p.s. we got a little crazy but no harm done and yes, I am a nerd. With that said, enjoy the show.
If you enjoy these pics and want to see more, just click on the photos or the little icons and it will take you to the whole album.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Mels birthday party!
Talk about a party. The girls and I had some cake and danced the night away. Got some phone calls from home (make my heart smile!) and some wonderful emails. I even got a package in the mail!!! Made me feel so loved! Just wanted to share some pics with everyone and say thanks! Love and miss you all!
p.s. we got a little crazy but no harm done and yes, I am a nerd. With that said, enjoy the show.
If you enjoy these pics and want to see more, just click on the photos or the little icons and it will take you to the whole album.
p.s. we got a little crazy but no harm done and yes, I am a nerd. With that said, enjoy the show.
If you enjoy these pics and want to see more, just click on the photos or the little icons and it will take you to the whole album.
Monday, November 12, 2007
CWF
During the middle of October we had some very unique visitors staying at our hostel. A ton of ginormous guys who couldn’t hear anything stayed upstairs and kept us up all hours of the night. These guys were here to share Jesus through wrestling, professional wrestling. That’s right, we had a group of Professional Wrestlers, who happen to all be Christians, staying at our place. Nigerians love professional wrestling so tons of kids and adults would come to their shows and many got saved! We became great friends with all of them, stayed up laughing all night long, and had some of the best times ever! You could say it was some summer of ’69 times!
The pictures and stories below are dedicated to the CWF. We each want to share some of our favorite moments. Sorry for those who don’t understand, so much is inside jokes.
Melanie: I want to tell you a story. My story is about the little puppy who lost his way, no wait that’s a completely different story and has nothing to do with the wrestlers. Nevermind. From my time with the wrestlers I have learned a few things. 1) There are a few things in life that are better than peanut butter and ladies but I won't get into that. 2) Shoots are always the way to go. 3) 59 is a fantastic number, we're all pretty thankful for that. 4) We do have pasteurized milk in Nigeria. You won't get sick from eating the ice cream. 5) I love having favorites! All in all God did some amazing things in and through these guys and I can't wait for them to come back!
Katy: Well you know we learned so much from them like Batman's superpower is being able to summon bats ("Aaaahhh!!!") and how the right president can "change" the "problems" in Nigeria. But I made sure that they knew of our fantastic characteristics and I let them in on my plans to take over the world. They are probably cool enough to serve as some of my advisors in the future.
Anna:
If you didn’t know already, Oreos are a rare treasure around here. We don’t get them often and Nigerians don’t know the meaning of the word “munch” or “snack”. So they don’t have things as good as Oreos for us Americans to get by on. So my mom was wonderfully gracious and sent me a package of Oreos. I was thrilled beyond measure and I decided that I would share them with the CWF. It was there last night here and Mel and I were up talking late with Albert, JT and Phil. I had a small amount of battery left on my camera and I am a picture maniac so I had to get pictures of the CWF eating my Oreos and Mel and I had to be in the picture too, of course. Nobody else to take the picture but me, so I held up the camera and took it of the five of us all holding our Oreos. Not everyone was in the picture (I won’t mention any names JT) so…TAKE 2! Hmmmmmm, same problem. So I just said “ok third times a charm, everybody squeeze and pretend to love each other!” I don’t really think that they were my exact words but something similar is what I was thinking. So sure enough, we got all in the picture! Yippee! Fun times! But that’s not the end. The Oreos were nearing the end of the package and I wanted an Oreo picture with Albert and JT (separately). There were three Oreos left. Albert held his and him and I took our picture. JT held his that was half eaten and as were getting ready to take the picture HE LEANS OVER AND LICKS MY OREO! I couldn’t believe what had just happened. My prized “munchy snack” had been licked by a CWF wrestler and I was about ready to take him out. I didn’t care that he was bigger that I was and had the capability of tearing me in two, we are talking about an Oreo people! Thankfully, Albert didn’t want his so he gave it to me…untouched, virtually saving JT’s life. All the while Phil and Melanie are getting the best laugh of their lives out of the “show” that JT decided to put on. Good job JT! I can’t blame him, he got two Oreos out of the deal!
The pictures and stories below are dedicated to the CWF. We each want to share some of our favorite moments. Sorry for those who don’t understand, so much is inside jokes.
Melanie: I want to tell you a story. My story is about the little puppy who lost his way, no wait that’s a completely different story and has nothing to do with the wrestlers. Nevermind. From my time with the wrestlers I have learned a few things. 1) There are a few things in life that are better than peanut butter and ladies but I won't get into that. 2) Shoots are always the way to go. 3) 59 is a fantastic number, we're all pretty thankful for that. 4) We do have pasteurized milk in Nigeria. You won't get sick from eating the ice cream. 5) I love having favorites! All in all God did some amazing things in and through these guys and I can't wait for them to come back!
