Lots of ground to cover.

I haven´t been able to get on the internet for a few days because the lady that owns the internet cavena has been out of town and that´s the only internet access we have here! So I have a few days to cover, I am just going to write whats in my journal.

Monday, June 28th
People were saved in the Old Testament who did not know the name of christ but in the New Testament the mystery of Christ became known, this was a turning point; it ended the time of ignorance and made Christ known. The New Testament teaches that the coming of Christ was a decisive turn in redemptive history, which makes Christ the focus of ALL saving faith. There are unsaved persons among unsaved people groups who are seeking after God in an extraordinary ways. God accepts this search as genuine, and God works wonders to bring that person to the Gospel of Jesus Christ the way he brought Peter to Cornelius´s house in Acts. Wow, I was just questioning and thinking about so many things yesterday and God revealed thses truths to me. Check out the book: "Let the Nations be Glad!" by John Piper. Sara storied with two teenage girls yesterday, she told them the story of the fall of man. Sara is leaving Saturday because she has shingles and has been really sick, so everyone be praying for her!

Tuesday, June 29th
Last night Heather and I made pasta, fried cheese, and potatoe wedges. Yum!! How am I feeling today? Well I haven´t been home sick or anything, its actually been really good to get away in a sense. God´s been teaching me so much! He´s taught me that suffering is a big part of my christian walk and in my suffering, I am sharing Christ suffering. I can´t help what its going to be like when I get home and am caught up in my busy life. Everything seems so meaningless compared to Christ and sharing his word! Yesterday the Jeremy´s, Kelsey, and I went and got fire wood. We ended up hiking to the place that we went to when we went rock climbing, which is about four miles total. So I cared about fifteen pounds of firewood for two miles and up a huge hill, I thought I was going to pass out!!! Last night Jeremy Lou told two police officers the story of Creation, which was so awesome...even though he told it in Spanish so I couldn´t understand anything. ha! Last night I hide in the meeting room and jumped out and scared Kelsey and made her spill hot water everywhere. It was hilarious!

Today
The Mo team is here with us right now! There names are Tim, Jessica, and Mindy...I like them a lot. Tonight Sara and I are cooking dinner for ten people. Oh my! And Heather and Emily are teaching English classes at six to six people. Then Emily is telling the Creation story to Sophia and her husband (the people who own the store next to our house.) Its so exciting that we are actually starting to tell people bible stories! I have to go start making dinner for everyone. Keep praying everyone!!
-Love in Christ!

Axe Women, Rock climbing

So yesterday we had worship and then the two Jeremy´s, Kelsey, and I climbed halfway up the mountain that is on the outskirts of Conima to collect fire wood. Let´s just say that I could be on the show Axe Men. Then everyone had lunch at the house but I called Andrew and talked to him for a bit, he really encouraged me. Then the two Jeremy´s, Kelsey, and I went on a four mile hike down to Lake Titicaca(four miles total). There were so many good places to rock climb
so we decided to go ahead and do it! Jeremy Lou almost fell, a huge rock fell down and hit him in the chest. I started scaling the mountain pretty fast but then I came to a spot where I was stuck so the Jeremy´s pulled me up. Kelsey started freaking out a little bit but she ended up making it up too. When we got on top of the mountain, it was the most beautiful view in the entire world. I took a ton of pictures of course. Then the Jeremy´s decided to hop rocks in the Lake and they both ended up falling in, it was pretty hilarious. We found some more wood and carried it the two miles back, up this huge hill. I thought I was gonna die!!! Not really though. Then we remembed that we told a bunch of kids that we would play soccer with them so we had to do that right when we got back from the hike. I got to be on the kids team and we won!!! Victory!!
It was mine and Jeremy´s turn to make dinner so we made build your own burritos with guacamole and salsa and rice and chicken and everything!! I was delicious. Kelsey made no bake cookies and we made some apple cider and headed to the fourth floor where our little meeting room is. Jeremy S. made a fire and we drank apple cider and ate cookies and sang christmas songs! I´m seriously not joking, it felt like Christmas time! Then we worshipped God together and just fellowshiped for a few hours. I loved it!

