Confession #17:

#17: I sometimes wish I was a food network star when I'm cooking... My show would be 'Ruby's Really Rad Recipes' (hahahahahahaha!)

Well, my Cupcake experiment today was a success!! YAY. yay cupcakes.

I got inspired to do this cool two flavors thing and make them look really neat. I ended up referring to them as my diversity cupcakes.

Yummo!

I then remembered it was St.Patrick's Day! So I used our green sprinkles and said 'Kiss me I'm Irish!" No, not really, no one but my dad and the dogs where around. And I'm not totally sure if I have Irish in me...

He's so cute when he smiles!

My Dad's response to me bringing him one was "What are you doin' eatin' sweet things?" "ha, what are you doing?:)"

Anyway they're delicious and I only got pinched once today.
Ta ta for now.

Story Time!

I feel like telling a story this afternoon...
I'm going to title it "Cookies."

      Do do do, riding along on the bus through the country side, our little outreach family were traveling from the Southern coast of Morocco to the desert, about halfway through outreach. Fun stuff - bus rides. Especially when the bus you're on stops for every tiny town just in case some little old man might want to hop on or off. I think at one point I had a panic moment to myself bc we were definitely in the middle of no where. Surrounded by desert landscape, and a handful of Moroccans in the seats in front of...if they had wanted to kidnap and take us far into the depths of the desert...no one would have known! ahh! Haha, but that was a passing thought and reality was Nate, Kent and Chris already liked practicing kung fo/wrestling/punching so we would've been fine (and Jesus would've helped for sure too.)

     Anyway! We finally stop for more than a minuet to get some food and use the bathroom. The line for the squatty potties was long so I knew my food decision would have to be snappy! A little fun fact: Moroccans LOVE yogurt. Every single tiny corner shop selling any type of food will have half a dozen choices at least. That was a no brainer, course I got some drinkable strawberry yogurt. I also wanted some crackers. Just a little package of maybe a dozen. Ok, so the cute little shop owner and I did not speak each others language. Typical. So smiling as much as I could I pointed to the crackers on the top of his shops shelves. It required him pulling over his ladder to climb to the very top for me. I thought I was clearly pointing to the SMALL packages...part of this was my fault, but secretly I think he wanted to get rid of this "Party Size" BOX of crackers. I just didnt have the heart to tell him to climb all the way back to the top shelf as, grinning nicely, he gave me, the naive white tourist girl, his biggest box of "Gourmet Biscuits." I laughed, slightly annoyed, all the way back to the bus...and felt completely ridiculous, and braced myself for the grief I was gonna get, esp from the boys, about the gigantic box of cookies! Of course for the rest of the bus ride, I think about 3 hours, I was the butt of all jokes, and we also made more friends because any Moroccan willing, I tried to give them at least 10 cookies! ahhaha. Oh yes, love language barriers. Now I kind of miss those cookies, even though they aren't really that tasty. THE END.

SO MANY COOKIES!! Ridiculous. haha

Meet the Energys

Haha so! I'm bored this morning and thought I give a little tribute to my outreach team. I dubbed us the Engerys because of a very interactive dream Nate had the first night of outreach. He ended up jumping on Chris's bed in the middle of the night, landing on him spider man style saying "The snake of energy went inside of me!!" Apparently he was fast asleep during the whole event and Chris calmed him down and Kent commanded them to go back to bed. haha. After hearing that story the next morning, I felt like outreach was going to be quite entertaining and eventful if that was how the very first night panned out! Well, since then we referred to Nate as the Snake of energy! From that we all received animals of energy within the first few weeks.

Would you like to meet them? I thought so! :)

The Snake of energy: Nate, Nathaniel, Isaiah, Duncan...

I dont like snakes at all so I'm not going to post a picture of one - so use your imagination!

Also, I think snake fits him in the sense that Proverbs tells us to be innocent as doves and wise as serpents. Nate is becoming a very wise man as he grows closer to Jesus. So cool!

Manatee of Energy: Kent, Robert, Kent face, leader

So I think manatee ended up fitting Kent well because, well they are rare and they make impressions on people easily, hard to forget ya know? haha. Well, Kent can easily connect with people and all over Morocco we watched him make lasting impressions on people's lives in Jesus' name.

Shark of Energy: Amy, Aims, (Bunions) (Ice cream!!)

Amy is not viscous or anything...she just told us a very believable story of how she was attacked by a shark off the coast of NC as a child. False! and since that joke she was dubbed Shark...but for me she fits that in the spiritual sense because she is strong and fights in prayer - she is very powerful spiritually, she and Jesus     are a strong team! love it!

