Team India!!!

May you all receive this with much anticipated joy!!!

Upon returning from their trek this year, I received an email from Nicki informing me of 4 new brothers!! Three of which you will remember! (names abbreviated) J. (whose home you stayed in twice; his wife gave me her best coat the year before) he is now our brother!! Pr his family does as well! G. (who managed the donkeys and whose home you also stayed at your first night in the mountains) Praise Father! Rob will be excited to know that M. has also become a brother!! Praise Father for His faithfulness; prys were answered and fruit has been seen! There is also one more brother...praise Him, praise Him!

REJOICE!!

Many Blessings
Amanda

Update on my Grandpa

hey everyone, so they found a tumor in my Grandpas brain when they did an MRI scan. Its 2cm and it is pressing on his optic nerve, this is what is causing him to be dizzy, have blurred vision and have so much pain. They don't know if it is cancerous, so if you could pray that it isn't that would be great. Also they are doing more scans soon to see if there are any other tumors in the rest of his body. Please pray that there are not any. Its frustrating because he has been having problems for a few months and it took until he was in so much pain for them to find out what was wrong. He is still in lots of pain and he isn't eating hardly anything and when he does he just throws it up. Pray for strength for him because he is getting weaker every day from not eating alot. Thanks you guys!
-Love Aimee

Hatmagandi

I can't believe it was one year ago we were all over the world on our missions trips, New York, India, Columbia and Vancouver. I admit I frequently check the K6 blog to see if any pictures or stories are up to see how they are doing. Speaking of blogs, if anyone so fancies check out the K7 blog and you'll see what I mean by I can't believe how fast time goes! (and my sister just blogged)
Lately has been a very busy and blessed time for me. I have been interviewing at different agencies for my practicum next year, for my first one I got lost and had to call, apologize for being late and then ask for directions (I was literally one block away, but google directions are faulty and one block when lost may as well be 1000) The interviews have been really fun and exciting, getting dressed up, and just feeling passionate about each of these different agencies. The one I was at today Calgary Pregnency Center, where I would get to counsel women either with unexpected pregnencies or recent abortions. The other I've been to was Providence which has developmentally challenged pre school age children hoping to prepare them for public school by grade 1.
It has been a struggle this year to be consistently in the word, to be honest one very real battle. This last month though I have been reading Romans which I have been soaking up, especially in chapter 9 where Paul talks about who are we to question God, which is so relevant to where I am at.
I was offered an amazing job at my camp this summer, a new position that was from April through August, doing VBS after, having guest groups before, and being on a directing leadership team, which would have been amazing, but after a lot of prayer I am supposed to be at home with my family this summer. I will be working ( hopefully.. I had a phone interview) at a research farm a mile down the road from my farm, government job, hopefully doing some pretty rad things!
It has been so cool and so hard at the same time to be learning about freedom, the freedom we, I have in Jesus Christ.. It has come up in conversations, textbooks, scripture and I have been so blessed by it.
Lastly, I know this is sounding repetitive, but please if you think of it, or have time please pray for my mom. Last week she couldn't even sit up long enough to e-mail me... I totally don't understand.. How can she be THIS sick for THIS long?? Please pray for spiritual rejuvination, physical comfort and joy for her...And for my dad as he walks through this with her, encouraging her and being at her side. Thank you so very much, love you!

oh and when i go back. im going to have a roomate. yeah he's 44 years old. and snores like a champ.

...my DAD just turned 46 today...

well let me start off this delightful post by saying that i miss you. and i loved the chance to see half of you last weekend, so good to hear about what's going on in your lives. i also shared a bit of where my heart was at and what the plans are for the future, but for those of you that weren't there, let me enlighten you. after being in new york i decided to go back, you all know that. since that time, i've been working at home with the dreaded turkeys and chickens, and waiting for my VISA to go back to new york under the status of 'religious worker'. that VISA hasn't yet come. today was supposed to be the day that i depart and join the likes of ryan wood, the kims, and ARLAN in new york. buuut instead i continue my endless pursuit of raising plump chickens and doing an excellent job of cleaning the barns when they depart for better days. this whole time...ahh i don't even know. it's frusterating. and such a huge test in trust. which i think i'm not doing a hugely great job of yet. maybe this is a huge lesson to learn, but dang i don't wanna be here anymore. so prayer would be sweet, and greatly appreciated. i've been checking the status of my visa online (at least twice a day) and the last update we got was when the government sent it back to us, requesting more evidence. basically they probably think i'm a terrorist and don't belong. so the last update was on february 16th, and it's probably sitting on somebody's desk right now. please pray.
love you all
miss you lots
SCOTTY T.

my number at Grandma's is 1 519 421 3346....love you all!

