Geez!! How do I always fail so badly at keeping up with my blog?
Currently I have some time as Andrew is in surgery since he tore his ACL running the tough mudder. I am thankful that I was in Florida at the time and did not run that race and I heard that lots of people got sick from the stagnant water too, GROSS! I think I'll pass on obstacle races from now on.
As I sit here I can't believe it's been almost 2 weeks since Peru! How did that trip come and go so fast? I'm guessing you might want details! :-) The trip was amazing! We had an amazing team of teens! It was wonderful! I learned some serious patience as one of the leaders was very hard for me to deal with! But I also had to remind myself and I think it was more God telling me (over and over) we may not see eye to eye but he has a great heart and loves being on the trip just as much as I do. I was also very blessed that one of the girls who i was close too from last year came back again and was a leader in training with me on team 4. We were able to talk and laugh lots and just have fun! She is starting college this fall and she wants to be a labor and delivery nurse :) so fun!
But the trip was great, the country itself, the incredible people of Peru, team 4. Over 2,000 people accepted Christ! How amazing! I love that each of those people will be followed up with and plugged into a local church! God is so good. One of the days, we went to a village and we got to meet a woman who had accepted Christ 5 years before when the last never the same team was there. She now leads Bible studies in her home! It was just so cool to see that! And to know that through our team and Gods hand that more people in that village came to know his great love!
Makayla and Mariah were also on the trip :-) they were on separate teams this year and I think they both really enjoyed that! I think it was good for them to be apart and get to experience the trip that way. They have already decided that they would like to go to Costa Rica next summer! So fun for them :-) I'm just gonna help them raise money, woot woot! Mariah was on my team however and it was fun to see her every day, sometimes when they are apart they are much more pleasant! I know that they both learned lots about the Bible as we went back to the basics for some of our nightly meetings where we had amazing speakers :) We talked about David and Goliath and how God is big enough to defeat any of our giants, whatever those may be. We also talked about Daniel and the lions den and how God can handle our toughest problems and we can just sleep/rest in that assurance. Another night was about shadrach, meshach, and abednego, and how we can stand even amidst flames knowing that God is always there! I know there is more to share but I'm planning on writing more. The twins especially Makayla have been reading their Bibles every day since the trip. And because of that, they both and me included got to pick out new bibles yesterday. I got a pink life application study bible. I'm really excited about it :-) God is amazing!
In other news, our house is sold! We close on Wednesday :-) we are still waiting on the closing date for the new one but the current sellers don't live there and we have somewhere to go so I am thankful for that. It seems surreal that in a week or so I won't live in my old house! I've lived there for almost 8 years. But I am really excited to be able to have a new house in which to make a home with Jared. And it's big, maybe we will have to work on filling it up ;) and I'm not talking about furniture.
I just talked to the surgeon so Drew is done :) he said he did great and that he was able to repair the ACL, even tho he had to take some of both sides of his meniscus. So I think that means that he probably won't be doing much long distance running. But I'm just glad that everything went great! The surgeon that did the surgery is one that I work with and really good, so I wasn't worried.
I will write more soon! It's a promise! :-D
