La Buena Vida!: May 2009

Sunday, May 31, 2009

What I miss...

yes, them. This pic was taken at Kristin's bridal shower. I would've been there, but I'm thousands of miles and an ocean and expensive plane ticket away. Don't ever let anyone tell you being a missionary is glamorous or easy. It is wonderful and a blessing...because I know I am called to be here right now. However, sometimes it's really hard. People give up a lot when they decide to work in ministry, especially in another country. I've had an emotional week. I easily start to cry when I think about Kendra being prego and me missing this important part of her life (and I can't talk to my nephew and feel him move inside of her), and when I realize I'm missing all the planning and anticipation of a family wedding and upcoming birth. Yeah, it's hard. I guess I just felt like being transparent on this blog entry. Pray for me!! Thanks.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Happy Birthday Jasmine!

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY to my niece Jazzer! She's getting so big...I can tell even in the pictures of her, since I haven't met her in person yet. :( But, in just 2.5 months I'll be home holding her and her new baby bro (he arrives in July)! :)

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

American Swordsmen and Rent a Sword!!

This past week we have had about 15 college students and post-college age people here to check out IMM for a week during our media encounter called Go Borderless!

It has been a very busy month preparing everything for this and the week has been busy too! But so much fun! Everyone has meshed really well together and it seems like we've all known each other for a long time. There are a few people within the group who know each other from college or other things, but mostly they all came separately and met up here! On Sunday night, some of us decided to have some fun on the blue screen with swords they all bought from Toledo. The pics are not in order here, but we first did "Rent a Sword" commercial, then "American Swordsmen".

These guys were the judges: Deanna, Danny, Scott and Jerry.

Here's Jason, Jarret and Sephora: "Rent a Sword" yeah!! This screen grab is taken from our Canon Mark D II HD camera! Sweetness!

Sephora slicing Matt with her Samurai sword.

Here's me...I did a cheer for swords as my audition for American Swordsmen.

Jarret's sword (he's on the right) is amazing! It's so hot, seriously. He bought the sword that is a replica of one in "Lord of the Rings". I think it's the sword Aragon gets from someone...I don't remember exactly. Anyways, it's so sweet! I love it!

That's it for here. You can see more pics on FB here http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2018900&id=110400910&l=7648d54d82

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Pray for Alex!

Alex is 11 years old. His family are good friends of my family. In the last week his life and his families life has been completely changed and shaken. He was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in his blood and lymph nodes. He has a tumor the size of a football in his chest. They can't do surgery to remove it because it's too close to his heart. He will be on chemo for 8 months, then radiation to try and shrink the tumor and kill off the cancer cells. Please pray for healing, peace from God, and their faith to be strengthened and sustain them through this horrible, scary mess. Thanks.

Meet Sephora...

our new intern at IMM for 2 months. She comes to us from France. She has been here for almost 2 weeks. We had a welcome to Spain party last Saturday night and played Guitar Hero at the Godwins home. I've never played before, but now I love it! Sephora was really really good at it. I think the best out of all of us expect Kerry.

This past Friday was a holiday for Madrid so there was all kinds of stuff going on downtown. We went to see what we could do. People were everywhere! There was dancing going on near a garden, so we went, we danced, we had fun!

We are going to have fun together the next months. This week and next we will be very busy with our Go Borderless: Global Media Encounter fastly approaching. Students arrive in 2 days!! I won't be blogging because this event is going to keep us all busy and tired. But it'll be great!