Flabergasted

Hey guys!! I want to warn you this is going to possibly be a long blog and a little bit all over the place but bear with me! I pray that you will be praising God as you read this, because He has answered more prayers than I know.
Ok so first of all the most obvious and exciting part of this blogg is Ellies wedding! Oh stinker it was incredible! So many answered prayers through it all, I cant even explain it all. But it was so much fun hanging out with everyone and being blessed by all of you.It was such a privilege to have everyone crammed into out little basement suit and praising Jesus and then sharing about our lives. I can not tell you how much that meant to me. Thank you for bringing the spirit of Kaleo into out basement!
Also as some of you know my car ended up in three pieces this last weekend (stupid muffler). God is incredible and not only got us to Crofton before the third piece came off, and lead us to crofton so that we could get to Vic the next day, but also blessed me with money to pay for it from an amazing angel! ( Lol I wish you guys could have seen my reaction...)
Ok so this is a very long and complicated story so please bare with me!
So for those of you who don't know I have applied to be assistant head councilor at camp this summer. I had my interview just over a week ago and since then haven't really been feeling that confident about the position. I believe that it was last Tuesday night I was driving home from bible study and just started really praying about this position. I felt that God was telling me to surrender this to Him, so with lots of tears and very reluctantly I did. I gave it all to Him closing the conversation with " Ok God I am not going to camp this summer, I guess I am staying in LC". I was dreading the conversation with Amanda. I played it over and over in my head, assuming that it would be her rejecting me for the position and me knowing that I was not going to be at camp this summer. I by the way was ok with this. Terrified but knowing that God would lead!
Ok so on Thursday Alex surprised me and came to work and it was a joyous reunion. I was suppose to work for another few hours, but the ladies I work with told me to leave and go play! So I did. We went to camp and I took Catherine to go see Amanda. While we were there Amanda told me that she wanted to ask me a question and to come back little later. I pretty much figured that she was going to tell me that I didn't have the position and wondering if I wanted any other position, which of course there were no other ones that I wanted. So Amanda and I had a chat and she pretty much said that except instead of asking me if I wanted to choose another position at camp she asked me if I would consider CIT councillor. First thought that came into my head was no this is Michelles position. She went on to explain that they weren't offering me this possission to me because they felt like Michelle couldn't do it ( we all know she would be incredible at it) but rather with the other staff on the events team she would make an incredible addition to that team, and they felt that I would do well at CIT counselor.
This blew me away. I could not believe that God was giving me this opportunity, and was very confused as to why He would do it this way, in such a way that Michelle could potentially get hurt so bad. I wrestled with this all weekend. Meesh and I have talked about this so much and in her mind this position was already hers, so i prayed and prayed that God would either a) give Michelle a heart of surrender to this position or b) give her the position all together. Either way I was so scared about how this would effect our friendship and didnt really think that much about accepting the posission other than if Meesh gets hurt I am not taking it.
** SIDE NOTE** Also with accepting any position at camp I knew that we would have to leave the church and youth group so I have been praying that God will raise up a couple in our church to take this position and that the church would support them and offer child care for them***
So yesterday I got to work and asked a lady there how the AGM meeting went at Church (meesh and I presented a letter to the church about the youth and also asked them to start praying about new leaders). The lady told me that they asked this couple in the church of they would pray about taking over the youth and then members of the church also offered to to child care! SO AMAZING!!!! No one other than meesh knew those specific prayer request that I have been praying and now they have been answered. We don't know if the couple are going to accept but they are praying!
Ok so after work yesterday I went to Jims and talked to Him about this whole situation. We both were alittle be nervous about how this would effect mine and Michelle's friendship as she still didnt know about mine and amanda's conversation. Just as I was leaving to go to bible study Amanda came home. I started to talk to her about it and she told me to talk to Meesh and then to call her. So went to Bible study and after wards I told michelle before she drives home to pull over so that we could talk. She says I was just about to say the same thing! So she gets in my car and tells me that before I talk she needs to go first. She goes on to tell me that at work that day she surrendered her heart for CIT counselor to God and asked him to give what ever name it needs to be ( yup answer to prayer!!!) . She later got home and got a phone call from Amanda, this was the first time that she heard about not getting CIT counselor and then also me possibly having the position. She was so excited when she was telling me this. I of course was crying as I was hearing answered prayer after answered prayer coming out of her mouth. She told me that she was so excited to be Stevies assistant and that she was so stoked at the possibility of me being CIT councilor!!! ( STINK!!!! I am honestly trembling right now... God is SO AMAZING!!!!!!) So Meesh and I ended that conversation with prayer and once again an even stronger friendship.
So today I talked to Amanda and she offered me the position and I told her I needed to pray about it. So on the way home I did. When I am in prayer about it I feel at peace and know that there are toooo many answers to prayer to say no, it is when I start thinking about all of the little things that I get scared and not wanting to do it. I have weighed it out, and my one or two reasons for doing this position are way more than my 6 or 7 reasons for not wanting to do it, selfish reasons. So I am going to be CIT counselor this summer!! I am nervous but sooo stoked about what God has in store...
I am also amazed that through this all God has once again been teaching Michelle her big lesion of surrender and my big lesion of faith...
MY MIND IS BLOWEN!!!!! I can not belive this!!
Thank you for reading this far. I am alittle disappointed that I can not put into words all the ways that God has so obviously blessed me and answered sooooo many prayers in this past week, but I promise that when we get to heaven I will get God to show you the video!!! I love you all sooo much and miss you, but am so excited about where God is taking us all!!!
Love you all lots and lots!!
~Shar hope!

