Ok so as we all know I am horrible at posting here lol. I guess I am not really a blogger just an occasional rambler. I have been doing well though for anyone who is wondering. I am loving my new macbook. I have so much fun just playing around but not only that it has an awseom calendar app and mail box checker so much better than outlook. I absolutely have fallen in love with it. I also like i-web ok and i-photo is great. 

I have finally gotten an answer from the lord for which i have been seeking since last november. I'm not exactly sure why He timed it the way He has but I know that He is an on time God. Maybe I wasn't ready to listen until now. Anyway, I should start at the beginning. As anyone who has stayed with my sporadic ramblings for long knows last semester was a little interesting for me. I got a job I thought was going to be great which turned out to be not so great. In fact it was traumatic. Because of the havoc reeked by my decision to take the job i ended up having to withdraw from two classes. During this time I started to question whether or not I should be going to school at all. I prayed about it and talked to my Pastor's wife and came to the decision that I should continue, but I still had a disquieting feeling about becoming an accredited teacher in a public school. I never really wanted to teach in a public school and after taking the intro to Ed class last semester I was even more turned off by all of the politics and strings attached to doing so. My main aim in becoming an accredited teacher was to be able to have a cover in order to do missionary work in whatever part of the world the lord sends me to in the future. Since deciding on this I have found that I don't need accreditation in order to teach english in any country. Another aim in becoming a teacher was to be able to learn and teach spanish in Christian schools. I don't need to be accredited in order to do that either.  So the long and short of it is I had last my desire to become an accredited teacher. (Hang with me here I know this story is a bit long.) So to make a long story a little shorter I started praying for direction and I continued going to school in the direction I had started. This is where a really far out thing happens as many of you may know I have been a part of the Sign Language Team at my church for the last 2 and 1/2 years. I have learned a lot and I enjoy signing songs and have even started trying my hand at interpreting some small parts of sermons. Unfortunately we have only had 2 deaf people actually come in the last few years. The interesting thing is both times I was the only one there advanced enough to interpret the service. The last time this happened was 2 sundays ago. This is when God spoke to me. As I tried to explain salvation to a deaf girl and encourage her to ask the Lord to fill her with the Holy Ghost, God was speaking to me. It went something like this

Quiet Voice of God "Ashley this is the second time that a deaf person has come in the last two years and both times you have been the only one here to interpret"  

Ashley "I know and I am not good enough to do this. I need Bro. Geist here."

Quiet Voice of God "If you became an interpreter you would be able to do this"

Ashley "Became an interpreter I've never even thought about it"

Quiet Voice of God "There is a program at the college which will teach, trust me I will help you to do this"

Ok so all this is running through my mind and all afternoon I struggle with whether or not it is just me or if it is God talking to me. I pray. It is definitely God speaking I have learned to recognize His gentle nudges. So I have decided to become an interpreter for the deaf instead of an accredited teacher. Wow what and experience.