Kamloops deserved vacation after a year of great battle and many blessings, and planning the next year 2013

Well deserved holiday,
I am in a week vacation in Kamloops, from the Christmas day to New Year with  Brazilians friends these days here has being very blessed for me. As I said in previous post I had no idea how I would pay the first semester of college, I was very happy to be playing and studying. Today I will share a little bit of how it was my first semester of classes at Columbia Bible College, and also the first half of the basketball season.
As I arrived late at the college I had to work for the late things, and do some homeworks. Thankfuly I started working at the gym as I said God opened a door for me to work in the gym for 14 hours a week.
But the doubt was still in my life, how I will pay the school year? When I got to Abbostford I along with 3 teammates rented a house, but God would not let me live there for long time. After 3 weeks living with them I received an email from the director of the finance department, which already knew of my financial situation, and I had not yet paid the college (What I should have done before starting the study) . The email went something like this: "Good morning Marcio, I need to talk to you about your financial situation, you can come to my office today yet?"
When I saw the email I got desperate and started to pray, and plan my apologies to talk to her about my late payment, had lunch and went to talk to her. The conversation started cold, and she explained my situation again, and I was about to put my words into apologetic action  when she said that she had something very important to me that after a few meetings with other  leaders of the shool they decided to talk to me. She told me that a family donated $ 10,000 to the college, and after these meetings that they decided to offer me a scholarship of $ 5000, I was blown away when she spoke, 5 THOUSAND DOLLARS???? She put a paper in front of me and said that I could take home and think about whether I would accept or not. It's funny that after some 5 seconds I had signed and said to her, I thought, and accepted with the condition to live on campus with no problems, are you kidding me, do not accept this blessing.
It was a huge blessing to me, God was very good. Living with people who have the same thoughts about God and close to the gym, and next to the classroom, the money cover my rent and my food, and with two more scholarships  I still had to pay $ 2,000 for the first semester, which was easier because I was working at the gym.
It was really pulled the first week of class, a lot of reading and new information, I've never been a fan of history, but this semester studying the Old Testament I had to get interested, and was one of the best classes I've ever had, In addition to spiritual formation and discipleship, written for college, service practicum and introduction to youth ministry.
The first half of the season was not good, we won 2 games and lost 6, 2 of those games that we lost it was at the last second, the buzzer. But for me personally it was a great opportunity to have minutes on court, had averaged 34 minutes per game.
After much study, many readings I could be approved in all matters, and on December 10th I made my last payment of college for the first half. This was a major victory for me, I was able to study, play and paid everything right.
In the third week of December started programming and pray about the year 2013, I have big plans for next year, but it made me very worried, because to accomplish these plans I need money to travel, and bad news here is that I cannot work again, because my college is not listed in the list of universities that have partnered with the government. God put me here and He will guide my steps, and to work out His plans for my life. Writing and this I realize that God really wants me to live by faith one more time here in Canada, I feel that He still wants to teach me somethings. And at his time will come the opportunity to work and I will put my plans into action!
This month of December was a month of much happiness for me, besides paying the first half, passing in all classes, and have a good start to the championship I was invited to do a missionary trip to Thailand in July 2013 I had to do some interviews, and testing and was approved for the position. I am very happy for what God has done in my life it has been a great moment for me, a great learning and growth, proving God in my life that we do not need money to be happy, that He will not leave anything to miss who is under the obedience of the Almighty!
I wish all readers a great 2013, that God is definitely going in the heart of everyone, and thank God for the year that is ending  2012 with many struggles, many obstacles, but with a lot of God's provision. I challenge and encourage you all to trust and leave your lives in God's hands, and to do that we must all come out of our comfort zone, and remember to change brings discomfort.