It just keeps getting better!!

I thought I should explain why in my comic post this morning I said I was hyper about our trip. Last night, right before the meeting started, the sister whose house we'll be staying in down in Nicaragua came up to me to say Hello. Then she said "We've got you a car down there!". I thought I was going to fall over! They had a Toyota truck here that they'd been meaning to send, so when her husband heard we'd be travelling on the bus he said "Oh no, they can't do that"! And so off went the truck, on it's way to Miami, then Nicaragua!!!! It's amazing how this has all come together. So having a truck also means we'll be able to be more flexible in which congregation we serve, because you can get that so much quicker in a car than on the bus!


The tough part last night was the fact that when I found out, Charley was already on the platform to start the meeting, so I had to wait until the Bible Study was over to tell him when he came back to his seat! My dad said I should have incorporated it into a comment. I wish I'd thought of that - I could have said "Paul and Barnabas had to walk from one end of Cyprus to the other, unlike us in Nicaragua because we'll have a truck to drive, but they didn't, they had to walk everywhere"!!!! That would have been a fun way of telling him!


Anyway, so, that's the latest news on the Nicaragua front!!

I just had to share today's Dilbert!!!!

Maybe it's because I'm hyper about our trip, but this Dilbert comic made me howl with laughter this morning so I felt I just had to share it even if it has nothing to do with our trip to Nicaragua!!

Six weeks today - not very inventive with the titles am I?

It's hard to believe how quickly a week flies by. We had a wonderful weekend enjoying our anniversary. Friday evening we did dinner and a movie with my mam and dad. Then Saturday we went down to Bloomington to stay with Lara & Gannon (Charley's sister and hubby), Sunday went with them to give a talk out, then in the evening went on down to Charley's mam and dad's house and stayed until Monday along with Charley's other sister and her two boys. We had a great time with them all!


So, over the weekend we decided that we were going to take up the offer to stay at the house of a family in our hall who have a house down in Nicaragua. (Did that sentence make any sense?!?!) They asked us a while ago, and we hadn't decided yet where we wanted to serve. But after much prayer and thought and lists of pros and cons we decided that their house would be the best option. So, we hadn't called the family yet to ask if their offer still stood, but on my break at work I prayed about it, asking Jehovah to let us know if this was the right decision. 20 minutes later the sister whose house it is called me out the blue!! She wants to travel from here to Nicaragua with us and spend a few days at her house getting some stuff in order!! So I asked if the offer was still available, she very excitedly said of course it was, so it's all settled!!! It may have been a coincidence that she called right after I prayed about it, but I'll let each of you form your own opinion on that one!!


So, if all works out as planned, she'll travel on the same flights as us, and so we'll have her there to help us settle in. I feel so much calmer about it all now! I was concerned about finding this house that we've never been to, in an area we don't really know yet, so that's taken care of! From her description of the house I think we'll be living it up!!!


Now all that is left is to find out what congregations are in the area and which one needs the most help. Hopefully we can get some contact info and find that out before we go down there.


Well, that's all for now. I've been online today looking for a backpack service bag that also has a shoulder strap at a reasonable price - such a thing doesn't exactly exist but I haven't given up yet! I'm sure it won't be the last time you read about it!

Email Subscription Added

I think I just added an email subscribe option so that you can sign up, and each time I blog, you'll get an email letting you know. I'm mostly posting this post to test it! I hope it works.

Seven weeks and counting!!

Well, we leave seven weeks today!! It's hard to believe how time is flying by so fast.


We've had such a lot going on lately. October 1st I did a festival in an attempt to sell some of my photographs that I've taken on our travels. I got lots of compliments and I was very pleased with how they looked, but people just weren't buying much at this festival, so I sold very little indeed. But it was a good experience and since then I've sold a few pictures to people I know so it wasn't a complete waste of time!


