PRAYER

This week I am taking class at CLBI. It is part of my internship. I am also working during the week. Which so far has left me pretty tired. If you could please pray for me that I would find the time and the energy to get everything done that would be amazing. Also because I am tired I seem to get more easily stressed so if you could please pray about that also.

ERIN

I would like to introduce all of you to my friend Erin. You may wonder why I am doing this and the reason is today is her birthday. Some of you are lucky enough to know her and know that you are blessed by it. OK so I was trying to post these five different photos of Erin that I am sure most of you haven't seen but the Internet is bring dumb and I should be leaving for work right now. Plus for my sake it's most likely better I am not posting the photos cause I am sure Erin would of hurt me. :D

Erin is amazing, wonderful, beautiful(yes you are Erin), caring, thoughtful, gentle and kind....
I can also tell you that when Erin reads this her face might go a little red and she might try to convince her self that she is not these things but that is a lie.....I love you Erin and I hope you aren't mad at me for this post.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are LOVED

What's Happening in my Life

So this post is a few days later than I told you it was going to be but that's because the details weren't confirmed until yesterday.

As you know I am currently working here in Camrose. I will continue to do that until Dec. 22nd. Then I will take a long bus ride to Creston where my parent's and sister live. I will spend Christmas with them and then MAYBE go down to the coast after Christmas but I am not sure how that will work out.

Then around the 3rd or 4th of January I will head to the airport and board a flight for Minneapolis, Minnesota. I will be spending three months volunteering with the World Mission Prayer League as Part of my Internship. I will do various things like office work, correspondence plus once a week leading the prayer and devotion time for the staff. I am excited about this opportunity and that it is all confirmed.
After the three months working in the WMPL USA Office I will come back to Camrose and work in the Canadian WMPL office. Doing various tasks.

Along with working in the Canadian office I will continue to plan and work out the details for a family Mission trip for Resurrection Church here in Camrose. With the trip taking place next August. The details are still coming together about where the trip will be.

That is it. So you now know what is happening in my life for the next nine months. What will I do after that? I actually have no idea but I still have some time to think and pray about that.

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What's happening in my Life

OK so I don't actually know what is happening in my life as of January but I should find out in the next two or three days so check back then and I will catch you up in my life. The only thing happening right now isn't I haven't been sleeping well which is super frustrating. It takes me a long time to fall asleep and then I am awake before my alarm it's very annoying. Anyways check back in a few days.

First Real Snow

This is what I woke up to this morning. Angela and I both woke up before out alarms so we got ready for church early. Then walked around the path across the road from our house. I took some pictures. Then we went and got Timmy's and went to Church. We were a bit late. oops














The first and last photos are my two favorites. The photos aren't that great my photography skills aren't that good I am still working on them

Short Hair, School & Relationships

Ok so how lame is my life that I lie asleep at night wanting to be sleeping but instead I am thinking about what to write for my next post. Thankfully I remembered it because how annoying would that be thinking about it and not sleeping and then forgetting about it the next morning. Anyways some reason I was thinking about short hair and how I wish I could have a really short hair cut but unfortunately short doesn't look good on me which could be do to my rather large head. But I have friends who can really pull it off for example Hannah looks really good with short hair and Jen who has short hair due to circumstances looks really great. My sister has long hair but she can pull off the short look and I have the feeling it will become short again sometime soon. It seems that most of the time girls want to grow their hair for their wedding. I thought maybe I should just cut my hair but that is a big commitment which would take years to grow out and then I thought about how much I am not a fan of commitment and that is why it is hard for me to decide what to do for school next fall. Do I want to do a four year program? Really that's a big commitment which then led me to thinking no wonder I can't date anyone I can't even commit to a hair cut or school how could I commit to a relationship....oh how I love my life

My Roommate

So my one roommate is Kelly. She is a 17(maybe 16) year old exchange student from Hong Kong who is studying at the high school here in town. She is far away from home and I can tell she feels very lonely. I would really appreciate it if you could pray for her. I have debated before if I could hear her crying at night but now I am pretty positive that there are some nights when she cries herself to sleep. Also if you have any ideas of how I can reach her and make her feel more comfortable please let me know. I try and talk to her everyday when I get home but it always just ends be being really brief. So anyways if you could pray for her that would be great. Thanks.

Bowling

OK so as I mentioned before I am in a bowling league with Jeff, Jen and Colin. So last week I was the top bowler on my team and this week I didn't bowl as well as my average from last week which is fine. Some members of my team beat me on individual team scores but I had the overall high triple for our team. The thing is I have a problem with my team and it's not being beat by them but rather having them cheer for me when I do badly. It seems there new goal is to beat me so when I do badly they are excited by this, is it just me or is this wrong?

