His princess

6 weird things about myself:

#1. I don’t enjoy shopping

#2. I sleep flat on my back and hardly ever move in my sleep although I can talk a blue-streak while in la-la land

#3. I enjoy washing dishes

#4. I walk very fast. esp. in town, markets and malls

#5. I talk to myself, plants, school books, a garment I’m sewing, a lone toad in the grass, etc., etc.

#6. I’m not weird enough to have the 6th blank filled in. :P

today was a good day.

good day cuz:

-God kept speaking to me in different ways. (most of which I didn’t realize until tonight while spending some quiet time thinking over the day)
-school went well. we had an early start, math went much better today. i am slowly growing more familiarized with all the rules again, yay! my science test went smoothly.
-i sewwwwwwwed!!!!!!!! little nighties for Phillip and Judy’s twins who are going to be a year old next week. I can’t believe it was a year ago that I was helping out over there. Aww, they have grown so much. And the little nighties. they are SO much fun to sew!!!! I just recently sewed my first "little" dress for my cousin, Krista. I kept giggling over the tiny little peices. they are so tiny! And these nighties are much smaller than Krista’s dress. I should take a picture and post it once they are done. Anyway. yeah sewing really made me day.
-played scum with the family. that’s always a great way to end the day, si si!!

Hey just a big thank you for thsoe who wrote me personally. Your encouragement was sooo apreciated and it’s just so nice to know you have been praying for me. I literally felt your prayers today in school!! Thanks again. 

Nearly every time I see this video it brings tears to my eyes. Sorta makes me feel like we aren’t doing anything as missionaries here. Are we really ministering to those around us? Perhaps they aren’t dying from AIDS, etc., but I know there are those dying inside cuz they have no hope at all. I’ve seen those blank stares, those empty eyes. I’ve seen them shed bitter tears. I’ve seen them curse with hate toward someone. I’ve seen them crying over an ended relationship, crushed. I’ve seen them looking for love in wrong places, wrong persons. I’ve seen them hurting, but what am I doing?

ya vell. May God help each of as we do what we can in bringing the Gospel to those around us!!
Love to all,
-Sandra

Saturdays are cool in my opinion. Just push school away from your mind and clean and bake and do all those fun things. We’re all at home, so that adds to the fun. Like, just be extra crazy while we work together.

BTW, on Thursday noon we went over to Joseph’s and met Brendon. Joshua met us at the door of our van exclaiming, "You should see him! He’s purdy, really purdy!!!"
And he kept asking us while we held and talked to him, "Isn’t he niiiice??"
Yes Josh, he is more "nice n’ purdy". Honestly, he is SOOO adorable!!!!!!

Anyway. I didn’t take many pics because the batteries were low and the lighting in the room was awful.

yall have a good one…
-Sandra

well. this morning (in other words, school) was a not-so-good time.
i have lots to talk about to God tonight and esp. lots of questions. I am so tired of studying. not that it’s hard work. all of my subjects are ok and I don’t struggle with any of them except algebra. I can’t seem to keep all the rules packed down; I am constantly reviewing lessons and getting irritated at myself for not having remembered the steps, rules, w/e.
but I just don’t feel like studying, and that pretty much says how I feel about school. I want to be doing other stuff, I don’t feel like sitting in the schoolroom. It gets SO boring, IMO. so yeah. today was a bad day. 
bad day b/c mom let me know I’m not doing my part in studying and she thinks I can do better and she also thinks I won’t make it through highschool at the rate I’m going, etc., etc. Hurt my pride; I thought I was doing OK.

So I find myself questioning God. Maybe too much, I don’t know. Maybe He is sending these situations so I learn some perseverance and i just don’t get the drift.

ya vell. Was good to spout off some. I really felt like screaming and tearing my hair out this morning!!

I still have some homework. I have to finish reading Act I in Macbeth and answer some questions. I sorta like literature, I sorta don’t. I hate having to write down what I think cuz I am just not wordy.
I tend to write as if I’m talking and then it gets waaay too long and yeah, it makes me feel doppy after I read it over. So I wear down my eraser and rack my brains for some nice big words that make up for a whole sentence. (i never find them. maybe there isn’t such words?)
here is what Duncan king of Scotland says in Act I, Scene IV:
"There is not art to find the mind’s construction in the face…"

So there you have some of my ramblings. I hope I bored you to tears.
How was your day?
-me

Nina Elsie and my grandma, Mama Fela, I count as some of my closest friends.

Mama Fela… sometimes I think she knows me more than I know myself. It’s great to have someone wise like her point out your weak areas, and yet not be critical. She has also encouraged me TREMENDOUSLY. I can talk to her about anything basically and know she’ll always love me. We’ve cried together and prayed together and most of all, laughed and laughed together. She’s so cool. :] I want to be like her.
Thank you, God, for Mama Fela!

