This morning I had an in house tea date (kinda like a stay-cation…we met at my house) with Nadia, a friend of mine who recently returned from Iris Ministries Harvest School of Missions, a ministry school based in Mozambique, Africa. Several of my friends have gone through Harvest school and I’m sure that more will as we go forward. It is Heidi and Rolland Baker’s ministry and people who go there get wrecked, forever. At least all the ones that I’ve met. From what I’ve seen of the few people who I’ve interacted with pre- & post-Harvest school it seems to so wreck you for normal life that it will launch you into whatever capacity of a missions calling that you have on your life. Which is great! And super hard at the same time. It’s always exciting to see what the Lord does in those moment of pressing through! He is good! I took some pictures of Nadia before she left for the school to help her raise support to go. I didn’t get one with her as we were hanging out this morning so this will suffice for now. 
A few days ago I received a text from Lori asking if I taught guitar lessons. Her daughter Ava got a new guitar for Christmas and wanted to take lessons and she thought of me. What an honor! I always feel honored when people want me to teach something to their children, it is such a position of trust and I don’t take it lightly. However in this case I felt too under qualified even for my normal “fake it till you make it” attitude. Having not had any formal guitar training myself I knew that I couldn’t give formal training to Ava. I did tell Lori that I would be glad to hang out with Ava for a bit and show her a couple of chords and let her see if she likes guitar before diving into lessons with someone. Today I went over to their beautiful home and showed Ava a few basics of chords, strumming, and by the time we were done we were playing a Taylor Swift song together (Long Song for those of you who want to know). My favorite part is that I think that it helped Ava see that it is hard, but rewarding, work and that guitar is something that she wants to learn! How fun to get to help start someone onto the path of music! This experience made me want to acquire more technical knowledge so that I could know it for myself and teach others! Teaching is so fun! (Lori took these pictures and shared them with me, thanks Lori!)
Check out that cute little guitar! It is the perfect size for a young girl and has real strings so she could play and get her fingers callused up for the big leagues when she’s ready.
After hanging out with the Clancys, eating some gluten free snacks, playing some music, and chatting with Lori for a while I was off to another coffee date, this time at…you guessed it, Rush, with my friend Sarah B! Yes, I have 3 dear friends named Sarah B…she’s Say-ruh though so that makes it different. It’s always a delight to hang out with this woman and get to catch up on life, laugh, and share some fun moments. I appreciate friends both who have wisdom and who draw wisdom out of you.
My house-mate and friend Ashley also moved tonight…sadly she left on the busiest day of my entire week! But we did get to hang out for about an hour in the middle and talk about Queens of England which is a fairly normal topic of conversation with that lovely lady. I know it won’t be the last we see of her in the QC!
