AmeriCorps VISTA

Well, I'm officially an AmeriCorps VISTA. My one year contracted started yesterday 8/20/10. I will be serving the Boys and Girls Club of Utah County as their volunteer coordinator. My emotions have been up and down. I spent last week in Portland, OR for Pre-Service Orientation (PSO). Random note, Portland is such a beautiful city; I got to go on two lovely runs there. It felt good. Back to the story, I spent Wednesday afternoon on the phone with my mom. I was in tears because of confusion and fear. She reminded me to pray about it some more and then put in her two cents that at this point, it's pointless to not go through with my commitment. It's just a year. I can do it. So, I went out for one of my prayerful runs. I went to bed still feeling unsure but I awoke the next morning feeling completely at peace with the decision. Friday morning, I came home from training in Provo excited (like I was initially). Then I tried to figure out my financial life for the next few months. It's my biggest fear right now. I made some dumb financial decisions/mistakes this summer and am still paying for them. So, I started putting whatever textbooks that I don't absolutely need and are actually worth more than $10 on half.com. I found a Stats one that most people were selling for $90+. I posted it for $87.99 and said a prayer that it would sell soon. Today, I received that wonderful "You've made a sale" notification in my inbox. :) It made me happy. $88 I wasn't expecting to have. It's just amazing how God keeps addressing my concerns and answering my prayers. As much as I'm a rollercoaster about the next year of my life (most of it has to do with my location), I know that I'm in the right place. God is working wonderful things in my life. For example, after more financial concerns today, I randomly got this prompting to check out the loan options from PSECU. I realized that I can take out a low interest personal loan from my Credit Union that I can use to pay off the two credit cards that I was dumb with...so that I can cancel them. That way, instead of paying interest on two separate cards (the one has been interest free for the past year but will no longer be so after next month), I'll just be paying a lower interest on the loan from the credit union.