Breathing and on U.S. soil.....Day 17

Rough Rough start today! The shot was sure in full kick! Can I say flying and being drugged up is not fun!!!! Little to say I slept a good 3-4 hours on our 8 hr flight! But I did get Starbucks in the mix! God had an amazing plane this whole trip. We all know I open up to no one. Well Aaron and me have kinda just clicked with all the shots, yes that means I have opened up! Asthma may have sucked but there is always a reason. Pretty much the last 2 hours we have been like middle schoolers passing notes on the plain but it was worth it! The convo of trusting God and just hearing how God works in both of our lifes is amazing. And all this wouldn't have happened if I wouldn't have had asthma attacks. As Aaron said on my first shot " we can bond by a board game or something better. Faking asthma attacks is a rough way of doing so." lol God knew what he had in store rather I liked shots or not, it built an awesome relationship that I don't see leaving any time soon. As for now I am ready to hit Chicago and turn on my phone to call Will   not ready to ready to reenter the world of life, that way my phone can stay off! I made it back to U.S. soil breathing!!!!! The Joke the whole trip!

Aaron and me...you can tell we really like each other

I don't know who is laughing more in this picture

Good bye Africa...Day 16

Last morning here in Africa! :( Today has literately been a blur. We went to church this morning with Mitchell. It started at 9ish and lasted until about 11-11:30 that is what you call a church service. They are so interscholastic here! I wish people at home would have the joy for the Lord like the Africans do here! It is like at home going to church is just something people do one Sunday mornings to check off their list. Here the people sow ant to be at church and dance and sing and just shut out to the lord! After church we went to a French restaurant . It was So GOOD! Except for the fact they smoke inside and my asthma just loved it! Which just lead to one even after the next and wouldn't you know ended with another shot! yes 5 in 17 days lucky me! My asthma just couldn't wait until I got back to the U.S. soil. once again another reaction. Then we did a debreife about what happened in each village and loaded the bus! A few long term missionary made all of us dinner before we left. Which was amazing. Sweet tea! and Cold! so good! Then it was off to the air port. Dear Lord they need a better system, no way are you getting out of there illegally. They check your passport 4-5 times in the amount of 5 feet. Then you put your bags through the scanner wait for your bus to go to the plain and oh wait get our bags searched again and you scanned again before getting on the bus. Seriously! there is a better system. As for now we are officially on the way out of here! It was surreal coming now surreal leaving! On top of this all i just don't feel good, so I am ready to sleep off part of this shot!

church

Adams little girl at church

Day at the Artison.... Day 14

Today pretty much started off with us being lazy and watching another movie. For the most part of the afternoon we went to Olympia to eat pizza. Then off to the artison. I hated that place! It was like a big court year with thousand of people coming your way asking you to buy their things. There isn't prices on anything you bargin for what you want. I got a couple good deals. I don't know if my first one was a good one or not. Then we came back to the house and part of the group went to the def school, So that tomorrow we can have the day just to pack up. The rest of us watched Ever After and then as a whole at frozen pudding and watch the Lion King with a couple of our translators. Oh and Lovely shot time. I made it a little over 3 days this time! Which is a first!  At least I got to wait until the end of the movie for this one or pick to, to say the least. This shot did not end so well. I had a bad reaction again. Good thing I just went to sleep.


Sorry I don't have any pictures from this day, as the trip started to wind down I didn't take as many picture.

reuniting... Day 13

Romans 10:15
And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is why the scriptures say "how beautiful are the feet of the messengers who bring good news."

It is weird staring out the day not being in the village and with the other team members, but I am sure today had something in store that we never new. We all had some pretty good talks before the other half of the team made it back. They got back around 2:30 . It was as if we hadn't seen our team for days. Which I think is awesome that we are that close to each other. So the afternoon was spent than none other showering and watching the Goonies! Yes we watched it on VHS too! Then we all set out for dinner to where we went our first night. We sat around the table and did our high and lows of the trip. It was fun hearing from everyone and how our hearts and things just change over the trip. It is amazing what God did in all of our lifes.

The TEAM or my African Family!

Breaking Heart..... Day 12

Last morning in the village so sad. It was weird coming and now it is weird leaving It is going to be hard leaving early but God has a plane and a reason for everything.

" be still and know that I am God." psalm 46:10

From teh time I went to bed last night to when I woke up this morning this verse has been in my head. We may not understand why we are leaving early but God has a reason and now we just need to trust him.
1John 4:16

And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. god is love whoever lives in love lives in God and God lives in them.

Psalm 18:39
You armed with strength for battle, you humbled my adversaries before me.

We have all had our weakness out here. Some it has been home sick for me my asthma, but God has given us the strength to be here to push through these things to glorify his name.

2 Corinthians 12:16
That is why for Christ sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in headships in persecutions, in difficulties. for when I am weak, then I am strong.

