Real, Live Missionaries


Missionaries.

Some people wonder what they do? Others wonder how one could ever forgo their own life just for "missions." Yet other people ponder the day to day life of those who willingly live in foreign lands, brave unfamiliar cultures and learn new languages, all for Jesus' sake.

Personally, the questions I have range from petty to monumental. For example, if I were to be able to speak to Real Live Missionaries, I'd probably ask the following:

* How did you know you were being called into missions?
* Have you ever ridden a camel?
* Why on earth (or why in heaven) did you pick that area of the world?
* Is the toilet paper there, uh...friendly?
* What is the one thing you miss most about the good 'ol US of A?
* Seen any black mamabas...EVER?
* Where could I get a Dr. Pepper?
* What about a Reese Cup?
* I'd even settle for a Caramello. Got those?
* What do you mean bad chocolate? Wow. HOW. DO. YOU. LIVE?

If you've ever wanted to ask Real Live Missionaries these or other questions, I've got GREAT news! Now is your chance to hear them answered, in person (at least if you live near me).

Yours truly, (that would be me) will be Emceeing a full on, totally uncensored night of food, fun and a Q & A session with Chris and Lindy Thompson with Only Servants Ministries.

That's right folks, not ONLY do you get a full 2ish hours of me, uncensored, with a microphone, but you may even get your questions answered and some serious belly laughs in the process.

What's that? You live 15 states away but you'd still like to ask a question to Real Live Missionaries? Well, my friend, it won't be quite the same apart from my night of totally uncensored Emceeing, but your questions still have a chance to be answered if you head over to this post and submit them in the comment section. Also, if you're too far away to make it in for the gala evening, I highly suggest you check out this post and watch the video of Only Servants Ministries in action. It's seriously humbling. (And it may even make you wanna click on their little icon where it says "Donate" and join them in delivering the Good News to the people of Kenya. I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'.)

Again, if you leave a comment on their Q & A post, not only would it have a chance of being answered, for real, on the blog of Real Live Missionaries, but I may even select it as a question to ask during the Q & A session of "A Living Room Conversation."

So head over to Only Servants' blog, and light up their comment box. I know you won't be sorry. The fun begins on Sunday, May 17th at 6:30pm at Rich Fork Baptist Church, in the Multi-Purpose Building. Be there or be square.

Das Not Funny! Friday: Old As Dirt & Leaving A Mark


Elizabeth has forsaken nap time. Since learning to speak Spanish didn't pan out, and in an effort to still salvage quiet time for myself, I decided to google some online interactive pre-school games. I found an online Bible trivia game that was not Pre-k, but I figured I could do one with her, then let her take the reigns.

We are trucking along asking questions. They continued to get harder and harder when I finally got to one that was looking for the answer "Abraham" out of the 4 multiple choice options. In an effort to help her answer it all on her own, I asked,

"Elizabeth? Who was it that had a baby when they were really, really old?" (Hoping she would say Sarah.)

Instead, she responded, "Uh, you?"

Thanks baby, now mommy feels especially young and spunky.

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Baby Girl has this new contraption, courtesy of her physical therapist, that is helping her learn to sit. The good thing about it is that it made for the bath tub as well. Most of the time she and Aaron bathe together. Well, this new sitter device has a mesh-like bottom. At one point during bath, I smelled something rotten. But Baby Girl does have some stank gas, so since I didn't see any floaters, I figured all was safe.

I finish bathing Aaron and set him, totally naked, onto the carpet in the hallway outside the bathroom. I turn to get Baby Girl out and upon raising her see the special prize she had stowed away in the meshness of her new seat. I yell for Luke to come and help me. As he is relieving me of a very nasty little girl, my grandmother comes around the corner, looks at Aaron and says, "What is THAT?"

"What is what?" Luke responds.

"That. In the floor. Is that poop?" she exclaims.

I peer around the corner and into our bedroom and see a man sized turd laying on the floor. I'm still assuming it was Aaron since Luke has stuck by his innocence.

The whole time we are cleaning up poop remnants (both from the tub and the carpet), I continued to say aloud to myself, "This will be funny tomorrow. This will be SO funny tomorrow."

It was.

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Lucas, walking through our kitchen, spots something brownish-black stuck to the floor (shocking for you all to believe, I know). He stops dead in his steps, and says (while pointing to the nasty on the floor),

"Wook! Wook evwebody!"....(Dramatic pause)....."Crotcodile poop!"

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The Big Kids are all about playing "puppy." I find that it is the most annoying of all the games they play. The shrieks that are suppose to be barks, the constant whining. It's just more than my brain can handle.

Apparently Ashlee has decided that she now "marks" her territory. Luke discovered this when he caught her in the act of "marking." Baby Girl is now territory of Ashlee.

According to Luke, it was "just a squirt." That doesn't really make it better somehow.

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Alrighty peeps, now it's your turn. What did you see or do this week that cracked you up? When you saw that something funny, was it a bad time to laugh out loud? If so, even better! Please join me in this blogapolooza known as Das Not Funny! Friday.

Here's the deal. For the "official rules" (which really aren't that official at all) go to this post. Also, by going back to this post you can find an easy schmeezy way to link right back here by copying and pasting the stuff in the scroll box. Or you can just grab the button up there on my right sidebar. Just copy and paste that text into the "Edit Html" tab where you'd normally compose your posts.

It's SO simple. Naturally, you can simply write your own post and just hyperlink right back here. Once you've done that, then type in your info into Mr. Linky and my blog will be linked back to yours. Thatta way, I can find you and laugh along with you.

If you don't have a blog get one you can leave your funny stuff in the comment section, by clicking on "comment." Let the giggles begin.