Soon Come

 

 

 

 

 

    Well I haven't blogged in a while and I'm sorry...I have been busy with school...

 Our team season is winding down. We only have two more teams for the year :/ Also we will be going back to the states for Christmas, we leave on December 4!!!!!!  We all are excited, but we have some needs- We need a vehicle that will seat 8 people and a place to stay. God has provided so far and I know He will continue...

 Yesterday we celebrated Ali's birthday (she will be 8 on Wed.) ! Her birthday cake was a Texas Sheet Cake topped with Oreos and pink shimmer icing!!! Mine and Bubba's (Matthew) are coming up soon too! Mine is on Nov. 5, and Bubba's the 7th.

 

I have decided to post a pic of the family....

 

This was taken at JDV (the Jamaican Deaf Village). We are all wearing Hog Wild shirts.

Hog Wild For Jesus is a ministry in Alabama. Here is a YouTube link to see what they do- 

YouTube-Hog Wild Mission Trip 

 

 

I recently did Council Time in our Awana program . It was called "Soap and Pepper".  It was fun and I think our kids enjoyed it! I took a bowl of water, this represented the world before Adam and Eve sinned: clean and perfect. But after they sinned the world was full of sin and all who live in it have sin in their lives too, so to demonstrate this I added pepper. Now I asked a child to come up and stick their finger in the water, what happened? The pepper all rushed onto their finger, just like we are all sinful from the moment we were born. But we all have hope! (now I called up someone else) The soap we used represented Jesus and if we have Jesus in our life we are kept save from all evil in the world!! Soap was put on a finger and then we put the finger in the water (remember the finger now represents a Christian) and the end result was that the soap (Christ) 'repelled' the pepper (sin) and not one speck was one the finger! This is a great way to show God's forgiveness using household items! Go ahead and try it!! 

 

 

 I'm gonna close with this: I have herd all that is going on in America and I just want to give a few verses of encouragement to all who are about to experience some major changes...

 

  Isaiah 49:3- He said to me "You are my servant in whom I will display my splendor"

 Matthew 5:10,12- Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is  the kingdom of Heaven ...Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in Heaven, for in the same ways  they persecuted the prophets before you.

 Matthew 28:20- "And surely I am with you, even to the end of the age."

    Also read Isaiah 53!!

                                                                  Bye for now

                                                                         Lexi

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

 We had a beautiful rainbow

 

Ali with Shannon and Hollie

 

Pastor Titus and his "shiny" head!

I had fun playing photography with a rose.

                                                                                                                     Rose and my guitar

                                          One of my favs                                     Pretty lizard!

                                                 weird but cool bug












Awesome moon pics!!

                          


                                                               Cool Sunset!!

                                                  
            

We went to Ocho Rios the first week of August and I (of course) had fun with photography!

 This is a Doctor Bird, the Jamaican national bird

This is a bored photographer...

 


 The view from where we stayed in Ochie

                                   

                    So here are some pics that were taken while we were in Ocho Rios

 

Swimming in the pool     

 

 

                                                                   Eating Lunch

 

 Zachary going through the menu :)

                                               My brothers asleep and bubba using my mask

We celebrated my Dad's birthday. We tattooed our hands with puppets and they sang Happy Birthday

                                              This is the night view from our place

                                And this cruise ship pulled into the harbor as we were leaving.

 

So we have had fun this month except the fact that I have been doing A TON of schoolwork.

But I guess its ok, also today I signed a song in church. It was Wonderful Merciful Savior by Selah.

                                                 Well that's all for now

                                                          Lexi

 

 

 

 

Pictures to Show What We Have Been Doing

  Here is some pics from the last few months...

        This is Konner, and he let me put a hair-rap in his hair! He was super cute in it!

This is Letshaun, one of our students, in one of my favorite hats

 Below are some pics from the baptism, three students were baptized!

This is Lettwana Bernard-

 Here is Peter Smith-

       And here is Donavan Hibbert-

 

 Group pic with Sheldon who did the baptisms

Some sunsets-

Here are some pics from Dunn's River Falls



                                                                Scenery-

Pickle playing the drums!

                             Bubba...I don't think this needs
                                   much describing :)

                                                                 Zachary being cute!

   We learned how to play cricket...well I don't really get it, but just kinda listened and did

what I was told to do

                                                  
                                                                Me trying to play...

 Hollie (our intern) and her awesome swing

 

 Erin played too, she did pretty good.

 

 

Chilling out....

                Some scenery on the way to Ocho Rios, this is where Columbus landed in 1492

 befor he got to America.

                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                             Pretty water!

                                                 Locking up all three interns!!!!!!!!          

                                                                                                  Here is last month's graduation...

 

                                                         The CCCD Graduation Class of 2013


 I made a cool looking piece of art using crayons
    and by using a hair dryer

 

 This is a mural that was painted in team dining room.

 

So as you can see we have been doing a lot! And we just had a team come in. I have been having fun and enjoying all the new people we have been meeting! Also I (of course) cant wait to meet more!