kind of on our way :S

well... i made it to spencerville! lol... dr. schumm and i went to dayton today to catch our flight, and it ended up being delayed that we'd be stranded in atlanta, so we got a new flight for tomorrow morning... 6:27 to be exact, and we'll go from there straight to honduras! exciting!! keep praying all... i love you!!!

please pray!

hey everybody!
i just wanna ask that you all would remember me in prayer this week. i leave tomorrow for honduras. i'll be gone until sunday, may 29th... so about 10 days. i've been really afraid and anxious over this trip... it's a medical mission trip and i feel like i shouldn't be the one picked to go on this trip. i am reminded of the verses in philippians 4 "do not be anxious about anything, but in everything with prayer and petitions, present your requests to God", and the ones in 2 timothy 1, "for God has not given us a spirit of fear", and in john 14, "my peace i leave with you, not as the world leaves" and "do not let your heart be troubled, trust in God, trust also in me." so i'm hanging on to those promises... and God is going to move in an amazing way in my life this next week. i just ask, that as you think of me this next week... please lift me up in prayer!
i love you all so much!!! have an incredible week full of Jesus!!!

Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness."

-2 Corinthians 12:8-9

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OH MY COW!!!!!!!!! let me tell you what happened to me today...
yes, in case you're wondering, i made it back safe and sound in one piece, my computer's set up and i have a new room, and i'll show you all the pictures and everything, but i am right now traumatized and have to tell the world.

so i babysat today for a little boy named isaac who's about 1 or 2... he toddles around and talks, and he's adorable. well, his family just moved into a new house and his mom lacy told me that they got a new dog as well, a puppy, named cooper who likes to lick but that he shouldn't be a problem. puppy! great, i can handle that, i like puppies, no biggie... or so i thought. um, think again. jason, the dad, is there when i arrive and he lets cooper in and let me tell you, i have NEVER seen a bigger dog in my life!!! that was one BIG puppy. now, our neighbors had great dames and dober pinchermans and those huge mean, lean chicken-eating machines, but this thing was gigantinormigous!!! his head was over my knee and when he jumped he put his paws on my shoulders, and he's fat and furry! no joke. i found a pretty good picture at this website.... http://greatpyrenees.com/wyndhamhill/win3s.jpg.... yeah, and your's truly is, guess what!?! afraid of dogs! well, maybe not afraid, i'm learning to deal but this thing scared the poop out of me!!! i would like you to notice how BIG that dog is in comparison to that lady. this one had more fur and was brown but was that big, and scary looking.
jason was there, and cooper wasn't bad. he licked me and jumped, but jason said he'd calm easy so i wasn't that worried. he said cooper would never hurt a fly, um, i don't know about that. jason told me i could put him in the laundry room and so he put him there when he left. not a big deal. about 30 minutes later cooper starts barking and isaac goes "doggy?" so stupid kara let the dog out. um... yeah, he went crazy. at first he just jumped on me, and then i'm trying to pet him to make him calm down and he starts nipping me, so i try to get him back in the laundry room and he pushes me in. so i'm now shaking and i'm standing in the laundry room and this humongous beast is bearing his teeth and barking at me across the door way. every time i try to come out he like jumps on his hind legs. i don't know what to do, and i'm praying, almost crying, and all of a sudden, baby isaac, who has been standing behind cooper staring at me like there's something wrong with me, says "kawah, doggy" and walks into the laundry room. i grab him and shut the door... and then realize, um, now isaac and i are locked in the laundry room. good one huh? lol :) you know this is really histerical as i look back on it, but i was seriously in tears!
praise Jesus, there's a door in the laundry room to outside, so i take isaac outside thinking maybe we can get in another door, and um, it's all locked. so we go play in the back for a while and i'm scheming, praying, crying, shaking, and i finally see cooper through the window go lay down in the next room. so i grab isaac and make a run for it... as i get inside to the back door to let cooper out, he attacks me and i throw the door open and push him into the yard and slam the door. WHOO WHO!!!!!!!!!! i did it! we're in, it's out, and i did good. HAH... until i look outside about 2 hours later and this big beautiful very furry dog is CAKED in mud. whoops!
when lacy got home i told her, and after she laughs at me, she realizes that cooper has broken their brand new pond outside full of fishes that are no more, i hope they make cooper sick dumb dog, and that's how he's all wet and muddy. yeah... i definitley felt stupid. so um, next time, i WILL NOT be taking him out of the laundry room. dumb dog... or maybe we should say, dumb kara.
check out the picture, i swear, this animal is ENORMOUS!!!!!!!!!!! :)

last day, sad day, fast day, glad day! :)

wow.... so i have a feeling that this will be the last time i blog for a while... i'm thinking it's gonna take me a while to get my computer re-hooked up. i can't believe today is here... i feel kinda numb all over, this year has FLOWN by! for those that don't know, today is my last day of school... pack up and move out day. tomorrow bright and early i hit the road, um... pray for me.. i can't see out my car windows. :S so let me tell you about today!

for breakfast i went to denny's with my prayer partner for this year, jae. it was a lot of fun. here she is... isn't she beautiful?

after breakfast, rachel and i went to the health department and i got a combo hep. a and hep. b shot... youch! but the nurse was super nice and i got a silver bandaid with sparkly stars all over it! hooray!

then all day today, i packed... aren't these pictures great? so that's my car... stuffed to the brim... and there's my three wonderful helpers... whitney in pink, my beautiful rachel in grey and kristi in white. so, i'm all set. all i gotta do now is take a final in the morning. i feel like i could stay up all night.. i don't want to leave. i'm gonna miss second floor parrott hall and all of the wonderful girls that have made this place truly a home for the past year. i hope ALL of you have an amazing summer... i'll be thinking and praying about you!

well, that's about it. pray for me tomorrow, lol... or today... as i drive home. i'm scared. but i'll just listen to "all in all" and pray the whole way. Jesus will help me know when i can get over or not! if i don't see you before i leave, know that i love you more than the ocean!!! trust in Jesus and you'll never EVER go wrong! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

yes, i did it... i am the guilty one... i'm owning up

so, oh my cow guess what i did this lovely sunday afternoon? yes, that's right, i about burnt the dorm down! now, that picture is NOT what i did... there was actually no flame, thank Jesus, although there could have been as i have been told as grease likes to light on fire. so how did this happen??? well....

the following is what i was trying to make... see? it looks harmless enough... you take these big green bananas called plantains, cut them up, fry them in vegetable oil, add salt and wha-la! um...only, it's not quite as easy as it looks....

well, i started out ok... i cut the bananas, soaked them, dried them and i even got the frying pan with vegetable oil in it... here's where i started to go wrong. first of all i used WAY too much oil, second of all, i turned the burner on high which made the oil smoke, and that is NOT what you want to do, and third of all, the bananas weren't completley dry and the water reacted with the oil to make a big splurp of smoke and black bananas. needless to say, the smoke billowed every where in the lobby and before i knew it, the smoke alarms were going off. i turned it all off and waited for somebody to come yell at me. :) my r.d. said that if the grease had been a little hotter, that there would have been a flame... praise Jesus, my face would never have looked the same. but all in all, it made for a good story... don't you say? :)