God is good! ALL the time!!

Today I was in Wayne, NE just checking out all the stores of my future home...and we happened to walk by a store of new and secondhand items for children...my mother and I of course stopped in and started picking up clothes for me to take to the children at the orphanage. Well the owner of the secondhand store wasn't around but someone was working in Jacob's Room..he told us that the secondhand store only took checks or cash..and I didn't have enough cash on hand because it's all just been in my savings account until I go over to Uganda..we asked if they would take my out of town check and he called his boss..his boss didn't actually own the secondhand store..they just wanted to make sure people could get in there if they needed to..she told him on the phone to have me just make the check out to her and she would cash it on Monday to give to the owner of the other store..and kept asking him if she was making a bad choice with the chance of the check bouncing...we told her multiple times it would not bounce and kept re-assuring her I had plenty of money in my account and told her what I was doing with the clothes and this mission trip I am going on...her attitude instantly shifted and I heard tears in her voice...she then gave us 10 baby books (a $70 value)..and anything else we would like to take that had a duplicate of for up to $50 in value...it turns out that she lost her son...and that's why she opened the store in the first place...God is so amazing for who He places in our paths..at all times...and we don't even have to meet in person! Thank You Lord!!!!

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

BURSTING AT THE SEAMS!!!

Currently as I am typing this, I keep looking through the Amani website, pictures of the babies, and talking to a woman I have come to call Mama Nicole. Nicole currently lives in Canada with an African Mama and twin daughters! Nicole has legally adopted all of them. She is at Amani right now and we have communicated throughout her entire stay. I am so grateful for everything she has shared with me and I cannot wait to go on this adventure for myself! Everyone that sees me and knows I am going on this trip continually asks me if I am getting excited...and I have to tell you, YES!! I tell everyone that I am excited but no one truly knows just how much excitement is in me. I literally am BURSTING AT THE SEAMS with excitement and anxiousness to be over there already!!!! I have a countdown on my phone until I take off on my first flight to get to Uganda. This countdown doesn't just have the days; but it has the hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds! I cannot wait to update you while I am in Uganda, but I guess for now you will just have to WAIT PATIENTLY UPON THE LORD, like I am doing myself. God Bless You for reading this, and THANK YOU!!!
Love ALWAYS,
Jennifer Rose

About me:
My name is Jennifer Rose Sladky
I am 18
My favorite Bible verse is 1 Timothy 4:12 ( Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.)
I come from small town Nebraska
In the Fall of 2013 I'm going to college at Wayne State to receive my bachelor's degree in Special Education and hope to later go on and receive my master's in Speech/Language Pathology
I love to take pictures and am a photographer under the name Rose Images Photography
I go to a Baptist church but consider myself to be a non-denominational Christian, follower and messenger of my Lord Jesus Christ

Proverbs 16:9
A man’s heart plans his way,
But the Lord directs his steps.

This Bible verse speaks to me so deeply with this adventure that God is sending me on.