We are in Pennsylvania!

We are in Pennsylvania with Adam and Kelly and having a blast! We had a bonfire with the family for "family night" last night and cooked food on the fire and stuff. So much fun. Wyatt got to play with Abbey and Sophie which is great. He has some play mates and keeps busy. Everyone did well on the long drive here and I think the ride was about 15 hours. It was great. I did get to the library so I can spend some time reading and journaling, yippee! We are going to Kels work today to help prepare supper for the residents at her work and then we are just hanging out for the evening. Tomorrow I am presenting about my mission trip to their church which I am nervous about, but prepared for the Lord to speak to the people through me as I encourage a short term trip. Anyhow, that is all I know... OH yeah, we are going to Red Lobster tomorrow night! WAHOOOOO that is so exciting. Well that's all for now.
Peace
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Adalai while in London

This is Adalai during our time in London. I love the Bumbo. That thing is great! Thanks to K for letting me borrow it for the baby. She tried Carrots yesterday for the first time, and that thing works swell for feeding a baby that can't sit up yet! Wowza. Anyhow, I thought I would post a pic of Adalai playing around quick in case you haven't seen her for awhile. She was having fun!

Gone again!

We are leaving for Pennsylvania to visit our buddies Adam and Kelly tonight. We are thankful for the time away, so we can spend some time together! It will be a nice ride there. We are leaving later tonight so the kids (Ada, Wyatt, and Christopher) will all sleep most of the way there. Things have been good being home, but I wish I could be back in London. Wierd eh? I would like to be able to take my son and husband and experiance what I did over the last couple weeks, with my boys learning also! I am cleaning, packing, and also hanging out with my mother and sister in law today. I hope that the weather clears up because there are a couple of books that I want to pick up to read on our vacation, if I even get time. I am going to try and read a lot though, because I noticed that it is something that I haven't been able to do much lately, but that I miss So much! It was always one of my favorite things to do growing up, was to read. I love journaling and reading in my free time, and K brought up the Mark of the Lion series that I read at one point, and man I would love to read it again. It is a 3 book series, and is so wonderful! Each book is like 1000 pages, but it is wonderful! I also love to read anything by Max Lucado so I was planning to pick up the first book of the series and a good Max lucado book. Anyhow wow my son just picked up a cleaver move he picked up a back scratcher and pushed on the light switch and started flipping the lights on and off! Wow side tracked... sorry! Anyhow, here we go with the travel again, please pray for us as we are on the road for about 15 hours or so tonight. We have busy busy time once we get home as well with church stuff too, so please pray for prepration for all of that as well. Thanks guys! I will try and keep ya'll updated during our vacation. Peace

We are home!

We made it home, and it was such a lovely reunion with the family. Benjamin came with a rose for all of his ladies; Adalai, his mom, and myself. It was so sweet! He was excited and didn't unbuckle Wyatt to come and say hello, but when Donna got him out of the car, he came up to me with his arms up and I picked him up and gave him the HUGEST hug. It was so sweet! I have him a little London backpack and a little double decker bus, which he LOVED (thanks for the suggestion K!). We went out to Texas Roadhouse for dinner with the money that I purposely put asside while I was away for the purpose exactly, and had a great time. He probably wanted to tell me to shut it tho, I was just talking and talking, about my team, about the time there, about SC, about so many things. It was funny because if I could have had it my way, I would have grabbed up my boys and gotten back on that plane to come for the last week of the time in London. Oh my gosh it was so powerful to me, and I absolutely loved the people that I met there. Well, it's OK. I am still dealing with jetlag, last night and the night before I went to sleep at like 7.30pm our time because to my body I was still on London time (1.30am). We are packing up the end of this week to go to Pennsylvania to see our buds, Adam and Kelly. So so so excited to do that too, and this time my family is coming with! Benjamin really deserves the time off, and hopefully he can just relax for a time with Adam. I know that he plans to go fishing so that is wonderful~! Anyhow, the rest of the week we are getting ready for our next adventure, and I can't wait. I realized that I LOVE to travel! I just miss my family while I am away. I missed Kira so much, and my Grams and stuff, and MOm.. OH my so it was really great to get together yesterday with the family. I love to travel though and this whole experiance really opened my eyes to how huge and diverse this world is. I am used to my little box. My church where my Christian friends are, and then through email keeping touch with other Christians I have met through my life, but man, this last two and a half weeks has truely made me thank the Lord for his wonderful creation. <3

