PRAISE!!

Gilang is alive and well! He had a HUGE black eye and it was swollen shut til last Friday, when my mom found him. He can't walk yet, BUT HE IS ALIVE!! YEAH!!!


Abrielle Lindsay

PRAY

My mom is going to see if she can find Gilang and his family today! She heard the siren this morning. The siren is for people that died. Pray that he will still be alive!

~Abrielle Lindsay

I am Older..... A LITTLE Older

I have learned to like my name, Abrielle Lindsay. Not just my middle name, Lindsay. That is why at the end of my posts now I always put 'Abrielle Lindsay' instead of just 'Lindsay'. So I've grown to like it. In like, 1 month. ;) This is a short little post about what I just told you.

Haha,
  ABRIELLE LINDSAY

Please Pray...

Monday....

     We were playing outside like we do. We were playing with Indonesians. Suddenly, my friends, Lisa (10), Nur (12?), and Gabbie (11) started leaving. Well, according to another friend of mine, Fedel (9), they didn't like being with a LOT of other kids, which there was a HUGE group comin' our way. But since they saw my 3 friends leave they thought it was time to go home so they headed that way. But, one little boy, Gilang, just as they were crossing the road, Gilang was hit by a motorcycle. The motorcycle dude wasn't going very very fast. About normal. Gilang laid there a little stiff. Nur raced over and started to pick him up... It ends up that this guy from somewhere made 'dude' get back on the motorcycle and take him and Gilang to Gilang house.
     I was scared.
     Yesterday, (my Tuesday) not ONE SINGLE KID CAME TO PLAY.
     Today, however, 4 kids came to play!! Fion, the ever faithful one, said that Gilang is at his house. He is ok. Not dead. Whew..... But my mom asked, "Can he come play?" A different kid (I admit, I forgot his name :/) said "Tidak bisa." Translation, "Cannot." THEN my mom said, "Can he walk?" (Just so ya'll know, my mom is also talking in Indonesian, I just don't know how to write it. ;) ) And the kid said, "Belum," Translation, "Not yet."
     But they said he will be able to.
     So, HOORAY!! He is alive!! And not dead!! But his family is Islam.

SO, all that to say please pray for these things:

• That Gilang will live and be able to run and play again sometime soon. 

•  That Gilang's family will become Christians through this insistence. 

Thx! And this was very scary because I watched the WHOLE thing. None of my siblings saw it. Very scary.

Abrielle Lindsay

2 Years?

April 21st, 2013.

This date would be our 2 year anniversary in Indonesia! No, not Papua.

Would you like to hear what my idea was to do?

Well, if you do or do not, I'm tellin' you ;)

For the first 11 days in Indonesia, we had Mr. C and Mr. Z with us. They were a BIG help and we liked them a lot, well, actually we still do. Of course ;). In fact, Addie (Adelaide) is Mr. Z's daughter. So my idea was to invite them to go out to eat with us (their families too)! It worked!! We ate at a a pizza place. Yeah, no Indonesian. ;) It was really fun.

BUT, do you want to see what we found IN OUR LIVING ROOM that morning??? You probably don't  but that won't stop me. ;) Ok, you might.

A BABY BAT!!!!

I have to admit, it's pretty cute. 

It ended up outside (my dad put it there:)

Enjoy these lovely sights I have put up today!

Abrielle Lindsay

Would you like to see/LIVE with our loverly friends?

NO, YOU WOULD NOT.

Our 'loverly' friends are...... Shrews, Mice, Rats, Cockroaches, Bats, and Geckos.

Ok, the geckos, not soooo bad, everything else? YUCK!

Sorry, no pictures, that I could find anyway, of mice, rats and cockroaches. Maybe that's good?

Take look!

Nice

See the tail?

Kelelawar Bayi DI rumah
Baby bat IN the house

Hope you enjoy these sights! Haha... Ewww!

Abrielle Lindsay

How would you feel if.....

IF, how would you feel IF?

IF......

1) YOU saw a shrew/mouse/RAT RUN ACROSS the floor??
2) YOU were in a ALL day power-outage and the generator being turned off in the night which means you only get 3 hours of sleep throughout the ENTIRE night??
3) It took 4 HOURS to get to a 1 hour place??
4) YOU lost Internet for a LONG time??
5) YOU couldn't bake something because Wal-mart is not right around the corner??


These are few of the VERY many things that happen here. All the time.


Abrielle Lindsay

Seriously..... It's May???

Is it seriously MAY, folks, men and women, boys and girls??? I CANNOT have been in 6th grade almost a year. I cannot have had my scar for a year. Amanda (one of my besties) CANNOT almost be 12!! What happened to the time???? I know time goes by SOOOO fast, but, really, this fast?? Impossible. WHAT HAPPENED???? I TOTALLY CANNOT ALMOST BE IN 7th GRADE!!! I CANNOT HAVE HAD MY SCAR A YEAR!! AND AMANDA CANNOT ALREADY (well, almost) BE 12?!!?! Man, May creates some CRAZY thoughts if you REALLY think about it.

