Settling In

"He has called each and every one of us to live a life of impossibility" -Pastor Joe Oby

This week I have laughed harder, thought deeper, slept better, and prayed more intensely, than I have in a LONG time. I've been back in Madison for 8 days now, it's flown by, and yet I feel like I've been here forever! How does that work?
It has been a challenging week trying to get settled in, but I finally feel like I'm better prepared for this next week now that I have a better idea of what's going on. Our schedule during the week was pretty insanely busy. Busier than I have been in ages! My days seemed to go from 7am to at LEAST 10pm every day with MAYBE an hour of breathing time in there. I'm so not used to being that busy every day! I found myself saying one day "I need to do some time management, I just don't have time to figure out how to manage my time!" And I've been told it only gets worse from here. Encouraging right!?  Being an extreme introvert spending all day being social, I found myself pretty exhausted by the end of each day! I would go through each day and list what we did, etc, etc, etc...but I don't remember every detail, I even went back through my journal for reminders of each day and literally a couple days my journal entries ended mid sentence! Examples:
    -Wednesday, Aug. 13 "I keep thinking of Leann telling me to consistently journal. I didn't realize how hard that would be! Every moment is packed and when I"   and then it ends. Just ends right there.
   -Thursday, Aug. 14 "I'm not sure how to"    I'm not sure what I didn't know how to do, but I guess I'll never know because that's where it ended...I'll need to work on my ability to finish a darn sentence before realizing I'm late to something, or before something comes up!

I've gotten to know quite a few people this week, doing different projects and going to staff houses for meals and such. I'm still blown away that God has called me to this life.
 I know I really haven't gone into much detail at all about anything, but I think that is where I'll end for right now. I thought it would be easy to keep up writing constantly, and it even crossed my mind that maybe I'll post too much! But I just kinda laugh at that now and hope I'll sit down and do another one before December :)

On a random side note, we had yesterday off and so I went to the FREE ZOO in Madison with a couple friends! Seriously so much fun! I haven't been to a zoo in quite some time. I hope to go back every single week for the remainder of my time here. :D