La Sonya

I fell asleep last night tired and content. I was on supervision for recreation. I found myself dribbling a basketball. It must be a long time since I had done that because I don’t' remember it being so hard to bounce :O) Then I started up a game of knock out with the kids. It was noble of me to 'purposefully' get out first so everyone else would feel comfortable . . . But I did improve somewhat. I got a few swishes while playing. And in the last game we played I even made it to the last 3 people! Must have been a bit more than chance right?! I never was that good at basketball but I enjoyed myself and I'm sure I was some what entertaining. I hope I was at least able to boost some basketball self-esteem. *this is dedicated to Emily Leftler the Andrews Cardnal player

When I picture Esther I picture a girl standing in the African sun with the warm wind blowing on her. She is wearing a red and white skirt with circular patterns on it and a blue shirt with strips. Ahh, the look of an African Student Missionary. This last weekend I was up at Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska and when I saw her for the first time in 6 months she was wearing jeans, a jacket and a stethascope! Esther in America!! Wow! I had one of the greatest weekends in a LONG time. I got to hang out with Esther and tag team stories. We were at a potluck and some how we got on the story of the ruptured bowl where we gave a butt-load of ketamine and had to operate on him twice, and he still died. It felt good to tell a story with someone there to tag-team tell it with. If I fogot something she would mention it or if I remembered something she didn't I would stick that in there. Who cares if people were listening more or less because of two story tellers it was theraputic for us to t

I can't believe what has happened to me in the last week. When I took this job I was excited because I was going to be learning a lot about working with youth, going on trips and growing spiritually and mentally. I didn't realize how much I was going to be growing until Pastor Don told me about the newest meeting I needed to attend -the Elders meetings. I had known it was going to be a growing year when I started going to the church board meetings. Those were something that I had always wanted to be a part of but never knew how to. But the Elders meeting was a BIG one. To me this is a big step spiritually. It is me taking a stand and saying I choose to follow Jesus and I choose to be an active part of this church - the Seventh-day Adventist Church. So I went to my first meeting a week or so ago. I was a bit lost as to what they do at those meetings, and I felt very young and inexperienced. But you know what? I loved it. I was a part of something bigger than myself and I was an