que dia super excelente!!!! really really top notch!!!!

oh man i can’t even begin to explain how extremely delighted i am...haha a facebook status change just would not do i have to explain how seriously awesome today has been!!! GAH!!!  okay:

To start the day i had a killer bible time, then i got to talk to my host mom about it and if that wasn’t enough i go to take left over pizza for lunch! yuUUm!!!

     while waiting for the for bus Carmen called and told me to bring my passport because i need to go pick up a surprise PACKAGE at the post office!!!

so on top of that excellent surprise (eek i love surprises!) my bus ride was also amazing as i took my ipod and the best songs came on.  It was so delightful singing and praising!

on my second bus i ran into my friend and his mom!!!

i get to carpio, and well that’s just wonderful all in itself but then my friend offers to drive me to the post office to pick up my package!!! So i didn’t have to wait alllll day to go get it!!

So i get to the post office and at first the lady couldn’t find the package, and i started to worry then i decided instead i would just pray really reeally hard and then after like the looongest 5 minutes of my life she came out with a HUGE box, and just gave it to me!!! i didn’t even have to pay to pick it up!!!

I had to take the bus back into Carpio so i prayed that JC would protect me as i was packing a lot of goods (passport, camera, giant box of joy…) and wouldn’t you know it but i get to the bus stop and run into my friend and her short term group who were coming into Carpio today to help with club – hellooo protection!!!

We get to Carpio and i finally get to open my box!!!

It was from my wonderful friend Lisa (if you don’t know her you should because she’s a delight!) and oh MAN it was like Christmas everything was wrapped and beautiful with verses and ribbons and bows and AAAH!!!! letters and love and SNOW!!!! a jump drive, a frisbee, a movie, pickle band aids, popcorn, BERRIES and chocolate!!! Lots of wonderful notes, a journal (literally this morning i was talking to myself and was like “you need to tell mom your journal is almost full so she can make you a new one” NOW I DONT HAVE TOOO!!! YEEES THANK YOU SO SOSOOO MUCH!!!!

 

i had club today so i got to explode all the joy and love i had bursting inside and shower it all over the kids AND THEN one of the boys made me a card!!!

I feel SO loved and SO special and SO wonderful, happy, completely overwhelmed with my man upstairs, JC! eeeek! 

I AM SO ENCOURAGED!!

and if that wasn’t enough  i JUST discovered a website with a zumba fitness workout on it FOR FREE!!!

YEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!

august vid…

“don’t bother bringing an umbrella or jacket it will definitely NOT rain”

yes i am that stupid and those were some of the last words i said to Morgan before we left for Nicaragua – during the rainy season.

ah friends, so I've returned from Nicaragua and it was a delightful trip..i think my favourite part was when we were at the border and the driver man announced that they were not stopping in Granada (our destination –and the reason Morgan and I took the 6am bus) but God provided us a friend from Argentina who spoke some pretty mean spanglish (and was also conveniently good looking).  So we get dropped off in another little town where we are supposed to take a public bus into Granada.  However, the reason that the big bus wasn’t going to Granada was because there was a huge fiesta so obviously the public bus was jam packed..literally there was NO space…people were hanging off the back. So after waiting in the rain for 20ish minutes i decided that we should hitch hike with this random flat bed truck that was driving by…and found out I'm pretty good at hailing down trucks filled with Latin men and horses…who knew!?!  So anywho we get into the back with 5 hombres,  3 horses, and a mountain of crap – haha literally! We’re driving along being pelted in the face with rain and horse spit when the one guy is like “blah blah blah”  then about 2.3 seconds later i get hit in the face with a tree branch! HAHAHA – apparently “blah blah blah” translates to “DUCK!” – i did not get that memo but i did get a face full of leaves and branch! So we get into town and drive through the parade (we were their international float).  God made what could’ve been a super sketchy situation into something totally wonderful and fun.  We got into town unscathed found a super cheap hostel right away, got to experience one heck of a party and just enjoy the craziness that is Latin america.  All in all good trip i was even able to talk to our Argentinian friend about Jesus and how he’s pretty prime.