Hamster of Energy: Chris, Chris-ta-flo, Brother Pablo(Rodriguez Sanchez Flores)

Honestly I'm not sure how Hamster got picked for Chris ta flo, but Kent said it and it stuck! haha. But in my opinion it fits because as we all know Hamsters are lovable and everyone likes them. Same with Chris, and he will touch many peoples lives with his generous and caring, pastoral spirit.

Panda of Energy: Me! Ruby, Rubes, Rubatron, Rubster

Thats me! Personally i love Kung Fu Panda the movie and so gladly received the cuddly cute bear as my animal.I can be like Po and defend myself - Hi-Ya! haha or give you a hug whenever you need one. :)

Pigeon of Energy: Abby, Abster, Abs

That's Betsy the Pigeon from Agadir

Abby does a really good Pigeon dance too. She fits Pigeon because shes curious and peppy like those birds and will figure things out for herself to own truths from Jesus and she's very social and will welcome in anyone under her "wings" and love on them. Lovely!

So our little family, the Energys had a very good, challenging, full of laughter out reach together! It turns out all these diverse animals can live in harmony. haha!

Salhom Alakom! ( Hi there )

Jet lag is still very much present in my life. haha but I thought I'd throw up a M-Roc family photo for you since the last post was a before photo - here's one in the beautiful town of Chefchauon, Morocco, during our amazing adventure! Stories to come soon :)

oh PS: I love them.

3 months has gone where?

Hello lovely friends!

Three months is already GONE. What? That's just blowing my mind!
Guess what though? Two months to go...and they'll be spent in Morocco!!!
Crazy! Crazyyyyyy - crazy how God has changed me so much and how He's now taking me to Morocco to change me and push me to love on Muslim people and lovely Moroccans. He is so amazing.

So here's my team:

Aren't they beautiful?!:) I love them all - so pray for all of us! And especially for Kent our leader as he's working so hard and leading us across the world!

I don't have any thing else to say - its a sentimental day since all the outreach teams are leaving and we'll be a small little family for two months separate from all our other DTS buddies. God has big things in store for all of us - I can feel it.  He has done a great change in every person the past three months and now its time to get into action and love love love people all over the world!

Here we come MOROCCO!

Strong Love - Jon Thurlow

 I LOVE this song.
Enjoy it my friends.
Worship some too.
Oh, and dont forget to dance around a little.
:)

Now everyone hold hands.....

Alright. Its Saturday afternoon and I'm the only person in the Main House Lounge... this is a first! Its nice to have nothing to do except nap in a hammock, and no one around for a few hours because then i can...blog! :)

Well, Thanksgiving was 2 days ago. Didnt feel like Thanksgiving though since it was warm outside and I was surround by europeans and canadians and Kiwis who don't celebrate when the Pilgrams and Indians feasted peacefully together giving thanks many many years ago. We had curry fish soup for dinner and at that point I decided I would bring a little home life to the little YWAM picnic table. Typically my family on my Dad's side would all gather for a large meal at my Grandpa's house. Everytime someone would say "Now everyone hold hands and tell us what you're thankful for!" So, looking cute in all our flannel and smelling the fresh venison and turkey out of the oven we would all say something about how we love family, friends and food. :) Yeah!

I didn't make everyone at the picnic table stand up and hold hands, but! We did go around and say what we're thankful for. A few of my favorites: Apples and Peanut Butter, Germany, and Martin was thankful for being the only boy at a table full of girls. hahaha! It was lovely though, and then we had ice cream.

Goodness, there are so many things I'm thankful for. There are so many stories I could write about. There are so many thoughts and deeper understandings about God that I can't wait to share! But I will pick one today and then you should go to facebook and look at my two new picture albums to see ME and New Zealand:)

Well, yesterday we had a huge long day of prayer and intercession and confession and thanksgiving and encourgament with Mark Parker our speaker of the week. It started at 9am and we didn't leave each others company until 2 am this morning. CRAZINESS! The whole day has many stories, but at the end of the day, after laying down sin, giving God our dreams to be used by Him alone, and baptisisms!! (love them!) We were praying and encourgaing one another. After an hour or so we were anointed with oil and prayed for and encouraged to worship God and ask Him what He had for our lives. Oh! I just feel over and started laughing joyfully with Jesus! He showed me I would get to hold babies! I was holding little African babies, South American babies, South Pacific babies, European and Asian babies! Oh it was a beautiful thing! Well, I continued to pray and we had communion afterwards and worshipped more. All I know is that I am very thankful the Lord is revealing to me more of my calling and passions and I can't wait to see how He'll lead me on an adventure to get there! woo!

Alrighty, have a lovely holiday weekend - eat some more pumpkin pie for me since we don't have any here and stay warm and cozy!