National Boss Day...

Did ya'll know that today is National Boss Day? Yep, that's right. So to my Boss...

..and, No, I wasn't pinned at the other end of this glare...achum...excuse me...I meant stare!! :D

Just kidding, Mom!! :D Love ya!!

Modern day school of the prophets...???

Don't ya'll think it would look something like this???

I forgot...

Sis. Townley does her hair SOOOO AWESOME!!! Right, girls??? :D I wish I had I pic...but you will just have to believe me on this one! :D You can kinda see in the two pictures that are in the other post!

Dedicated to...

I think I am going to start a new feature soon...well...technically I am starting it now!! I am going to call it "Dedicated to..." and I am would like to represent important ladies in my life. There are so many. This week's, though, is dedicated to a very special lady I met for the very first (and hopefully not the last) time in Canada last week. This week's Dedicated to is none other than:

Sis. Sharon Townley

Sis. Townley(Left) and Vanessa McKillop (right)!

She is one of the sweetest ladies I have ever met. (And I have met many sweet ladies) Unfortunately for me I wasn't able to hang out a lot with her (a little jealous of Vanessa at the moment *wink*). I do know that she is lots of fun to be around.  You don't have to be perfect for her to think you're awesome (which by the way, Sis. Townley, could get you into problems. Just thought I would throw that in! :D). She is dedicated to God and to her husband...I hope that didn't sound bad...LOL!! :D But she was just soo much fun! I love her I-don't-care-what-you-think-or-say-I'm-going-to-do-it-anyways attitude!! Keep on having that attitude!!! :D

Before closing this post I wanted to throw in one more picture of Sis. Townley! Love you bunches, Sis. Townley!!! 

I am not going to say anything about that picture!! :D

'Til next time, all my bloggie friends!!

~Honduranchikka

Tomorrow!!!

Well...tomorrow is the day! I am soo excited ya'll...I could...I don't know...do something!! :D Oh, need I mention that it is 9:30 my time so...it is bordering on late and everything is starting to seem REALLY funny so... You can imagine how I am feeling!! LOL I just thought I would try to convey that feeling of so-excited-too-tired-everything-is-getting-funny to ya'll! Hope I conveyed it properly! *wink* Oh man...I am telling you I need to go to bed. No I am not a fruitcake...I just need to go to bed and TRY (notice the emphasis on the try) to sleep. I am so excited that sleep is practically IMPOSSIBLE!! But I will try anyways...cause I could definitely use it! So...off to bed for me...  Oh, Allana, it might be a good idea to shower first...you wouldn't want everyone to run off the plane when you stepped on board!! Oh, and might I add...we have been without water for almost 2 weeks...so this doesn't really count as a shower...it is more of a...um...rinse!! :D Oh man...OK...I am REALLY going to bed now! Got to! OR I will...have a nervous breakdown...from excitement!! :D OH MAN!! IT IS TOMORROW!! Ok...really...I am going to rinse and then to bed!! Goodnight all my bloggie friends!! Sleep well...and...oh...I was going to say something profound...but...well...I forgot what I was going to say so...   GOOD NIGHT!!!

~Honduran Chikka

It's Elderly Month!!

It's Elderly Month at Peculiar Treasures!!! It is awesome!! You really need to go check it out!! You want a laugh?? Peculiar Treasures has it for you!!! Just click here!! Oh and make sure that you leave a comment telling them what a great job they are doing making people laugh!! :D

~Honduran Chikka

Our FANTASTIC vacation!!! LOL

Hey ya'll, I got some great news!! I got some new pictures up. The link is on my homepage!!  We went on this reallly looooong vacation (it was two days long)...so I put some pictures up. Make sure you read all the captions! :D

It was quite the experience. First we get there and someone needs to go to the restroom and there is NO toilet paper. Ok, that is not a problem we just ask for some, right?? Wrong...toilet paper is not provided. We were like...hmmm....ok. Thank goodness we always keep a roll in the van otherwise...well I don't want to think about it!! LOL Find out they also provide the water cooler thingie, but they DON'T provide water...we're going...okaaaay. Get ready to wash some dishes and find out that although they do have nice cookie sheets, they have no kitchen towels! Then we just start looking around and under the coffee table there was a really neat looking keepsake box thingy. Mom picked it up thinking: Wow, this ought to be cool. Open it up and we found christmas trim, some crayons, a couple of balloons and some white string. Mom was like: Well, that was...ummm...INTERESTING!!!!

