Enough with the anticipation already!

So I am less than three weeks away from my departure date of September 16th. I have known I was going to be going to Peru since April. I have been through a myriad of emotions and thoughts about this journey God is leading me on.

I started off as totally excited because in theory...this is very exciting. Once the summer started coming to a close, once I started finalizing travel plans, once it started to really sink in that I'm about to leave everything that I've ever known to be a culture...then the excitement turned into a bit of anxiety.

Let me recap for anyone who may not know exactly what's going on:
Most of the time we can look back in our lives and see where certain chapters ended and others began. I feel a new kind of anticipation that I've never really felt before - I can see a new chapter getting ready to begin. And this isn't the type of chapter where one ends and the next one picks up where the previous one left off on the page before. This is like an entirely new section of the book, the kind that calls for a blank page to seperate one chapter from the next. So that there is no question in the readers mind that when they begin the next chapter, there will be significantly different circumstances in the life of the protagonist.
I am moving to La Rinconada, Peru. La Rinconada is a village that at 16,730 feet above sea level, is the highest permanent human settlement in the world. A village that is a 6 hour car ride from the nearest town (Puno, Peru). I am moving there to offer what I can to the indigenous Peruvians of La Rinconada, knowing good and well that what they will offer me will be exceedingly more.
Specifically, I will be teaching English to elementary school-aged children while learning Spanish myself. I will be living with a family in La Rinconada. I will be relying on and growing closer and closer to my Lord. Other than that, my heart and mind will be open to what God has in store for me.

There is no question in my mind that this is where God would have me to go. I prayed and prayed for God to send me wherever He needed me to go...and I would go. And now its time for me to pray with my feet, in other words - I'm going to go.

The enemy (aka the devil) will always enter doubt into our minds and anything else to derail us when he knows that we are really furthering God's kingdom through love. And doubt and fear have definately been two emotions that have passed through my head. God has spoken to me through his word to calm my anxieties and cleanse me of my doubts. Two passages of scripture specifically have been especially meaningful and I will do whole blogs on each of them in the days/weeks to come. Those two passages are: Genesis 22:1-19 and Hebrews 4:14-16.

So stay tuned ya'll...God's fixin' to do some amazing things!