Hope everyone has an AMAZING May!

~Abrielle Lindsay

Helping Out

 Last Sunday, I helped out in Nursery. And last Sunday, I helped out later that night. It was very funny. Well, this little boy was. I already knew him, but I didn't know him like this. First he brought me book after book after book. But then another little girl asked if I could read some books to her. The little boy stayed around awhile but then he went of and started playing, btw, his name is David. But then later David's little brother came up to me and just looked at me. Which is kind of normal since we know his family. Soon he ran off. Then David comes to me and has these lips. Well, I'm talking about the Mr. Potato's lips, not a person's lips. And so, POOF, a game was started. I would try to make it 'go-away-and-never-come-back' but David kept finding it and bringing it back to me. But soon, he wanted to get it from me. So if he found it 'first' and I wasn't around to 'get-it-first-so-I-could-hide-it-again' it was his turn.

     He said, "Now you have to hide your eyes so I can go hide it."
SO I would close my eyes or at least look down if I was holding one of the little kids. Then he would come and tell me to find it. He, most of the time, would hide it in the same place. Once I found it right after I started and he said,
     "No, you have to look everywhere first and then find it." SO I 'pretended to look everywhere and THEN 'find' it.
      But soon, David started a whole NEW game. It had NOTHIN' to do with 'you-hide-somethin'-and-I'll-go-find-it'. It was 'I'm-a-bear-so-you-better-watch-out' kind of game. He chased me, I didn't run, he did, since he's only, maybe, 3. But if he caught me, he'd wrap his arms around me knees and WOULD NOT let go. Well, finally he did, but there wasn't much I could do to keep him from just RE-WRAPING his arms around my knees.
       Soon his dad came to get him and his little brother. But David was SOOO happy he had been the bear.
       He kept saying, "Daddy, I was a bear," and then pointing at me he said. "And I got her." Which made Adelaide and me laugh (yes, Addie was there).

       That night we played the 'lip' game again. But it was a little harder because there was this other little boy that kept following me and wanted me to pick him up. Which was okay with me. David just wanted me to "run" around.




        I kind of expect the same today. It would probably be amazing if he didn't ask me to play the 'lip-game'. I will put in a comment if he DID want to play it or if he DOESN'T ask to play it.


        Have a GREAT Sunday!
     

        Abrielle Lindsay

Flooding

Flooding……..

I have never really been in a flood. Well, there was one about a year ago, but it didn’t seem to strike this hard. My aunt’s house flooded once, but I wasn’t there. But about 2 months ago it started raining…..

So it was like any other Friday night in the school year. Dinner time was at the international school. Lots of playing with besties (and enemies). Okay, I forgot to add something, that night (and the next) were supposed to be spent at one of the local guest houses. My mom was going to stay at home with my baby brother, Jeremy, and organize our office (total disaster with 6 kids in the house). But right as we were about to leave the rain started. I mean, this was no little rain, this was RAIN. It was comin’ down, I mean, HARD. ‘Course we all (I mean all the kids) thought it was WONDERFULLY GREAT!! It turned out not so great. I was with two of my friends out when the rain started. We LOVED it. They didn’t want to come out of it, well, neither did I, my mom said I had to because we were leaving. The rain seemed like it was a lot harder than usual, but we weren’t at the houses so it was kind of hard to tell. We got to our room in the guest house. It was POURONG down. There were HUGE puddles EVERYWHERE!! I was amazed at all the water. But that wasn’t anything compared to when I saw pictures of my yard the next day.

                The next day my dad (btw, it is STILL raining, nowhere near as hard but, it’s rain) tells us that he is going to go to our friends’ houses and help them because their houses had flooded. I was like, “How could it not have flooded their houses that time a year ago???” So my dad told us that we were going back to the house. Well, all except Johnny. A LOT of his friends live right around the guest house so one of them saw Johnny and is like “What are you doing here?? Wanna’ stay at my house??” SO Johnny got to stay. (But I got to stay with Adelaide all of that afternoon!!!) SO we went back to the house. NAd pretty much did nothin’ ‘til lunch and then RIGHT after I went to Adelaide’s house. But we didn’t go back to the guest house that night.

                IT was a horrible storm. And then a couple of weeks ago there was some more rain and I heard the dad of our friends’ whose house had flooded the first time and one of their friends were outside trying to block out the holes where water was getting in while their wives were sticking rags in the doorways. Man, and I think, I know this happened the first time, the kids slept through the WHOLE thing!!

Esshh, here are some pictures of our yard and right outside of our yard. This was in the morning. Yep, still raining

Mud Slide

Abrielle Lindsay