“How’s married life?!”

I have a new blog!  If you haven’t noticed, it now says this blog belongs to “Kayla Hindes”…yep, that’s me!  On October 29^th, I married the love of my life, Nicholas Hindes.  This guy:
 
We have a really sweet story that I’d love to tell you someday if I haven’t already.  But in a nutshell, 2011 was a year full of some major transitions for both of us.   January 19, 2011: Nick and I started dating….June 10, 2011: Nick proposes in the most incredible way…October 29, 2011: Nick and I get married and celebrated with family and friends here in Georgia. 

“So Kayla…how’s married life?” I get that question a lot.  It makes me laugh.  I appreciate the sentiment, I do.  It just cracks me up that I never got the question, “How’s single life?” before I was married.  Just a humorous observation.
 
But to answer the question, married life is awesome!! Never again will I have to be alone.  I will forever be protected, honored, and loved.  After having approximately 13 roommates over the past 10 years, I now have a permanent roommate, yay!  🙂  Nick and I have so much fun together.  We laugh a lot, we share the deepest places of our hearts, we walk through new experiences together, we’re learning a ton about ourselves and each other, we eat new foods, and visit new places. 
 
Nick and I also get to work together at Adventures In Missions.  More specifically we both work with our Passport and Ambassador Departments.  Passport trips are for college age students and Ambassador trips are for high school students.  We work with both the students and their leaders.  Nick oversees all of the team blogs for our students on the field.  This involves reading and monitoring all communication that comes from the field.  He prepares students before they arrive for training camp through these blogs.  Nick also does a ton of interviews for male participants for all of our trips.  I specifically oversee leader recruitment and mobilization.  This involves relationship building and admissions as I get them from where they are currently through the process to lead a trip with us.  Nick and I are both on the field support team as well.  Each week we call our leaders on the field and check in with them to assess the emotional, physical, and spiritual health of both them and their team.  We love being a position where we get to speak life into these leaders, empower them, and watch first hand God do a major work in their lives as they lead their team. 
 
As I write this, we’re in the midst of another Passport training camp.  We currently have 15 leaders here for some leader training before our 82 students arrive tomorrow.  On Tuesday the teams will fly out to their respective countries.  We’ll have teams in Nicaragua, Thailand, India, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania this Spring.  Nick and I will be heading out to India and Kenya in March to spend time with these teams on their mid-trip debriefs.  Stay tuned for blogs on how those teams are doing and what God is doing in their midst. 
 
I hope this help update you on my life these past few months.  Thank you for all of your prayers and support.  We’ve received cards from so many of you congratulating us on this new incredible chapter of life we’re beginning.  We love that you’re on this journey with us.