The Fun Begins...

NC was a great time. Joe, Heather, Annabelle, and I had a wonderful time visiting Family.... We miss them!

But as soon as Joe and I got back to Syracuse we hit the ground running. I can tell these next few months are going to be very very busy and one of the emotional ones I am going to have....

Our prayer is that we leaving for Language School to Costa Rica at the end of April. That is not far away... and the excitement and tears have already started!

Not to mention we still have churches to visit. It is incredible exciting, and I can not imagine doing ANYTHING else....

But Lord give me strength!

The Start of Our Year...

Well, the first couple weeks of our year started out nice and slow. But that didn't last long... Last weekend we went to SNOW CAMP with the Beacon youth group! It was a blast.


Then one day later we headed to NC to surprise my siblings and parents for a visit with Joe, me, my sister Heather, and baby Annabelle!

So here we are now in NC enjoying family, and having to say goodbye tomorrow to head out and visit 2 churches in one Sunday! :-)

A New Year...

With new adventures!

And The Fun Continues...

Opening Gifts with Dowling Family...

R Jay

Heather

Joe

Baby Annabelle

Christmas 2007...

Was a WONDERFUL time with family!


DePuy Family

DePuy Family Tree!

Our Home This Christmas...

I began to realize that each of Mine and Joe's Christmas' will all be different. So as I attempt to remember most of them, here are a few pictures of what our home looks like this Christmas! :-)

Candle Decor in Guest Room


Living Room


Living Room


Our Beautiful Nativity Set on top of Bookcase


Our Coffee Table Centerpiece


Our Stockings

Our Cute Little Christmas Tree on top of Ledge

God is good....

Pray Pray Pray... IS all I can say.

By the middle of January Joe and I could be at 93% if this is what the Lord wants!

That would mean only 7% to go....

How Awesome!

The Peace Beyond Understanding...

Finally was the word I thought about a week ago when I realized that I would have a couple weeks to be home and spend time with family, making cookies, attending our home church, and going to our Bible studies.

Yes Finally was the word until the week started. Mon - Fri. Bad news came out of no where. God let some amazing blows happen to great people. From taking a loved one from taking a needed job.
BUT HE knows what HE is doing.

Praise the Lord for a faith that we can put into someone who has a plan....

Hopefully we will never forget that...

Oh and I started my natural diet... Apparently I'm detoxing now :-)

THANKSGIVING...

With my family in North Carolina. We had a wonderful. I was able to spend one on one time with each of my siblings. It really was a great time.... now in a week I get to spend time with my other sibling and my wonderful niece....

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!

THEY are so cute...

I love my sister and my niece. Annabelle has gotten so big and I miss her so much!
Can't wait to see them soon....

Tomorrow Joe and I get to go home... yeay! for 2 days and then go and visit my family in NC... We are excited!

God is Awesome...

and field prep is great...

We are being spoiled....

he he he

But home is calling my name and I can't wait to get back to it :-)

What An Amazing God...

I am doing lots better now, that I have had time to process. Life seems just a little bit to crazy at them moment. Joe and I have been going with only about having a week and a half at the most to be at home since the end of August and it seems to continue.
I fully thought that Joe and I would not make the field-prep seminar in November giving me a couple months to breath, but the Lord has done AMAZING things!
At the end of Sept. coming home from Mexico Joe and I had only 60%, and needed 25% more to attend the nov. field-prep. The deadline (at least we thought) was Oct. 26th. With only having a month to raise 25% it seemed as through it was not going to happen. But in 2 weeks we jumped up to 75% and then found out that the deadline was actually Oct. 19th. We had lost a week. With still having 10% to go I was sure that we were not going to make it. And in one week, even up to the cut off day we went up to 83.2% and was allowed to go to field-prep and the next day recieved info that we are now at 85.2%. So we are over the requirement for field-prep and heading there this Nov. There is no denying that God has a part in this and wants us to go in November, so I am put at ease for now, knowing that this is the path that HE wants me to take! :-)

What an AMAZING GOD we serve...

Please Pray...

My heart is very heavy today. I am fighting lots of different emotions about a possible up coming field-prep...

I really do not want to go this time

New date...

Apparently the cut off date for our seminar now is Oct 19th.... AHHHH we onlly have 10 more days!

PLEASE PRAY! :-)

God's Amazing Works...

Its amazing how wonderful God works. Joe and I need 85% of our support in order to attend a mandatory field-prep seminar. We need to attend this seminar before going to the field with 100%. The next available seminar is this coming November. But we need to have 85% by Oct 26th. So when we got back from Mexico City, we only had about 63%. I had absolutely NO hope that we would gain 22% more in just 25days. But in only 2 weeks our percentage has reached 77% Only 8% more to go! That's only 410 dollars a month. God is so AMAZING and can do ANYTHING even if you only have 25 days! Hopefully we will reach the next 8% in 17 days!