Other highlights: …i fell in the street – actually fell, scraped my ankle and everything ..haha then Morgan realized that she was, as those shirts say, “with stupid” 
… i saw a monkey… ran into a scary Jesus in a Snow White casket…decided to play Russian roulette with my tummy by not only drinking the local water but by also eating lettuce (natures germ catcher) haha i lost…found a free chocolate tour with samples! (my host mom always teases me and tells me that i live in a crazy world because I'm always in search of free things- so i was VERY excited to tell her about this…we also found other free museums but they didn’t give us free chocolate, they just  showed us art, and it was wasn’t edible so it’s barely worth mentioning…and a little a little street boy made me a flower out of a coconut leaf…

        Life is good.

In other news tomorrow I'm going to a concert – well I'm going to the stadium and then I'm going to sit outside and listen to the concert…for FREE!   I also cut my hair and during the girls’ game on Saturday almost wound up going to the hospital in an ambulance when one of our girls went down hard – but didn’t have to and am SUPER excited to report that while we were waiting for the ambulance it really appeared as though her ankle was broken so i did some serious praying and I'm so delighted to report that she has NO broken bones and just a little sprain! I saw her the other day and she’s doing great…she’s in a beauty class that we have i got to be her practice model – so if her soccer career doesn’t pan out she can do make up …after we were done i was informed that i was a girl, and a pretty one at that!  How exciting! 

"Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the Lord and enjoy safe pasture!  Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart!

 Psalm 37

dear Jesus you can take everything i have…just please don’t leave my side.

well friends i can’t believe it’s already that time again but tomorrow morning at 4.30 i leave for Nicaragua again.  Sadly the flights to the states went up and not down so that delightful visit will have to wait.  God’s blessed me again with a travel buddy (our newest missionary Morgan is going to sacrifice her time and submit herself to 4 solid days of kayla…pobrecita) Anywho, we’re going to hit up Granada and hopefully have some fun!

So with this looming trip and the harsh reality that each day I'm getting closer and closer to my estimated head back to Canada time I've been getting quite upset.  The thought of going to back is not sitting well with me, between panic and denial – sometimes it doesn’t feel like it’s going to happen  “but kayla you have like five months left what’s your deal?!” GAH i know only fiiive months hahah.  I know God’s got me covered and whether i stay or go is HIS decision not mine, which is reassuring, but it’s hard when your heart is so entangled and attached (and no Grandma not romantically with the future father of your great-grandbabies). Okay so let me clarify before my mom creates a pool in our living room with her tears –don’t laugh she could do it!  It’s not that i don’t miss people back home but God’s got that covered and as I'm frolicking down his path (we’re holding hands too!) i just have peace that He’s taking care of everyone at home and voila! I'm good.  So case in point I’m not sure what God’s got up his sleeve but i feel like long term missions could be a serious possibility eeek how exciting!!!

Prayer (ahh YES PLEASE!!!)

*For a budget friendly trip up north, safety, REST, and obviously for us to have a suuper wonderful time.

*For God to throw some knowledge and wisdom on me;  help me to just focus on him and not on all the craziness that worry/anxiety brings.

*Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of [my] mouth, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.  Ephesians 4.29

* My friend, Francis, unexpectedly lost her aunt last week.  Also in that same family is a guy who would like to volunteer with us but his aunt doesn’t approve and kind of forbade him to come.  She’s a victim to the whole Caprio is disgusting, unsafe, and all the other racist generalizations that people come up with. He’s a pretty prime guy and we want his help so throw some prayers out for her heart to soften up.

 

 

so on top of the giant cockroach i decapitated    the other day LOOK what i killed just outside my room…I'm so brave!  …..modest too!!