4 days, 17 hours, and 47 minutes until I begin my journey back to the place where my life was forever changed... KENYA, AFRICA!
I can't even begin to explain the anticipation and excitement I have and have had ever since I found out I would be going back over spring break! We will be visiting a few of the same orphanages that we visited in July plus a new one that just opened in February! My heart is anxiously awaiting the moment we land in Nairobi and see our friends, Francis and Maureen Mbuvi, their 2 precious sons, and of course Maureen's assistant, Risper Nyakundi!
We have 300+ beanie babies, a few hundred tshirts, soccer balls, and frisbees to take to the kids and I can't wait to spend the next week playing with these beautiful kids in Kenya!
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This weekend I went to the MOG Kingdom Conference and it was such an amazing blessing! MOG (Men of God) is a Christian fraternity at Texas Tech and one weekend each year they put on this conference for whoever wants to attend! Friday night was a night of worship led by the band from Indiana Baptist, and a great message about biblical manhood and womanhood brought by one of the founders of MOG, Roswell Smith Jr. It was really powerful and an awesome time.
Saturday I spent the day with my family house shopping! My parents just bought a house last weekend that Alli and I will be renting from them along with 2 of our friends, Kadie Tabor and Matti Swierc. We got furniature moved in last weekend and now we are just trying to get all of the little things that we need to turn this house into a home! Ha… that sounded so corny, but it’s true! :)
Saturday night was night 2 of the MOG conference and we had a “Jesus party” which is just a bunch of people hanging out and dancing and being crazy… pretty fun stuff! Haha
Well, really all I have to say is that this weekend was awesome and I am SO pumped about my upcoming trip to Africa next week!! Please keep us in your prayers and I hope everyone has an awesome spring break!
-SG
Can I say how proud I am of you? The things that excite you have eternal value. And you're deciding to be involved in those things on your own. You surround yourself with like-minded people and encourage those who aren't. I can't wait to spend a week with you, Alli, Joel and Dad in a place I love. Keep praying for this trip. I see the enemy at work and we need to combat that! Love you Punky! Momma
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