Happy Holidays Revised

December...
18th-- First Pentecostal Church End of the Year Banquet

Mom and Dad's 29th Anniversary

22nd--Arrival of cousin Mary and Tom and 4 children from Georgia to Washington. Cutest little cousins ever...

Elisabeth and Elizabeth

25th--I met up with my family in Houston. I flew out at 6:05 Sunday morning. Alana had left a week earlier. She found her giant iPhone and "President of the US" plaque (compliments of George Bush Library).

I do apologize about the sideways pictures. When I tried to turn them around they got so small that you couldn't really see the pictures. Hmmm...funny thing about iPhone pictures. :))

I will update again with Cmas pictures and WINTER HERITAGE pictures. Anyone out there going to attend??? Hope to see you there!!!!!

Update

Happy December, Everyone! I am looking forward to starting a new year soon and hope it is filled with opportunity, success, excitement, good health, and everything good. In Jesus Name!

So onto the update. I finished my class with Green River Community College--what an absolutely terrible class it was!!! It was online and had NO presentations, powerpoints--nothing. Read and take quizzes. On Anatomy and Physiology. Seriously. It was terrible. They wait-listed me for all the other classes I need. Oh no, I am not going to sit around and wait.

I was trying to find a picture of me studying to go along with my narration here, but this is all I could find in my picture archives--me in front of TBC dorms. HA!:))

Anyway. I have been working with an advisor at Pacific Lutheran University and Liberty University. Between the two, I should be able to get something better worked out for January. Let's get on with 2012 and all the succes it will hold, please! :))

I continue travelling each week to Yelm to help the church with their music and give piano lessons. At First Pentecostal Church I taught the praise team "No Other Name" last week and have compiled all the materials to present "You Hold My World In Your Hand" in January. I love doing this.

THANKSGIVING AT THE WEBERS

This year we had our Thanksgiving dinner at my Uncle Don and Aunt Karen's house. There were 25 of us gathered. We took a group picture. We are just missing Uncle Eric and family, my parents, and Aunt Genny and family! Maybe for Cmas...? :))

TRIBUTE TO PASTOR KENDRICK
This week our family lost our home pastor, Pastor Kendrick. I just want to say here how thankful I am to have been impacted by the life of Pastor Kendrick. I grew up under his ministry. His great Bible teaching and godly example are what laid my spiritual foundation. 12 years after leaving Lompoc, I still reflect on the great church services we had there and still thank God for a pastor who caused me to love this truth! Thank you, Pastor Kendrick, you are a hero to me. You are one of the first people I want to look up when I get to heaven.

Our last visit to Lompoc--2005??

Dad Preaching

Pastor Kendrick

MOM UPDATE

In May my mom had a rather common surgery performed however complications ensued which caused her to go in for repair surgeries 2ce more. Her third and final--in Jesus name--surgery was 2 weeks ago.

HOUSTON HOSPITAL

Many people have sent beautiful flowers

Today!
My mom is doing fantastic. I am so glad to see her up and going, taking care of Bella! :))
She has received great care in Houston. I wish I could be with her.

I love you, mom, and am so glad you are making such good progress.

Wow, I can't believe how late it is. I'd better wrap this up. I have Children's Choir practice tomorrow morning and then I have to be to work by noon. Saturday and Sunday will go flying by. Good night, everyone! Thank you for reading my narrations. Usually I give orations to my parents when Im wired at night. But since they are 3,000 miles away, this blog will have to suffice. :)) Thank you, kind readers.

Signed ~ Elisabeth Ann Weber

Song of The Week

Song of The Week

Hey Everyone! Two Brasilians came through my cashiering line yesterday at work. They were so surprised when I responded to them in Portuguese! It was so fun to meet them. So to all my Portuguese people out there...here is your song of the week. Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ...

Pre-Thanksgiving Dinner

Yesterday our church held its annual Pre-Thanksgiving Dinner. Every year the church provides a complete Thanksgiving meal to the entire church + visitors. It is a huge evangelism push for families to bring their friends, neighbors, and/or other family members to get to know First Pentecostal Church.

This year the event was held at Branks BBQ. The food was delicious. All the normal Thanksgiving dishes plus smoked salmon--so good! The theme was America. Pastor Bow spoke on the thought that even though our county's morals have decayed, the church remains the moral conscience of America and will continue marching forward until Jesus comes! We can be thankful to live the greatest country in the WORLD! :))

The chorale sang, the orchestra played, and Alana showed her presentation on America. It was a wonderful event. Alana and I brought our grandparents and cousin Luke. We had a great time!

