Hey everyone!
I've made it to Tacoma, Washington, to begin the 2nd and final part of my outreach for SOMD. It's beautiful here. So green and fresh. It rains alot, which I'm not excited about, but I'm pretty sure I can handle it for a month. I think. I hope...
So, a rundown of my trip: We left LA on Wednesday morning and got to Sacramento around 2, where I caught up with my parents and got to see my brothers and sister. We had lunch together, and then I split up from my girls. They continued on to Chico, and I headed up to Roseburg, OR, with my dad and Tia to see my grandma. She is very sick, in ICU and I'm still very worried about her. I got to see her Thursday morning and talk and pray for her, but the whole time it was really hard watching her suffer. Her lungs are extremely bad from all the medication she takes for her diabeties, and she needs a breathing tube to stay alive. She is such a fighter. After I left that afternoon, she woke up and tried to mouth "I love you" to my family. She's getting better, but still needs a lot of prayers.
Robyn and Deanna left Chico Thursday morning, and we got back together outside of Roseburg, and continued on to Pullayup, WA. We stopped for dinner in Mount Hood, and that's when the adventure really started. We were supposed to contact the person we were going to be staying with when we got close, but when we dialed his number, we found out that we had the wrong one! Robyn called her sister to ask her to check her email to make sure we had written it down correct, and when it turned out that we had, we didn't know quite what to do. Luckly Deanna remembered that Art's (our contact) sons worked at this coffee shop called Forzas. Luckily there is only one Forzas in Pullayup, and when the GPS couldn't locate it, Dee remembered that it was next to the only park in Pullayup. She was able to pinpoint it, and we found Forzas without getting lost once. (Pretty amazing, since we always get lost, even with the GPS). Forzas ended up being closed, (it was pretty late by this time) so we knocked on the door until someone answered. We felt really silly asking the lady if she had Art's number, or one of his boys, but luckily she had one of his son's numbers. Robyn then called him, left a voicemail, and we waited. (You have to understand, we were basically peeing our pants from laughing so hard at this point, because our silly adventure was actually working. We had about 10 other back up plans as to what we could have done if we couldn't get ahold of Art.) Finally the son, Daniel, called us back, found his dad, who was at a college retreat with him, and long story short, Art left worship, came and got us, took us to our host's house, and said he'd see us in the morning. It was a crazy, fun, adventurous night, and we knew from that moment that God had his hand in all our adventures here in Washington.
We spent friday shopping with one of Art's administrators, and we ended up back at Forzas for coffee with Art. We planned our return trip with him at the end of March, and then we spent the evening hanging out with our hosts, who were so amazing and hospitable.
Saturday morning took us to Ryan and Amy's house in Tacoma, who we'll be staying with all month. They are wonderful, and I feel like I've been here for way longer than 2 days. They have 3 boys: Ben 8, Adam 6, and Peter 2. They are a handful, but I love them already and I love playing and hanging out with them.
This week is already getting full for us. We learned how to break dance on Saturday night (I still don't know how to do it, and I hurt!) and we spent yesterday with the family, and then had a wonderful church service last night where we heard the testimony of the first Blood gangster of Tacoma. It was wild!! This week we have a lot of assemblies and what not because the Power Team is coming!! (thepowerteam.com) I'm really looking forward to everything this week, and this coming month. I know God has His hand in everything here, and I'm so pumped to watch it all play out!
Thanks for prayers for my grandma, and for safe travels. Miss you all so much!! See you in April!
Ky
I've made it to Tacoma, Washington, to begin the 2nd and final part of my outreach for SOMD. It's beautiful here. So green and fresh. It rains alot, which I'm not excited about, but I'm pretty sure I can handle it for a month. I think. I hope...
So, a rundown of my trip: We left LA on Wednesday morning and got to Sacramento around 2, where I caught up with my parents and got to see my brothers and sister. We had lunch together, and then I split up from my girls. They continued on to Chico, and I headed up to Roseburg, OR, with my dad and Tia to see my grandma. She is very sick, in ICU and I'm still very worried about her. I got to see her Thursday morning and talk and pray for her, but the whole time it was really hard watching her suffer. Her lungs are extremely bad from all the medication she takes for her diabeties, and she needs a breathing tube to stay alive. She is such a fighter. After I left that afternoon, she woke up and tried to mouth "I love you" to my family. She's getting better, but still needs a lot of prayers.
Robyn and Deanna left Chico Thursday morning, and we got back together outside of Roseburg, and continued on to Pullayup, WA. We stopped for dinner in Mount Hood, and that's when the adventure really started. We were supposed to contact the person we were going to be staying with when we got close, but when we dialed his number, we found out that we had the wrong one! Robyn called her sister to ask her to check her email to make sure we had written it down correct, and when it turned out that we had, we didn't know quite what to do. Luckly Deanna remembered that Art's (our contact) sons worked at this coffee shop called Forzas. Luckily there is only one Forzas in Pullayup, and when the GPS couldn't locate it, Dee remembered that it was next to the only park in Pullayup. She was able to pinpoint it, and we found Forzas without getting lost once. (Pretty amazing, since we always get lost, even with the GPS). Forzas ended up being closed, (it was pretty late by this time) so we knocked on the door until someone answered. We felt really silly asking the lady if she had Art's number, or one of his boys, but luckily she had one of his son's numbers. Robyn then called him, left a voicemail, and we waited. (You have to understand, we were basically peeing our pants from laughing so hard at this point, because our silly adventure was actually working. We had about 10 other back up plans as to what we could have done if we couldn't get ahold of Art.) Finally the son, Daniel, called us back, found his dad, who was at a college retreat with him, and long story short, Art left worship, came and got us, took us to our host's house, and said he'd see us in the morning. It was a crazy, fun, adventurous night, and we knew from that moment that God had his hand in all our adventures here in Washington.
We spent friday shopping with one of Art's administrators, and we ended up back at Forzas for coffee with Art. We planned our return trip with him at the end of March, and then we spent the evening hanging out with our hosts, who were so amazing and hospitable.
Saturday morning took us to Ryan and Amy's house in Tacoma, who we'll be staying with all month. They are wonderful, and I feel like I've been here for way longer than 2 days. They have 3 boys: Ben 8, Adam 6, and Peter 2. They are a handful, but I love them already and I love playing and hanging out with them.
This week is already getting full for us. We learned how to break dance on Saturday night (I still don't know how to do it, and I hurt!) and we spent yesterday with the family, and then had a wonderful church service last night where we heard the testimony of the first Blood gangster of Tacoma. It was wild!! This week we have a lot of assemblies and what not because the Power Team is coming!! (thepowerteam.com) I'm really looking forward to everything this week, and this coming month. I know God has His hand in everything here, and I'm so pumped to watch it all play out!
Thanks for prayers for my grandma, and for safe travels. Miss you all so much!! See you in April!
Ky
Stadium H.S. ("Castle" near where I live in Tacoma) Where they filmed "10 Things I Hate About You"