Today I woke up, cleaned the bathroom and washed all my clothes! It feels good to have everything done. Then I made some yummy potatoe wedges. I´m becomming such a good cook!!! Now I am going to review my story again, we are starting to story tomorrow (tell people bible stories) so be praying everyone!!! God is good, all the time!
-Love in Christ!

Dance, Dance

So yesterday we woke up, had worship, and then headed to the high school down the hill to this all dance festival. We got there at ten but it didn´t even end up starting till twelve! It was so cool, I loved all the dancing! I took a ton of pictures! The night before it sounded like they were having a huge party in the street and it sounded like that last night too. The people drink so much here, its seems like most of the men just waste their lives away drinking. Its really sad.
So we got back from the dance festival at around 2:30 p:m yesterday. I fell asleep at three and didn´t wake up till five thirty! We had dinner and then our group meeting and then I worked on my story some more. I think I got it down pretty well, we are presenting them in front of each other tonight!
I was reading through Genesis last night and I kept thinking to myself..."O, how I long to have faith like Joseph´s!" Genesis really encourages me....God kept getting Joseph out of a bad situation and he kept blessing him because Joseph trusted God and worked hard. I was reading through Exodus today and I got such a warm feeling when I read: "Then the Lord asked Moses, `Who mades a person´s mouth? Who decides whether people speak or do not speak, hear or do not hear, see or do not see? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go! I will be with you as you speak, and I will instruct you in what to say.`" Exodus 4:11-12 This is so comforting to me, especially considering I am in a foreign place where I don´t speak the language but God will give me wisdom and words to say!
Jeremy S. and I played frisbee with four boys for about two hours today, I really enjoyed that! And next week we are going to start telling stories, I already have my eye on the lady who owns the hostile down the street. She has a beautiful garden and I am going to ask her if I can garden with her next week so I can start building a relationship with her. Its all about building relationships with people and showing ALL people love. Pray that God will give us the words to speak and the wisdom to know when to be silent.
-Love in Christ!

Community

So I woke up at 5:00 a:m today. People here like to honk their horns all hours of the night/morning. I don´t get it either. I have been getting deeper and deeper in the word every day, I seriously love just getting to spend some good ´ol quality time with God. Worship was so awesome this morning. We talked about balancing our personal relationships with God and our group relationship. O, how I long to share a community under God...giving and taking because you love God which makes you love each other! That´s how the community of God was intended to be, sharing one another´s lives with each other. The original church in Acts lived together and sold all their belongings and gave to the poor, they were one mind and one heart. Check out Acts 2:44-47. Lets be the living church...we are the church! I´m feeling so passionate today, I´m so excited that God is working through me and using me to further the kingdom of God! I want to walk, talk, and breath love on everyone that I come in contact with. Man, I´m so excited that my God uses me, even with all my weaknesses and imperfections. I´m telling you, just let God use you. Let go of your life. "If you cling to your life, you will lose it, and if you let your life go, you will save it." Luke 17:33 Just let it go.
-I love you because Christ loved you first!

Adventuresss

So Sara and I made stir fry last night, it only took us three hours! We didn´t have enough chicken so Jeremy had to go buy another chicken and it was frozen! Did I mention that we de-bone the chicken and everything? Jeremy had lunch with a guy yesterday, actually the guy who owns the hostile that we stayed at in Huancane. He said that the guy handed him something that looked and smelled like a huge lemon but it just tasted like water. The guy kept saying "mas, mas!" so Jeremy ate a ton of random foods. He said the guy showed him his favorite bible verses and then just started singing Spanish. So hilariously awkward/awesome. Jeremy said that when the man left the room he just stuffed a ton of food in his backpack so the man wouldn´t be offended that he didn´t eat it all. Its actually pretty amazing that Jeremy could understand the guys Spanish because Jeremy can barely speak Spanish himself. So today we went to the medical clinic in Conima and they ended up asking us if we wanted to ride in the ambulance. The ride in the ambulance turned into five hours, and going the three cities!! We went to a city about twenty minutes from Conima, then to Cupisaya, and then to Tilali which is basically on the border of Bolivia. It was really interesting. In Cupisaya I met an eleven year old girl named Veronnica and a three year old boy named Luis. Luis actually remembered my name and even called me by it instead of calling me gringa! It was a breath of fresh air! Jeremy and I got to do some boulder hopping too, which I think is one of my new favorite things. I´m still working hard on memorizing my story, almost got it down!! Tonight we played duck, duck, goose with the kids for a long time. That was a ton of fun. All this teenage boys are staring at me in the internet cavena and its a little awkward. That´s what I get for being a gringa! I´m off the see whats for dinner!
-Love in Christ!

