A Tour of the House with the Wardrobe....Only I Don't Have Snow or a Lightpost

So if you read the previous post you would have noticed I said, " You have to go through the closet to get to the bathroom."  That's right!  In my room is a wardrobe, and there is another side to it!  Ha!  Only I don't have an enchanted, Christmasy land on the other side of my wardrobe....just a toilet, a bathtub, a sink, and some towels and a dirty clothes basket.  So if you want to go "through the wardrobe" come visit me! Ha ha.

Here are more pictures of my house:

1& 2. These are the stairs.  My bedroom and the other two bedrooms are upstairs, along with a hall bathroom.

3. This is the living room.  It is a long room part of it is the living room and part is the dining room.  This is the sofa that I had made here.

4. Here's my recliner.

5. Here's the dining room and yes that's the fridge.  It doesn't fit in the kitchen because there isn't a place for it.

6. These are the brown curtains I had made for the living room/ dining room.  These windows are floor to ceiling and open out onto a small porch.

7.The last 3 pictures are of the kitchen.

                                                                    

The final picture is of me on my birthday.....hope you enjoy the "tour".  Keep pr and lifting up.

Rachel

A Day on My Back

Some of you may remember that when I was a Jman whenever a lot of stress would come into my life my neck and shoulders would seize up and I would be in pain for days.  Often I would just carry on and feel like a stiff tin man trying to get around.  Once I started running at sem a lot of that stopped as most of my stress was being pounded out on the trail or the pavement.  However, since I have been in Camel Land some of this stress in my muscles has come back.  Now that I am running again it is much less, however, it is not as little as it needs to be and I need your pr.  Please pr that right now my muscles would relax in my right shoulder and arm, and I would be able to have full range of motion without pain.  Right now I can't really hold my head up without it hurting a lot, so I have been at home and didn't go to language today.  Pr that my muscles are relaxed enough tomorrow that I can go run, and hopefully a good run will loosen a lot of this up. 

I also want to bring to mind that April 2012 is coming upon us.  Some of you have received notes from me, and emails saying become 1 in a million and join with us in pr for the Horn in April.  Please go to prayforthehorn.com if you have not already,  and find out how you can specifically pr for this part of the world to not only see the light, but to walk in it.  This part of the world has had His light present for centuries, yet for years the people of this corner of the world have turned the other way.  Pr that they will turn around and run towards the Light.  Please go to prayforthehorn.com to find out how you can be a part of this 1 in a million event as we seek to have 1 million people pr for the Horn in the month of April.  During this month we are also having many groups coming to pr walk and work among the people as they pr.  If you would like to physically be here please go to this site to find out how:  prayforthehorn.com (although these are in blue they are not links, you must put this address in your browser to find it).

Being flat on my back today has also given me time to put together something of a vitural tour of my house for you....here are the pictures.

These pictures are of my bedroom. 1. The first one is of my bed.
 2. The second one is of the closet that takes of up the whole left wall (left you're sitting on my bed).
3. Is the wall I see from the head of my bed....bookcase and small dressing table with mirror.
4. To get to the bathroom you have to go through the closet. 
5. These are the curtains I had made for the floor to ceiling windows that are the right wall, which open to a balcony where I dry my clothes.

I'll have to put other pictures in another post.

Rachel

7 Months

Well, it has now been 7 months, and that has only been possible by your pr.  Thank you Lrd for helping me get this far.  Continue to pr and lift me up in being here for this season.  I have now moved into a house in the capital, and basically things are going ok.  There is some rythmn to things now, and I basically have a schedule down.  My house is coming together, and due to a lot of your pr the rest of my cargo was found this past week.  It is a long story I would rather not share on the blog, but if you want to know it all I can send you an e-mail :).  I had already decided I didn't need what was in the rest of the cargo and I didn't want it.  But for whatever reason the Father wanted me to have it, so now my recliner is here along with my plates, bowls, silverware, waffle iron, crock pot, cutting boards, computer printer, and pots and pans.  Hopefully this week the curtains for the living room and my bedroom will be finished and I will get them hung.  According to the "plan", which is a very fluid concept here.....my other furniture will be finished.  In my heart I know my time here is short, but I ask that you would pr all that I have, that He has supplied, He would use to bring Himself honour and glory.  

    There is one kink with my house and that is, it is next to a new road project.  When a new road is being built here all of the people in the community suffer until it is finished because our water and electricity is frequently if not always cut off.  Please pr that my water supply would remain consistent and that electricity would be regular. 

     Language continues to plod along or rather I continue to plod along with it.  One major goal was accomplished this week....I said the blessing in Am all by myself.  I can't help but think that me and my 1 1/2 year old nephew are at the same point in our language skills :).  On Friday I finished phase 2A in our language program and on Monday I being phase 2B.  Lanugage continues to get harder, and I ask that you would pr I would be listening better and keeping up with the homework.  Pr that the verbs and nouns would stick. 

    This week I will be having a birthday.....please be pr for me on this day.  I know that many of you will  be pr without me having to ask and I thank you for that.  This past week I received two packages for my birthday, and I know there are a few more on the way.  Pr that He would bring the rest this week.  Many of you may remember a post from my first 3 months here where I asked that you partner in pr for me for my future spouse and helpmate.  I pr that on my birthday you would all do this specifically.  For whatever reason He has really laid that upon my heart. 

    I hope that you all have a great week, and if you want to send me a longer letter, or you want my mailing address or you want to send a care package please write me at racfarmer@mailboxwiz.com Please also go to prayforthehorn.org to find out how you can be one in a million pr for the Horn in April 2012.

Rachel

Photos:  1. Taken during the holiday Temket, where the O ch remembers the bapt of J by John the Bpt. 

2. This picture on the right is of a guy who works for one of the little souks close to where I live.  He saw me taking pictures and asked for one.

3. The third picture of of a water tank that is a lot like the tank I am currently getting my water from.  Please be asking that our water situation would be worked out soon.

4. This is me in the house, with my lovely pink sheet for curtain.  Hopefully that will be down by this week and the real curtains up. 

I have started running again on a consistent basis.....my running toes are back!  Pr I can keep it up.  Here all my running has to be in a gym, but thanks to my ipod it's not so bad.  Angela Q. Ward:  The pictures of the fruits and vegetables from the previous post are actually olives and ginger :).