!!!! 


John 3:16 says

"For God loved so loved the world that he gave his one and only son that whoever believes in him will not die but have eternal life."

Next time you look in the mirror, examine yourself and remember that God made every inch of you! 

7 more days!!!!

Can you believe it that this is the third year I cam going to Uganda?!?! It's been a year since I started this blog and I was writing about the same thing! So much has happened this past year which I won't go into detail because you have either heard it alot or just don't want to hear about my life haha:P Anyhow this year has started really well, things are going well so far. I haven't written a post in a while just because of how busy I am. I am working lots and by the time I get home, I just want to sleep! I have 5 days of work left...yay and then I have to find another job when I get back because in order for me to go to Uganda, I have to quit work and then when I get back and if I still want the job I have to reapply which kind of stinks haha! I know that God has a job out there for me!

I have started to pack and for the life of me, I can't remember how I packed the past two years, oh well...I am almost done! There are 18 of us going, and I am so excited to see what God is going to do on this trip. It is so cool to see how he has worked the past two years. I really don't know what more to write so I will just end it with this....GOD LOVES YOU!


Things to pray for:

-That God  will prepare our hearts for this trip.
-We will all be HEALTHY in JESUS NAME!
- We get everything we need for the trip such as our medication and paperwork etc.


Thank you!

Mikayla :)

Having an emotional past and how God restores us

Each and everyone of us has had some sort of event or something that we have gone through that has not only shaped us into who we are today but has also been hard and emotional. 

My story: 

I have gone through hard times the past little while. In this year alone, my dog died  just before I left for Africa. One of my friends/sisters at the time completely lost my trust in every way possible. She hurt me in many ways including emotionally and spiritually. I felt abandoned, scared and I was full of hate. Night after night I couldn't sleep. All this happened a week before my trip including things with my job, things weren't going well. When I got back from Uganda, I hated being back in Alberta because I didn't want to deal with all of this hurt again. Satan was pretty much in my way and I was so full of hate! I thought I had also lost my job. I was an emotional wreck, almost punched the wall a few times. I was literally going through the lowest valley that I have ever gone through. I struggled with a lot of things  and I was so blind because i didn't see or feel God at all. In about May I really started to find and search who God has made me to be. Since then my relationship with myself has been really good and most importantly my relationship with God has been amazing. He has shown me the love that he has for me and how I am a woman of God! I want to be that woman that when wakes up, satan says "crap, she's up." There are still days where all of a sudden I'll start thinking of the past but I know that God loves me and is taking care of me. We all go through hard times but please remember this....

-God loves you so much and will NEVER love you less but instead he will love you more! 

-if God brings you to it, he will bring you through it! 

-God turns the broken into beautiful. 

1 Peter 5:10- And the God of grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. 

Psalms 147:3- He heals the broken-hearted and binds up their wounds. 

Exodus 14:14- The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.

Psalms 30:11- You turned my mourning into dancing, you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy! 

Waiting on God's timing!

Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years have gone by and I am still waiting. Waiting for Christmas to come, waiting to go back to Uganda, waiting to get married and waiting to see what God is going to do. I almost am finding myself impatient and anxious because I'm waiting for all of these events to happen and not being patient and trusting God and having faith that this will all happen. 

Lamentations 3:25 says "  The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him." 

Psalms 130:5-6 “I wait for the LORD,  my soul waits, and in his word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.”

We have all heard that saying "Good things come to those who wait." But do we actually wait patiently and trust God and knowing that everything is going to be okay? I don't most of the time but I try! 

I have this countdown app on my iPod which counts down to all the special events like when I'll be able to see Grant again,  Africa and our Wedding but I kept checking that app every 5 minutes and wondering why time is going by so slow. I just want it to hurry up. I then deleted the app because I was tired of waiting and feeling like I was stuck in this machine that made everything stop and that time was going nowhere. 

As I look back on my life, time has sure flown but when I look into the future, time isn't moving fast enough. In just over 2 month, I will be going to Uganda for the third time. In just 8 months, I will be married to the love of my life! It seems like it's an eternity away and everybody keeps telling me that time is going to fly by but then why do I feel like this; feeling like I'm stuck in space or in a slow motion machine? 

I have to live everyday knowing that these special times are coming and I have to make these days count that I'm in right now! Make friendships, work and earn money and enjoy what God has given me right now! 

I am also just waiting to see what God is going to do in my life because I also feel like I'm at a standstill with God. Just waiting for that moment where somebody asks me how God is working in my life or waiting for that opportunity to just feel the Holy Spirit working! I work at a place where I try and talk about my faith but people try and quickly change the subject! Deep down it hurts because I want to live my life for God but things always pop in the way. During this season of life, I'm waiting to see what God is going to do! 

One of my new favorite sayings is "Until God opens the next door, praise him in the hallway." 

Even though I can't really talk about my faith at work, I try and be that Godly example of saying hi to everyone, smiling (I love smiling) and not getting mad. Being that radiant light where God just shines! 

I make sure I pray lots everyday, and even read a verse everyday! I love going to church every Sunday because it's like a charger, I need to be filled up again in order to start a new week full of energy and laughter! 

I have noticed some little blessings everyday that God has given me to just show how much he loves me BUT I am still waiting to see what the next door God is going to open! 

I want to end with a few verses from one of my favorite songs "While I'm waiting" by John Waller. 

"While I'm waiting, I will serve you,

While I'm waiting, I will worship,

While I'm waiting, I will not faint. I will run in the race even while I wait."