1~ tomorrow we will be moving into our possible home, while our friends who live in it currently will be out. WE WILL BE ALONE (but we will have other missionaries that we can call but we will be living by ourselves) pray that we won't be all huddled up in a corner please!
2~ praise!! we got our Colombian ID's!!
3~ tomorrow us and some team members will haul all 27 bags to the place where we are staying for this week.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Monday, April 28, 2014
Prayer requests
1~ we would be able to learn Spanish quickly.
2~ we MIGHT have a house to live in, but some friends are living in it now, so we would have to wait till middle of June to be settled in our own home if that works out. I want to live in our own house now, but please pray that God will give me some patience.
3~ tomorrow we get our Colombian ID's, so pray that goes smoothly.
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Prayer requests
1~ praise!!! we found a place for our church to meet at and met lots of really sweet people.
2~ tomorrow we have to get our blood drawn! yikes! please pray that all goes well, with my biggest fear being shots.
3~ i would be able to continue friendships with friends back in the States.
2~ tomorrow we have to get our blood drawn! yikes! please pray that all goes well, with my biggest fear being shots.
3~ i would be able to continue friendships with friends back in the States.
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Prayer requests
Hey there!
I have a new idea. Every Friday I will update a full long blog spot, but the other days I will just list 3 prayer requests for the day. Starting today i'm just going to list 3 prayer requests for today.
1~ we are figuring out where we want to have church, and we may have to have it at the house where we are staying, and then we would have to move all 27 bags. pray that we will find a conference center to host our church.
2~ i would make friends
3~ we would all have a little grace towards each other, living all in the same room. we are all stepping on each others toes.
I have a new idea. Every Friday I will update a full long blog spot, but the other days I will just list 3 prayer requests for the day. Starting today i'm just going to list 3 prayer requests for today.
1~ we are figuring out where we want to have church, and we may have to have it at the house where we are staying, and then we would have to move all 27 bags. pray that we will find a conference center to host our church.
2~ i would make friends
3~ we would all have a little grace towards each other, living all in the same room. we are all stepping on each others toes.
Friday, April 25, 2014
We finally made it to Bogota!!
WE ARE HERE
Praise the Lord we made it! We arrived with ALL of our bags. It's totally amazing. Wednesday night, our last night, our church prayed for us and we said final goodbyes to sweet friends. My dad had to finish building a house, i know, crazy right?, and finish packing so he stayed in Memphis. My mom, Brook and I headed down with our carry-on bags to Southaven, MS. To meet at Mi Peublo for dinner with my mom's side of the family. We loaned a 15 passenger van, from our church for our 27 bags, that my dad would bring the next morning, to the airport. We arrived at 9:30 with my grandparents, and met my dad there at the airport. My dad brought along one of his close friends to help him. We had my dad, his friend, my grandfather, my mom, a man from the airport, and myself helping with the luggage. It still took us one hour to get it from the van, to the checking point, & then check all of it. My dad bought two huge boxes, that he and myself packed IN the Memphis airport. Crazy, i know. After we finally packed everything, and all of the luggage was checked, we said goodbye to my grandparents. It was especially hard saying goodbye to them, because we see them all the time, so that's one more thing that's going to be different. Once we wiped most of the tears away, we hauled our carry-ons through security and settled into our gate. Thankfully, our flight didn't take off till 11:30, so we had a little time. With all of our 27 bags plus our carry-ons we flew to Atlanta. We had a 3 hour layover in Atlanta. The first thing we did was find the nearest Chick-Fil-a. You never know how good something is till you don't have it. Soon we headed to our gate. Being the only Americans in the gate was a little scary, but we are just going to have to get used to it. The take off was oh so scary. There is no turning back now! But i was soon relaxed reading about the royal tour and Kate!! The flight from Atlanta is only 4 hours, so its not bad at all. As soon as we got off the plane it really was the most weirdest, shocking, intense feeling. All the signs were in Spanish, all the people were Colombians. Once we finally got to customs none of the people spoke English. It took 5 minutes to say, ''we are here for work.'' The lady was very kind, but she just didn't speak any English. As i said before all of our bags arrived with us! What a relief!! Transporting 27 bags plus our carry-ons, just ourselves was NOT so fun. After some hard work, some gentlemen came and