To Ma Collie

Hey you! thanks for keeping up with me, sorri i haven't been able to do much updating. all i have time for most of the time is posting pics on facebook. Here are some for you tho... i love you so.



We cleaned windows the other day... and got to wear JEANS!!!


Liz me and Bella having some fun


Emily and me sneeked into the cosmotology room and had a field day with all the heads.


Me and Fhally at the zoo



This is one i took of Noelle while home on my Christmas break



EQUIP 22 Left to Right and Top to Bottom:
Kendra, Emily, Alison, Me Hannah, Jessica
Faith, Autumn, Mary, Sara, Rachael, Bella



My LIT team, Me, Fhallon (the LIT) and Mary



Our team went to the zoo!



Sara, Emily, Heather, Faith and me!


So yeah, thats not even scratching the surface of the adventures we have here. Oh! I am going to be coming home here pretty soon... like early april... for good. so ... yeah. i'll be albe to talk to you soon!
Please pray for me, i'm gonna be goin in to character suite pretty soon with a new LIT so, just that God would be at work in my life, and her life and Mary and Bella too (i'll be in with them)
Love you beautiful, and pray for you whenever i think of you. :*

To Collie

It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend:
Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird
In a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you:


Elphaba

The last few days

Okay. So i was sick. Like really sick. Like go to the doctor and take drugs sick. I had to stay in my room for 3 days. I couldn't sleep too well 'cause my throat was swollen up so my day see sawed between trying to sleep and emailing... well that is until the internet went out at like 3am or something and stayed out until today (3days... the whole time i was in my room). That was a bummer. :'(
Buuuuttt, it gave me the idea to work on discovering the potential of my new macbook whom i have christened nicholas. So now i have a 15 minute (well, unfinished anyway) slideshow of EQUIP training pictures.
Oh! and on top of that, I'm gonna (prolly) be getting an LIT in the next week... who's got some serious issues, so i hear. So thaaaats interesting. But i'm just glad to be better. I never realized what a blessing it is to be able to swallow!
Aaaaanyway, Sometimes i just miss home. Sometimes a lot. I am up here on 13th with my cool friend and life is so good. So so good. And my dad said he wanted to have a long conversation with me sometime so that makes me really happy.

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
Phl 4:11

Lovin that verse.

Well, time for curfew. God keep you. I love you.
.:Laurie:.

So Love is Blue

Okay. Here's the update! We just had leaders meeting and, as i predicted, everyone is switching rooms. Emily is moving off of Fhallons team and Mary and Bella are going to be her leaders. Only news of one new LIT coming in the near future and chances are that she will be moving in with ME!!!!

That means I will be in CHARACTER SUITE!!!
The cool thing is that i already live in a C.S. room so i won't have to move. Plus Lydia is going to be moving in with me and she is totally the bomb.
Whoever is praying for me, thank you. Thank you so much. It is way easier than i thought it would be to get my head ready for C.s. I thought i would be.... well, i still might go crazy. C.S. is when you stay in a two room suite with an LIT and one other leader (lydia) for at LEAST two weeks. One of the leaders gets to go down an get food at every meal but other than that you are pretty much stuck.
GAaaaahhh!
I am gonna get cabin fever! So if anyone has time, letters over the next few weeks would prolly save my life. REALLY.

Wow. Vacation flew by so fast i hardly had time to blink and now it all feels like a dream.

*sighs* well, its almost time for dinner.
I get the room to my self for 5 days. Thats cool. Wish i had a cell phone tho.... =/

Hey i love you Megan. I love you so so much.
Sorry i don't have time to really update cause ma roomie wants back on her comp but i'll talk to you in 3DAYS!

Thanks for the encouragement. I love you!

ps cn you tell me how things go up there?
I mean normal everyday funny stuff like... did you go to panda today?
i'd give my right arm for some panda rightnow...

hey beautiful

Hey! I don't know if you got my emails but i tried to write you after i got all your coments. Girl! you have no idea how good it is to hear from you! I tried calling but couldn't make the phone here talk to your phone so... :'(
I also couldn't read your comments 'cause of the int connection. but thats better now.
Life here is good. plenty of ups and downs but i have gotten used to that. we are doin this challenge thing where you have to come up with a picture for each of the 12 days fo christmas, memorize isaiah 9 6-7, keep room perfectly clean (which with 3 roomies is a tall order) and do something nice for one of the families on staff.
We have most of it done but still have the pics to do. the przize is an outing (big big deal to get out of here).
One of my friends left on thursday and thats... idon't know. im not sad all the time but last night i sat in the hall by myself and cried. i hate losing friends. 'specially 'cause she's not commin back. (that was Kat, my crazy friend)
I have been learning alot and will prolly be alot different when i get home even though i don't feel a whole terribly lot different. Just maybe easier to get along with ;).
Do you have a blog? I really miss hearing from you and how you are doin... and since you can't have email? maybe we could keep in touch this way.

I appreciate so SO much your comments EVERY DAY on my blog! you have no idea what its like to know someone (who can-i kno c. prolly would) cares enough to do that.
i love you so much megan. and i am prayin for you.
got a letter from noni 2 days ago and have been tryin to find the time to write back. made my week to get a letter! Anyhow, its time for church, we got "snowed in" (not that we normaly go out...) so we couldn't go to church but we are meeting in the auditorium at 11.
The sno is beautiful and i wish you were here. you should totally totally come and i'm not even kidding.
Love you much beautiful.
talk to you soon!

7DAYS!!!!!

Love Laurie

Angel in the outfield....

Okay. I am borrowing my room mates computer.
Everything is going so good! Today i was mary in this skit for like a C.I. kinda thing. it was soo so fun! I don't really know what to write...

Well, training is long over thank goodness. Now i have lots of free time 'cause i don't have an lit anymore. My friend Emily is with Fhallon now and they don't get along very well. (which is good 'cause she will grow alot more with Em than with me.) But... i miss them... and i miss emily too 'cause i don't see here anymore....
oh, for pics look for her on my facebook....
i can't get on my profile 'cause of stupid character link. :P

So don't worry about me.... I am prayin for you....
and i love you....
dis is weird.

ONLY 22 DAYS LEFT !!!!!!


Have a mahvelous day dahling!

Love Laurie