Jo Loves Al, part 5
Dear Al,
Thanks for your emails and prayers!! I'm glad to hear that you had a good sleep on Thursday night. I can't believe you prayed for about 80 people at the clinic on Thursday!!! Hope you had a good night off!!
The retreat was good, but exhausting. Thank you so much for praying!! On Thursday I woke up at 5:45 a.m. and got to work at 7:35 a.m. Then, we left work just before 8 a.m. to go to the retreat centre. Then, when we arrived at the retreat, it seemed we went right into a 1 HR long session of Brian S. talking! It was good but long and stories that I already knew about. Then, there we had a great lunch but maybe I had too many dairy products or my body was just too exhausted because I ended up not feeling well about 45 mins to 1 hr into the 2nd session. I just felt so exhausted and sick. I stepped out near the end to use the washroom. Then, we were able to finally check into our rooms. I had diaherra and I napped during the 3rd session of the day!!! Then, I woke up feeling a better but still sick. I had to lead the games and the games went really well. People really enjoyed them. I just toughed it out. Then, I went to someone's room afterwards and played pictionary until about 10:15 p.m. Some people stayed up and played Nintendo Wee system until 1:30 a.m. or talking with their roommate. But, I needed to sleep and recover so I went to bed at 10:30 p.m. I woke up around 6 a.m. hoping to use the business centre to check my emails but the centre wasn't open. So, I just did devotions, prayed for you guys and chatted with Albert about Staff Council. I ended up confusing the breakfast start time because I left my folder with the agenda in the session room. So, I woke up an extra 1/2 hour early. Anyway, we had breakfast and Dr. Sherbino spoke about taking a Sabbath (Stop Day) once a week. I really appreciated it. We had communion. We ate lunch and left. Praise God though because I was fine on the drive up and back. I took an immodium after breakfast and I am fine. I was so blessed when I came back to Tyndale and realized you were praying for my stomach! Thank you!
When I got back, I played Texas Hold'Em poker in Josh's room with Kevin. It was so fun!! I was ok but on my last turn, I took Josh down a lot of chips! It was fun! Then, I had to register the phone bill under my name before I could pay it! So, while I was at Laureleaf, I ended up getting Subway for dinner and two movies. I bought Top Secret and Wayne's World. I went back to work and tried to work a bit (cause I promised Phil I would). Mostly I talked to the telecounsellors who were there! Then, I went shopping for snack. Although I felt so exhausted, I wanted to bring snacks, see people and report on you.
So, I went to small group and shared how you were doing. They were encouraged. Minnie had a print out of the prayer updates and Ryung loves receiving them! We talked about what we wanted to do next in small group. Ideas that we'll be doing...studying a book of the Bible (Minnie will look for a book), painting class, possibly making a banner together, trying to do a non-churchy group thing e.g. freedomize/meeting house/renaissance church outreach, taking a verse(s) home for the week to reflect on and share the following week for praise and potluck. (Of course potluck!) Carrie's back from her travels and considering a possible career change in the distant future. JD is leaving for Cheese place (sorry, I forget the state) on MONDAY!! He wasn't there. So, it's back to our old group again! Sonia and Hyungju will join when they can make it. Apparently Hyungju has been suffering with a medical issue (Minnie forgot the name but thought it was fibromyalga. I know for sure Soonil has fibromyalga so I'm not sure if she has it, too, or something similar.) Anyway, so we prayed for Hyungju, JD, Carrie, YOU and I at the end. George was there, but playing with Mercy the whole time. Mercy was quite involved in her play with George. It was cute.
Anyway, so I'm home now and going to rest. Ray & Junko invited me for dinner tomorrow, but I think it'll be too much for me. I'm still not 100% and I think I just need lots of rest. I'm waking up at 5:30 a.m. when your alarm usually goes off. It's strange.
Anwyay, I'm really exhausted. I'm going to go to bed.
I really love you. I will pray for you more tomorrow!! Tomorrow, will be ONE week since you left and there will only be ONE more week to go. It sounds so life changing what you're experiencing and I'm so excited to hear all your stories in more detail. I so love you. I do miss you a lot! I will definitely save lots of cuddles for you!! I'm storing them up! It was nice because at the retreat, Beth R. gave me hugs (and possibly others?) and Carrie gave me a hug tonight. Ryung wants to go for dinner next week. I just feel like God is really watching out for me and protecting me. I feel safe at night now. And I think the stress I felt was all mental stress and anxiety of not being able to do your role well. You know you are the responsible time keeper, schedule manager of the house? Well, I definitely miss someone around to remind me of daylight savings, when it's time to leave to be somewhere on time...to keep me focused on the tasks at hand. So, I think I'm doing well but not as good as you are at it.
Anyway, I'm feeling kind of ....blah....yucky...I need to go to bed. I love you so much Al!!! I hope I get a chance to hear from you in Lanavlla!! I guess I will just have to see.
Take care!!! I love you!! And yes, a queen size bed is for two plus the "kids".
