Following the Father

Friday, July 10th 

Yesterday I did more painting on the iron in the courtyard wall.  The paint is so runny I end up painting my hands as well, and since it is oil pain it does not come off easily!    Like before we worked on various projects around the church all morning then ate lunch.  After lunch we all took turns in the showers.  There is a separate building where the showers and toilet...

Wednesday, July 8th

Yesterday was our first fully day in Monterrey.  It was busy and completely fascinating.  I am already wishing that I could have longer to get to know people.  In the morning we worked under the direction of Emmanuel of the Merge staff to scrape and sand the old peeling paint off in the church.  We also cleaned up windows and washed dusty curtains and décor and started putting on the new coat of paint.

I...

Sunday, July 5th 2009

Today is my birthday. I didn't think much about that fact when I got up this morning, my thoughts were more occupied with getting out the door with all my stuff and to the church parking lot by 5:30am.  Today I and 16 others from church left Mac for Mexico!  I've been planning on this trip for the past several months but I didn't foresee that Ben would be going as well.  He didn't k...

Again it has been awhile!  I keep telling myself I'll do better with consistent blogging but I keep having technical touble and it discouraging me!  I have the most trouble with pictures and blog posts aren't nearly as interesting without them.

I'd been planning for the last several months to go with my church on a short missions trip to Monterrey Mexico.  The team was meeting every Monday evening to plan and train for our time there.  The day before we l...

May always seems to be a busy month, and this May is no exception! My poor site has been woefully neglected of late because of it. Short posts are better than no posts I always say have recently determined, so that is what this one will be!

My youngest sister always makes life interesting so I'll just give you a few quotes of hers from today.

I'm walking through...

Here is a selection of my favorite senior pictures that got taken last week.

Ok, so we've jokingly said that this state has the strangest weather in the U.S. as it can change from the 70s to 30s almost over night, but everyone seems to claim that about where they live!  So now that we're in about a foot or  more of snow and it's almost April I'm thinking I should write a poem about this!  The drifts that we've collected around our house are completely shocking!  You can't see the railing on our deck.  It makes it very hard to try to estimate t...

I'm trying yet again to update on some recent things that have been happening with me in regards to my desire to learn midwifery.  I tried multiple times yesterday to post something but kept being interrupted for many reasons, and then so many things would happen before I'd get back to it that by that time things had changed so much that I needed to rewrite the update!  Then when I finally did finish typing something current last evening, the comp...

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

I did NOT just spend almost 40 minutes looking through other peoples highly clever and funny Not Me Monday posts.

As you've probably noticed I'm switching alot of things around and changing almost everything in my site.  I still haven't finished with all that I'm wanting to do, but I'm slowly getting there.  I've decided to stick with this Webs site builder and blog for now.  I don't think any particular company is perfect and has exactly what I want, so I'm doing to j...