Arbol de Navidad!

this is our tree with lights! and some of our other christmas decorations. notice the presents under the tree! they all came in the mail today! how exciting...now i only have to wait 1 month before i can open them!

i LOVE christmas time..i've been listening to christmas music since thanksgiving afternoon. surprisingly it still "feels" like Christmas even though i'm sweating as i sit in front of the tree.

Happy Thanksgiving...a day late!

I just want everyone to know I had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I am going to put several pictures of us decorating the McAnally's tree and our tree and also some of our food. I hope ya'll enjoy them...i haven't had a chance to put any stories from my last trip on here...but ya'll go look at my pictures...they tell alot of stories without words(the link is below on my last entry)!

Marty cutting the turkey which was bought in Lima in July and has been sitting in our freezer ever since.

My green bean casserole...it looks like my mama's but didn't taste like it!

Me beside the McAnally's tree

Autumn and I putting the angel on top

Me beside our tree today

Ya'll leave me comments and let me know what u think!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm home and Pictures

hey ya'll,

i'm back in Pucallpa. I got back on Saturday the 18th and i've been resting and recouping since then. I want to show ya'll all my pictures and i figured the easiest way to do that is to give you a link. so for those who are interested enough to look go to: http://olemiss.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2052486&l=cc410&id=6518921

i have lots of fun stories to share, but i'm not sure that i have the energy to type them all out right now. so for some highlights.

on the road there: the road was washed out and we had to wait for 6 hours while random Peruvians cut down trees and put logs in the hole for a makeshift "bridge". we slept in some hole in the wall place that night and woke up the next morning at 5 a.m. to finish our drive Burmudez...from there we took our boat to the communities.

Three accpeted Christ in the community of Campinas. God gave me a rainbow on the day that I taught Noah's ark. It rained every day the first 5 days. Mud was everywhere. the boat got suspended between a tree and the bank...then it partly sank....oh yeah..good times! Abuela --the grandmother in Campina--I love her!

San Francisco, the second community, had running water...well not like indoor plumbing...just a faucet...which is way better than washing your dishes with river water, by the way. The cutest old man in the world and his little dog came to church each day(with his worn out and yellowed New Testament). The word for the entire trip was "Barro" (Mud) another key word would probably be "moscas"--the nastiest biting fly ever that leaves little drops of blood after biting!

the drive home: one stuck cattle truck (and a dehydrated cow), one stuck log truck (and an "alternate route" to get around it), and 2 roadside stand chicken sandwiches (don't ask where the chicken has been...just eat it!)

that is enough for now. enough to keep you coming back for more anyways...i hope.
and don't forget to look at the pictures!! http://olemiss.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2052486&l=cc410&id=6518921 --CLICK ON IT! :)

i love ya'll!!!

Randomness

hey everyone,

i just want to give ya'll a little update on my life. i've been very busy these past few days. my team got back on tuesday and i had a big meal prepared for them upon their return. i was so glad i could do something for them--i had missed them so much. the next day we all cooked for some friends of ours...and it was quite adventurous. all was well until we blew a breaker. then we flipped the switch and the stove/oven worked for a while longer. but eventually the whole thing just stopped working(we just had too much going--and dena's stove is electric). so, we take stuff over to my house to cook...but my stove has been acting up for several weeks now. it is gas and it just hasn't been burning strong enough. but no worries because we have an extra stove in our extra bedroom out back. so, we ended up finishing the cooking in our back bedroom! the picture is below.

this is Rita and Dena cooking away in the very hot back bedroom; we had sweet potatos and cake in the oven and 3 things going on the stove top.

besides that we have been getting ready for our next trip out. we leave the 6th to go to two new communities. our team has never been to either of these places...brand new ground! very exciting. there is lots to do to get ready. pray for us as Marty and Autumn have just returned and are leaving again (they will have only had 5 days rest between trips). we all have alot on our plates right now as we prepare for the next trip.

i have lots of stories that i would love to tell ya'll, but i'm just finding i don't have the time to do them justice. so hopefully you can enjoy my pictures and pray for me without all my wild stories. :)

this is sunshine with her new collar on her new bed (she gets a sleeping bag too!). notice they r all yellow so that she will live up to her name. i took her to the vet this week to get her shots and buy her collar, leash, bed, and toys.