I like to write when I 'm all emotional like this! :-)...

...but I'm so emotional I might end up being too personal which those of you who know me know I am totally capable of!!! :-) so I'll post some pics of my favorite girl in the whole world, Dudu...

Isn't she just soooooo cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep, still so cute!!!:-)
This is one of the reasons why I love this girl; she so reminds me of myself. There's me so excited to be with her and she's totally looking away!! Kind of like me and Jesus sometimes...

Ok, looks like we're improving on the relationship, she will at least now look into the camera, well she's facing forward!! :-)
Here she is with some friends, sitll so cute!!!!!! :-) I love this little girl so so so much!!!

A fun night and an ncriminating picture of Daran :-)

Some of you might now of my secret (well not really secret) desire to be famous one day (I will use my fame for good& adopt a lot of children:-)). Well, I have been teaching this girl, Nqobi, guitar (actually we’ve only had one lesson so far! J…and we started like a month ago!!) Here’s me and Nqobi:

She works for this company that is doing the admin for the Entrepreneur of The Year Awards. Last night was the launch dinner, and Nqobi had asked me if I would like to perform at the dinner and how much I charge to which I thought, “charge???” (about a week ago) So I asked Daran (cause he seemed like businessmanJ) what he thought I should charge. He gave me a number to call (well actually I got the number from Teresa, Daran’s wifeJ) and was also nice enough to correct my mispronunciation of the word, ‘entrepreneur’. J Here’s a pic of Daran:

So anyway, I was eventually asked to write a song for the event which I first performed for my friends Jacci, Natalie, Gabby, Joelle, Danielle, and Nathaniel who were all so encouraging and said they loved it. Some of you now that one of my love languages is word of affirmation so their very encouraging words totally helped pump me up& take away some of my nervousness…”Thanks, friends!!!”

I was still kind of nervous about this whole thing. It was my first ‘real’ public performance (not at church) by myself. The event was by invitation only and I couldn’t have my lovely friends come and make funny faces at me while I performed! J So, I started asking people to pray. At first I just did it cause that’s what you do, but then I started realizing just how much of a difference prayer makes (thank you Frank Perretti for writing, “Piercing The Darkness!! J) I asked some awesome people to pray for me and they did and the performance was a blast. I had do much fun doing it, and got lots of compliments( filling up my love tank J) Thank you amazing friends for your prayers, thank you Jesus for loving me so!!!!!...so even though I love to perform and have performed before I was always get stage fright. My heart starts to beat really fast and I feel like if I don’t BREATHE I’ll faint. I felt this way before my performance last night, but then I started to well first of all, breathe J, but I also just started saying(under my breathe so as not to creep out everyone at my table)’ Peace of Jesus’ over and over again. He gave me peace and like I already said I had so much fun. So, again, thanks for praying friends!!!!

Ok, pics from the night

This is me practicing in the living room a few minutes before I had to leave.

This is me and the best little sister ever who totally helped pack my purse before I had to leave. I love you Tamara!!!

This is me and Khosi, I think was her name, one of the models. I had been sitting by myself playing sudoku( I know I’m a nerd J, and finally decided to stop being a loser so I chatted with the girls who were doing the modeling for the evening.

More modelsJ

I sent the following sms to Becca concerning the beginning of my evening.”…I’ve taken a picture with a strange man, had a strange man compliment my dress, & taken pics with some models” :-)

The room:

The banner:

Me J in my favorite dress ever for two reasons: 1. it’s pretty cute! And 2. I totally bought on sale for R40(less than $10). I love a good bargain!!!!! J

Me and this poet guy who was like, “Hey can you play while I recite my poem?” J

Yay for a fun night!!!!!!!!!!!!!

uhhh nothing's coming to me...

An amazing past couple of weeks as God continues to show His goodness. I have so many blogs I need to write!! Getting settled back into the office after lots non office stuff the past couple weeks so I don't really have time which irks me because I want so much to share all the crazy wonderful events of the past few week...in time...

I love You, Lord, You are my first love, the best ever!!!!!!!!

random pic:
my lovely friends from Zimbabwe dressed in Swazi traditional attire (just a reminder that Zimbabweans are pretty cool with Zambians as the only people cooler than them :-))

Tantrum??

Well, I have a choice to make right now: I could choose to throw a tantrum concerning a situation about which I am upset or I could talk about all of the amazing things God has been doing the past few days. I pick b! J

So God started by doing some serious stripping for a while. The past two weeks or so was all about stripping and removing layers and breaking and all those really hard lessons, but it was so so so( I cannot say enough sos!!! J) worth it. The past four or so days, God has been doing some covering, some clothing, some remolding. He tells us to take off the sinful nature so we can put on righteousness. We ‘take off’ not so we can be exposed and vulnerable, but so that He can cover us with the only thing that can truly keep us safe- Himself…One thing this has reminded me of is the fact that there is so much growing to be done, so much more to learn, the cool thing is that the Teacher is also my Father!!!...less of me, more of Him, less striving more loving, less ‘rules’, more love…maturity…

We had the team from Children’s Cup/Healing Place here for a few days. I loved getting to spend some time with them, and hearing them share their hearts, and realizing that I really can dance!!! J. It kind of made me homesick, though, for the motherland- Zambia L…I am so planning a trip to Zambia (through Zimbabwe of course!!! :-))…

We have been doing Mission of Mercy training for the new MoM Community Field Reps. It’s been pretty hectic, but so great to think about how much more help we will have!! I will post pics and stuff on that soon. Ok, off to bed…

Oh yeah, random picture, oh and I absolutely love and am thankful for my family, and I feel really emotional right now which is why I should got bed so off to bed I go …