Trying

I mentioned that I was going to begin blogging more regularly, instead of sporadic blog posts. So, I'm trying to get back into the whir of blogging with just a simply "here's-what's-been-going-on" post :)

Weeding one day :)

My brothers :) Great? YES!

He is SO buff ;)

Okk, this is seriously AMAZING! Sarah Ellen, my amazing little sister, is the most amazing artist! She can draw anything and I am just blown away by her pictures!

Friends in Arkansas asked Sarah if she could draw them. Sarah's just about done with the picture and I'd say it looks stunning! Sarah... you're a great artist!

Sheet music :) I'm trying to learn a new song on the piano (Cristofori's Dream. If you haven't heard it, you should!) But I can't read sheet music. Soo, I have to go through the pages and write the letters above every note :) It's the only way I can "read" sheet music :) And I'm SO excited to learn this song! :D

Not much else has been going on recently. We got to go to Christ Fellowship last night after being gone for two weeks. It was wonderful to be back with that body of believers! I am SO thankful for them. (I think I'll post more about some stuff that was shared in another post :) )

Anywho, that's about it for now :) I'm going to close and hopefully write again soon :D

Last Sunday at SIL

It still hasn't hit me that we really are leaving Nampula soon. This Sunday at SIL was our last Sunday there. It sure didn't feel like it. But we snapped lots of pictures and took loads of videos...For memories sake :) And for blogging too ;)

Here we are waiting for Sarah and Gracie to come back with the key to the conference room. (Where we have the Sunday night fellowship)

Gracie unlocking doors :)

Thomas setting up his drums. He is an amazing drummer! He has been playing for over 3 years now (I think) And just keeps getting better and better at drumming! It's really neat to see him use his talent to praise God! Great work Thomas!

Damarise and Haddie (Esther) Awww!

Andrew setting up the speakers.

Sarah and Haddie drew a picture of Annie... and then blamed it on Damarise and Bethy :P haha...

Me fixing up the slideshow.

My beautiful older sisters. Damarise and Bethy.

Haddie, Bethy and Damarise. God has blessed me abundantly with amazing friends and sisters!

Beverly! :D She's so pretty!

All my lovely sisters!! What can I say? I have the most amazing sisters in the world!

A bunch of girls :) Sarah, Gracie, Beverly, Damarise, Bethy, Celine, Esther

Mr. LePoidevin (Thomas' dad) He has helped us with music ever since we started playing for church. We couldn't do it without him! He tells us when we are going to fast. When we need to sing louder (like ladies with bright red lipstick ;) ) And he encourages us and prays with us. He is a wonderful leader :) Thank you Mr. LePoidevin!

The testing of the sound. We go around the room and test the microphones, piano, drums, bass and guitar to make sure that everything sounds good :)

Benaiah and Andrew... being brothers :P

Singing :)

Haddie :) She videotaped for us since Damarise was doing the piano and I was clicking through the slides :) Thanks so much Haddie for all your help!

Singing and talking about how we should arrange the song :)

After we were done practicing and before church started, Kent sat down to play the piano and got a crowd of lil' boys :) It was SO cute! :D

And that is all for the pictures...and for our last Sunday at SIL. I'm going to miss it!

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday :)

Damarise had the camera out for most of Sunday, so I thought I'd post some pictures and tell about our Sunday :)

After church time we ate lunch... and filled out application stuff :P

After lunch we went to SIL to practice music :) Thomas was back from Norway! Yeah!! 

Kent and Andrew played guitar and bass.

Then Damarise and Esther went out looking for flowers to take pictures of. 

I love this picture of Esther smelling the flowers!!

One of God's beautiful flowers!

Haha, Esther and Elijah by Elijah's dirt bike. 

Ian, Elijah and Andrew by Elijah's dirt bike :)

Cool number thing on a car 

Damarise, Esther and I :D

Some lock thing on the office of SIL... don't worry we didn't mess with it :P 

Esther and I in Ms. Peggy's lawn. Her grass is SO green!!

Pretty yellow bushes. 

Esther was going all around SIL trying to find a tree to climb :) She did eventually find one :D

A cool nail shot :) Yah.... my sis is a great photographer! :D

Anywho, that's all the pics from my Sunday :) Later on that night we got rain!!! It hasn't rained here for over a week which has made everything very dry and HOT! So, last night, when it poured and got cold we were praising the Lord!!! Thank you for the rain!!! :D It was a wonderful way to end the day!

She did it!

Yes, yes, yes! Sarah Ellen, my amazing, talented, little sister played her flute last night for the Missionary Fellowship! :D The first time ever! Yeah Sarah! She did an amazing job playing "Silent Night" and hit every note perfectly. It was really pretty. Great Job Sarah!!! I hope you'll be playing it more often now!

A Big Thank You!

As I've said before, the youth group, or most of it, leads the worship every other Sunday night for the missionary fellowship :) We could never do it without the help of Mr. Lepoidevin! :) (And God!!!!) .... Mr. Lepoidevin comes every time we practice music and tells us what we can be doing better, and helps everything sound great! :)  Last night we got to let him know how much we appreciate it! :) We gave him a poster with some notes on it and some chocolate :) Thank you so much Mr. Lepoidevin for all the time and effort you put into helping us!!! 

This is the poster :)

Mr. Lepoidevin controlling the sound! :)

Almost everybody practicing! :) And Esther played her violin!!! So beautiful!!! 

A Song, some noise, and a rat...

This morning started off as a beautiful morning, not that it still isn't beautiful, it just had a slight disturbance to the beauty of it :) So, there I was sitting on our piano stool playing "Never Let Go" on the piano. Damarise was sitting on Sarah's bed doing her school. It seemed like a normal Monday until... (Scary music) We heard a shout, 3 screams and loads of scratching. Next thing we heard was Ian shouting, "Sandy (our dog) has a RAT!" Ew! The piano playing stopped, the shouting continued. Sarah, Ian and Andrew were chasing after Sandy. Next thing we heard, Sandy had squished the rat's skull and its eyeball had popped out! Ewww gross!!  ... It was a sight for sore eyes. Andrew got it from Sandy and buried it. (Cause we weren't sure if it would have rabies or not.)  And as of now everything is back to normal. No more rat, no more shouting, the piano is playing and Damarise is doing school :) As should I, so ta ta! 

Squished? Or is it normal?

Every other Sunday night (at SIL, where all the missionaries come for church and fellowship with each other), the youth group leads the worship part of the service :]  Here's a pretty normal picture of how we look when we travel from our house to SIL. The Woodrow's pick us up in the Land Rover, then we drive down the street to the LePoidevin's and pick them up along with the drums, keyboard, guitar, amp, bass, cords, and music books :) Which adds up to 9 people and all of the instrument stuff :) Hehe, so yes, we may be slightly squished, but it's become so normal we hardly notice it! And it's always a fun ride! :)