Prayer Request

Hey everyone, as some of you already know my grandpa is sick, the doctors don't know what is wrong with him. He has terrible pain in his body and he gets dizzy sometimes, also I think that his legs are swelled as well. On Monday he went to the hospital because the pain got so bad and he was admitted to the hospital. He is still there and they don't know what is wrong with him yet. They have him on morphine for his pain. They have ruled out a heart attack and a stroke, which is good, and they are continuing to do tests. So it would be awesome if you could all pray that the doctors would figure out what is going on with him and that he would be healed. Thanks you guys!!!

-Love Aimee

Wedding Photos anyone!

Hey!

I know i'm super impacient does anyone have pictures from Ellie and Lewis's Wedding!!! I saw a couple on facebook but not nearly enough it looks soooo beautiful!!! Ellie, from the long range pictures i have seen so far i can already tell you made a beautiful bride!!! Though i never had any doubts about that!!!
Anyhow congrats again you two!!! I'm so so sorry i couldn't be there to wish it to you in person!

The Latest.

Alright folks...here's the deal. Two Sundays ago, I moved out. I just couldn't handle the pressure anymore and I finally broke. I don't really know what to say other then I just couldn't do it anymore. My dad and I never really talked about it, I just kinda packed my suitcases and asked him to take me to my Grandma's house. He was a little surprised because I had just got home from my trip to BCrest (which was so refreshing), but he understands why I need to be out. So, I am currently living in my Grandma's basement on the couch. It sucks, but it's better then being at home. And Grandma just bought me a car so that I will be able to get myself to work and so that I can do my own thing which is also really nice. The car isn't anything special and nothing to really get excited about, but it does what I need it to do so I am happy. And after a recent conversation I realized that I need to start letting the people around me and the people who love me the most share in my hurts. I need to learn to be vulnerable with my friends and let them support me. So, that's exactly what I am working on right now. I have had a couple sweet conversations already about where I am at and what is going on in my heart and it feels so good to be able to talk about it!
Thank you for your continued prayer and support and I will do my best to keep you all updated. It's kinda tricky because I don't have internet at Grandma's but a phone call is always welcome!

"...He rescued me because He delighted in me." Ps. 18:19

trying really hard to be... TRUSTING JESS!!

my last post as an unmarried woman!!

Hello my dear, dear friends! I'm sitting here in my parents kitchen before I head off to start decorating the church for tomorrow, my wedding day! Catherine is upstairs getting ready... and ohh I just had to stop for a moment and give you guys a little update before my life changes so drastically!

I know I haven't really posted anything since my prayer request for Lewis and I a few months back. Our God is so good and He hears our prayers... And His redemption is so complete. The healing He has brought to our hearts and relationships is staggering, and He has brought us to this place that we are right now... Praise Him! We have been SO privileged to be counselled by our pastor, Mark Buchanan, and his wisdom and encouragement have brought such an incredible clarity. We had our last session yesterday, and he asked us the question EVERYONE has been asking: "So, are you ready?" We have a hard time answering that question because its just SO huge that we can't really wrap our minds around it, let alone completely prepare ourselves for it and be 'ready' (whatever that means). So then he said, "Let me ask you this then... would you turn back?" And without a second delay, each of us said no... because we wouldn't. And not because we are trying to run away from anything in our past... but rather that the promises that the Lord has given to us for our future together are too beautiful and significant to ignore or deny. We want to take hold of them!

I had a lightbulb moment a couple of days ago. I was thinking about all of this stuff, trying to wrap my mind around it.... trying to fight the doubt, anxiety and fear that so quickly come upon me. And then I thought about my Kaleo name... "Ellanora the Brave".... oh my dear friends, how this has become such an incredible word over my life, you have no idea. Every day, with every experience, the Lord is giving me such courage and BRAVERY, praise Him!

So, tomorrow morning I will pledge my life to this wonderful blessing of a man, Lewis Jones. And while I am of course nervous, its not taking away from desire to walk CONFIDENTLY into my wedding day. My heart is opening up so wide to the mightiness and strength and love of our God... please pray that this would continue. Please pray for Lewis and I, the beginnings of our marriage over these next couple of weeks, for God's provision, and that He would give us courage to trust Him.

I should head off now my friends!!! Thank you for your prayers.... really. The Lord is so good to us for giving us community.

I love you and will post plenty of pictures soon!
Love, Ellanora the Brave

Do we all miss Jahnaya yet?

BYOB

Holla guys!!! Ok so Meesh and I were talking and realized that we dont have enough bedding, so bring your own bedding. And come stay at our house for as long as you alll want!! If some of you cant fit all your bedding meesh and I do both have our mats and sleeping bags so let us know... Ok soooo stoked!!! 

For those of you that can't make it meesh and I both have skyp so we can skyp you in!!! Ok love you all sooo much!!!