{"id":372,"date":"2008-05-20T18:51:14","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T22:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=372"},"modified":"2008-05-20T23:18:13","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T03:18:13","slug":"372","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our housing situation is really weird.  The hotel said we don&#8217;t have the room we&#8217;ve been staying in for the last five weeks because someone else had a reservation for the weekend.  Today they said, &#8220;We&#8217;re 100% full, you can come back next week.&#8221;  I&#8217;m looking at them like they&#8217;re on crack.  We&#8217;ve been here for 5 weeks and now they think we&#8217;ve just got some place else to stay?!  Good grief.  We may try and get an apartment around here, but even that is a huge hassle.  Turn on utilities, transfer stuff, get furniture. . . . not like I don&#8217;t have enough stress in my life.<\/p>\n<p>I took a group from Briarcliff Baptist Church on a visit to the International Village this afternoon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/2100102_xgbdd-M.jpg\" alt=\"intlvillage\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/2100077_eTyvp-M-1.jpg\" alt=\"asian square\" \/><br \/>\n I gave them a quick briefing on our  work at the missions then took them on a tour of Asian Square and Carneceria #1.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/2100083_GhxGz-M.jpg\" alt=\"r99\" \/><br \/>\nThey saw Asia and Central America up close and personal in an hour.  They couldn&#8217;t believe the diversity of where we work!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/2100109_2CwpK-M.jpg\" alt=\"chispana\" \/><\/p>\n<p>J and I went to help Bill Hickey get some stuff for the mission where he&#8217;s living.  Our ministry also helps him with marta passes and phone stuff.  He&#8217;s been a huge help to us.  I&#8217;m glad we can help him too.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/298810396_S37md-M.jpg\" alt=\"bill\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We went to check on the mission at Azalea.  We had fun helping Famedha learn how to juggle.  Jesse was pretty good!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/298810227_eBVKg-M.jpg\" alt=\"jjuggle1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/298810298_RVa5J-M.jpg\" alt=\"jjuggle2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A partner of mine brought over about ten used computers.  I&#8217;ll have some of the guys at the mission that are interested in working on computers take a look at them.<\/p>\n<p>Had a fantastic storm tonight.  I thought some of the cloud formations were just incredible!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/298810897_kh99A-M.jpg\" alt=\"c1\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/298811549_EMxzq-M.jpg\" alt=\"c2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Weird too because some of the clouds looked green.<\/p>\n<p>These formations are called &#8220;mammatus.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/298812352_2dRRq-M.jpg\" alt=\"m1\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/298813478_s2cQs-M.jpg\" alt=\"m2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re associated with very strong storms.<\/p>\n<p>After the storm, a beautiful sunset.  That&#8217;ll preach!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/298812754_saWwD-M.jpg\" alt=\"sset1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/298814011_tbytH-M.jpg\" alt=\"sset2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Love you guys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our housing situation is really weird. The hotel said we don&#8217;t have the room we&#8217;ve been staying in for the last five weeks because someone else had a reservation for the weekend. Today they said, &#8220;We&#8217;re 100% full, you can come back next week.&#8221; I&#8217;m looking at them like they&#8217;re on crack. We&#8217;ve been here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}