The French

Last night Jeremy Lou came for dinner and brought a suprise! A french couple! Thomas and Jane, my favorite french people ever. Thomas and Jane are backpacking through Peru and Bolivia and have been for two and a half months. We treated them to dinner last night...chicken and dumplings and then crepes this morning! They were very excited about the crepes, to say the least. We got to have a really great conversation with them. They have backpacked through Asia as well and they lived in Brazil for a year! I can´t wait to be married and be able to do that kind of stuff with my husband! So cool! We got pictures with them so I will upload them when I get back to the states, so not until the beginning of August. Ha. I met a really sweet lady last night with the most beautiful garden and I am going to help her garden one day! I forgot to mention that while we were eating breakfast this morning, Sara walked into the kitchen and her tongue was black! Apparently pepto can turn your tongue black? Who knew. We got to pray with the french couple before they left and send them off with blessings and good thoughts.

Then we all worked on memorizing our stories for about two hours, I´m memorizing the story of Noah and the Flood. Then we went to our favorite little restuarant here, actually there´s only like three but still. Did I mention that there´s only about a thousand people in this town? And of course while we are eating, about ten kids are staring at us. My life here is like being a tiger or something at the zoo, we are the main attraction! Seriously though. So I did this weird little dance for the kids, I´m a loca gringa!!!! Actually, as I am typing this...kids are staring at me. Story of my life. So I´ve decided to do a weird little dance every time they stare and make a weird face. Muahahahaha. My hands are so cold right now! Ahhhh. I´m at an internet cavena right now in Conima, actually the only internet cavena here.

Have I told you guys that we can see Lake Titicaca from our house? Well we can, and its beautifullll!! Please go to google images right now and look up Lake Titicaca so you can see what I have been seeing! There´s a little island with a resort on the lake and I think we are going to try to catch a boat on Saturday to go check it out.

Keep praying everyone, I know you have been but keep it up! We need all the prayer we can get! It gets so cold at night, like my bones seriously feel like ice but it gets pretty nice during the day. The sun is so bright here, my nose is pretty burned right now but I just hate sunscreen! I know my mom is going to read this so don´t worry, I will go and apply sunscreen as soon as possible. Well I have an appointment at three to play frisbee with a bunch of kids and its two right now so I am off to work on my story some more before those crazy kids wear me out!

-Love in Christ! Romans 12:2

Today´s post, updated today

So today has been pretty great! I woke up, spent some time with my Lord, and then we had worship! And of course I had a cup of hot tea and some cinammon toast! We decided to study Phillippians as a group, so far so good! I learned today during worship that our group does not have singing abilities. HA. After worship we went to the market, which is every Sunday. People bring all their veggies and meats to the plaza to sell. We got a ton of fresh veggies. YUM! I hand washed some clothes today before lunch and hung them up. Jeremy and Heather made fajitas for lunch so I had veggie fajitas. SO GOOD. After lunch I decided to go to the little courtyard that is attached to the house we are staying at and I pulled weeds for about two hours but I made that garden look good!!! Then I got to take a nice lukewarm shower, showers aren´t really hot here. I even clipped my toe nails today! Don´t judge me world! I haven´t even shaved my legs since I´ve been here, you think I´m joking but I´ll have pictures for proof!!!! Oh yeah, Happy Father´s day!!! I miss you and love you so much dad! Yesterday that multi-tool you gave me really came in handy and I can´t tell you how many times that I´ve used that flashlight, I´m pretty sure that mine is the brightest out of everyone´s!!! I LOVE YOU so much Dad!!!....I love my heavenly father so much too! I´m off to see what´s for dinner! Keep praying everyone, we need it!
-Love in Christ!