Then this last week we just had CO visit. We still haven't recovered from that yet!! It was a wonderful week though, but tiring! We had really good support for field service, and amazing meeting attendance. We have about 115 publishers right now I think, but we had 250 at the meeting on Sunday!!! The hall was PACKED!! It was wonderful to see so many people there. Our CO and his wife are awesome, so we had a great time with them. 


And on Sunday we had an amazing day out in service. To cut some long stories short we ended up by "coincidence" in a parking lot of a store where all the hispanos shop, and the other sister in the group talked to someone who gave her an address so she could call on her, then the brother in our group got out of the car to talk to someone and it turned out to be a call he'd lost track of so he got his new info. And then a guy approached us to ask for the WT and a Bible Study! He used to study in Florida but hadn't found the witnesses here yet, so we made plans with him! And then we went to my territory, and just "happened" to knock at a door where a guy told us that hispanos lived in the corner house, and we didn't have that address written down, so we went and found a girl who was raised in the truth, lost her way a little, and wants to come back. She cried, and we cried, and made plans to pick her up for the meeting on Thursday! So all in all, it was an amazing day of "coincidences" that left us all on a high!!!


So, that's the latest from Indy. We have a lot of stuff coming up to make time fly even faster! We're spending the weekend with Charley's family this weekend since it's been a disgracefully long time since we saw them all! And it's our 7th anniversary this weekend too. I'm looking forward to doing a whole lot of nothing to celebrate!


Well, that's all for now. Hope you're all doing well - all two of you who are reading this blog that is!

We're Going Back to Nicaragua!!!!!

I just this second hit the "Finish" button on www.aa.com to buy our tickets. We've been eyeing prices for a couple of months now, and they've gone up, and mostly up and up, and came crashing down for a second and we didn't buy, then they shot WAY back up again! But we decided to hold out, and today they came down and we put a purchase on hold. And then when it came time to buy, and we looked again, they'd come down another $100 since this morning, so we just bought our tickets. As cheap as we paid last time, but flying from Indy instead of having to drive to Chicago. WOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!! I can get excited about it now! It's really happening!!! Roll on Tuesday, November 29th!!!


For those who don't know, we gave up our apartment, and have made ourselves at home in my mam and dad's basement. Thanks Mam & Dad!!! We like it down here! This was in preparation for a three month adventure back to Nicaragua. So now we have tickets, and just need to decide where we'll live down there. We've been kindly offered the use of a house that belongs to a family in our congregation here. And it sounds beautiful. But it's a bit too far away from where we went last time to be able to stay there and serve in that same congregation, so we're a bit torn as to what to do! But we'll decide eventually I suppose!


Well, it's really late and Charley is patiently waiting to use the computer. I don't know if anyone even will think to look at this blog anymore. Maybe I'll have to email you all!


I'm so excited. I think I'll have to knock myself out with some whiskey or I won't sleep - hahaha!!!

Home Safe and Sound - Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Well, here we are in our little apartment. Just had breakfast and got a cup of coffee. It's chilly in here but the sun is trying to shine.


We had an uneventful trip home. Left the Robleto's house at about 5:30am, got to the airport and checked in really quickly as there was no line. It's a very nice airport. Had some breakfast and then flew to Miami. Miami is a big airport and the food establishments are really spread out. I felt like we walked for miles and couldn't find anything worth eating. But eventually we ate Nathan's World Famous Hot Dogs! Then our flight home to Chicago was uneventful too. Everything was on time and our bags arrived without problems. Overall, we were impressed with American Airlines.


Mam and dad picked us up in Chicago and besides my upset stomach everything went smoothly. We got something to eat on the way and got home around 11:30pm.


Slept very soundly last night. Just got up about 8am because I was too hungry to go back to sleep again! So, today will mostly consist of trying to unpack and get stuff organized. Back to work tomorrow. Shame!! We got quite used to not working for three weeks and having lots of time to just sit around and chill.


Well, I hope you've all enjoyed reading our blog. Thanks for sharing our trip with us. We have a feeling that it won't be our last trip to Nicaragua but we'll keep you posted on that in the future!