Well, I offered to help "make" supper...which equaled heating up leftovers from Bible School. Nathaniel offered to help me...well...actually he was kinda pressed into service (Isn't being the oldest great?? *wink* jk) So we go to soften some butter in the microwave...and....nothing happens. We can't set the time for some weird reason. Me and Nathaniel both fiddled with and nothing happened so we ended up softening the butter in the toaster oven! RFLOL Hey...whatever works. So I am heating hamburgers and notice that the stove has three small burners and one big. Not a problem, just kinda funny...until...we find out that the ONE big burner doesn't work! LOL (That must be why my hamburgers are still cold!) So right about that time Dad comes over and he says: "So the microwave isn't working, huh?" He fiddles with it a few seconds, pushes a few buttons and what do you know...he is got it running!! I was like: "WHAT??? Cool...what did you do??" He said..."Uh, I just pushed the clear time button."...and walked off. I wanted to crawl under the 10 in. cabinet/bar...but it was 10 in. wide so... Like, duh, Allana...what about the clear button. After we got all the appliances working and the pans on the right burners so that the stuff would actually heat, everything else went really well.

Not sure exactly when somebody had the idea to listen to the iPod. We have two. One is us girls and one is my parents. So we picked mine up and stuck it in. I have some great stuff in there...I even had the preaching from RIOT!! Except...there is one problem...I synced my iPod wrong and now I have only one song...and it is not really a song it is the intro to an album and it is just sounds like someone is tuning a radio to a certain station and then it gets to the right one which is supposed to lead into the album but since I don't have the rest of the album we have a slight problem. LOL So we get out Dad's which has a bunch of music some of it great some of it not so much....only one problem there too...almost all the albums are named simply: Album. The artist on almost all the albums is:  Artist (Ya'll remember him right?? :D). And as you may have guessed the songs are simply named: Track 1-Track 10...ect. So after we had randomly clicked a song we go to stick it in the iPod dock. Now we had brought ours, but they had a nice looking so you know it goes, we simply used their's. Cool...we listened to music for awhile and eventually somebody turned it off...well later that night and the next day I went to turn on music on the iPod and it wouldn't turn on. I really didn't pay attention in my brain I thought somebody must have left it on all night and it must be dead. I left it at that and went to do something else. The weird part that I didn't really realize was that it was both of the iPods. So we get home and I go to re-sync my iPod to get all my good music!! But...the iPod still won't turn on AND the computer won't even read it. Well our cord is a little...lets just say used...so I thought it is probably just the cord. I went and got my Dad's. The iPod still won't turn on and the computer STILL won't read the iPod. Now I am realizing something. That my iPod is apparently fried...I was like Oh No!...then I remembered I can just reset ok....no problem. ...except the iPod won't reset...hmm...so I think: I wonder if Dad's is doing the same thing. So I go check it out. Same problem won't turn on and won't reset...so it seems that that NICE iPod dock they had there was actually rather faulty. LOL P.S. If anybody knows how to fix this problem PLEASE let me know!!

Now you are probably thinking: Wow, you must of had an awful vacation. NOT AT ALL...well...almost not at all! ;) There were definitely good points. Like the private pool right there on our back deck. Nice pool too. And we were only about a minutes walk from the beach. One day we walked to the beach and got to see a beautiful sunset. So there were definitely good points. 


Our vacation REALLY was great with its good AND bad points!! :D It might not have been exactly what we had in mind but...we did make memories!! :D Anyways...I hope you have enjoyed our vacation (or reading about it) as much we did!! 'Til next time...

~Honduran Chikka

URRGGGG...

So I am getting ready to murder this "cute" (notice the quotation marks) little dog of ours. Let me explain. Me and Oreo (that is the dog's name just in case you were wondering) have this love-hate relationship. I love (could be past tense soon) her, and she hates me. It's as simple as that!! URG Oh...and let me say one thing, it is pretty bad when not even the dog likes you!! LOL

But really, I don't know what I did to that dumb (excuse my language) dog!! Like every time I walk out the door, she comes running and I get all excited and kneel down to pet her and love her and...SHE STARTS BITING ME!!!! Like...EXCUSE YOU!! She also likes to bite and pull on anybody's skirt. She ruined (almost) Sis. D's skirt this morning. Dude...so yeah...I'm done now. I just had to vent. LOL

So this week is Bible School and we are cooking for all the guys so I have been extremely busy and I should probably go back and be busy again but...I had to let ya'll all know what I thought of that dog!!! Thank you to all of you who payed attention and read the whole post!! Love ya'll

~Honduran Chikka

P.S. When did I start saying so all the time?? ;)

RIOT part 1

So where do I start? Everything about my trip was incredible! It wasn't any ONE part of my trip (even though there were many highpoints), but rather it was all those highpoints that made one incredible trip. I cannot believe all that God did for me that trip. God talked to me in a special way. Yet, it seems I have come away a little empty. It wasn't a long trip getting me down; it was church without a move of God. No, rather it was almost like I couldn't let me really allow myself to sit back and just savor His presence.