The Climb

I haven´t had internet in a few days. I feel like I have so much ground to cover. I just got on facebook and I´m feeling kind of bummed, I feel like all of my friends are off doing all this stuff this summer and forgetting about me. Meh, I´m probably just being a baby. Here we go...

Wed, June 16th
Hello, I am currently sitting on the roof of the hostile, looking over the whole city. Today we are going to Juliaca to go shopping and to get stuff for our home in Conima! It´s only 7:45 a:m here but my days always start at 7:00 a:m. We have worship at 8:30 a:m as usual.
Okay so I´m back from shopping in Juliaca. I went to exchange my dollars bills for soles and they wouldn´t taked my ripped bills, even if it was just a tiny rip! Ridiculous. Sara and I met two of the sweetest, cutest litte girls in Juliaca. We got to eat at the really good restaurant, I had fettucini alfredo. It was so weird to have normal american food. Heather bought a sweet guitar when we were out shopping so we can use it for worship in Conima.
Sonia(the missionary training us) made us a delicious going away dinner! She made hamburgers, potatoe salad, and baked beans...and then a special grilled chees sandwich for me! After dinner walked to a ladies house and had worship in English, Spanish, and Aymaran which was sooo cool! Pastor Rueben told the story of Adam and Eve, John(the missionary) translated. Then on the way back to the hostile Jeremy Lou played the guitar and we sang to the Lord! Sleep time. ZzzzzZZz.

Thursday, June 17th
THE CLIMB
We woke up at 3:45 a:m today to hike a mountain, yes...a mountain. I felt out of breath just walking to the base of the mountain! I literally almost turned back and climbed right back in bed. I´m not going to lie, hiking that mountain in this altitude was the hardest thing that I have ever done physically. We hiked 800 feet up. The whole time I was asking God to hold my hand. I finally got to the top (last of my team because I walked with the Huancane girls and Andrea tore her acl before she came). Let me tell you, that hike was worth it! I got to see the sun rise on top of a mountain, in the middle of Peru. WOW. All I could do was marvel at God´s creation. I hiked back down on the trail (which is harder) with Kelsey and we had a really great talk. We arrived back at the house around 7:15 a:m so I packed all my stuff up for Conima!!! We had worship and then we cleaned the hostile, squeaky clean! Then we packed everything in John´s vehicle. The two Jeremy´s and I had to stay behing and catch a bus because there wasn´t enough room for us. So we waited at the bus stop with Pastor Rueben for an hour and a half! We found out that there was only one bus and it wasn´t going to Conima so if we got on it then we would have to walk an hour to Conima. So we decided to go back to the Huancane girls house and get some lunch because it was about 1:30 by now...our team left at about noon. Andrea made us grilled cheese sandwiches and we played scrabble! After we got done playing scrabble, I started feeling pretty sick so I layed down. I layed down for about two hours and then got up and went to the bathroom, where I threw up about four times. I wasn´t feeling too great at this point so we walked back to John and Sonia´s and I took some medicine. They decided that it would be best to wait until Friday to leave for Conima. I decided to go lay in bed around 7:00 p:m and I finally fell asleep after about an hour. ZZZZzzzzzzzzZZZ.

Friday, June 18th
So last night was my breaking point. I felt awful and I was in a foreign country, far away from home. I wanted to go home, and still kind of do. I know God brought me here for a reason.
So John, the Jeremy´s, and I left for Conima around 9:00 a:m. We took this really pretty route but of course, I started to feel car sick and I was still feeling pretty sick from the night before. So they pulled over and I took some medicine. Lake Titicaca is probably the most beautiful creation that I´ve ever seen, I´m thinking this as I´m about to puke. So we go to Mo to see where to Mo team lives since its on the way to Conima but they aren´t there. But of course, I end up throwing up in their bathroom. We start driving again but my breath is tasting pretty gross so John pulls over so I can brush my teeth on the side of the road, using a water bottle. All this kids are staring at me and I know that their thinking "loco gringo". We finally ariive at our new home in Conima around 11:00 a:m and its so amazing and beautiful! Its a cute yellow house, three stories high, with NO heating and concrete walls but I still love it! John showed us around the city and then I took a two hour nap! We had dinner and then bad time. ZZZzzzzzzzzz.