Work

OK so on Wednesdays at work I work in the kitchen. Doing baking or whatever job they have for me. So last week they taught me how to make flatbread, let’s just say it didn’t go very well. I was having a hard time learning how to get the flatbread on the grill and mainly I was having a hard time rolling the flatbread. Then when the flatbread was done drying I took it out and placed it on a tray. I then picked up the tray and turned to walk it into the kitchen when I caught the edge of the tray on a corner causing me to partially drop the tray. The thing is when you drop flatbread it basically shatters into small pieces which we then can’t sell. Oops. I felt horrible. So yesterday they got me to do flatbread again and I was much much better at doing it. I had like no problems getting the flatbread onto the grill and I did a much better job rolling it into the right shape. The two ladies in the kitchen even told me I did a much better job than last week. So that was sweet give it a few more weeks and I should be better and better.

So I joined a bowling league with some friends Jeff, Jen and Colin. Last night was our first night of bowling. We did ok. I bowled a 173,162 and a 171 which isn’t amazing but it was the best on my team. So now on Wednesdays that is how I will spend my night at the bowling alley yeah I know some of you are laughing Natasha R you can stop laughing at me.

On Saturday I am going up to Tofield after work for Thanksgiving. I will be staying with the Langager’s J

That’s pretty much all that is going on with my life.

The New Look

So what do you think about the new look of my blog? I noticed yesterday that someone had a picture on the top of their blog so I thought I wanted to do it too. So at first I tried a photo of me but the photo was way to big so when I decided to change it and decided on the flags concept. It took a few changes to get it looking right. But I like how it turned out.

Side Story: On Sunday Natashia and I were walking to church in the evening and I asked this lady about where a road was and she said sorry she didn't know and kept on walking then she turned around and started talking to me. I was pretty sure she was from Pakistan and was just about to ask when she told me she was so then we talked about Pakistan and told her where I had been. She told me about immigrating to Canada and the conversation lasted no longer than five minutes but it was a really good talk but made me miss my friends in Pakistan.

Oh my look at the time I gotta run or I am going to be late for work

Finally

Ok so this is long over due I know but I haven’t really felt like writing it which I know isn’t fair to those who check my blog.

So a lot has happened in the last month. After finding out that I had no internship for September I cam down to Camrose with Sarah Walsh and was planning to only be in town for a few days before heading home to live and work in Creston. I wasn’t super excited and after talking with some people I decided to stay here and work in Camrose. So I am working at the Lefse house. Mainly I waitress and work in the front but occasionally I work in the kitchen depending on what day it is. I am living in a house with three other girls. Two are upstairs and another is downstairs where I am. In the basement we have our own kitchenette, living area and bathroom.

Things are starting to come together for my internship to start in January. I will post more about it when I know until then I am going to leave it at that. If you could pray for me that would be great.

Since my last post I turned 23 which didn’t really change things. My birthday came and went pretty uneventfully.

Until later God Bless

what do i do with my life?

so my internship in calgary for september has fallen through....what does this mean? there is nothing lined up for me until January and I am not really sure how I feel about this...what do i until then? i have such little time to organize anything so it looks like i will be moving to creston and living with my parents until at least christmas....after that i don't really know i am kind of cconfused at the moment and wish i knew what God's plans were for me....

Frustrated

OK so I am slightly frustrated with Superstore. This is what there logo looks like...


and this is what I think it should look like...
OK now let me explain why I feel this way. So I went to Superstore to get some Digital Photos printed. Below is a document of events.

1st Visit- Of the four machines only one has a spot for a USB key so I wait for it. When I finally hit the browse photos button it loads about 4 of them in like 3 minutes which is way to slow. So then I am like fine and I am also told this machine is usually busy. So then I wait for the other machine because I decide I will get some prints off my SD card. So the rest of that part goes smoothly.

I then came home and burned photos from the USB onto a CD.

2nd Visit- The first machine I go to won't read my CD so I wait for the next open machine. After spending about 30 mins picking pictures I go give the guy my receipt and get my little ticket. My plan is to get them the next day after work.

When I got home from work there is a message on the machine from Superstore telling me that my photos didn't go through. So I am like great I have to do it all over again.

3rd Visit- So I go in again and place the order which takes less than 30 minutes this time because I am getting pretty good at. I take the guy the receipt and he gives me my ticket. I ask the guy to call upstairs to see if they have gone through he does and they hadn't but he says it takes a few minutes but he reassures me that if they don't go through then we will call me.

So I come home and no phone call so I am like great it worked.

4thVisit- I went in today to pick up my photos and it has been two days since I dropped them off. I give the guy my ticket he can't find them and then this other guy looks for them. Can't find them. I am slightly annoyed so after ten minutes of them looking because they don't really want to tell me that they can't find my photos it's confirmed they don't have them and I have to place the order yet again. This time it only takes me 10 mins to make the order because by now I am becoming a pro at it. I then waited 15 minutes in the photo department until they confirmed that the order did make it up stairs. Now I have to go pick them up tonight. They better be there or I will be very very not impressed and may even ask to talk to the manager which I hate doing. Will see.

June 23

I feel that I am finding myself back at my old post from June 23rd. Now more than ever.

More Wedding Pics

I love this photo. Alex was looking into the water at the fish so we all joined him. I think it is such a cute photo.
This is the kokanee mascot the Sasquatch. He blew the horn on top of the roof of the brewery after they had finished signing the registry. Then he came down for a few pictures.
I thought of this photo and told them to take it and then I remembered that earlier in the day Kate the flower girl had seen a photo of Natashia and Sarah kissing my cheeks and she was like eewww. So I thought it was funny that we took this photo.
My sister and I on the bridge.