Pastor Bow and Brother Dustin setting up flags at Pre-Thanksgiving Dinner

Alana setting up her presentation and telling me to stop taking pictures and to help her! Ha:))

Me and my G and G Weber

Me and my cousin Jill with her new baby girl, Leighton

Song Of The Week: Face The Storm

Written by Tim Spell (I think...) and sung by Alana! :))

General Update

Hello to all my blogger friends! I am excited to see that I have 50 followers--that makes me feel special. Thank you for taking time to read my blog.

Church: I just got back from our "Youth Blast." Service lasted until 10 PM. Bro Craig Sissle preached an outstanding message about loving the things of God and several young men testified about the goodness of the Lord. Alana and I sang "In the Presence of The Lord."

School: My schooling is coming along okay. I am in the process of filling out applications to transfer to another university for winter semester. My new plan is to finish out my bachelor's degree in Biology and transfer that degree to an Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing later.

Work: I am working at a store near my house for the holiday season doing some cashiering. It really is a lot of fun. I am thankful to have found a little extra work. In addition I am doing some volunteer work at a hospital called Good Samaritan Hospital. I LOVE IT! I work on the general medical and critical care floors. There is always a lot to do.

Good Sam Hospital

Me In My Uniform :))

Family: My family is doing well. My sister is studying hard in her Computer Science field; mom has found a good doctor in Houston to perform her repair surgery; dad just returned from Brother Randy Keye's Mission's conference in Modesto, California; grandparents returned from their trip to New England states.

Mom and Dad were upgraded for FREE to a Mercedes rental car in Atlanta last week

Cinder waiting for Grandpa to come home!

P.S. SONG OF THE WEEK:

"He Wants It All" By Forever Jones

Talks about giving your all to Jesus. Good Special Song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47elk3n3_3s

Testing. I am trying to blog from this here my new iphone4. Okay. And I turned the camera around to take a picture. Let's see if this works. Okay.

One Year Ago

One year ago my parents left Brazil to come home and deputize. They will finish deputation in 1 more month--horray! I hope to see them soon.

Song of the week: "The Blood Still Works!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34qwyjqWYPo

Nursing: Second Thoughts?

I have just figured out how to activate my comments setting—horray! J It should be working now. I would really like to get some feedback from this post. The subject is nursing—what do you think about this field?

I love the field of nursing and am currently enrolled in some nursing prerequisite classes and have even begun volunteering at a near-by hospital. I really thought this would be my direction; however, there are many road-blocks. The nursing prerequisites classes are FULL! I have just 4 more classes to take but unfortunately, I been wait-listed for all of them. Who knows when I’ll get into these classes! It is the same story for schools even outside of Washington State. In addition, once I get through these prerequisites, there is a significant chance that my application to nursing school will be wait-listed for a while—months, years…? Schools are not able to keep up with the demand for nursing majors. Yes, the government is involved with this. Lastly, my Associates Degree counts for nothing within the scope of nursing. I think out of my 60 completed credits, only 9-12 are transferrable.

Does anyone out there have any advice? What is the nursing education like in your part of the country? Is this field one that is truly worth the educational wait?

Others areas that peak my interest are Communications/Advertising, and International Relations with an emphasis on International Banking. I used to be interested in Elementary Education until I enrolled as a substitute—no way! Especially not in a democratic voting state! Ha! J

I would love to hear from you all on this subject.

Song Of The Week: The Anthem

Hi Everyone! Here is the song of the week--The Anthem by Planetshakers sung by the ensemble at NAYC. Enjoy!

"How To Clean A Wound" By Pastor Kendrick

Thank God for preaching. I am so glad that Gospel Lighthouse has put Pastor Kendrick's messages online. I grew up under Pastor Kendrick's ministry in Lompoc, California. He remains one of my most favorite preachers. His message "How to Clean A Wound" is what I am listening to right now. I came to the library to work on my Anatomy and Physiology homework and well...I took a little break to listen to this message...and well... I am trying not to cry here in this public library. Ha!:)) If you have some time, visit http://www.gospellighthouselpc.com/ to listen. Thanks Gospel Lighthouse for uploading these messages. I miss you all.

