The down side of teaching!

I love teaching, I'll admit, some days are better then others, but I love teaching. One thing I don't like are all of the little germs that float around a school. You would think the middle schoolers would know what a kleenex is, but they don't. Inevitably I end up sick once a year, usually just a cold or something minor. Not this year, this year I got strep throat and I am down for the count. I haven't had this since I was a kid. All I can say in NO FUN!
So, if you would send up a get well prayer for me it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks...........you guys are great!

Who would have thought?

What a crazy weekend. I don't think Mark and I sat down for more than 10 minutes! :-) It was one of the best weekends we have had in a long time though. Friday we got to take our niece to see Peter Pan at Floyd Central. If you aren't familiar with Floyd Central High School Drama you are missing out. Their productions are always outstanding. On Saturday morning we got up and went to the decision guide training as mentioned in the prior post. Obviously I really enjoyed that. That afternoon we headed out to church so Mark could rehearse for orchestra. I got a chance to spend some time with the girls who have been staying with us since Thursday. Estie and Brittney were here for the medical missions health conference. I just had a blast with these girls. After service and discover groups (where GOD totally did His thing and ministered to some of our group members who are really going through some tuff stuff) we got to take the girls to dinner and really get to know them. What a great time. We ended that night with the girls and I staying up and watching a movie. On Sunday, Mark was playing at church and I stayed home to sleep in and get lunch ready for the girls and Mark when they returned from church. I made my first ever pot of chicken noodle soup. I'm not really a soup person, but I have to say it was pretty good. We got to share a lunch with the girls and they left. That afternoon we had our first meeting with the outreach team for the Indiana campus. I am so excited about what God is going to do. I just know he has something BIG in store for southern Indiana! Our weekend finished with the last fall weekend bible study with the Indiana campus members. As you can see, it was a busy weekend and a very "church" oriented weekend, but one of the best yet. I'm still on a high from it.

Life

Mark and I had so much fun this morning. We went to a training to be a decision guide at church. (For the new campus) We never knew it would be so much fun. We met some new people and really learned a lot about sharing your faith and leading people to Christ. We had to practice sharing the plan of salvation the same way we would at church as a decision guide. We had a lot of laughs as we made up different characters and scenarios that could come up in that situation. In a way it's kind of scary to share your faith, but after this training I'm so excited to get started. (Thank you Lord for the encouragement this morning!)

New To This

OK, so I'm trying this out. Not that I have a baby to blog about, but I really enjoy reading my friends blogs so i wanted to jump on the bandwagon. So the goal is that I will keep this updated with what is going on in the oh so exciting life of Mark and Betsy Downs. Oh yeah, I can't forget about Noot and the new addition of the feline variety, Bootsie. So here it goes, I'm off, on my way to blog land. Lets see if I keep it up!