Nina Elsie… we hit it off basically the day we first met. Age doesn’t matter, she treats me like a woman. Not only that, but she treats me as if I were a princess! I trust her, she trusts me. Many a time I go over only to ask her a question or say hi, and we end up talking for hours. Nina Elsie encourages me in my Christian walk even if she is not a daughter of the King. It is because of Nina Elsie that I first began to really study God’s word, and to question what I truly believe, and criticize myself and the way I live… cuz she asks so 
many questions and I often felt (and sometimes still do feel) incapable of answering them. We are learning together, and hopefully someday before too long (!!), she will come to realize 
that there IS a God and that w/out Him she is absolutely nothing.
Thank you, God, for Nina Elsie…

…love that name!

Joseph sent two pictures that I fixed up in Picasa and thought I’d share with you.
I still haven’t met him!! :(

isn’t he a darling?! awww…

Brendon Charles Miller was eagerly welcomed into this wonderful world at 4:00 p.m.!!!! He weighs 7 1/2 lbs and is 19′’ long. A perfect bundle, and we’re all happy for them!!

I’ll post pictures as soon as I can..  we haven’t seen him yet!!

Papa, Mauricio, Patrick, and I returned about an hr ago from a long, hard day of work in Zacamil. The school house is getting ready for the new school year and also the annual Central American Minsiter’s Meeting that is being held there in the first week in March, if I’m not mistaken. So ya, they asked volenteers to help in the prep. and MY did we work. Sounds like a fairly big group was there yesterday and they painted a lot. Yes they certainly got things done yesterday but could have saved us LOTS of work if they had been more careful. Sounds like they allowed the children to help paint and so… the floors were just horrid. Uggh, rather disgusting. We had to get on our hands and knees and scrap, scrub, mop, repeat b/c the floor was just splattered with paint. Ya vell. We scrubbed all morning. My knees hurt, my back ached, my arms felt cramped, etc., etc. But hey it is a great feeling to know you were of help and in the meantime I had fun. Not many of us were there. Just Lily H., Alicia (my aunt), Eliza & Elvelynn (my cousins), and I as ladies and Papa, Patrick, Mauricio, Hrmo. Paco Ramirez, Andres Hurtado, Will, and my uncle Lecho was there in the a.m. So we weren’t many but it was fun. Will was as he aways is. I sorta got tired of his
constant yakking and lame (I mean LAME) jokes that we were supposed to laugh at and yes, we did sometimes, but only out of tiredness. (problem was, he didn’t realize that!)

Ya vell. Good day. It feels good to be tired because I WORKED.

Mom babysat the Miller kids today and when i came home Crystal had just come to pick them up and of course they were just totally pumped. I am very excited about seeing this new baby, but we probably won’t go over until tomorrow…

like duh, I just noticed how I spelled "favorite" on my last post. Too much Shakespeare perhaps?

Prayers for Joseph Miller’s family would greatly be appreciated!! The entire family, except Jennica, are sick with a bad case of flue and Connie is due to give birth to Baby Miller any day!! :( Joseph’s sister, Elizabeth, is here for a few weeks over the arrival of the baby, and so most of the work’s on her…

Friday night Joseph’s and Mauricio came over for an afternoon of fun. We really didn’t do all that much except yak and play ping pong. We had been planning to play volleyball but Papa, me, Patrick, Vanessa & Nelson had gone to Santa Ana and didn’t return until around 4 and then joseph’s didn’t come until about a half hr later. Kinda late to set up the net so yeah. Elizabeth helped me w/ supper. We made pizza together which was lots of fun.

This past week Mauricio was apparently feeling pretty down, but God answered our prayers (!!) and he had the message yesterday. He came over in the afternoon and we played scum for 3 hrs straight Was tons of fun!! I was president 4 rounds and stayed with that title. So of course it was fun.
Mom served a light but delicious supper and then I felt so tired so I went and showered and was gonna head to bed. But after my devotions, I felt inspired to get the letters ready to send with Nelson. So I did end up going to bed later than planned but at least I rested well knowing all i had to do was give the letters to him the next morning. (yeah I can’t sleep well when i know I have yet some things to do)

Well this morning passed rather quickly and soon it was time to head to the airport. Mom and the two youngest girls stayed home. Kenny was SO pumped and acting strange the whole way, what a brother I have!! He kept calling everything ‘dude’ and ‘awesome’ and "cool" words like that. O’ my word. He went nuts at the airport b/c not enough planes landed for his liking. When one did land though, he yelled louder than I appreciated. He he.
We met the Miller’s there at the airport. They headed out about an hr before Nelson, so it was cool to see them again though I didn’t talk to them much.
Vanessa took Nelson’s departure fairly well, IMO. She was quiet the whole way home. ;) But then again, we all were. Well, except for Kenny, that is… (grinnn…)

there ya go! have a great evening!!
-Sandra

Here are my favourites. The rest of the pictures are over here.

patrick took this pic. he put the camera waaaay close to the waves… I wouldn’t trust myself to do that.

the honored couple. lol. this was not posed for but I kinda liked it anyway.

yup. Here they are.