Katy: Well you know we learned so much from them like Batman's superpower is being able to summon bats ("Aaaahhh!!!") and how the right president can "change" the "problems" in Nigeria. But I made sure that they knew of our fantastic characteristics and I let them in on my plans to take over the world. They are probably cool enough to serve as some of my advisors in the future.
Anna:
If you didn’t know already, Oreos are a rare treasure around here. We don’t get them often and Nigerians don’t know the meaning of the word “munch” or “snack”. So they don’t have things as good as Oreos for us Americans to get by on. So my mom was wonderfully gracious and sent me a package of Oreos. I was thrilled beyond measure and I decided that I would share them with the CWF. It was there last night here and Mel and I were up talking late with Albert, JT and Phil. I had a small amount of battery left on my camera and I am a picture maniac so I had to get pictures of the CWF eating my Oreos and Mel and I had to be in the picture too, of course. Nobody else to take the picture but me, so I held up the camera and took it of the five of us all holding our Oreos. Not everyone was in the picture (I won’t mention any names JT) so…TAKE 2! Hmmmmmm, same problem. So I just said “ok third times a charm, everybody squeeze and pretend to love each other!” I don’t really think that they were my exact words but something similar is what I was thinking. So sure enough, we got all in the picture! Yippee! Fun times! But that’s not the end. The Oreos were nearing the end of the package and I wanted an Oreo picture with Albert and JT (separately). There were three Oreos left. Albert held his and him and I took our picture. JT held his that was half eaten and as were getting ready to take the picture HE LEANS OVER AND LICKS MY OREO! I couldn’t believe what had just happened. My prized “munchy snack” had been licked by a CWF wrestler and I was about ready to take him out. I didn’t care that he was bigger that I was and had the capability of tearing me in two, we are talking about an Oreo people! Thankfully, Albert didn’t want his so he gave it to me…untouched, virtually saving JT’s life. All the while Phil and Melanie are getting the best laugh of their lives out of the “show” that JT decided to put on. Good job JT! I can’t blame him, he got two Oreos out of the deal!
Papa Smurf
The first two weeks of October Sara’s dad, brother, and friend came to visit and do some work. We (Sara and Melanie) took them out to the bush to research Sara’s tribes. We met up with a Nigerian who knew of all the tribes and where they were located and he had a plan for getting it all done. It looked like it might only take a couple of days and we could come home early. Our first day was spent driving in the bush. It took us all day and we did not make it to a single tribe. We stopped to visit with some pastors along the way but no tribes. We got stuck in the mud once. It was still pretty muddy everywhere we went which made driving interesting. The second day we went to look for a tribe but the river was too bad and the truck couldn’t get across so Sara and her dad took motorcycles while the rest of us waited. They got back in a couple of hours and so we had lunch and headed to the next tribe. They said the road was okay to get there but that wasn’t true. We hit quicksand and after getting out of that we just decided to head out. We drove and drove and drove some more. We camped out and then on the third day we headed to the other two tribes. We had heard from multiple people that there were churches in these two tribes but we had to go and verify. After more driving through rocky mountains and corn fields we made it. The people are almost all Christian, which was a time of rejoicing and Sara’s dad even got to speak at one of the churches where several people rededicated their lives or turned to Jesus! So all in all we spent around 15 hours of bush driving and 5 hours of paved road driving over three days (this is a generous number). We researched three tribes and will have to go back for the other one. We had a long, fun, and stressful time. We have new brothers and sisters whom we will see again in heaven!
The truck where we spent most of our time, a group shot at the church, Sara’s family, and the white people
Just some of the fun obstacles we run in to while driving in the bush!
The truck where we spent most of our time, a group shot at the church, Sara’s family, and the white people
Just some of the fun obstacles we run in to while driving in the bush!
Friday, September 28, 2007
And they say women can't drive...
Hey this is Katy. I just wanted to tell you guys a little about the trip Sara and I made last week. We went down through to her area to research one of her tribes. We were going with another lady who used to live down there. So there were about three other trucks we were following. One man who was helping us kept asking if I had ever driven on these bush roads and wondering if I had managed my way through the ditches, ravines and rivers. I assured him that I would be fine. Still, some Nigerians had to ride in the back of the trucks, but they all refused to ride in the back of ours. A couple tried to get back there but the other yelled at them. All was going well and then we came to this river. All three trucks ahead of us got stuck in the river and it was pretty wide. The same man walked over to check on me and see if we had the truck in 4-wheel drive. After more assurance of our capability, it was our turn to cross. I looked at Sara and she told me, "Just gun it!" So I went into the water with all the Nigerians waiting in the water to push us out. But I was the only truck that didn't get stuck!! All of them were cheering and clapping. It was great. And after that, a few of the Nigerians hopped in the back of our truck. I guess I proved to them that I was a worthy driver. Of course, it rained that night and when Sara, our friend Christy and I tried to cross the next day, we got stuck. But I was still proud.
