Dave Ramsey Fan

Okay, so those of you who know us personally probably know a few things about us . . .

1) We love traveling and living overseas.

2) We go overseas so we can learn about others and share our life stories & Jesus with them.

3) Being overseas, we work really hard, save really hard, and follow the Dave Ramsey plan.  We have been known to get a little fanatical about it, but everything in moderation you know.

Well, anyways, while I was on facebook a few weeks ago, Dave Ramsey posted and asked a question about living overseas and budgetting.  I jumped in and briefly answered with some things that we do.

Well then, today when I was scrolling through, I came across this article:

http://www.daveramsey.com/blog/universal-language-money-americans-unpack-debt

And, guess who got quoted????!!!!

I AM SO EXCITED!!! 

(Did you hear me screaming and jumping up and down??  Chris thought there was a bug on me when I found it, because I was shouting so loud! Hahaha!)

Anyways, have I mentioned that we love Dave Ramsey and his biblical approach to money?  If not . . . bam . . . you know it now! :)

African Daily Life

So, I realized that I have been severely neglecting posting on my blog, and on facebook about our life here.  I have also been noticing all of these people posting about "100 Happy Days" or "100 miles" or something similar.  So, I have decided to post about my "African Days."  I don't think I will make it to 100, but I thought it might be interesting for people to see some things about my daily life.  So, here goes . . .

DAY 1:

 Meet Norris,  she is a student at African Bible College.  She is studying to be a teacher.  She is 35 years old, and has 2 biological children.  She also has 2 orphans that live in her home.  The orphans are a bit older and helping to watch after her kids while she is in school.  She is currently a sophomore in college, and she makes excellent grades and works very hard.  She participates is tons of extra outreaches to the prison, at the elementary school, in the villages, with the choir, and she is on the net ball team as well.  This semester she came and asked if she could work for me to earn extra money to pay her school fees.  She is one of the hardest workers I know, and it has been wonderful having her in my house every afternoon.  She is still short on her school fees though, so she is trying to make it up through selling blankets over Easter break.  If you would like to help Norris reach her goals of teaching, please let me know!

 This is our gardener, Sacrendrella.  He doesn't speak English very well, but he works very hard and always has a smile on his face.  He also loves to sing, and is actually a soprano!  It is astonishing to me all the time, and it is wonderful to listen to him sing as he faithfully works.

 This is one of the carrots that was grown in my backyard.  I went outside to look at the garden yesterday, and decided to pull one up.  I got this dancing carrot that had arms and legs.

This week is Gospel Emphasis week at school.  I helped to work on interactive lessons for this week.  In this picture, the kids are trying to scrub my dirty shirt clean.  Of course they were unsuccessful, but that was used to illustrate that in our sins, no matter how hard we try to do good, we can't get rid of them.  We can only get rid of them through the sacrifice of our Lord.

Okay, I hope you had a wonderful day as well.  Love from Africa!