Love,
Cuddle Bunny
Thanks for your emails and prayers!! I'm glad to hear that you had a good sleep on Thursday night. I can't believe you prayed for about 80 people at the clinic on Thursday!!! Hope you had a good night off!!
The retreat was good, but exhausting. Thank you so much for praying!! On Thursday I woke up at 5:45 a.m. and got to work at 7:35 a.m. Then, we left work just before 8 a.m. to go to the retreat centre. Then, when we arrived at the retreat, it seemed we went right into a 1 HR long session of Brian S. talking! It was good but long and stories that I already knew about. Then, there we had a great lunch but maybe I had too many dairy products or my body was just too exhausted because I ended up not feeling well about 45 mins to 1 hr into the 2nd session. I just felt so exhausted and sick. I stepped out near the end to use the washroom. Then, we were able to finally check into our rooms. I had diaherra and I napped during the 3rd session of the day!!! Then, I woke up feeling a better but still sick. I had to lead the games and the games went really well. People really enjoyed them. I just toughed it out. Then, I went to someone's room afterwards and played pictionary until about 10:15 p.m. Some people stayed up and played Nintendo Wee system until 1:30 a.m. or talking with their roommate. But, I needed to sleep and recover so I went to bed at 10:30 p.m. I woke up around 6 a.m. hoping to use the business centre to check my emails but the centre wasn't open. So, I just did devotions, prayed for you guys and chatted with Albert about Staff Council. I ended up confusing the breakfast start time because I left my folder with the agenda in the session room. So, I woke up an extra 1/2 hour early. Anyway, we had breakfast and Dr. Sherbino spoke about taking a Sabbath (Stop Day) once a week. I really appreciated it. We had communion. We ate lunch and left. Praise God though because I was fine on the drive up and back. I took an immodium after breakfast and I am fine. I was so blessed when I came back to Tyndale and realized you were praying for my stomach! Thank you!
When I got back, I played Texas Hold'Em poker in Josh's room with Kevin. It was so fun!! I was ok but on my last turn, I took Josh down a lot of chips! It was fun! Then, I had to register the phone bill under my name before I could pay it! So, while I was at Laureleaf, I ended up getting Subway for dinner and two movies. I bought Top Secret and Wayne's World. I went back to work and tried to work a bit (cause I promised Phil I would). Mostly I talked to the telecounsellors who were there! Then, I went shopping for snack. Although I felt so exhausted, I wanted to bring snacks, see people and report on you.
So, I went to small group and shared how you were doing. They were encouraged. Minnie had a print out of the prayer updates and Ryung loves receiving them! We talked about what we wanted to do next in small group. Ideas that we'll be doing...studying a book of the Bible (Minnie will look for a book), painting class, possibly making a banner together, trying to do a non-churchy group thing e.g. freedomize/meeting house/renaissance church outreach, taking a verse(s) home for the week to reflect on and share the following week for praise and potluck. (Of course potluck!) Carrie's back from her travels and considering a possible career change in the distant future. JD is leaving for Cheese place (sorry, I forget the state) on MONDAY!! He wasn't there. So, it's back to our old group again! Sonia and Hyungju will join when they can make it. Apparently Hyungju has been suffering with a medical issue (Minnie forgot the name but thought it was fibromyalga. I know for sure Soonil has fibromyalga so I'm not sure if she has it, too, or something similar.) Anyway, so we prayed for Hyungju, JD, Carrie, YOU and I at the end. George was there, but playing with Mercy the whole time. Mercy was quite involved in her play with George. It was cute.
Anyway, so I'm home now and going to rest. Ray & Junko invited me for dinner tomorrow, but I think it'll be too much for me. I'm still not 100% and I think I just need lots of rest. I'm waking up at 5:30 a.m. when your alarm usually goes off. It's strange.
Anwyay, I'm really exhausted. I'm going to go to bed.
I really love you. I will pray for you more tomorrow!! Tomorrow, will be ONE week since you left and there will only be ONE more week to go. It sounds so life changing what you're experiencing and I'm so excited to hear all your stories in more detail. I so love you. I do miss you a lot! I will definitely save lots of cuddles for you!! I'm storing them up! It was nice because at the retreat, Beth R. gave me hugs (and possibly others?) and Carrie gave me a hug tonight. Ryung wants to go for dinner next week. I just feel like God is really watching out for me and protecting me. I feel safe at night now. And I think the stress I felt was all mental stress and anxiety of not being able to do your role well. You know you are the responsible time keeper, schedule manager of the house? Well, I definitely miss someone around to remind me of daylight savings, when it's time to leave to be somewhere on time...to keep me focused on the tasks at hand. So, I think I'm doing well but not as good as you are at it.
Anyway, I'm feeling kind of ....blah....yucky...I need to go to bed. I love you so much Al!!! I hope I get a chance to hear from you in Lanavlla!! I guess I will just have to see.
Take care!!! I love you!! And yes, a queen size bed is for two plus the "kids".
Love,
Cuddle Bunny
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