Saying bye to Sita today was probably the most heart breaking thing that has happened to me. I could not let her go. Yep tears and all. It didn't help that when I finally put her down she looked at me like she was going to cry. Tracy told me I had to be strong  but when you are saying bye to a little girl that has been attached to you all trip it is hard. I had her in one arm and Adam holding me in another. Leaving the village was for sure not easy. God for sure captured my heart this time in ways I never expected!  We made it back to Bomiko fine. The group we came back with is pretty neat. We went out to dinner with them and had a fun time, sharing stories from both villages we had been in. Charity and me gave Aaron a work out because we are in the roof bedroom and couldn't figure out how to lock or unlock our room. He ever gets a break from us! lol

Picture of Sita thanks to Adam

Sita hitting Adam with a water bottle

May I just say I love how they are both smiling...one because she is hitting

him the other because he is getting hit

The Perfect Closing..... Day 11

Psalms has truly been a book that has reveled it's self to me on this trip. It seems like almost every day I am turning to it! Psalm 67 may this just be my prayer this morning over the day.
3:00pm so far it has been a pretty laid back day. Aaron, Charity and I stayed back this morning while the others went to the village that has never heard the word of God before! We will be going their tomorrow night to show one of the films. Charity has been pretty under the weather all day. Two IV's down and she is starting to come back to life. Mean while I finally finished Choosing to See! Such a good book! The end was filled with nothing more than a ton of Psalms. Funny how God can work. Staying back has been good. We have had a few good conversations. Aaron and I got into a good one about taking your faith in your own hands and how in the world God got us here! It has been a long afternoon! My asthma has started to some what react not bad though! We had some other missionaries show up this afternoon to stay the night with us. With everything going on Randy made a decision to send Aaron, Charity and I back to the city with the other missionary's tomorrow. I just had another shot  and it hit hard! I had a reaction to this one like I hadn't on the others. Tonight has been hard I don't want to leave. If God knows how to break my heart he did tonight. It sucks don't know how else to say it. In the midst of crying I got to see the perfect sunset!Tonight the stars are shining and lighting up the sky. Amazing and a shooting start like none I have ever seen before! It was almost like a firework across the sky! God knew what he was doing. It was like a closer. The hardest part was sitting by the fire with Adam next to me having scubby on his lap and sita on mine falling asleep and her just not letting go!  If someone could have taken a picture or just pressed paused I could have stayed in that moment of having those two kids that way forever! But sad enough it had to end! Her mom taking her away for bed was almost to hard to take. I am tearing up writing this. If I could take her home I would. Saying bye is not going to be easy tomorrow. I for sure don't want this night to end! I can say I FELL in LOVE! This is my new home!

Amazing Sunset

Light Pictures.... Day 10

Woke up feeling pretty good this  morning. Still a little in the fog but not bad at all.

Joshua 1:9
I've commanded you to be strong and brave. don't ever be afraid or discourage! I am the Lord your God , and I will be there to help you wherever you go.
I love how God lets you know he is there. Yesterday morning I just sat and cried out to God why? Why can't I have a normal day? why my asthma? I just wanted to be able to help out and not always sit back and take it easy.  This afternoon we went out of the village and met up with the other Team. We went to a village that is very heavy Muslim. There we greeted the chief and tried to let them have us put in a water filter, but they didn't want the water system. We headed on to the lake from their. We spent a couple of hours at the lake eating lunch, talking, resting, and worshiping. It was so pretty the cattle kept coming  down through out the time. After the lake we were going to try to go to a village that has never been reached before. The road was so narrow there and bumppy. We could not make it. So it was back to our villages we went to take showers and make dinner. Which was very good! Made it through the day without any asthma attacks. Been a good day! For our nightly  entertainment we did light pictures. Aaron, James and Me made pictures out of swing or head lamps around or even putting them on the huts and having a shadow light. This is what happens when we don't have Technology.

The lake

worship

This is what we came to when we met up with the other team...lol

One foggie day .....Day 9

Today I woke up at probably 3-4 am and the moon was unbelievably Gorgeous! If I could have captured it I would have. Got to sleep in a bit. For sure feel like I have been hit by a train just because of the steroids and how bad the attack was. i did wake up to the song completely by Anna Laura. Such a smoothing and comforting song. especially with all these asthma attacks.
Psalms 56:9-11
my enemies will retreat when I call to you for help, this I know God is on my side! I promise God for what he Promised.
I trust in God, so why should I be afraid?

We had church will the Village people today. I missed most of it because I went out in the bush before not knowing to have some alone time by the tree. Then played with bubbles with the kids. So much fun! As for the afternoon I took about a 3hr nap under the hut. My body needed it! After the nap I felt a little better some of the shot had warren off.  We had a group of three boys come and put on an African dance performance. It was really neat to watch them. Who knew Randy had moves. He did a hand stand. The boys dancing ended up accepting Christ and dedicated their dance to the Lord. It is neat to see them see that they can use their talents to show others to Christ. Then the boys had fun trying to take a million pictures of me as I ran and hid! Quit attractive pictures came out of that let me tell you! And may I add we had probably I would say at least 100 people in our family complex and a little boy managed to lay on the ground and fall asleep!We are currently in F showing the Hope film. Adam and me just dance with the kids like no one business. They can move! It was quite the work out. So far today no breathing problems just still a little warn out from last night and in a fog. Hopefully I can make it the night! We had 33 come to Christ tonight at the movie!

Church in the village

Bubbles

The dancers

team dancin

little boy asleep in the middle of all that was going on