offered to help, and as you can guess we gladly excepted. We soon saw some old friends who we knew from Memphis, who are missionaries down here, (not with MTW). O my gosh it was so so good to see a face that we knew. Our team leader and one other leader from MTW came to help us too, so that was good as well!! We were sooo thirsty after all of that, but our sweet missionary friends got us safe bottled water & some sandwiches, knowing that we would be thirsty & hungry. They had ordered van to come & get our 27 bags. We rode with our friends, because there was NO room for us in that van!!! We are now staying with some other MTW missionary family, who we just met last night for the first time. They have an eleven year old girl and an eight year old son. We haven't met their kids yet, because they were asleep last night, and had school this morning, and then had other stuff after school, so we won't meet them till later. We had lunch at this place called Crepes & Waffels. I DID EAT THERE! and it was pretty good. I had some type of cheese (it wasn't cheddar, because they don't have that here) with peeta bread. After lunch we went to the local grocery store. It was so interesting seeing how much more things cost down here. Everything is at least double the price than what you would normally find in the States.
at lunch Brook got a grape smoothie/drink
my meal, WHICH I DID EAT
our view from lunch
Praise the Lord we made it! We arrived with ALL of our bags. It's totally amazing. Wednesday night, our last night, our church prayed for us and we said final goodbyes to sweet friends. My dad had to finish building a house, i know, crazy right?, and finish packing so he stayed in Memphis. My mom, Brook and I headed down with our carry-on bags to Southaven, MS. To meet at Mi Peublo for dinner with my mom's side of the family. We loaned a 15 passenger van, from our church for our 27 bags, that my dad would bring the next morning, to the airport. We arrived at 9:30 with my grandparents, and met my dad there at the airport. My dad brought along one of his close friends to help him. We had my dad, his friend, my grandfather, my mom, a man from the airport, and myself helping with the luggage. It still took us one hour to get it from the van, to the checking point, & then check all of it. My dad bought two huge boxes, that he and myself packed IN the Memphis airport. Crazy, i know. After we finally packed everything, and all of the luggage was checked, we said goodbye to my grandparents. It was especially hard saying goodbye to them, because we see them all the time, so that's one more thing that's going to be different. Once we wiped most of the tears away, we hauled our carry-ons through security and settled into our gate. Thankfully, our flight didn't take off till 11:30, so we had a little time. With all of our 27 bags plus our carry-ons we flew to Atlanta. We had a 3 hour layover in Atlanta. The first thing we did was find the nearest Chick-Fil-a. You never know how good something is till you don't have it. Soon we headed to our gate. Being the only Americans in the gate was a little scary, but we are just going to have to get used to it. The take off was oh so scary. There is no turning back now! But i was soon relaxed reading about the royal tour and Kate!! The flight from Atlanta is only 4 hours, so its not bad at all. As soon as we got off the plane it really was the most weirdest, shocking, intense feeling. All the signs were in Spanish, all the people were Colombians. Once we finally got to customs none of the people spoke English. It took 5 minutes to say, ''we are here for work.'' The lady was very kind, but she just didn't speak any English. As i said before all of our bags arrived with us! What a relief!! Transporting 27 bags plus our carry-ons, just ourselves was NOT so fun. After some hard work, some gentlemen came and offered to help, and as you can guess we gladly excepted. We soon saw some old friends who we knew from Memphis, who are missionaries down here, (not with MTW). O my gosh it was so so good to see a face that we knew. Our team leader and one other leader from MTW came to help us too, so that was good as well!! We were sooo thirsty after all of that, but our sweet missionary friends got us safe bottled water & some sandwiches, knowing that we would be thirsty & hungry. They had ordered van to come & get our 27 bags. We rode with our friends, because there was NO room for us in that van!!! We are now staying with some other MTW missionary family, who we just met last night for the first time. They have an eleven year old girl and an eight year old son. We haven't met their kids yet, because they were asleep last night, and had school this morning, and then had other stuff after school, so we won't meet them till later. We had lunch at this place called Crepes & Waffels. I DID EAT THERE! and it was pretty good. I had some type of cheese (it wasn't cheddar, because they don't have that here) with peeta bread. After lunch we went to the local grocery store. It was so interesting seeing how much more things cost down here. Everything is at least double the price than what you would normally find in the States.
