Sweet is not just a rock band.
Since moving up to North Carolina I’m finding I’m we’re home a lot less. Not that it’s a bad thing I just wish it was like this back when we lived in Florida. Saturday we went back to Turtleback Falls with youth group. You can really tell we’re going through a drought right now. The water was not nearly as strong as before and water was lower. I could tell the water was lower mostly by the fact that you could touch some of the rocks coming off the falls. We’ll probably wait for a good rain before we go back again. It was a great time for us though because we were able to build our relationship with not only Quentin and Marie (youth pastor and his wife), but with the youth group also. Taylor, who is a riot by the way, reminds me and Jen of our friend Gab back home. There was one of the youth I really hit it off with, Ryan. I’m hoping we can get together a bit more. We talked a bit about going backpacking or doing some hiking together so we’ll see. Sunday we had home fellowship group and that was just a sweet time together. Let me explain something real quick up until now I never really use the word “sweet” unless I was referring to maybe a chocolate cake or a cheesecake, now I use way to much I think. Honestly though, that is the best word I could use to describe the time we had together.
On our way to the Falls Quentin and I got on the subject of missionaries somehow and I think I made a comment about Ryan and Lisa. He was telling me that when he and his wife lay there daughter down to bed Melanie will tell them “mommy you pray for the mommy, daddy you pray for the daddy, and I’ll pray for the kids.” Referring to Ryan and Lisa our missionary friends…see post below this one. I thought that was the coolest thing. She’s 3 and has no idea what missionaries do, but she knows that they are far away with things we don’t have doing things for Jesus.
Classes started today for me…yay. Honestly I’m pretty excited about it I just forgot how it felt not to be in school.
Tomorrow is Jen’s birthday and I have set something up for her, nothing like last year though…sorry Jen.
Missions & Our Desire
I think most of you know that Jen and I have a desire to do full time missionary work one day and these past couple days really affirmed it even more. Anytime we get around missionaries whether it’s talking with them for a few minutes/hours/days, listening to them, or spending a few days with them we get excited about it. There are just some things that we need to do before we can really get into it. Mostly I just need to finish school. Oh and we have this small house back in Florida…come on hurricane season!
So on with the story. Tuesday we had some friends from back home come up and visit. Caleb and Eliana, actually those are Ryan and Lisa’s kids who I absolutely adore (Jen will understand). Ryan and Lisa are full time missionaries that we met a few months before we moved up here and they are getting ready to go to Mexico. This is like their farewell tour going to see family and friends before they leave. It’s kind of the like Eagles farewell tour, but better. OK so I have never seen the Eagles let along their farewell tour.
Continuing, they are with New Tribes Mission which is a faith based organization (meaning all of their support comes from people and churches they partner with no big organization) that go into tribal areas and work with the people in not only bringing the gospel to them, but also helping to translate the Bible into there language. They will be heading to Chihuahua, Mexico in November to begin their final part of training before they head out to a tribe. Last night they were able to speak at our church about what they will be doing and where they’ve been to get there. It was just a sweet time of fellowship between brothers and sisters of Christ.
So Tuesday night and yesterday we spent together just kind of hanging out and catching up…oh and we played spades. (Finally Lisa you were able to call blind nil). Wednesday afternoon Travis and I took Ryan mountain biking (I’m sure no one saw that coming). It was a fun time…I think Ryan had fun. I know at one point Travis said to Ryan “I bet you can’t believe you paid for this”. They left this morning and we’re hoping we can meet up one last time before they leave for Mexico and we’ve even talked about going to visit them in Mexico.
On a side note Jen had a mole or some type of pre-cancerous thing removed from her chest. It was really small and we should have the results back next weeks sometime. Till next time kids.
