Worse than a frog

[EDIT] Thanks for your prayers! My voice was back just enough to speak, and sometimes ya just have to praise the LORD for microphones. =) Although, not having much voice did make a big difference while I was teaching 6th graders on Friday... =) Some kids said to their classmates, "SHH!!! you have to be quiet because we can't hear her!" haha! a blessing in disguise.

Also, didn't you expect me to find & figure out how to add music to my blog? I'm still working on it, but I hope you enjoy the current songs for your reading enhancement. :0]
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So to quickly explain my title, my voice sounds worse than a frog. It went away today, and I am talking about my ministry to my parents' church tomorrow morning. It's only a 5-minute deal, but still, I'd like to have more voice than I do now so I can communicate. Please say a prayer that it comes back! It always seems to go away when I think I really need it....but it does always come back, by prayer. =) Thank you!

On some other notes, the LORD is blessing me in preparation to go. At Christ Fellowship on Sunday, a guy named Drew & I made the connection that we are both SIMpacters! He went to Kenya in 2006 and did nutritional education. What are the odds? We've been going to church together & had no idea until after lunch on Sunday, haha! He knows the people I'll be meeting in Kenya!

Also, I went to a prayer night at my church, and we broke in to small groups of 3 to pray for something, & I was with 2 other 20-something girls. One sounded African, so I asked where she was from and she said, "The Congo," so the other girl in the group said, "Oh cool! I'm leaving for Mozambique in like 10 days!" So then of course I chimed in, so Denise from The Congo gave me her English/Swahili dictionary to take with me! Isn't that cool?

Speaking of Swahili, it's the kids' 2nd language. 1st is Kikuyu, 2nd is Swahili, 3rd is English...all their schooling is in English, so these kids are gonna be tri-lingual. COOL.

Speaking of Kikuyu....haha, Matt's brother-in-law was at a book fair & found this old book called "Missionaries Heroes of Africa," so he bought it for me - again, super nice. it's an original from 1923. I read through some of it & realized there's a story about a man who ventured into the Great Rift Valley (mountains where I'll be) and began work with the KIKUYU people! of all the stories & people groups in Africa, there was a story in this book about the Kikuyu. cool.

catchya later ~
kt