An Update(But not really, just an apology for not updating)

Hey readers!

So this is kind of an apology post more than anything. It took me two weeks to write my first letter--it was actually a very good, thoughtfully worded letter--but apparently that whole batch of letters my team sent were lost in the mail system. I apologize to those of you who have been checking this blog faithfully that there's only been that one update from my parents, nonetheless.


It's been crazy busy here in East Hollywood, nonstop activities and responsibilities from the moment I get up to when I go to sleep. It's been fun, challenging, exhausting and life-giving all at once, but I don't think I'll ever be able to make good on my commitment to publish weekly updates, so I really apologize for that. It's been a struggle to even record things in my personal journal, let alone write an insightful, succinct and legible letter home. I will write up some of my experiences and reflections once I get back, but because I'm so busy and snail mail is proving to be unreliable I think I will hold off on trying to update until then.

Just know that I am doing well. God's really been challenging me in like a bunch of different areas--ethnic identity, how I use my money, empathizing for other people's lives and cultures, being brave enough to talk to college students every day, being patient enough to work with children every day, and a bunch of other ways I can write about later. But regardless of what the issue is or who I'm working with, I feel like God is first and foremost asking me what the intent of my heart is. I could do plenty of good and brave and noble things in my time here, but if my heart isn't in the right place when I'm doing it, what's the point?

Thanks for reading this (not actually an) update, I'll be back soon and have more to say then.


--Stephen