This is NOT good!

So I am sitting here a day after my team has left and guess what.... I'm bored!

I was SO thankful to be able to sleep in yesterday... and again today... and I had a good day yesterday spending it mostly at JDV. Then today spending my morning at church and my afternoon reading and now that my kids are gone and everyone else is gone on Easter Holiday... I am getting bored. I was all excited about this down time that I was going to get and now that its here I don't know what to do with it... I have relaxed, watched movies, chatted with friends, slept, and now I sit here.... waiting for tomorrow and something to do...

On a side note I was TOTALLY blessed last night with a surprise visit from Sash. She was here to pick up her sister for Easter Holiday. I heard someone banging on the grate but thought it was the camp kids that are here using our facilities. When it registered that they would probably be yelling at someone to come open the grate rather then just banging on it like a deaf person I went out to see what was going on. I was speechless when I saw her I have not seen her since she was begging me not to leave her when I was getting ready to fly back to the states for Christmas. I have been texting and emailing her hearing nothing in return, I have been praying for her and begging God to keep her safe and out of trouble often hearing different stories from different people. Then last night when I got to see her for myself and hug her and talk to her... My heart soared. She is okay she looks good and happy all my thoughts of worse case scenario are not true! Praise God for blessing us with unexpected and fantastic surprises!

Praise the Lord!

I Made it through 6 weeks of work teams!

And I have a camp coming in today but they are supposed to take care of themselves.

The camp I was expecting got their dates wrong and will be here next week when I am not.

But

PRAISE JESUS! I made it through. I am spent and have nothing left but I made it through!

God is so good!

My kids left for Easter Holiday yesterday and they will be gone for the next 2 weeks.

Please pray for them and their safety as they are back at home.

Please also pray this week as I continue to prepare my heart for the transition to the states.

THANKS!

I Love You!

Meet Curtis Baptist

This week I have the pleasure of working with a small group from Curtis Baptist High School in Georgia. This year at their High School they decided to do a missions trip for their senior trip and these were the kids that stepped up to come, while others complained wanting a "fun" senior trip.

Tonight the group ministered to their peers in chapel

Thanks Roberts!

We were blessed with a nice donation of great books and things for the kiddos.

I have lost count of how many times the books have been looked through and fought over.

Thanks Roberts Family!

Me And My Gang

I LOVE my Kingston Kids! Here are a few pics...

Kimberly, Tissia and I
Me and Patrona

Me and Tissia

Me and Roger

Me and Anesa

Me and Melissa

Me and A sweet little girl that I have yet to learn her name

Me and Tissy-Ann

Me and Tori-Ann

I praise God for my kids and the all the ways they bless my life!

Meet the Gridley Bible Class

I just had the opportunity to spend a GREAT week with the Gridley Bible Class, They worked hard, they played hard, and we had a lot of fun. It was great to see how God worked through them this past week!

Sunday Afternoons group picture after ice cream at I Scream
The Team before they left Sat. Afternoon

Me, Warren, and the The Team Leaders

God is so Amazing in the way He provides what we need right when we need it. I was very blessed by Kate. We became fast friends and she was so great for my heart this past week. I was also blessed and had so much fun with Mary Stoller who I love getting to work with and spend time with in JA. I know I had pictures with Mary I just didn't get one on my camera so I didn't have one to post. Thanks Ladies for blessing me so richly

The big projects for the week

Putting Tin on the Roof

Before

After Cement was poured. This picture was taken right before the form broke and two wheel barrows worth of concrete was dumped on Earl and Ryan.

The junk pile that has been building WAY to long

The tractor brought in to load all the junk into truck to haul away

After all the junk was cleaned up and hauled away

lots of painting was done this week,

lots of grates went from black to white a very tedious job but the girls did great!

The stump removal group

we were trying to clean up the worst junk areas
stumps were removed in this process

The stump pulled out framing the inside to hang a ceiling

the finished product

we worked them so hard most days the benches were full of power nappers after lunch.

Don't Read This Aunt Kate!

Good Friday Morning Everyone. I am now in my 5th week of my 7 week back to back teams/visitors so I took today off (kinda not really). I finished setting up for the team arriving tomorrow, and for Pastor Keith and his friends that will be staying here as well. This afternoon I plan to clean my house since I was gone all last week and leave for Kingston again tomorrow morning. This means I will most likely not have Internet access for the next week so that would be why I am not posting.

I am now putting a disclaimer because I know some don't like when I put pictures like this on. If you don't like mice don't read any more!

Last night right before I was going to bed my little friend came out to play. This little friend has started to get on my nerves as he had WAY overstayed his welcome, but seemed to get around the glue trap (as you can see on the opposite side of the mouse there is a patch of fur that I almost had him one time and he got away). This morning when I woke up I had the nice surprise to see my friend sitting in the trap waiting for me to take him out side to the garbage can. YAY!

Another random part of my day. I correspond with the teams before they come down to see if they have any questions or if there is anything we can do for them. This morning I got an email that started out Dear Mr. Davis. At first I laughed because this is the first time that has happened and I am kinda surprised it has not happened before with a name like Erin. I think they will be very surprised when they meet me next Saturday when they meet well.... ME and not Mr. Davis! Ha!

Have a great weekend. I love you!