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
