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| Emily and Me :) |
I'm home again! After a good 4 weeks of
traveling over the last month-ish I have to admit that I'm glad to be home. However, I had a great time visiting family and
friends!! This post I dedicate to my friend Emily, who I visited
in Colorado. She and I were roommates in college for a year, and it
was great to spend time with her and her husband, Ryan! So here's a
little about what we were up to during my visit...
Being so close to the Rocky Mountains
we had to take advantage and go exploring! So one day we took the
4-wheel drive truck up to a place called Rollins Pass. The roads were
super duper bumpy and there were huge mud puddles, so of course we
drove through them!! :) We found some gorgeous lakes and the scenery
was just stunning. The temperature was a lot cooler, too! We went
from the 90's at the house to in the 50's on the mountains. It was a
lovely little relief! On the way up we saw a German restaurant called
Westfalen Hof and decided to go back and eat there for supper on the
way home. We did have a little hiccup though...the bumpy roads
jiggled the truck's air filter right off! So we had to get that taken
care of before we kept on, but it all worked out. I was excited to
eat German food, and was even more excited when I found out that the
staff was actually from Germany! Our server was actually from
Switzerland, but he spoke German. I got a delicious pork meal, the
name of which I can't remember, but I did go ahead and try to say it
when I ordered! It was a fun time :)
We also took a drive up to Estes Park
and the Rocky Mountain National Park another day. It's just gorgeous
in the Rockies!! I loved being in the mountains again...felt like
home in a way. The Rockies are different from the Andes, but they're
still big beautiful mountains! We saw some elk that were grazing, so
that was cool.
Other activities included swimming, shooting an air soft pellet hand gun, eating deer steak (yum!), watching “Brave,” and going to IKEA (I had major sensory overload in there! Craziness!). All in all it was a great time!! I'm working on convincing them to visit me in Germany... Any others are welcome to join!
The 10th of August, the day
I'm supposed to be arriving in Germany, is in two weeks from
yesterday. What?!?! How did this happen?! I'm telling you, time is a
slippery sneaky thing! It hasn't quite hit me yet...I think it might
feel like a brick wall when it does... Good news, though! As of today
I'm at 59% of funding! Yahoo! Praising the Lord for this progress and
thanking all of you who have partnered with me in this way! Last
night I had the pleasure of sharing with a group of friends, and that
went well, I think. I'm thankful for the encouragers, prayers, and
givers! So many amazing people that I know! As I mentioned, there are
just 2 weeks left until I'm supposed to be boarding a plane, but I'm
still 31% away from being able to do that. That equates to about
$540/month that I still need to raise to get to 90%, and $720/month
to get to 100%. Would you be willing to partner with me financially?
If so, you can donate online following the link that is on the
sidebar (there is a PayPal fee deducted for every transaction, FYI),
or you can print the pledge form by following the link to the right,
filling it out, and sending it to TeachBeyond. You can also contact
me if you have any questions!
Thanks friends!
Psalm 95:3-4
For the Lord is a great God, and a
great King above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth;
the heights of the mountains are his also.
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