Life

Okay so I have not written in here in a long time and i thought i would. Well I work at the airport. It is an amazing job. I have felt protected at any of my previous jobs. I am the youngest of all the Delta employees at Washington Dulles. So all of the people older and above me and even some below me are always watching out for me and making fun. lol its fun though. And difficult at time. As you can imagine. But other than that not much has happened. Christmas is almost here! YAY! God Bless and dont forget the real reason we Christmas and freedom that we do. Jesus Christ Savior of the world. :-D

Life

Ok well I haven't written in here in a long time. haha well I am absolutely LOVE my job. I work with some amazing people. However I am struggling with my walk with the Lord right now so please be in prayer for me. I have want to serve the Lord it just hard. But Me and crystal went up to NY (only to rochester) to visit bridgette! It was amazing! and oh so much fun. oh my goddness that girl is soo crazy. I cant waith till she moves back down here. But other then working I havent done anything. But for right now I need to go to sleep. so goodnight and please be in prayer for me. thx <3~~~Mary MENKE

My life right now

SO! my job at delta is FINALLY taking off! Im in my last week of training. And i finally got my schedule. It's 3:30 to midnight. with Wednesdays and thursdays off. but other than that my life is pretty much boring. surprise surprise....lol. write me PLZ! hahahaha

life as i know it

Aloha! so how is everything in life for the few ppl who read this? all good and dandy i hope. wwell i still miss Ireland more than anything right now. I have always had a heart to live over seas. so hopefully its the Lords will for me live over there. I would LOVE it. my parents wouldnt but they would live with it if it was the Lords will. But as for now. Im still waiting on the Bible college. a friend said i should call them which i'll do cuz i need to neway to tell them i wont be comeing till the spring semester. But yeah thats about it. I start training on August 13 for the airport. YAY! im super excited but i gotta find out what my hours will be so that i can tell starbucks. my boss is ganna kill me. :-/

well, as much of a bummer that it is, i am home. and I wanna go back sooooooo bad. I adore it there. Im actually ganna look at a college thats based in Indianna but i could spend a semester over in ireland and stay at the Y. AND..... they offer a degree in social services. its exciting. but as for other things. I start training in a month. so just pray for me, thr rest of the Ireland 2007 team and for the children in Ireland. and plez pray that we get to catch up on our sleep. :) lovs

Ireland!

Okay, so i am in ireland and i'm LOVING it! oh my goodness. We had our first day of VBS today. It went sooo good! I was sooo excited to see so many faces that i recognize. There are these twin girls that are coming (they came last year) but they are identical and tey look like 12 year old Kirsten Dunst. They are BEAUTIFUL! but there are also some very naughty kids. But for anyone who reads this PRAY FOR US! We need it. especially in the area of punishing and controlling the chaos. LOV YA'LL!!!!!!

I Wanna leave NOW!

ONE MORE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omgosh! I can't contain my excitement. All Ii have to do is get through tomarrow and i'll be good. OH man! But we have such a LOOOOOOOOOONG travel. We leave dulles at 12:30 and the paper Mr. Noel gave us says that it only takes like two hours to go to Atlanta. But we are in Atlanta FOR 6 FREAKIN HOURS!!! My mom told us about a underground mall there so hopefully we will get to go to it. And since we have so much time *insert heavy sarcasm* I think we will even be allowed to leave the airport. I HOPE! On a differnt note. I called my delta boss ( i think shes my boss) but I start training on the 13 of August and i train at Dulles ( sadness) for three weeks straight for 40 hours a week! Thats ganna be good money! Hopefully i'll grow a brain by then and save some of it. But that also means that i might end up haeing to quit starbucks. pooey. Jason will not like that. just be praying for me PLEZ! lol But im ganna go do my devos (yes at....12:41 in the morning :-D ) Better late then never. Tootles!

YAY YAY YAY

OK so now that Ireland is 2 days away im sooo super stoked about it. Its even more exciting for me because the Lord has made it clear that He wants me in Ireland this year. So i'm really looking forward to what He is going to teach me and what Hes ganna teach the children of Ireland through me. I hope I won't have to teach, but if I do, PRAY for me! lol last year i screwed up soo badly. Thank God for Clay. lol I didn't really know how to teach them cause they were so young and i had never done it before, and I hadn't prepared for it that well. My thinking was that "these kids are 2 and 3. how hard can it really be??" HA! Little did I kno! lol Well this might be my last post before ireland, so for the few lone ppl who read this, contiinue to pray for me and the whole team. And who knows maybe ill post IN Ireland, cause i know i can get internet in certain spots of the Y. Good Night!