Saturday, June 19th
I´m hanging out at Lake Titicaca right now, but its really like and ocean! We just got done with lunch and now we are all just hanging out by the water. This morning Jeremy locked himself out of his room so this guy spent three hours trying to get the lock off, and finally did. While the guy was working on the door, we played frisbee with the kids. I´m falling more in love with this place every day! I´m sitting here listening to the water hit up against the rocks and Jeremy is playing with Alex and Jose (two little boys that we met). I caught the coolest looking frog! Jeremy and I decided to take off our shoes and walk in the water, which was a terrible idea because it was freezing!!!! We taught the kids how to skip rocks, which was soooo fun! After we went to the lake, we pray walked around the city...prayer is so powerful! Then Jeremy and I cooked home made spagetti which took about two hours but it was sooo good! We are taking turns preparing meals here since it takes so long! Then we finished off the night was a group meeting and some telephone pictionary! Of course, my drawings were ridiculed but I know that they were all just jealous! Bed time. ZZzzzzzZZZ.

I´m sure that there are so many grammar mistakes and misspelled words so I´m sorry! I´m typing this in a tiny little internet cavena with a ton of kids staring at me, I´m not joking. I´m a gringo which means I´m a rare bread around here!

-Love in Christ, John 16:33

The rooster crows...

And so my day has begun. Christ walks beside me holding my hand, today and always. Sometimes I walk in doubt but my friend continues to hold my hand and guide me in encouragement. At times I walk in fear but my companion holds on tight and gives me strength. My body aches and I feel as if I cannot go on any longer. My friend gives me water and we continue on our journey, hand in hand. Then I begin to walk in shame and I want to hide from my friend but he holds on even tighter. He tells me all about grace and that his grace will never run out. We go on about our way but my feet are covered in sores so my friend lets go of my hand and carries me. O, what a friend I have!

Honestly, this morning I was feeling a bit discouraged. My stomache didn´t feel too good and I was stressing out bad about the language barrier. As I was sitting with my cup of tea and the word of God I heard a rooster crow and it was an instant comfort. It took me back to waking up every morning in Africa and spending some time with God first thing in the morning and hearing a rooster crow every single morning. Its like that rooster is a symol of something new, a new day that the Lord will use. A new day that the LORD will use, not I. The story above came to me as I was sitting there on top of our building with my cup of tea. I´m not doing this alone, in fact I´m not the one whose doing anything...Christ is carrying me the whole way. I just have to be obedient to God and go when he tells me to go. With that said, I´m learning to get over the worry of the language barrier because I know God is going to use me no matter what!

Today we learned how to hand wash our clothes. It sounds easy but trust me, its harder then it sounds. That water was cold, its cold up here in the mountains. Period. I think that my bones are getting somewhat used to it. I actually enjoyed hand washing my clothes even though it takes forever. I´m really learning to enjoy the simplicity of life. Guess what else I did today!?! I cut a chicken, yes...the vegetarian. I didn´t eat it though! We each got to take turns cutting off the wings and learning how to take of the skin and everything and where to cut it on the joints. Lets just say that I killed it...literally...well not really because the poor guy was already dead! I can´t upload pictures here because most of the computers have viruses. ); So today we had about two hours of down time so the two Jeremy´s and I went and played frisbee on the street with a bunch of kids. We also did hand stands with them. It was so fun! I got to sit down with a bunch of young girls and talk to them, well it was mostly them telling me how to say stuff in Spanish. It was so awesome though! Jeremy said that there was a huge group around me. Everyone was just laughing at my pathetic attempts at Spanish but I tried okay!! Tonight an Aymara man came and gave his testimony, he is now a pastor at a simple church. That was pretty amazing to see the result of the missionaries hard work and prayers. I also got to hear some worship songs in Spanish. Can you say beautiful!?! I need you all back home to be praying for us here. It may get really discouraging here. Its interesting to not have all the luxuries we have in America. I never thought that being able to flush toilet paper down the toilet would be that big of a deal. Or hand washing clothes. Or litterally spending two hours to prepare a meal because it´s completely different cooking food in this altitude. Anyways what I´m saying is that yeah, America is great and we have a lot but living a simple life isn´t so bad. We´ll see how I feel after six weeks here though! Ha. Its still crazy that think that I´ll be here this long. I went to the store today and got eggs, butter, and bread...that´s rights folks! It sounds so easy but not so easy when everyone around you speaks a different language! Ha. The stores here are so different, well obviously. Everything here is different but I can´t explain it with words, its something you have to see with your own eyes. When I get back to the states I can upload all my pictures. Also, I´ll tell you all about what we´ll be doing in Conima tomorrow! This is sooooo long! I´ll leave you with this, get out of God´s way and just let him use you.
-Love in Christ!

