Thursday 23 October 2008

I made it off the plane!!! (two months late)

After Katherines' post I thought I should do my own, so sorry that it is so late!

Finally getting to sit down and write a super late post. I am so sorry I have done such a poor job of keeping in touch and haven't gotten to contact those that have been praying and supporting me!

There are so many thank you notes WAY over due. I just want to let all of those that have given financially and been faithful to be thinking and praying for me that I am on this trip in Wales because of y'all. You are in this adventure to spread the gospel to Wales just as much as I am!

Well to summarize the past weeks I'll give you some of the highlights:
  • 1st view of the Windsor Castle
  • dinner with the Gawedas
  • dinner with the Smiths
  • meeting Christ Church
  • settling in our new house
  • touring the Welsh country side
  • Sarah and Mike arriving!
  • Team retreat to Ffaild-y-brenin
  • Fish and chip "experience"
  • 1st guiness
  • my walk across the Ffaild-y-brenin hills to see the ocean
  • web caming back home
  • getting hooked up with the Martin caregroup
  • retreat with Bettws High
  • 1st day of school :)
  • meeting the Woods, our girls "parents"
  • Sunny Sausage sizzle at guys house:
  • Climbing trees
  • 1st Kabab(scrumdiliumptious)













  • Student beach trip
  • meeting my life group
  • retreat with life group (mud fight, talent show, & the whole nine yards)
  • student hill walk to an amazing Newport overlook!
There are a bunch more I could mention!
If you want a more in depth look at what we have been up to you could go to Janelle, Katherine, and Peter's blogs at :www.janelleleach.blogspot.com, www.katsbloggy.wordpress.com, and www.peterbenson.wordpress.com.

Hope to keep you more updated on coming events! I am so grateful for all your encouragement and prayers! I love and miss you all!

Tuesday 21 October 2008

hurrah for my first blog post... EVER!!

Starting out my blog there is so much I could say...but, Kat knows I just need to get stuff down on paper (well maybe not paper....) or it won't get said at all! So here is a list of things I have done this week:

SUNDAY:
  • Church
  • and then an AMAZING "Hill walk" up the local mountain/hill with the Christchurch Students (college students). the scenery and fresh air and crisp breeze and friends... AHH...
  • that night we had our first real fire in the fire pit we got Peter for his bday. It wasn't too cold and we had a hilarious time sharing "ghost stories" between all us Gappers and Ben Greasley who joined us.
MONDAY:
  • thankfully monday was our day off and we SLEPT in!!
  • did a bit of laundry
  • walked to TESCO with Kat in the rain. (lots of yummy FRIUT for my pretty fruit bowl. second fav only to the GREEK yogurt i go twith my scrumdiliocious granola)
  • then we had a GIRLS NIGHT watching "Sweet Home Alabama" (fav chick flick EVA!!) with Kat, Janelle, and sista Sarah-bear.
TUESDAY:
  • this morning i went on a run with Janelle.
  • we headed to the church at 9:30am and read up on our Bible Doctrine for a quiz that Mike gave us later in the day on ch6 (the Trinity) and ch14 (the person of Christ)
  • for dinner I made stir-fry for Kat and I. we had a great time being in the kitchen and chit-chatting about girl stuff and what God is teaching us here in Wales....
  • our team also did a bit planning for our YR1 (like kindergarten) at Mt Pleasant tomorrow morning. Tomorrow we are going to teach the kids about autumn, being thanksgiving, and my most favorite part: LEAF RUBBINGS.... i'll let you guys know how that goes... :)

P.S. Love you mom! My one blog reader!