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Hello. I know it's been a while since I have posted, but I just moved into an apt with no internet access and everything has just kicked up a bunch. Things are going great. Over the next couple of weeks, I probably won't have much time to do postings, but I just want you all to know that I am praying for you and thinking of you. I will try and update soon.

We Experience God (Tree Down)

Wow! The past few days have been great & CRAZY! The Lord protects His people. The team hear is testimony to God's protection and care. Just yesterday we were all eating lunch near the beach and the weather seemed to be nice. All of a sudden this bad weather started kicking up and the wind was blowing pretty strong. We didn't think much of it because it's around the time when rain season is beginning. So, we were heading out and everyone was getting in the van. We were all in already, except one of the girls, when this tree fell on top of us. It crushed the door that the girl was standing in, but she was able to get away in time. CRAZY!





Last night at Bible Study, we talked about God being the God of all things. We went through so many scriptures that were revelation of who God is. He is so many things. He is everything. All we need is Him. He has made a way for us. He has called us by name. We must be obedient and He will show Himself to us.

Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.
John 14:21

I hope everyone is enjoying the summer. We've been playing soccer and doing different things. Continue to pray for us as we are trying to build relationships.
Thank you all for your encouragement and prayers.

1 Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children 2 and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Ephesians 5:1&2

Know God and make him known!
Show love.

Burned

Sorry, it's been a while since I've posted last. I've been recovering from a sunburn. I will be updating soon. I hope everyone has had a great week!

Much Love Peeps

God's Plan!

Hello everyone. I wanted to tell each one of you how encouraging it is to hear from you. I may have told you this already, but you will never know what it means to me and Matt to know that we have such a strong support of people that love us.

God's plan is best! I have known this for quite sometime, but just this week my eyes are being opened to some of my lives questions for the past 3 years. For the past 3 years I have been praying, even begging at times, for God to answer me. We may not always understand His ways, but His ways are best.

In Psalm 119 we see that His words are a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. I didn't ever really think much about this scripture besides the obvious. Just this week I heard a lesson being taught on this (part of God's plan and timing for my life). If you think about this scripture, it doesn't say that God's word will light the entire path, so much that we can see the destination. Instead, we see that His word reveals the path step by step. We may not always see what lies ahead of us. Stay close to Christ and learn to walk patiently with Him. We shouldn't run ahead into the darkness. We must continually deny ourselves to see God. I am and will always be dependant on Christ to carry me.

This is really taking a hold of me today!
4 Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this: 6He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. 7 Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him... Psalm 37:4-7
This is the same verse God used to direct me in a decision when I was 15 and it is the same verse He is using again (also part of God's timing and plan for my life), along with other circumstances, to show me where to put my feet.

To delight in the Lord is to know him better. We find delight in knowing Him. I believe that when we begin to know Him in an intimate love relationship, our desires are replaced with His desires for us. Trust Him and wait for Him.
God's plans for my life are better than my plans for my life!

The Predator

This went through my foot!!

Mission Updated

Hello all!!
These past couple of weeks have been so crazy (awesome)! As soon as we arrived on the island we began preparing for the kids camp, it was great. Originally, there were only supposed to be 60 kids able to come to the camp, because of the limited space we are working with. We ended up with about 180! As soon as we finished the camp on Wed., we headed out for Ipoh.
We arrived in Ipoh around midnight and set everything up for the extreme condensed version of the kids camp we did on the island. The next day we had the camp from 9-3. After that, we had a presentation service for the parents at 8. Talk about a long day!
The very next day we headed out for another town (not sure about the spelling), where we set up to be through Sunday. We played pick-up games with some kids in the neighborhood. That was hilarious! The basketball court was smooth concrete and it had been raining. I think I busted about 5 times. It was all for the kids. On Sat we went to the old folks home. Also, you may not have known this and I didn't either, but Mitchell Shoumaker and Matthew James where in concert on Sat! LOL! It was great. It was really more like an evangelistic worship service. O, I forgot to tell you, on Friday, we started visitation at 9pm, which turned out to be quite an experience to say the least.
On Sunday we had a carnival for the kids in the morning and service in the afternoon.

The whole week was an experience I will never forget. God is good to us. He kept us going when we thought we couldn't. We are truly blessed to serve Him.

Funny Story!!
Last night we were walking back to the apartment and a fish skull pierced through the bottom of my foot. Ouch!! LOL! Please tell me what the odds are of someone getting a fish skull stuck through the bottom of their foot!

Anyway, thank you all for your prayers. I am feeling completely rested. Please continue to pray for our team. Everyone around us seems to be catching some sort of flu-like virus. One of the girls, Karen, is not doing well. Pray for her.

I love and miss you all. Have a wonderful Tuesday! I've already had mine, it was a great Tuesday. I hope you will take the time to enjoy it.


PS: Yes J.D., they do eat cat and dog. Feline on a stick and roasted rover comin right up!

Mission

I will update this post tomorrow.

I just wanted to let everyone know that we just got back from a journey to two towns about 2.5 hours from here, where we did work. I am completely wiped, so I am passing out as I type this. I wanted to let you know that I will fill you in on the journey and the past week tomorrow. I will also be adding pictures asap (for my buddy Sam). Thank you all so much for your posts. You don't even realize how much each one of them means to me. Anyway, I can't hold my head up any longer. From the bottom of my heart, I love and miss you all!!!! I hope you had a wonderful Sunday morning in my most favorite place to be!!!!
Could somebody give Mrs. Billy a hug for me?

PS: Dad, I think I'm having mexican food withdrawals.