The stars are big and bright...

DEEP IN THE HEART OF PERU!!! And they are! The stars are so beautiful here! What's up with the no comments everyone?!?! Are you guys even reading this!?! Today we did some more missionary training, we went out and got some candy from one of the stores near by but we haven't gotten to get out a whole lot yet. I am so excited to go to Conima on Thursday and start our ministry. Yesterday at the market Justin Bieber was playing on someone's radio...I wish that I was joking! I don't really miss home at all but I mean I haven't been gone long. I honesty can see myself living overseas for most of my life. I really enjoy this simple living and simple church. I have a lot to say about simple church but I will talk more about that later. I'm praying for everyone back at home, I really want you all to feel this deep fire inside of you that I feel. It's not enough just to proclaim that you are a christian, if your life doesn't show true worship and love for others then what are you doing? Wow, you proclaim to be a christian just like the rest of America...lets see some change in your life! Get out and do something, show someone love! Yeahhh! I don't know about you all but I want to live a life worth following. I'm tired and ready for bed even though its only 9:00 p:m here. I've been a busy bee! Keep praying everyone, God's going to move so much this summer!
-Love in Christ

Bread....no pan!

Hello everyone! I am feeling much better after getting ten hours of sleep last night. I know, I know...ridiculous. I lied to y'all earlier, I'm sorry! We are actually in Huacane right now with the Grady's. We will be here until Thursday and then Thursday evening we will be going to Conima. We will be doing missionary training until Thursday and we even get to hike up a mountain. HOORAY! I hope all my friends from back home have been keeping up with my blog, I mean it has only been three days. HA. So yesterday I had chicken foot soup, oh yeah...you heard me right. I had two chicken feet in it but I just scooped them out and put them aside. The soup was actually muy bueno! Today we had worship at 8:30 a.m. and then we went to the market place. I loved the market place!!! I swear that I ran into like twenty people but you just say "Oh per miso". I don't know if that was the right spelling for that word. I went to a little store and asked for bread and Fernando (the man at the store) laughed and said its pan not bread! We got a ton of stares at the market place, I just kept saying "Hola!" We went to a restaurant today for lunch and it was pretty good! I had french fries with cooked onions and some interesting sauce and then rice. There's like a million different kinds of potatoes here. Also, we are 12,800 feet up...talk about being short of breath! Ha, but seriously I really have been. Its soooo cold here at night and in the morning. You can go on top of the building here and look over the whole city so that's pretty cool. I am getting a little nervous about climbing up that mountain on Thursday! Well its 7:40 p.m and I need to read my Bible and some information that the Grady's gave us so I'm off! I will try to update this tomorrow. I found out that we won't have very fast internet connection in Conima so we'll see how much I get to update this. Adios amigos!