A man named Steve

We had to do something yesterday that was so completely out of my comfort zone. We went door to door. I was lucky to get paired with K, so that was wonderful. We knocked on a door that opened to a man named Steve who was incredibly lonely. He was really sad and suffered with clinical depression among other things. He needs prayer. K spoke the gospel into his life. He knows God, but told us that he was angry with him because he feels such sadness and lonelyness. I think that he actually got choked up like he was going to cry quite a few times. He was thankful that it was us who came knocking on his door. Oh my gosh it broke our hearts. K prayed over him and his life... he thinks that he is called by God to stay in the flat that he lives in and become a man of God to evangelize. Oh my gosh, seriously I never thought that getting over the "concrete shoes" would be so fruitful. It was amazing. I think that we could use this type of thing at home... just speaking into peoples lives. Meeting them where they are. It was so amazing. The Lord really blesses obediance to what we are called by Him to do. Even when we are reluctant. So, today I say

" Thank you Lord for blessing me with a wonderful friend who is such an example to me. Bless her Lord for the work she does. Thank you Father for showing us the way, and helping K to speak the gospel into a lonely mans life. Show Steve the way, Lord. Show him the positive side of life and help to lift him up so he can be a man of your ways.
Thank you for the time here Lord, this has changed my life truely.....
In Jesus name, Amen"

Peace and blessings to you today...

5 Days to go!

Things are going well in London. I will be happy to come home though really. I haven't been sleeping the best, but really well actually for being away from home. It was a concern before I left that I wouldn't be able to sleep while I was away. Feeling OK on that whole thing, and so proud of Ada because it was like the time change never happened for her! She sleeps longer then I do! She has some stuffiness though today so I am going to try and get a nose sucker to help her out. We go the the park (Hyde Park) today and SC. It is goig to be exciting. Last week when I experianced it, I was kind of new to this whole thing. Not that I am like well versed now, but it isn't going to be as intimidating as before. I am loving spending time with K. E is getting so big and reminds me of wy so much! He just takes all of this hussle and bussle in this city in stride. He is so amazing! And ADORABLE! He likes Adalai too which is really fun. Have to do with him what I have to do with Wy though, and remind him that he has to use gentle hands w/ the baby! He'll be a good big brother some day! Anyhoo, my mother in law got sick and has been having trouble breathing because of her asthma that I didn't know she had, so she is at the hospital now, but is in good hands with Uli, and German woman, and Peter who is also from Germany who talks like Arnold Schwartenger. Jeremy leaves today and he interviewed me on camera. It was super cool. I am going to miss him! He is really nice to the baby and likes to let her grip his hand. We have church this morning, then SC, then church again which our team is leading worship for. I am actually kind of intimidated by that now though because of Sherry being sick! Well I only have a few minutes left on the computer, so I need to go, but I am excited that there are 5 days left! With one off day in between, so K is taking us around to show us the sights. I think we are doing Trefalgers square and stuff. Not sure yet though. Anyhow, peace and blessings to you!
Sara

Goodbye Jeremy

We have to say goodbye to a teammate tonight. His name is Jeremy and he lives in Hollywood. he is a cinematographer who came to film us while we are working to make a promo tape. He is so much fun. Ada likes to hold his hand... anyhow, we had to lose a teammember last night too, Tyler. It is hard to say goodbye, but praise God for the internet that we can keep up with each other! Everything here is going well. K told me that once I hit the halfway point I will probably get homesick. Yup. I have been the whole time though, so I will live through it and grow so much! There have been plenty of things that I am learning here that I can take home with me, learning that I need devotional time, prayer with my family, intercessional prayer, teaching my children, and really just taking time to fellowship with your own family! We sometimes get so busy that we forget these simple things, which now has been reinforced to me just how important these things are. Being away from Ben has really showed me how much I truely need him around. Ugh praise God for my husband. Thank you Lord! And for missing Wyatt's smiles, it shows me that instead of worrying about silly things like around the house and whatnot, I need to just sit and teach and learn about him. He is so amazing. My husband told me he is sad w/o me. Praise God for that too, I was seriously worried he would forget about me after awhile. I just anted to keep ya'll up to date with what is happening here, and miss everyone back home!
Peace, Sara

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