Sara got all the information that she needed on her tribe. There were more Christians than we expected along with 12 churches. That was pretty exciting. We got to see a bunch of African dancing and we got to share the Good News with a group of women. The second part of our trip was less successful. We were trying to research some of my tribes on the way back. On the first day of searching, we couldn't find anyone who had heard of the tribe. On the second day, we were force to retreat because it started raining. I guess we are not quite out of rainy season yet.
Sara got all the information that she needed on her tribe. There were more Christians than we expected along with 12 churches. That was pretty exciting. We got to see a bunch of African dancing and we got to share the Good News with a group of women. The second part of our trip was less successful. We were trying to research some of my tribes on the way back. On the first day of searching, we couldn't find anyone who had heard of the tribe. On the second day, we were force to retreat because it started raining. I guess we are not quite out of rainy season yet.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Europe Vaca!
Sara, Mel and Kav's trip to Europe. We spent time in France, Switzerland, Rome, Italy, and London! See some of the sights, some friends and some food!
Trip to Senegal
Sorry this is coming a few months late. Oh well. Hope you can still enjoy! Here are a couple of slideshows from our trip. One of friends and one of the fun activities that we got to do.
Remember, if you scroll over the pictures it will give you titles and if you click on the picture or the "view show" icon below the pictures it will take you to our albums so you can see ALL of our pics. We have a Europe album, a Senegal album, and then all the rest!
Remember, if you scroll over the pictures it will give you titles and if you click on the picture or the "view show" icon below the pictures it will take you to our albums so you can see ALL of our pics. We have a Europe album, a Senegal album, and then all the rest!
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Let's get this party started
Thanks for stopping by! Sit back and enjoy the ride!
Hmmm....where do I start...I am here to introduce myself and think that the beginning would be the best=)
My name is Anna and I am 22 years old. My birthday is November 12 (for those gift givers out there! Just kidding!)
I am second oldest of nine children. I have an older sister, five younger sisters and two younger brothers. I have a brother in law and two nephews. I have grown up on a farm milking cows and goats, riding and training horses and everything else that comes along with farm life. I, along with all of my siblings, were homeschooled (some of my younger siblings are still in school). I graduated a year early and started college at 17. I graduated from Hannibal LaGrange College in Hannibal, MO on May 6th 2007. I have a BS in Speech Communication. I felt the Lord leading me into missions when I was 14 and prayed about where He would have me serve. He burdened my heart to pray for unreached people groups within West Africa five years ago and confirmed in my heart that I would serve among them about three years ago. I surrendered my life to full time missions and minisrty, in the states and overseas three years ago. I joined my team here in Nigeria at the end of July and can't imagine myself being and serving anywhere else at this point!
I am long winded in talking and in writing and the girls were saying that they may just have me write the blogs from now on! If you want to know what the Lord has been doing in my life since I got here, please check out my blog by following the link on the right.
Things that I like and enjoy are:
Coke
Making people laugh
Softball - I've played since I was seven
Babies
Smiley faces
The outdoors and camping/hiking, etc.
Oreos
My friends- DUH!
The color yellow
Hope that you have enjoyed getting to know me. I want to let you know that I appreciate all that you do for me and us as a team. There are go-ers and senders and we as team couldn't have "gone" without you back home to "send". Thanks for who you are in our lives!
Hmmm....where do I start...I am here to introduce myself and think that the beginning would be the best=)
My name is Anna and I am 22 years old. My birthday is November 12 (for those gift givers out there! Just kidding!)
I am second oldest of nine children. I have an older sister, five younger sisters and two younger brothers. I have a brother in law and two nephews. I have grown up on a farm milking cows and goats, riding and training horses and everything else that comes along with farm life. I, along with all of my siblings, were homeschooled (some of my younger siblings are still in school). I graduated a year early and started college at 17. I graduated from Hannibal LaGrange College in Hannibal, MO on May 6th 2007. I have a BS in Speech Communication. I felt the Lord leading me into missions when I was 14 and prayed about where He would have me serve. He burdened my heart to pray for unreached people groups within West Africa five years ago and confirmed in my heart that I would serve among them about three years ago. I surrendered my life to full time missions and minisrty, in the states and overseas three years ago. I joined my team here in Nigeria at the end of July and can't imagine myself being and serving anywhere else at this point!
I am long winded in talking and in writing and the girls were saying that they may just have me write the blogs from now on! If you want to know what the Lord has been doing in my life since I got here, please check out my blog by following the link on the right.
Things that I like and enjoy are:
Coke
Making people laugh
Softball - I've played since I was seven
Babies
Smiley faces
The outdoors and camping/hiking, etc.
Oreos
My friends- DUH!
The color yellow
Hope that you have enjoyed getting to know me. I want to let you know that I appreciate all that you do for me and us as a team. There are go-ers and senders and we as team couldn't have "gone" without you back home to "send". Thanks for who you are in our lives!
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