The girls of the wedding party. The flower girl is Brad's niece Kate.
I really like this photo. Even from behind Alex looks adorable.
Ok so my friend Litsa had this photo in here wedding album and I liked it and I knew it wouldn't look quite the same with a smaller wedding party. It would of worked better if Wayne hadn't been acting to cool to fake a reaction.
Sisters on the bridge again.
My sister and brother in law.

Signing of the registry.
My dad walking my sister down the aisle. My dad was looking pretty spiffy in his suit. It's new and hip. He told the lady at Moore's that it was his four event suit. 3 weddings (Carolyn's, Tim's and mine) and a funeral (his). hey he said it not me.
Standing at the front. I wish I was getting married soon so Alex could be my ring bearer. He is just so adorable I love him.

My sister and Alex looking very good. I really like this photo I think it is one of my favorites so far.

A Wedding Pic

Ok so my sister is no longer Carolyn Proud she is now Carolyn Ziefflie.

They got married this past Saturday at the Kokanee Brewery in Creston. The wedding was outside underneath two trees. It was a very nice service preformed by the Lutheran Pastor in town Pastor Harry Haberstock. After the service we went for photos in the caterer's back yard. This is the one photo that one of Carolyn's friends gave me to hold me over until she gets back from Toronto. As you can tell by photo the ring bearer was adorable. When he walking down the aisle he decided he was going to stick out his tongue it was pretty cute.

After photos we returned to the brewery for the reception. The party lasted until 2am when the nice RCMP man showed up and told us it was time to stop. We were fine with this we all thought they would of been by sooner.

I will post a lot more photos when I get them and I would put an album on facebook.

:D

In Memory of Kita

This is a picture of my sister's beloved dog who was sadly put to sleep today. Kita began to get sick a few months ago and then lost his sight sometime in April. This post is in Memory of him.
Kita doing something he loved. If he saw water he was in it no questions asked. You would take him on a walk on a trail and he would go into the bush and come back wet because he had found some sort of water.
So it looks like Kita is going to bring back the stick to the person who threw it but that was not the case. Kita rarely brought it back close to the person. He was very protective of his sticks. You only threw toys for him at the house because otherwise you would sometimes end up having to fetch them. He also liked to hide his toys in a bush.
Kita loved rolling around and playing in the snow.
Here he is just chilling we must of tired him out.

Kita was very protective of his loved ones mainly my sister. Whenever we took him for hikes he would run ahead and then my sister would hide and as soon as he turned around and noticed she was gone he would go looking for her. Then later I would hide and usually I would just come out of hiding because he wouldn't come looking for me. If Carolyn was ok then he was ok.

Kita was also pretty gentle and afraid of thunder. If you heard thunder you had about five seconds to get him into the house or he would be gone. I don't know how many times we had to drive looking for him.

My favorite thing about Kita was after I would go to my sister's house after being gone for a few months I would get out of the car and call his name and he would come bouncing and all excited to see me. He was pretty loving.

The worst part about all of this is it's only 10 days until my sister's wedding. But it is better this way cause the wedding would of only been very stressful on Kita and the really hot weather in Creston was getting to him.

Please pray for my sister as she is pretty upset about this and is dealing with the loss.

Good Bye Kita Dearly loved friend and family member

This one is for Erin

So Erin L kept on asking me to take photos of where I work. So the one day I was really bored and then I realized I had Sarah's camera in my purse so I took some photos.


This is a photo of the transfer station. This is where people go to drop off there household garbage. It goes in the blue bins. Then we have bins for wood, metal and cardboard. You wouldn't believe the stupid things people put in the wood bin.

This is the transfer station from the other side. We have four household garbage bins but only two are open at a time.

Here the fridges are all lined up. After they are placed here the loader will come by and move them to another location where the Freon can be removed before they head to the metal pile.

Here is a pic of me sitting in my truck. It was a really slow morning and I was tired and I almost fell asleep.

This is a picture of the dirty wood pile. (dirty means painted or stained, etc.) We weren't actually using that pile the day the photo was taken. Cause the wood chipped(tub grinder) seen in the photo was being repaired and blocking the usual dumping spot.

This is a photo of the dirty wood pile we were using that day. I waited 9 hours for the loader to come and spread the front part so I could pick through it. I didn't finish we ended up having a fire on the top of the hill so I had to race up there.

This is my truck sitting at the wood pile. I basically sat in it all day and waited for customers.


Here is the tire pile. It used to be a lot bigger and it another spot but we have recently had like 6 semi's come and we have loaded them with the tires.

So that is pretty much it. I forgot to take a photo of the face. That is where the garbage trucks dump and also where our household garbage bins from the transfer station are dumped.

The Pics Requested

Hey Natasha here is the pic that you wanted showing all of Krystal's dress.


Natashia sorry I don't have a full length photo of what I was wearing. I can tell you that They were dark grey with a light pin stripe dress shorts along with $3 superstore yellow flip flops.