Hello Montana! Oh America, how sweet you are. Tonight we were in Kalispell MT and as the worship started I looked to the stage from back in the sound booth and my heart stopped for a second. I saw on the corner of the stage an American flag. Oh how that warmed my heart. The service tonight was small but they were all so sweet to us. I saw a lot to change in our service but I think I’m just overly critical tonight, mostly due to the fact that I spoke the sermon. Yea… you know, no matter how many people tell me they liked my sermon I just can’t help myself but to nit pick every little detail. “I spoke too fast and the sermon wasn’t long enough.” “I stumbled over a few words in the scripture I memorized.” “I paced” you know all the little details that don’t really matter. Rob was overjoyed by my tie in to the Brady Bunch and my analogy of how in the Brady Bunch after the second season they wrote out the family dog, Tiger, but kept the dog house because a stage light burnt a hole in the Astroturf and they needed to cover it up with something. I related that to the church and how the church tends to just cover up their burnt Astroturf with doghouses and after so many doghouses the yard loses its function because no one can even walk through all the doghouses. Rob was laughing through it and loving it. But I wasn’t too happy about it. Honestly, the pacing doesn’t matter in the slightest, and I didn’t really talk that fast, in fact I think it was nice that I was a little short. And seriously! I memorized 1 Corinthians 12:12-27. That’s 15 verses, so a few messed up words on my first time reciting it for an audience is acceptable!
After the service I was under some serious attack by the enemy. No one from the church commented about my sermon and no one came for prayer so satan knew that he could get me by feeding me lies. I got so down on myself that I was loading props in the prop box and near tears when Rob came up to me. It was totally the Lord because at my lowest point it was then that Rob walked up to me and said so sweetly, “Jemima… that was remarkable. Really, I had never heard you preach.” After that he gave me a great idea about how to wrap it up in the end, and I’m totally going to add it to my sermon. I really need to just get over myself. That’s what really needs to happen.
Ok, wrap up… last night we slept at a church in Cranbrook BC. No showers, but we had a nice carpeted floor. This morning all of us girls washed our hair in the sink. The hot water ran out before Kris and I could so we got a nice wake up call with ice cold water. We went to Denny’s for brunch and then drove 3 hours to get to Kalispell. I’ve already had a mountain dew and got to stop at Target, so I’m a happy camper. No one has killed each other and I consider this a plus.
Currently I’m at a lady’s house with Tess and Jess. Mary is super nice, her husband went away to allow us to have our girls sleep over so its just us and her two little dogs, Benson and Bo. Benson is a crack up. Of all the things, Mary lived in Corvallis for a while and that’s where she met her husband. She lived behind The Big O restaurant on fourth street. Her house is really cute and TOTALLY Montana. Big antlers on the wall and a super nice gun safe in the office. Tess looked at me once Mary went to bed and said, “That’s a big safe.” And I knew that she didn’t know it was a gun safe. I informed her of what it was. Haha. I feel right at home here. Mary and her husband Bill ride motorcycles and drive semi-trucks. Good God loving people. Tomorrow we’re off to Great Falls MT for a youth and young adult service and then we get to meet up with the other team on Friday! I can’t wait!
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