RIOT was incredible. I haven't been to many youth camps in my life, but that is one of the most incredible ones that I have been to. It isn't just the people or the spirit of God. It isn't just my UN-biased view!! :D But there is something so real, so true. There are not boy-girl conflicts (and everybody knows what I am talking about). Those moments when one boy decides that he likes this one girl and so she finds out. She decides she likes him back and WHAMO…LOTS of problems!! Through the non-existence of the problem the young people are opened up to look more for God.

What an incredible thing to watch young people who WANT to serve God.  But that is not even the best part. The best part is when you get them together and have a service. It is definitely God that makes the difference in any service, but I wholeheartedly believe that it also depends on how we seek him. It depends on what kind of heart we seek him with. To watch all these young people reach on to God and to each other in the services was…I am without words to describe it, but it was so real.

There were several young people that were struggling with different problems there in those services, and I watched how God touched them. I saw how time and time and again, different people reached out to pray for them. Sometimes it was just a laying the hand on their shoulder for a second, other times they would gather around and dance with them. If someone from the world would have walked in at any moment through the service they might have thought they were all crazy, but not so. There was just a special presence of God that moved in that place. Other times the same young people that had their different needs, would reach out and begin to pray for someone else. It seemed that within minutes God had blessed them just as much or more then the person they were praying for. Was God playing favorites? No. He was blessing them for reaching out to others in their time of need. Or better yet, he was just blessing them.

Oh, there is no way to put it words all that happened in the services. It was more than just youth camp. You can tell me I'm biased. You can try to convince me that I don't know what I am talking about. Forgive me, but you cannot tell me that you can find that just any place. Can it happen everywhere? Yes.  Does it happen everywhere? No. You can tell me what it's because of this or that, but I will tell YOU one thing. It is because they have a pastor and wife who are connected with God. It is because they have dedicated people who are trying to serve God. It's because they have a strong foundation. It's because their primary focus is Jesus Christ. That is what is missing in a lot of Pentecost today. In some places it is obvious that their focus is anywhere BUT Jesus Christ. It is sad, but you go to places like FWC and you realize that there is still a church. God still does have a people, and they are STILL moving forward!!

As you may have guessed from what you have read so far, church was definitely the highest point of all the high points. But I can't tell all of RIOT in one post so…this is the first part. Keep your hat on for the second part.  Until then…

~Honduran Chikka

 

Well...I am back to the crazy world of trying to keep up with my blogging while holding two jobs. Big sis, S.S. teacher, and best daughter in the world. (Oops...that is three jobs...) LOL...everybody say: RIGHT!!!! *roll eyes* Ok, so maybe it isn't that drastic but...if you know me then you know what I am talking about! :D Anyways...I want to try to get back into this.

So what all has been going on in my life since I last REALLY posted on here? Hmm....well...A LOT!!! But I will just post the important stuff and save the not-so-important stuff for days when I don't really have anything to talk about!! HAHA (I know...sweet of me, right? What can I say...I just can't help myself) So the high points:

~ Family Camp 2010

~Minister's Retreat

~Two weddings

~RIOT!!!!!

~Prince Edwards Island

~RIOT!!!!

~Some new pictures

~RIOT!!!!

~Getting to spend time with my bestie

~RIOT!!!!!

And finally:




RIOT!!!!!!!!!  HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA


As you may be able to guess...RIOT was amazing...and you will be hearing more about that...but I got to start at the top of the list so...hang in there...all that and more coming riiight up!! HAHA

~Honduran Chikka

Well...I think I'm back!! LOL

It seems that I am coming back into the blogger world. I have soooo missed my blog!! Sometimes I would think of something to blog about, and wouldn't be able to blog it. Or I would have time...sit down...and forget what I was going to blog about. It was a little annoying! A lot happened while I was gone. Pretty much...everybody coped REALLY well without me...then decide they can't do it anymore when I get back so...its back to the grind! LOL JK I am very glad to be home. 

Soon I will post everything...ya'll will just have to give me a chance. Hopefully you will see a whole lot more of me entering into this month! 'Til then...

~HonduranChikka

Hey...I forgot to mention...

That last post was my....ONE-HUNDREDTH post!!! YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!! LOL...just thought I would let ya'll know!!!