Im Yours

This is a poem i wrote. Its kinda lame but i thought it would be fun to put up here. see what kind of HONEST responses i get. hehehe. here it is.

After so many years of running away,
You say, "Okay Lord, im yours"
You live life to the fullest,
On a different path,
It's the straight and narrow,
It's the hard way,
It's the right way,
You live the rest of your days on this path,
and with your last breath you say,
"Take me i'm yours, Lord"
You get up there to see,
The one you so ferverntly followed,
And you hear the words,
You so longed to hear,
"Well done my good and faithful servant"

What an amazing God!

Well, the Ireland trip this year was a cost of $1,950. I felt like the Lord wanted me to go. So I signed up for it, got my support letters out, and in poured the money. Litteraly!! My whole entire trip has been paid for and I haven't paid a single cent! It makes me almost cry when I think of how greatly the Lord has blessed me despite how much have bitterness that i have directed at
Him in the last month and a half. Recently, though, I have been finding myslef drawing closer to God and i'm LOVING IT! What I have noticed is that whenever a certain person (who shall remain nameless) isn't in my life, I seem to draw closer to Him, but whenever this person IS in my life, i seem to drift away. Now, im not blaming this person for my lack of following the Lord but the person never encuraged me in the right way, always the other way. However, I miss this person so bad right now. Its my girl talk buddy! Just pray for me that I stay strong and don't waver from God. I'm really enjoying the feeling of reading my Bible everyday and learning. And the fun part is that I read it at work on my breaks. hehe I had on of my coworkers pick it up earlier when i had set it down to put my apron on. THX PEEPS!!!!!!



PS. Tommy and Hectors devos ROCK!

well well well

Well. I have cooled off since that last post. I had just gotten off the phone with my little sister and thats all that needs to be said. ON a happier note......IRELAND IS IN ONE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yay! I am soooo excited. I still have to do a ton of laundry and go out and get the stuff i'll need. Then when I get back I have to work for 2 weeks then I go to Myrtle beach for Mrytle Turtle Madness PT. 2. WAHOO! I'm going with my friends Crystal and Courtney. For anyone who knows how we three are together, hahaha, you know how crazy we are going to be! Now job wise. I (finally!) got a job. well 2 jobs actually. The first one is at Starbucks. I make 8$$ an hour plus tips there. But the cool part? I got a job at Delta airlines! I'm sooo stoked! I wll be a cutomer service agent. And the lady that trains at Dulles put in a transffer for Atlanta. If she gets that, I get to train in Atlanta airport or JFK airport! yay! I will be starting at 9.90$$ and hour. So I'm soooo very excited. So finally im get back on track. For whoever reads this, just keep praying for me. Thx all!!

why oh why??

Why does the Lord seem to bless some people with seemingly perfect families and then curse me with the one from Hell and beyond?? Plez some answer that. and one more question, is murder wrong in EVERY circumstance??

ALMOST!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK tonight we played the Yankeetes, The same team we palyed before that i talked about. it was the bottom of the fifth inning 2 outs, bases loaded, we were down by one, and who is the lucky person that gets to go bat?? ME! boy no pressure! not! man I was sooo nervous. My coach told me to be paitent because the pitcher was wild. and what do i do? First pitch, i swing. I HIT IT! and i get everbody in! except me. if i had gotten in, it woulda been a grand slam! How amazing would that have been?! OMGoodness im still all jiddery. it was sooo exciting. The girl after me hit the ball and i was able to get home. omgosh i was so excited. i have no idea how my coach lived through that without a heart attack. lol. But anyways. GOOD NIGHT!

One Month

ONE MORE MONTH!!!!!!!!! Only one more month till Ireland!!!! I am sooooo stoked!! Ireland is amazing. and beautiful. and aewsome. and sooo much more. I went last year and im still speechless of the beauty andeverything else. i love it there. I CANT WAIT!

Life............

