Did You Know...

Hello.

So, I found out that if you call the USPS at 1-800-610-8734 and say that you need a free military care package kit, they will send you free priority mail flat rate boxes, priority mail tape, and customs forms! It sounds like they change what type of boxes you receive every so often, because I found another woman's blog and she got a lot more boxes than I did.

In my kit I received:
2 Medium Priority Mail Flat Rate Boxes
2 APO/FPO Priority Mail Flat Rate Boxes
Mailing labels
Priority Mail Tape
Customs Forms
And the envelopes to put the customs forms in.

When you call you just give them your name and address and they mail the boxes to you in 7-10 business days. They also give you an ID number so that when you call again, all you put in is your ID number and they have your name and address under that number and they mail you more!

Many of the boxes are the APO/FPO boxes that can ONLY be sent to those addresses, so if you're just trying to get free boxes your shucks out of luck because you can't mail those boxes to regular addresses.

It's All In God's Hands...

Hello.

Sooo it has definitely been a looong time since I have written anything. Knowing me, it will probably be a long time before I post anything again.

I don't have an exciting post about controversial religion topics (which I always enjoy doing), but just a..."Here's what's going on in my life right now" post.

I'm stressed. A lot. These past couple of months have been a huge God lesson for me. I am learning over and over how to put everything and every situation in God's hands. It's hard and I will probably still be learning when I am in my 80's.

First, my boyfriend got deployed. If you don't know, my boyfriend Taylor is in the army. He has been deployed to Afghanistan. I can't say the deployment came as a surprise, because I knew he was getting deployed before I started dating him. That doesn't make his absence suck any less, though. I miss him terribly. I worry every second of everyday if he is OK. I pray constantly. I think I have prayed more in these past couple of months than I have prayed in my entire life combined (and that's saying a lot...because I may not be an out loud, fall on my knees and pray type of person, but God gets a lot of prayers from me all day everyday about all the little things in life). I walked around Target the other day like a zombie, completely lost in thought and sadness because I missed him so much. I cried at work the other day. It's tough.

Second, I am going to Peru (in 24 days). I am extremely, extremely excited for it. The 1st week there I will be doing missions work with the children of missionaries. Just because their parents are missionaries doesn't mean they don't need to hear about Jesus from someone else and get love and attention solely for them. I found out don't have the money raised that I need. So stress soared through the roof today. I still need to raise over $1,100 dollars for the missions trip. If I don't raise it, I have to pay the difference when I come home. I'm stressed. I feel like I'm pushing for money by doing this, but if you want to help you can go to www.cccomaha.org/give and set up an account. Once activated, login and select "Sort-Term Missions" and then select the trip  and Jaimie Lewis and enter your payment information.

I can't sleep. I'm stressed. Just...please please please pray that Taylor is safe, comes home safe, is OK when he comes home, and everything for Peru will work (not necessarily just money, but safe travels, God does amazing things in these kids lives, God does amazing things in all of our lives, and everything just goes OK).