Oh Tuesday, is everything double today?

Tuesday! Mondays we are on brake, so our week begins Tuesday, I cant say Im every upset that tuesday has arrived, its always got some sense of adventure attatched to its name. I mean, if the goodness is in TWOS (get it, tues, twos...) then it has to be great eh?!

Its a rather dark and chilly morning this tuesday, but Its all the better for getting my brain up and awake!



There is something happening the more i do this...time begins to fly faster and faster like when you pull your legs in on a tire swing, and you start picking up speed instantly. There isnt enough time in the morning anymore, it just flys past like burry dizzy images...



Somehow this reminds me of planet of the apes. Somehow we caught some shifty figures lurking in the shadows....of a blurred camera lense that is...





here Kassi (who just joined us in working out!) Kristen and i are doing improve workout....where we make stuff up for a picture for two seconds then get back to our fast walk. haha


Here is Dia and I before we begin our Tuesday TEST. yikes is right. we have to memorize a verse a day, and then tuesday we write them down by memory. I like it a lot! It is awesome to have Gods word in your mind, and to be reminded to get it in there through this kind of accountability!


test time...


Pastor Scott and Pastor Sarah got back today! And they told us about Brazil and the amazing things that happened there! They got to spend time with Benjamin Moses the 5 year old boy they have been trying to adopt sense he was 6 months. And we are all hopeful that they will get him very soon!


Courtney and i in the second harvest truck. I also help with inventory and we go get food from the food drop, load it up and get it back home. Its a good workout sometimes, I enjoy it, Courtney and I always have great convo during the whole ordeal. You know something? thats what so cool about having brothers and sisters that love jesus soo much...you can have SUUUCH in depth convertation and learn and sharpen eachother, any old time of any given day! :D



we got home and did some more work learning about excel. And it was good.


this my friends, is, well courtney and leah in everyday life. haha


Time to rest for a bit. ITS SO IMPORTANT, to rest and make time to do it. this is something i am learning about daily.


we have begun this 12 week series on tuesday nights led by Dawn and Phil, they are amazing and are taking us through the entire bible and how its organized and what is where and history and..i CANT WAIT! This is the first introductionary night!


Here I am cutting Todds hair, its the first time i have cut any guys hair before, and uh...well i kinda messed up a bit. HOWEVER...i dont make the same mistake twice. so thats...good. haha. He is like a dad to us, and it was pretty cool of him to let us practice on his head! I paused and my eyes widened when I did a bit of a mistake and he said "its only hair, it'll grow back" and I swallowed and said "yeah, but you havent seen it yet..." hahaha he has been wearing a hat ever sense...I uh...hear its because its cold outside? um...haha


Then its time to read a bit, I am reading the confessions of st. Augustine, we have to read a book a month and its crazy finding time. But there is time, its just wisdom to use it that i need to pin down.



So there you have it folks! one full and i mean FULL week interning at provision international! I havent the time or energy to document in such detail for the duration of my internship. But I wanted to give you a taste of week to week life, i will continue updating with thoughts and random adventures though. And I am thankful for each and every one of you! YOU ALL CAN COMMENT BENEATH THIS THINGS BTW! I dont need it, but i wanted to let you know that its an option! :D

My love to you darling world changing people in my life.

--Leah Rene' Canales

p.s I am currently creating a blog for the general public that is less personal and more about things I am learning and desire the world to know! I will let you know when its ready for its debute!

Lovely Monday...sorta like Sunday...

MONDAY...I hardly took any pictures...as the events i did we're rather much, not events! Monday is our day off... So I took it off, and took very few pictures...more like, one. And a video!

I woke a bit later than usual, like 9:00am, and went and spent some time with the Jesus!



Then I got some time with family, on the phone. And also managed to catch up on all emails. Now It is getting late and tomorrow begins the last all day photo journal. And I must be ready for what it has in store for me, so with that, I am going to sleep.

Its so bright it must be SUNDAY....hahaha OI.

So Sunday! Its Kassis birthday! So we have a rather different sunday in mind...one of celebrating our 24 year old sister, who we all love dearly...and this is how we did it...

At church it all begins at 9:30 with intercession, we pray for what we feel God has put on our hearts, and for God to move in mighty ways. For healing and for strength. We pray for individuals and the church as a whole. Its so necessary, and so beautiful. GOD JOLLY LOVES TO HEAR OUR PRAYERS AND GET THIS, "ANSWER THEM!"



Kassi the Birthday girl on the Bass!



we worship Jesus!




