Whirlwind Missions

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Balls, Ear and Azalea

Tim A. Cummins @ 8:08 pm  

I had a great day with my son today! I told him that he’d been elevated to a corollary I say about Ashley: “Never too much Ashley.” I’m adding “Never too much Jesse” now!
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This morning Jesse and I went over to Walmart to pick up some supplies for the mission. Some of the older kids didn’t get a gift from the team this weekend, so I went and bought them some soccer balls. They really loved that!

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Even got me some new flip flops. Woot!

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I wonder what the big rush is?
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I also dropped off a DVD to FBC Mountain Park that I’d edited and burned from the outreach event that we hosted at Villa Nueva with Keith Harrell.
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Also bought some styrofoam balls for on of our girls who is making a planet project. She was really excited about that too.

We went to Roswell today to have a meeting with Jesse’s audiologist. He made some small adjustments to J’s device. Good report!
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I love all the technology related to that!
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We spent a little time at the Barnes and Nobel. That’s my treat, because I’ve been a good boy.

I got the War of Art by Stephen Pressman. Good stuff. Recommended by Seth Godin, one of my favorite authors. Jesse is reading it to me in the car while I drive. He got a book on finances based on the teachings of Ben Franklin, one of my heroes.

I like the images that these glass tiles created at BK.
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Then to Azalea to help the kids with their homework.
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I spent almost all my time with Ernest, one of the kids at the mission who’s a grown up now. He’s like a son to me. A real go getter. I always enjoy trying to help those guys either with advice or just encouragement.

Had a meeting with several of the mothers. I’m trying to help them with tables or chairs. There are a lot of big events going on this weekend with the families. Holy Week is a really big deal in the Latino community.

Had almost total comprehension with what was going on and was able to communicate really well. All this work I’ve been doing on Spanish seems to be paying off!

I’m looking forward to massive improvement after my two weeks in Costa Rica where I’ll have nearly total immersion. I usually speak about 4 hours of Spanish a week. I’ll have about 7 months of practice in 2 weeks!

One of my favorite colors is pink. I liked this promotion from Burger King.
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This was from the front of a Jag. Suh weet!
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