Photo of the Week! Super Late! Woops!

This past weekend fellow US-2, Mistead Sai and I were able to meet up in Chicago and go to church and catch up! I was really excited to meet up and see where Mistead is living and working and get a window into his missionary experience! In addition to Mistead I was able to visit with some great friends Ann Watson and Elizabeth Atkinson in Chicago!

Photos of the Week!

This week's photos of the week is of another awesome fundraiser that was put on and helped NOAH. The fundraiser was called Warm Hearts, Warm Bodies where a local choir sang and served a meal to those that wanted  a coat for the winter and those that were able to donate a coat. It was a beautiful night of caroling and just Christmas cheer, not to mention some great food provided by one of the Unions.

A Pretty packed house to see the Deep River Choir!

The Practice Run- A Testament to My Morning Confusion

Alright so I have a pretty funny story for you to happen to me on Tuesday earlier this week. So I woke up at 7:20 AM freaking out because our Forgotten Harvest the donation, that brings food for some of our volunteers, comes at 7:35 and I have to be at the building with carts ready to pick it up and bring it in the church. So I pop out of bed, throw some clothes on and jump my car and drive as fast as I possibly can to get the church by 7:35. I sprinted upstairs grab the carts brought them downstairs in the elevator and waited. As 7:45 rolled around the thought that I missed the donation and that everyone was going to be frustrated with me a they get no food for the week. I waited and waited until I looked again at the time on my phone to realize that it was infact Tuesday…our Forgotten Harvest donation comes on Wednesday…

Needless to say I was a little frustrated...I just walk out the building, leaving the carts and everything ready for me to deal with when I get back to work. So I went home got ready and biked back to work, with every intention of telling no one of my eventful morning. As expected it got out after I mentioned it to a coworker and the maintenance man questions my early arrival... I have to admit I think some people really enjoyed this story because they were able to give me a hard time especially Joni and a lot of the people at work joked about me trying to get to work so early but the way I see it is, it was all just practice for Wednesday right?

Photos of the Week- It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas!

Here are just a few pictures from the past weeks! I know it is a few more pictures than last week, but I just have a lot that I want to show ya! All these pictures are from "Christmasyish" events all going on around the city of Detroit! It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

These first two are just of Noel Night! Noel Night is pretty much just a street festival that is devoted entirely to celebrating Christmas! The museums open up and have all kinds of different shows from brass bands to banjo picking blue grass, to big choirs. In the first you see some of the vendors and street crowds and on the second one there you can see the ice sculpture contest that went on! Sadly it was an unseasonable 40 degrees out that night so a lot of the ice was melting pretty fast!

These last two pictures are just from the city of Detroit. There was a big tree lighting ceremony in November where people came from all over the suburbs to enjoy the countdown and the Christmas festivities, but I thought it more fitting to share these photos after Thanksgiving!