We normally have things set up differently, in rows not tables. But this sunday was special and different. However the people jumping and dancing and just praising Jesus, thats normal :D




For church we wrote Letters to God. Marco and Natalie are the leaders beneath Pastor Scott and his wife Sarah. And they are the ones that told us about writing letters to God, making requests and committments and then reading the letter a year or two later after the fact. Its cool to hear stories of families being saved and dreams coming true, from handing them to God in a letter and trusting in faith that He will bring said things to pass. :D sweet.



This folks, is a cool table of ppl, eating food together...and simply savoring the company of one anotherness. :D tis good.




This is the face you make, when you have eaten at Chili's--- and decide to make a strange face for a picture. haa.




Here we are waiting for everyone to show up so we can play at the park...haha yeah....

This is the park! We decided to surprise Kassi and go play at the park with her, this was an amazing park...makes me glad Im a kid! I am pleased to say that all the people you see in this picture are there for Kassi's birthday, and it was a treate, we arent too old to fool around at the park! never!



How long has it been sense i climbed around on a jungle Gym you ask? TOO LONG. (maybe like. a week...)





We are infact, sitting on a massive dragon made out of this cool mosaic stuff. yes..its full out cool...




The clouds looked a bit like a dragon, though its hard to see here. Interesting...we just left dragon park you know...

Then we went to Cafe' Coco which made Kassi super happy, this is me and the birthday girl. we packed the place out! We had a pretty big group of us for sure :D
I just drank water, as that is my traditional drink of choice. haha

Getting in my car after Cafe' Coco. I was a bit afraid i might catch my skirt in the wheels while pitter pattering home. But no worries. I had no fatal plastic cracking situations. all was well. :D with me and my darling car...haha




Music practice with Charla (behind me) because she is having her CD released this coming saturday! So she wanted me to play drums, violin, and sing...non of which i do to incredibly well, but all of which i am improving on! haha :D




We gathered in the devo room for eating cake and watching "cloudy with a chance of meatballs" to top off the night, and can i just say, that movie...so great. :D I laughed like...hard enough to spit out my food if i had been eating it while laughing...

This my friends was SUnday! normally i dont go out to eat, I like to save my money and eat at home and just relax and catch up on things, however this was a special day and I do believe it will go down in history. Now that its all documented and such. It was a day of spiritual warfair and liberating victory. A day of planning and praying, playing and laughing. It was a full day indeed. And I feel blessed to know each and every person I spent it with. :D

Oh Silly Saturday, THERE you are...

Saturday, oh the bliss. We get to sleep in and meet at around 10 usually. And thats when we either do an activity cleaning the facility, or an outreach. This saturday, we had the morning to do work at the foundry, then we met at 1pm to go and Clean a house. But first thing is first...


Its time to really dig deeper...Its about the private place not the public eye...and in this world, its so easy to forget that...you can be a bright red m&m but have no chocolate inside...Ooh I want to have rich chocolate in my shell...:D



Philip and I before devotions got started, reading the bible and memorizing verses. I am doing Philippians 4:4-8 and James 1:9-10 this week, and I rather enjoy them I must say...:D



Devotions...Gotta love devotions...



We had some work to do on Lynda.com learning more EXcel stuff, we are getting rather excited i must say...I JUST MUST ORGANIZE SOMETHING IN LIST FORM! AHHHH!!! haha ok maybe not that dramatically...ok totally not that dramatically ;) but almost nearly.



We got in a circle and prayed for Lisa, Natalie our Dorm mom's Co-worker. Whose house we were about to go clean for our outreach that day. We put on the armor of God and prayed for wisdom and encouraging words for her. Its a battlefield you know...and I like that we dont take it lightly! :D



THE office/library/craftroom/storage room/tuppawear collection/ hair salon? BEFORE we got started...Kassi and I took it on as a challenge, and I must say, i think we won. Sure there was wounds...haha



Oh...it is beautiful...I love that surge of accomplishment you get after diligant working and sorting. :D BOOYA.





Here we are with Lisa, the lady who's house we cleaned, she was great!

After cleaning, while driving home, we decided to do some amazing videos. We really enjoyed cleaning btw. I know our preformance is rather convincing...but believe me...its just acting. No matter how amazing and believable :D haha





After getting home and getting comfy I decided that I would stretch and work out. Stretching is GOOD YA'LL! stretching like this..uh...well...umm...haha



After getting home Kristen and I did about half an hour of workout, and I am super glad we did. we sweat the dust out of our systems! (from cleaning...However, we dont normally hold dust in our systems...just incase you were worried! haha)




We watched Nickleous Nicklebee, one of my favorite movies to chillax for a bit. I didnt end up watching it all though. But i do like it majorly! You see i got a call from Callie...


