Trusting and Patience...sometimes it's hard to do.

Sometimes it's hard to have patience and trust that God will take care of you. Today I received a call from LCMS World Mission telling me that we may have to set my departure date back because of the lack of funds in my account. Fundraising was the reason why I almost didn't apply to be a missionary. It's a scarey thing to trust God that I will raise over $19,000. It's even scarier each Friday when I receive my financial records and see that I'm not even close to reaching what I need to raise. Asking people to donate money to be apart of this mission is a hard thing to do. No one owes me a dime. However, I felt this strong call to do mission work overseas and it seems so stupid to let money get in the way of doing it. After all I know that God will provide, especially since He is the one who works in people's hearts to give financially...not me. It's still amazing to see how generous people are even though I am far off from the goal. Even though I wish I could be done with the fundraising like yesterday, I know that God is teaching me patience and trust. So I guess I'm asking everyone who's reading this email to pray for me that I continue to trust in God and have patience for God's timing.