Song Of The Week: Your Name

Your Name sung by Inidiana Bible College is an incredible song--I love it! I got to hear it at IBC during their music conference back in April. I have been waiting for it to air on YouTube! :)) This song is not complicated--for piano or vocals. I got the muscians packet for this song--its in G! Yeay!:)) Excellent choir song. We did it in Texas this summer and it worked! I hope you enjoy it as much as I have...

More Photos

Song Of The Week

My favorite song of the week is "We Still Believe" sung by The Pentecostals of Alexandria, written by Kathryn Scott. You will LOVE it! I predict that this song will become a VERY popular choir song in 2011/2012.



I guess I left you hanging last week--who is my favorite singer? Ha!:)) Actually I have FAVORITE categorized into vocal quality, anointing, stage presence...hey I guess that means I get 3 more favorites! :)) Oh wait then there is favorite choir, group, band...well we shall keep these posts going!

More Heritage Pictures

Yeay! I got my pictures from Heritage. There are about 600 of them so I will go through them some more and pull out some highlights. Here are a few pictures I found of Alana and I...enjoy!:))

Me!:))



Our Group Singing

Me!:))

Praying

Me and Alana

Choir

Can you find us in these pictures?

Me Praise Singing. Alana was next to me but you can't see her...

OKay I'll go through more and post later....bye for now!

Song of The Week

Hi Everyone! I hope your weekend has been good for ya! Some blogs I follow set aside a certain day of the week to blog about one theme such as food or photography. I am going to jump on the ban wagon and have a "Song of the Week" theme. This week will be "Break Through" by Shara McKee. Our chorale is working on this song and I do appreciate the words.

Shara McKee has been #2 of my two FAVORITE singers for a long, long time. I have followed her music since she produced the "Rain On Us" cd years ago! I love her "East to West" song. So who is my #1 favorite singer? You will have to find out next week... :))

Where Were You On 9/11?

I was having lunch at TGI Friday's in Campinas, Brazil. We were hosting the Kelly Nix family who at the time was living in Northern Brazil and had come to our region to preach some meetings. We were enjoying our American meal together when somebody noticed a disturbing tv report (there were tvs in the restaurant). We saw images of planes crashing into the Twin Towers in NYC. We thought the Brasilian tv station was showing a movie or something. When we got home, my mom logged onto USAToday.com and read that sure enough, American had come under attack. In 2005, we were able to travel to NYC to see Ground Zero. "We will never forget!"

So--where were you on September 11, 2001? Everyone has a story but this one here is s definite tear-jerker:



If you want to hear more stories log on to USAToday.com. You can even submit your own story! God Bless America and all those who have sacrificed for this great country. Don't forget to vote!!!

Because of you NAC

Jovens Vila Georgina - Teatro "Leilão de uma alma".

Ola meus amigos Brasileiros! Aqui esta um teatro maravilhoso feito pela Igreja Apostolica da Vila Georgina. Tenho certeza que vai gostar. Se quiser saber mais dessa igreja, visite o blog da igreja deles, iabvilageorgina.blogspot.com.

Sunday Night Live

It was a privilege to serve in Nacogdoches this summer. I am grateful to Brother and Sister Crosswhite for the opportunity to do their music. My experience as a music leader in Nacogdoches was a good one that will certainly aid me in future music endeavors. I loved playing and singing and directing the choir! Brother and Sister Crosswhite are sincere, generous, and hospitable. They have a wonderful ministry and are holding strong to the truth. I pray God blesses them with good health to continue ministering for years to come!

Apostolic Lighthouse had a going away party for us after service last night--so sweet! They loaded us up with Starbucks gift cards, an espresso maker, lots of Starbucks coffee, and many sentimental cards. Thank you Apostolic Lighthouse for your kindness. Special thanks as well to Brother and Sister Holt, Brother and Sister Stewart, and Sister Kathy. In the next few pictures you will see us opening our gifts...

Sister Regina, a nurse, has been such an encouragment to me. She gave me this stethoscope with an engraving of my initials and Jeremiah 29:11. THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I am determined now to make it through nursing school! :))

My cowboy... :))

Little Isaac Crosswhite

Starbucks!

This is a picture of our employer, Brother Boren. This summer he trained my sister and I to prepare tax returns, reconcile bank statments, and perform many other bookkeeping tasks. We had A LOT of fun working for him. He always entertained us with great stories and supplied us with lots of ice cream! :)) Thank you Brother Boren for all you did for us! You are very special to us and we will miss you!

"Good-bye Sister Alana and Sister Elisabeth"