Callie had an idea to go to trader Joes to get some things for Kassi who is my room mate and who was having a birthday the next day. So I jumped up and went with her, and we had such a great bonding time. I truly Love Callie, she is a big sister to me, as is Kassi, God is great in putting big sisters in my life! :D


And that folks, is what I call saturday :D

Why Hello Friday! Whats FRI'N? teehee

Good Mooorrrnnning FRIDAY! This morning I am normally getting ready for a real exciting day, Fridays are rather fun. Today we had a treate in store, we are planning on going to GLEN GARRETTS recording studio. So I woke and walked over to worship the Jesus with wild anticipation...


Its neat to see whats on Gods heart...and hear what He has to say...


I felt like this was a proclimation over the day, choosing to give it all to Him< no matter what! It needs to be brought to my memory time and again, just how important it is to have Jesus in my bloodstream...every time my heart pumps...

it was a fairly warm morning, and as it sprinkled ever so lightely... Kristen and I did our workout but also just talked and enjoyed the beauty of the morning. As we walked by the library/afterschool building, I smelled a strange waffely cotten candy pancake smell...but try as I might, I couldnt locate the smell on latter trips around the track to prove to Kristen I wasnt crazy. Appearently the cotten candy waffle pancakes were all in my head. bummer. haha!




I will never be too old to play on a jungle gym. I mean, seriously! they are so much fun!!!


After this picture my actual first sentence out of my mouth was "wow. i actually didnt know i cold hold myself up with one arm like that. COOL!" haha. Its interesting what you can do...when you dont even realize it. Makes me think of how God has created us to do things we dont even realize right now we are humanly able to do. If I didnt even know my own strength, then i better trust the Jesus to guide me I think!

Sooooooooo Yes...we are a bit cheesy, and full of the morning air (its got some kinda zing to it, ya know?) we broke down and did a little dance, singing thing. do enjoy...hahaha

This is a picture of my feet. (just in case you were confused, you know. ) We are doing devotional! Dia brought the word, and it was really neat. Shes fo izzle! So much good convo goes on, it usually has to be cut off and people told to hush so we can try and get to work on time! haha



As the meeting is let out, we all begin to scatter and get ready for our little trip! This, I must mention, is not a normal friday event, normally we would be doing a work day, septerating to do various jobs that we already know. But it is a special friday, and I wouldnt object to our schedule being interrupted in this manner ever so often...its invigorating to switch it up!




We are on the way to the Garretts house! Its foggy in Nashville...a neat thing to see, I do declare...Sometimes...i wish i could touch fog...and imagin it would feel like silky cotten...is that strange? hehe


We got to go visit Glen and Carolyn Garrett! At their home! It was a nice treat, we listened to his music, and even ended up recording a chior part right then and there! They love eachother so much, the Garretts!



Allow me to introduce Chicki. Chicki was a cat found in a dumpster behind Chick Fela'. She had been hit by a car and broken her hips and left to die. So after getting healed up and put in a rescue, Glen and his Wife adopted her, but not without praying for a few months on it. Seriously such a sweet cat! I have heard that orange cats are the nicest ones, and so far..thats totally true...




We had a great time at the Garrett house, but alas after Glen blowing a shofar, we had to get going. We love the Garretts though, and he says he wants to play with us sometime!

Gotta admit, we sounded pretty great eh? ehhh??



Here we are a'learnin Excel some more. We are going to be such EXCELant people when it comes to lists...hehe We wont be learning this every day, just until we get through all the training we need, then I will be devoting more time to the myspace for Thunder School and such. But for now...we will EXCEL...haha oh boy.



One of the most exciting things about Friday nights is painting, when I dont know what to paint! Because God always paints through me and I learn things from what i paint. Sometimes other people learn stuff too...thats super exciting to me :D


At this point i was like "oh boy, what in the world is this God? Its so weird!"
I reach that point a lot...and then i just keep going... and see what happends



Here is what this painting means to me, There are a few flowers poking out of the hole of white, which i consider the world. Thats all the world sees, like an iceberg there is soo much beneath the serface. The huge amount of green and flowers beneath isnt visible. Nor the fact that there is an anchor that holds the whole thing steadfast and the anchor is in the middle of a clock which stands for Gods Time. Its Gods way of telling me, that my time with him and the growth he does in me, is majorly in the secret place. And it doesnt need to be seen by the world. Its more imporant for me to focus on Him and His plan, in his time, steady and determined.




After Friday Night fire...we are literally exhausted. I discovered the next morning that I woke to the exact same position that i fell to sleep in! And I mean EXACT. That< is how tired i was. haha. Sleep was sooooo delicious :D





that my friends...was friday... :D

Much love! --Leah Rene' Canales