Okay I realize I havent posted in almost a month. My bad! Well, since my last post stuff has happned. First. The nanny job i was expecting to get has completely and utterly fell through. Honestly though i think that it was the Lords doing. I should have seen it earlier but I did not heed my dad's caution as a warning. Soooooo now im stuck without a job with bills to pay, and bordom killing me. As of tonight i have applied at 16 places. I have had one terrible interview. My dad did a good job in assuring me that I wasnt going to get the job. Im trying to keep my trust in the Lord, but at this point it is getting very hard. Ive applied to Starbucks in ashburn and im confident about it but we'll see. Second. since that last post i think my softball team has done a wee bit. We have won another game against the Devils. The score was 12-9. Which was a surprise because rhe unpire couldnt see squat! He was calling strikes at our ankles. Monica put it best. She said "I dont swing that way" haha. i love it! This guy was calling strikes before they even got to the catchers glove. Man! that was annoying. Last night we had another game against the Mustangs. That was the team that had they really really annoying coaches. It was the last inning, two outs, runner on 3rd, we are up by one point, and full count on the batter. She hit the ball to the pitcher and the pitcher threw it to the first base girl. Easy out right?? NO! she missed it! and the girl that was on third base got in and that tied us up. We got the next girl out so no more runs were scored and it stayed tied. THANK GOD! We did not want them to win and we had done so poorley in the beginning, we were ganna cry if they had won. So we have three more games before play-offs and I think i might have a shot aat all stars. YAY! So for whoever reads this please pray for me to get a job soon. And one that i want. ive applied to places where id prefer not to work at.

The Sadness of this world

Every night I watch the news. And what is the main topic???? DEATH. Every night there is some new death to report on. It makes me so sad because alot of the recent deaths have been children. I just keep praying for the Lord to come back really soon!

WE DID IT!!!

YES! We (the golddigers) wpon our first game tonight!!! yay! okay so it was only by one.........lol but we played good. defensivly that is. They switched up pitchers in the middle of the inning and she was soooooooooo slllllloooooooowwwwww. oh my goodness. we got hits but they were all in the infield which led to a out almost every time. it was kinda a bummer. But I had made a great play. And when it counted. But now im kinda in a depressed mood cuase im starting a diet and i cant have basically anything!! uhg! And the snack was soo yummy, it was grandmas cookie! *sigh* later.

Grace and Love <3

Many things in life are hard for me
Many things can pull us down
I don't understand
Why I do what I do
How could I take my eyes off you?

After all You've done for me
And after all You've done for me

And It's by grace and love
I am saved
And It's by grace and love
You've forgiven me
And by that love and grace
I'm amazed
And It's by grace and love
I am Free

I am free
I am free
I am free

And it's by grace and love that I am free
I'll live with You eternally
I thank you Lord That I am free
I thank you Lord for loving me
I thank you Lord for dying
Upon the tree of Calvary
I thank you Lord for loving me
I thank you Lord for dying for me

Cuz It's by grace and love
I am saved
( I am saved by your...)
And It's by grace and love
You've forgiven me
(You've forgiven me...)
And by that love and grace
I'm amazed
(I stand amazed by your...)
And It's by grace and love
I am free

I am free
I am free
I am free

And Many things in life are hard for me
Many things can pull us down
But by grace and love,
you've forgiven me
And by grace and love,
We are free

The words are so true. I love this song.

Red necks, i have become one of them..... sad

OK so how is life for the one lone person that reads this?? lol. Well im about to start a new job. Im ganna be nannying for a 2 month old little boy. My goodness he is the cutes thing ever. well sorta. I could name 2 cuter ones. Today the weather was sooooooooooo nice, i got mine and my moms car washed. and in the process i got a nice not so painless sunburn. big surprise there! seeing as how i got burned soooo stinkin easily. lol i hate it. Last year when i went to Ireland, i got burned! IRELAND OF ALL PLACES!?!?!?!?! Well, lessoned learned. lol Lata gatas oh yea, we lost another game. bummer but we still played really really good so my coach was proud. :-D

wow...

Well. this is my first blog so....YO! i hope everyone is doing good. I am. i had my thrid softball game today. I thought id seen the most annoying, crazy, obnoxious coaches that there were. ohoooo boy was i wrong. These coaches (for the other team) were so very annoying. They tried to have me kicked out of the game! I have a total 6 peircings in both ears (3 each) i have my lobes peirced twice, carteledge, and my tragus. Well 4 of those i cannot take out. So i put band-aids over them. I shoulda been fine. the umpires are not allowed to ask u what is under the bandaid. We are not supposed to wear ANY jewelry in a game, but i got my tragus and carteldge in october and november, and i cant take them out. And the second lobes piercings, i got them in Feburary. I took them out last time and i had to push the earing through the next morning, so this time i left them in. However, i have never had any problem before and today these coaches were going off saying that i should be taken out of the game. But the umpire was like "well did she just get them pierced?" and when we said said yes he was like "thats what i told them!" lolol i thought that that part was funny. but anywhos. We still didnt beat them, we tied it, but we played really good. And if i ever get to face this team again, i hope we get to crush em. On a happier note, i am going to Ireland on missions trip and i am so VERY!!!!!! excited about it. its less then two months away! WAHOO! well i gots to go because i have church in the morning.

PEACE LOVE AND HAPPINESS!