PRAISE THE LORD!

Were Back!

Yes that is right I am finally home. Only to leave again in the next week and go go go. Yesterday was a hard day for me. I lost it and was ready to quit everything. It was just one of those girls moments... ya know. I finally got to see my darling niece. She is so beautiful and Heather is an AMAZING mom. Well this weekend starts the Beacon Missions conference and I have a children's lesson to put together soooooo.... hopefully more to come :-)

Wedneday, Sept 27th 2007

Well, so much for my tummy getting better! I missed most of our morning sessions because I was in our room either laying down or mostly in the bathroom! I eventually was able to get out of the room and come to the end of the sessions. What a yucky morning. But it did feel good enough that I as able to eat lunch. And we ate it near the pool it was so cool! Then Joe and I went back to our room and got ready to go swim in the pool! So I decided to take a pepcid AC to see if it would work. And surprisingly for a long time it worked, it wasn't aching any more! But then during our evening session I had to literally run to the bathroom because I thought that I was going to yack! But surprisingly I sat and sat and sat in the bathroom and nothing! And then it went away so Joe and I headed to dinner and as we sat down with 4 other missionaries all of a sudden the nausea started again, and this time it was bad! And the hard thing was is now i'm with other people so I couldn't just get up and leave! So I began eating a roil and thought if I head to the bathroom and throw this up then that's it. I quit! No more food or swimming or fun. But praise the Lord the food seemed to be what I needed! I felt great with food now in my tummy. There was a couple times in the night that I woke up with much nausea but hopefully it will get better & better.

Tuesday, Sept 26th 2007

Tummy ache, Tummy ache, Tummy ache... Ahhhh! It won't stop! Praise the Lord that I am still able to go to the sessions and eat meals. It begins to feel better so I think it is going away and then... boom! It comes on strong! But the sessions are wonderful and I am learning so much! After our morning sessions all the ladies had lunch together and had a devotion from JoBeth Loftis. During our time together our regional directors wife got up and began sharing how she wants to get close to us and develop a good relationship. So she had us all share struggles or challenges we are going through we were only supposed to take 15-20mins but ended up being an hour and a half. Of Course :-) There were many needed tears and it was refreshing! Joe and I went to the beach again and as he slept on the shore , I went into the Ocean and let myself be guided by the wonderful waves. IT helped my stomach calm for a little while. We had another session at night and it was such a blessing to hear another great message! After we went to another great restaurant and have a Mediterranean meal. It was absolutely beautiful and my stomach felt great! It started to ache a little as I went to be. But not to bad!

Joe and I on the beach...

Monday, Sept 25th 2007

Well unfortunately my stomach ache did not go away. I was able to sleep well but when I woke up in the morning... ugh! It ached and ached! I really didn't want to eat anything, but I did have yogurt and beans and it seemed to help. Joe and I were able to go on the beach today! It was so much fun. We stood on the beach trying to find good shells and we kept getting knocked over by the waves! Oh it was so funny to watch. We were out there with Antonio & Diana and at one point I was trying to help Diana get up and the waves kept pushing me down and pushed me right on top of Diana. We lost it and could not stop laughing about it for the rest of the day! For lunch we are at the Restaurant that over looked the beach. It was beautiful! Then for this night we headed to the theater room and watched the Mexican show! It was so incredible watching them dance, sing, and play instruments! Besides the tummy ache... what a great day!


Here are some pics of the show...

Sunday, Sept. 23 2007

The first day of our conference was a wonderful start. We had a wonderful time of Praise & worship to begin our morning! Each day we are here one couple/single from the Mexico City team has a theme for that day. Today’s day was one of our singles, Darlene. She is hilarious. She gave everyone a cute native Mexican box with lots of candy! Her theme was taking care of your heart. She had a small piece of paper with a heart on it, and she hid it in the lobby of our hotel and whoever found it got a big prize! We had a devotion form Dr. Drullinger. He is a great speaker. He currently teaches at Carville University but will soon stop working there because he is on his way to South Africa as an ABWE missionary! All day we had wonderful sessions from sharing the Gospel to learning about Roman Catholicism. They are all great! lunch was great too, a huge buffet of everything you can imagine! After lunch we had another session and then to the hot tube we went! it was so nice to relax…until I got a stomach ache and it lasted all the rest of the night. Joe went with the Navarretes to dinner and I went to the room to relax and sleep! But it wasn’t so relaxing as the pain kept getting worse and worse. Hopefully it will be gone by tomorrow!

Another pic...