These are a few of my favorite things. . .missing home
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SNOW! and cold weather |
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Concerts with my sissy |
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Painting |
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Riding bikes |
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hikes with the fam (my mom and sister frolicking to me) |
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My favorite person, and favorite place:loco pops |
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The sister’s first apartment together P-Town |
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never missing an opportunity to be weird |
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my horse dog: Oreo |
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my grandma jeanine. Her never ending smile or laughter |
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Themed parties! 80’s, and the “T” party.. why not? |
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Fall leaves crunching under my feet. Reasons to wear scarves, and rain boots.. |
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Random trips to the Portland zoo, because we have a zoo pass. Outdoor concerts, and the sun bears! |
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My amazing Aunt Amy and our whole family over for potlucks and board games. Metzger madness |
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Roses. My Rose city. Stopping to smell the roses. |
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| De-Licing Parties in Peru |
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| Claws in my food. I probably passed this chicken walking on the street that morning |
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| Packing 7 people in a taxi |
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| Riding on the outside when all seats inside are available |
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| Jellyfish stings, shady medical clinics, and makeshift bandaids |
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| Monsters on our floor |
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| Dominican Beaches |
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| Kids in Buenos aires, and always having my hair braided |
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| Random Beds in a coffee shop? PorQUE! |
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| Teaching kids to slackline. “Tu Puedes..” |
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| Sanza and Pastor Raul. I miss them! |
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| Shanty houses, and beautiful skies |
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| Praying with my prayer warriors in buenos aires |
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| Kelvin! |
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| Beautiful children everywhere we go |
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| Dramas for mucho ninos in random places |
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| Creepy and ridiculously large statues of Jesus everywhere |
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| Sunsets |
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| These look like rubber chickens, but they are not. And yes, they are in the sun on the back of a bike |
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| Brainstorming magnificent and original hairstyles in our free time. Kellen’s Corn rows and curly fro is my favorite |
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| Eating small rodents. Or large ones, we ate agouti in Ecuador. This is guinea pig in Peru. |
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| Getting muddy with one of the cleanest guys I know. Mud fights, Mud music videos. Mud. Priceless |
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| Our adopted puppy in Peru. I like to think his name is simba.. ( we also happened to be obsessed with the lion king) |
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| Dance worship at church. We performed with the high school youth. Awesome! “We’re the dancers..” |
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| Enjoying the little things. Meeting kids who can find Joy in anything, |
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| Impromptu photo shoot at a doctor’s office who told us half the group had herpes, when in fact we had bug bites. |
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| Riding in the back of trucks. Being really dirty |
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| Volcanoes, and sugar cane fields. |
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| Finding ourselves in a mega church, on live teen TV channel |
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| Beautiful lakes, and free “tatoos” via Victor. He is quite the artist |
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| “Hola Vaca!” |
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| Pupuseria’s and that pickled stuff.. mmm i love the maize ones |
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| Playing darts.. it has spread from the squad to our contacts as well.. it’s contagious. |
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| Chocobananas..or any other choco fruit! |
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| Stunning churches..sochitoto |
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| Mountains.. beautiful drives |
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| Drive a school bus.. all the cool kids have them. The limousine of Latin America |
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| Hammocks Hammocks everywhere. No one believes in a couch, por que, they have hammocks. |
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| Coastline in El Salvador. I love Rocky beaches..
That’s a small glimpse of Latin America and the Caribbean through my eyes. I am blessed to be seeing the world and getting to Love people wherever we are. I am currently enjoying the break from sweating to death in san vicente, el salvador with the cool breeze that’s blowing in. Looks like it is going to rain. This weekend is our last couple days of ministry, and then we head off to Guatemala for Debrief, Los Angles for a day layover, and then across the globe to Thailand! Please keep our whole squad in your prayers, and thank you for all who are supporting me financially as well! Our next deadline is fast approaching, please continue to pray for my funding and spread the word. |