~Honduran Chikka

Anne & Gilbert....I'm in love!!! :D

...with the show!!! You can calm down now...I am NOT talking about an actual person! *Wink, wink* I am talking about the Anne and Gilbert show, which was awesome! We saw it tonight and well....I am FOREVER in love! I mean seriously! You would probably have to see the show to understand, but still, it was incredible! The funnest part probably was having Tamara and Kourtnee along!! Precious little girls!! Angels sent from heaven...almost!! :D LOL Aside from a couple incidents in the car (keep the long car ride in mind) and an I-will-see-you-in-the-bathroom scene, things have gone really smoothly! But, wait,  I am supposed to be talking about the show right?? Well...I really can't tell you much if you hadn't seen it yourself! I will try to put the sound tracks and pictures (on the way up) on later! As of right now it is like 11:30 my time and I am READY for bed!! Stay up until 3-5, IN THE MORNING, before going to sleep, at "night", for weeks in a row is not a good idea...AT ALL...  I speak from personal experience!! LOL One night we stayed up until 4:45 in the morning (I kid you not) and then had to get up at 7:00!! AAAAAHHH! It was awful...to say the least! Anyways...I have lots of things that I need to say...several potential posts...but that will definitely have to wait 'til I get back home...AND rest up!!! :D Until then...


~Honduran Chikka

RIOT

Heading to RIOT!! Yes!!! I am sooooooo excited! Will be riding the bus...  Anyways...until next week!! :D

I am on my way to RIOT!!

I have made it all the way to Fairfield! Hopefully we will make to Canada later this afternoon! To say I am excited would be a great UNDER-statement...so I leave THAT simply to your imagination. If you know me then you are probably imagining...I don't know what...LOL...anyways. For you up in Canada see you later!!

Another little note...

...just to let ya'll know that I will be leaving for RIOT like day-after-tomorrow, so I probably won't be updating on here. After that, though, Honduranchikka is going to try to return to its before state. I miss my blogging. It is too much fun. For all of you that are reading this, have extra time, and think this is funny: Get a blog!!!! I am serious. You will never regret it unless your life goes hairwire and you really don't have time anymore but really don't want to give it up. Then you will regret becoming addicted! :D But until then you are ok so don't worry! Anyways...til probably sometime in Early Sep...

~HonduranChikka

New friend of the month

Calling all of my Canadian friends...you need to go check out the ol' trusty web. We have a new Friend of the month up and I think that ya'll will like it. Make sure and leave a comment if you do like it! Please note: this is NOT only for my Canadian friends...it is for any/everybody!! So make sure to go check it out and leave a comment!

New Friend-of-the-week

The album - Youth, August 2010 is not functioning properly so I removed it from the web. I thought everyone ought to know!! Thanks...

~Honduranchikka

New stuff on web

A couple of new albums on the web:

Dinia's baptism

Nora's baptism

Karen baptism

Youth - August 2010

Go check them out....lots of new pictures!!

~Honduran Chikka

They that wait...

How many times do we become impatient in waiting on a promise to be fulfilled. We pray for something, we know that God has promised it to us. We become excited and everyday open our eyes looking around for our miracle, then when we don't see it within the time limit that we have set we become discouraged. "Wait, God, I thought you promised me that you would do that miracle? Where is my answer to prayer?" So we put our miracle on the back burner, we forget about God's promise. Realistically, we stop believing in what God promises us.

For almost a year now, I have been the Sunday School teacher for our class. I love each and every one of the kids. I have cried and prayed for them and pleaded for their souls. Yet, it seems like all the praying is in vain. Nothing really happens. The kids comes and go, and seems like the only thing they take with them is the candy. The lesson seems to go in one ear and out the other. We pray...well I pray at the end of class..all the kids are doing are fighting. I have had to stop in the middle of the prayer and quietly get on to them and then try to keep on going. 

But last Sunday God reminded me one more time that he still has big plans for that Sunday School class. One of the girls that is more on the shy side, doesn't normally really speak up in class, with her face to the wall at Camp,begun to speak in other tongues!!!!!!!! The bad news is I wasn't there to witness it! The good news is somebody was brainy enough to invent the camera!! So I got pics!! Then yesterday she was baptized in the name of Jesus and I was there to witness that!! Hallelujah! God is good!!  I just found out that I don't have pics of her getting the Holy Ghost. :( But I do have some of her getting baptized!

So, sometime we just have to wait on what God wants. We don't see or understand why he doesn't hurry up, but we know that he has everything under control. Plus...you  will find that when you wait upon his timing, everything will work out BETTER than you had hoped! So that is my thought for the day! Oh, and hopefully this signals my return to Bloglandia!!! :D

~Honduranchikka