Hello Lima, Peru

I'm in Lima right now hanging out in the airport. Sheesh, I'm so tired! We left from dfw in Dallas at six thirty p.m. We arrived in Mexico city around eight thirty p.m. and hung out there for awhile, then we left from Mexico city and were on the plane for about six hours and now I am in Lima! It is eight in the morning right now. We leave here at eleven thirty p.m to go to Juliaca, Peru. We will then take a bus ride up the Andes mountain to Conima. We should be in Conima around four p.m. tomorrow. I feel like this is all running together, I am just so tired and this keyboard is confusing me. Everything is in Spanish, which I guess is expected. I am so ready to be in Conima and in a bed! I am so excited to see what God is going to do this Summer in Peru and around the world!! Well, I am going to go curl up in a ball somewhere and try to get some shut eye. I promise these posts will be more interesting once I get some rest. Also, I am praying for all my friends who are leaving for Super Summer today! I plan to go Indiana Jones on Peru!
Love in Christ!

Peru, Peru...on my minddd!

Seriously, I leave for Peru on Friday. That is so sooooon! I am nervous and excited and about to explode with emotions! I bought some sweet stuff on sierratradingpost.com yesterday for my Peru trip. Favorite new website! The founder of the company is this awesome Christian dude and there are bible verses on the website and when you click a bible verse it tells you his story. Its pretty awesome and inspiring to see someone share their faith through their business. God is so great! Lately he's been showing me more and more how small I am in comparison, not in a bad way more like "HEY! I got this under conrol Alison...nothing is too great for me". I mean I've been worring about money and having enough time to do everything when I know that my God raised from the dead in three days, changed water to wine, etc. Sometimes I just have to literally laugh at myself about the stupid things I worry about. When I worry and stress out, I am basically saying that I don't trust God. I imagine God just being like, "Chill out, if I can raise from the dead in three days then I can handle all your little problems". And its true!!!! He can!!! I don't know whether or not to put the period before or after the quotation marks and its a little embarassing, I also don't know how to turn on spell check so I'm just stuck in a boat without a paddle. I decided that I'm going to start using funny saying more because well I like them. So butter my butt and call me a biscuit, I'm going to church on the island and then to the beach so I'll see you folks later!
-Love in Christ!

Ouchhh!

Guess who didn't sleep very well last night? This little lady. Guess why? Yeahhh...I got a terrible sun burn on my back. MOM, YOU WERE RIGHT. I never wear enough sun screen, never and you would think that I would learn my lesson but I never do. I'm such a kid sometimes, I swear. So I was reading through Luke some more this morning and this is what stood out to me: "...Your faith has healed you." Luke 18:42. Jesus says that so many times when he healed people, do I have faith like that? Do you? I'm off to enjoy the beach!!! Don't worry, I'm basically swimming in sun screen.
-Love in Christ!

Vacationnnnn!

<-Our balcony...and some shells I got from the beach!

<-This is our view!

<-This is Heather's room!

<-This is my room!

<-This is the living room!

Oh hello. I am currently sitting on a balcony, looking out at the beach. That's right folks, be jealous. But really, my best friend's dad got us the hook up and we're staying at this ridiculous condo in Portaransas. And by ridiculous I mean...Heather and I have our own room and bathroom, there's a full kitchen, living room, and dining room. It's UHHH-mazing! I was reading through Luke this morning and let me just say...You're the man Jesus! All those miracles and telling the religious teachers whats up! "You hypocrites! Each of you works on the Sabbath day! Don't you unitie your ox or your donkey
from its stall on the Sabbath and lead it out for water? This dear woman, a daughter of Abraham has been held in bondage by Satan for eighteen years. Isn't it right that she be released; even on the Sabbath?" Luke 13:15-16 The religious teachers were trying to find Jesus guilty of not following the laws of Moses so they criticized him for healing a woman on the Sabbath because he "should not be working" but Jesus told them what's up! "You Pharisees are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are filthy-full of greed and wickedness! Fools! Didn't God make the inside as well as the outside. So clean the inside by giving gifts to the poor, and you will be clean all over." Luke 11:39-41 Well...I'm off to enjoy the water! Love in Christ!

Oh Hello There!

I made this blog thingy because I'm going to Conima, Peru from June 11th to July 30th. I know absolutely nothing about blogging and I think it shows. So hello bloggers out there! My name is Alison Franklin and I'm going to travel the World for Christ. I love life and I can't wait to see where I'm taken!