Brook's meal (a waffle )
Monday, March 17, 2014
I HAVEN'T POSTED IN FOREVER
I'm so terribly sorry, we have been so busy these past weeks. Well, we managed to get our visas and got the green light to buy our tickets, which is HUGE. We learned we don't have to be at 100 percent to go to language school. I spent half of my spring break in Brandon, MS with my little sister spending time with our cousins. The other half my family and I traveled to Atlanta, GA to get visas. While we were there we met up with my dad's side of the family to say goodbye. Saturday morning we headed to the MTW office. When ever any of their missionaries are about to go to the field, everyone at the office gathers around and prays for them. It's special and sweet to see everyone come gather around and pray for you. People should do it more often. Saturday night we traveled back home, we are trying to be at our church every Sunday. For some random reason my laptop ism't letting me download photos, but i'll try to post some tomorrow. If you want me talk about anything special, like MTW, Bogota, me & my family anything please leave a comment. Please keep us in your prayers!
I'm so terribly sorry, we have been so busy these past weeks. Well, we managed to get our visas and got the green light to buy our tickets, which is HUGE. We learned we don't have to be at 100 percent to go to language school. I spent half of my spring break in Brandon, MS with my little sister spending time with our cousins. The other half my family and I traveled to Atlanta, GA to get visas. While we were there we met up with my dad's side of the family to say goodbye. Saturday morning we headed to the MTW office. When ever any of their missionaries are about to go to the field, everyone at the office gathers around and prays for them. It's special and sweet to see everyone come gather around and pray for you. People should do it more often. Saturday night we traveled back home, we are trying to be at our church every Sunday. For some random reason my laptop ism't letting me download photos, but i'll try to post some tomorrow. If you want me talk about anything special, like MTW, Bogota, me & my family anything please leave a comment. Please keep us in your prayers!
Thursday, February 27, 2014
THURSDAYS
Sooooooo sorry I didn't post anything yesterday, but it was a crazy day. Today is day 3 of the missions week. Today I'll be taking about Shiloh's Shelter for missions week. Today is my youth leader's birthday! So me and my best friend surprised her. Hayden is the best youth leader anyone could ask for, & I'm so thankful that God put her in my life! Now I'm going to be talking about Shiloh's Shelter in India. This business has not officially stared yet. This is my uncle's sister & her family, Shiloh being his niece. They are missionaries to India, and they have been there two years. Shiloh is starting her own business. It's called Shiloh's Shelter. her website. It's a place for baby girls & girls to come to as a safe place. Click here to see a video about Shiloh's Shelter. Hopefully, you should be able to tap/click that link & go see a slideshow for Shiloh's Shelter. Anyway, when Indian women get married, the bride's family has to pay a ton of money to the groom's family, so girls are considered burdens. Most girls don't even make it to age 10.
Last summer their family spent 6 months in the U.S. My mom, me, and Brook met up with Shiloh & her mom. She really inspired me & helped me, because she was my age when they moved to India. They returned to India right after Christmas, around the time we left for Belgium. Please be praying for Shiloh's Shelter and their family.
Shiloh & her family
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