Okay...So Now I am Truly Amazed...

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God has given me so many blessings and I am certainly not worthy of all/any of them. I have to say, I never knew what true friendship was until I joined the Newman Center at WWU. The literal, unconditional love I have felt from so many has brought me to tears.

What inspires this latest midnight ramble is the anonymous donation someone made to my JVC fundraising page. I got an e-mail saying someone donated and I needed to check out my JVC page to see who it was and I logged on and saw the amount donated. My heart stopped...but only for a second, don't worry. Someone had donated well beyond enough money for me to reach my goal...it was enough to make my jaw gape open and my eyes water with tears. I am so blessed.

Although I have no idea who sent it to me, they did send me a message that read "God bless you, Katie." Which means they know me personally because my donation page says Katelyn on it...this doesn't really matter...my point is this. God has brought me the best friends a girl could ask for, and I truly mean the best. I have never felt so much love and appreciation from people, who aren't related to me, before in my entire life. Am I worthy?

I must be if He has trusted me with their hearts and their love that they give so willingly to me...it's late, I'm now incoherent so there's truly no point to my madness, just this:

I feel loved, for the first time from people who share no genetic relation to me, I feel truly loved and needed by people and it feels wonderful and I praise God for that...now more than ever.

COUNTDOWN: 17 Days left in the PNW

Love you all.

Constantly Amazed

So Agape just finished up week four with our favorite group, and I am constantly amazed by the love they have for not only the Agape Service Project but for their fellow man and each other. They have so much love floating around Sacred Heart that by the end of the week, I feel really, really sad to see them go. On Thursday night we surprise the kids with an ice cream sundae party thing and I always introduce it by saying, "so because we love you and are so proud of you..."

Before I could announce the ice cream, Cole* (my favorite kid) yells, "we can stay another week!" He had the biggest smile on his face and puppy dog eyes because he really wanted to just continue with us into next week...it was so awesome to hear/see.

*Cole is like 4 ft. tall and really skinny. He's in the eighth grade and has so many strikingly deep things to say, it's incredible.

Anywho, it was a great way to round out my week. Then I went to Clint and Michelle's wedding, and it was gorgeous. They did an awesome job concealing the ugliness of the church gym by putting up beautiful linens and cloth drappings over everything, it was a purple and silver extravaganza! It was gorgeous, she was gorgeous and they looked soooooo happy! :) May God bless you guys so so much!

Well, we have our next group in four hours and I start "work" in one hour so I have to get ready for the week!

Just as a heads up: My JVC fundraising is at $460.00 and my goal was $500.00. So if you want to donate, you can go to this website below and search for my webpage under: Katelyn Conway. Thank you so much to all those have donated their money, their love and their prayers, I feel so overwhelmed with all the outpouring of love I have felt from everyone! Thanks!

Go to:
https://atl.etapestry.com/fundraiser/JesuitVolunteerCorps/CelebrateLA/aboutEvent.do

Then look on the left-hand side that says:
Find a JV to Support

JUST FYI

I am having a going away party on July 30th at the Siena House at 7pm. COME!!! I want to see all of you! Loves!

UPDATE***
So it might be on August 6th-7th now...just so you know...

Week Four After Graduation

So Agape is going well, I'm feeling very stretched thin and overwhelmed but still loving it, so that's a good sign. We don't have a group this week but the past two weeks were awesome. Our first group was a God send - 11 girls from all around the country. They were willing to do anything and so it made our jobs a lot easier. We all worked as a team and I felt more on top of things than I ever did last year.

Our second group was young adult week - 11 Catholic young adults (mostly our friends). It was exhausting and none of us can really pin point as to why it was such a demanding and tiring week. It was great though.

For the 4th, I went to Washougal to hang with some of my Western friends and it was great. Aside from getting sick on Sunday, I got to see a lot of alums that I probably won't get to see again for a long time. AND I got to see my old house...my old neighborhood...my old high school and my old dairy queen. I went to my old church too. My parents drove to Vancouver from Boise to see some of their friends so I got to see them too, which was awesome. It was weird being back and knowing that it wasn't my city to live in anymore. I got a little teary when I drove past my old house...weird feeling.

Today I'm on my way to getting my first ever background check. I have to get one for JVC so I'm headed down to the police station to get fingerprinted...I feel like an adult doing all this! It should be interesting. I have gotten my address and my housemates' names. I'll be living with three other girls in a house. I'm pretty excited to see where the road takes me and if I like these ladies (I should, we're all serving the community, how could we not get along?). But that's it for now. Loves!