Okayyyy, I have neglected posting these simply because I had other blogs to post before. There is about two and half months worth of gratitude below, so enjoy: ) 

11/24 working on the island for the first time.

11/25 hours of sitting in an eno

11/26 really really good team time

11/27 finishing expense reports, yay

11/28 finishing elephant proof borders

11/29 a hippo crashing Carsen’s birthday party

11/30 blessing our host with no bake cookies

12/1 seeing a school of hippos!

12/2 FIXED WATER PUMP

12/3 more rain rain rain

12/4 Lucie’s hommme

12/5 dancing like fools around the kitchen island

12/6 playing broken telephone with the kids

12/7 carsen drank chakakflaka soup, yuck

12/8 grocery shopping on a rainy day

12/9 a day of baking and essay writing

12/10 ma willie’s pumpkin tart

12/11 painting ma willie’s home yellow : )

12/12 being really bad at jump rope = kids laughing at me

12/13 a morning for praying over Delta Cross Ministry

12/14 finishing up the yellow painting for the house

12/15 college acceptance and calling my family on Kerr Christmas

12/16 lucie’s leadership and respect for our teams

12/17 playing with the kids on the delta

12/18 setting up the vegetable tunnel!!

12/19 jumping in rain puddles

12/20 a day of making Christmas gifts

12/21 the power and importance of prayer

12/22 seeing wild giraffes

12/23 unexpectedly seeing another team at Choppie’s grocery

12/24 hot chocolate and Christmas eve dinner

12/25 celebrating the greatest gift we could ever receive with home made gifts

12/26 first time celebrating boxing day

12/27 great long conversations on the phone

12/28 My sweet family and the 87 years of my grandma’s life

12/29 last day seeing the kids. So hard. Ouch.

12/30 Deltafied Water ®

12/31 really thought provoking sermons

1/1 a fun last day in seronga

1/2 happy birthday to one of my  best friends

1/3 GIRL TRIP-NO LEADER- cool camp sites

1/4 people… Victoria falls…

1/5 A wonderfully adventurous trip back to Maun

1/6 seeing all the teams : )

1/7 fun dinners as a squad

1/8 praying for a woman at the mall

1/9 talking w/ my family, they are cool

1/10 ice skating and the movies : )

1/11 “American Iced Coffe”, basically coffee and ice cream

1/12 Making it to our new site

1/13 kitchen conversations while making dinner

1/14 hillsong staff/new friends

1/15 friendships / mom / obedience to the Lord

1/16 making copies for the office

1/17 making friends with teens on the street

1/18 martha : ) a lady who invited us into her home

1/19 celebrating hailey’s birthday with breakfast for dinner

1/20 SA & USA brai with new friends

1/21 chatting with Popi, our ministry host, at his favorite restaurant, burger king

1/22 1st day of life classes : )

1/23 finding a place to live next year!!

1/24 talking to friends back home, miss you guys

1/25 my sweet friendship with Happy and her openness

1/26 staff meetings and worm medicine, lol

1/27 unexpectedly seeing the Johannesburg teams : )

1/28 getting to know thet Germans that live with us on campus

1/29 sharing testimonies with the popup learners

1/30 Popup’s staff members who passionately declare the gospel and love of God

1/31 running that turned into ministry, seriously so cool

2/1 my big brothers first day of his first professional job, woohooo

2/2 the redemption that jesus offers everyone / praying over the learners

2/3 Ky, Grace, Nick and I spending all day in down town Pretoria

2/4 finally posting these thankful through the days

 

thats all for now : ) 

kara