Another Fabulous Weekend!

As I said in my last post I went to Aberdeen SD to go to Women's Retreat. It was a blessing to be there! The Micheff Sisters were our guest speakers. These women LOVE Jesus! It was really good to hear their stories of how God has been so good to them and how they have put their trust in Him. Good stuff! I did get a photo with them. I had the responsibility of making sure they had everything they needed for the weekend so I thought I should get a picture with them. My job was so easy as they were just so kind and really didn't need much at all.

Brenda, Me, Cinda and Linda

We had 14 women from our church attend Retreat this year and that was so cool!! What a fun time we all had bonding together. Becasue this was Nicole and Steph's first year at retreat, we HAD to initiate them. It's tradition. Paybacks, however, are not! Karla easliy was able to get a key for their room before they arrived. We then toilet papered the room...hid the towels....short sheeted the beds....put some confetti in the beds....and wrote a few welcome notes. I think they were thrilled with our welcome!! :)
But we did this on Friday night so that left Saturday night.........not so good. Paybacks are tough!!
Our lovely newcomers decided to throw a few pranks our way. Amy and I were in our room when the girls tried to get in...but the key for our room that they got from the front desk wouldn't work so they had to run downstairs and get it re keyed. In the meantime, Amy and I decided to leave our room (bad idea). We were gone about 10 minutes and let me tell you....2 young girls can do alot in 10 minutes! We thought they might actually try to do something, but didn't think seriously about it. When we got back to our room we were welcomed by MINNOWS swimming in our sink and toilet!!! Real LIVE Minnows!

We stopped so fast and after screaming said to each other..."they DID get in here!" We immediately ran to their room and "thanked" them! They told us to make sure we check our shower...so we did.....and there were REAL LIVE WORMS in there! Can you believe it?? Who thinks of this stuff? At least they were nice enough to put the worms in a cardboard box so our shower didn't get dirty! Here's a picture of the worms
They actually did the very same things in our ajoining room that hosted Sandi, Marilyn, Karla and Sarah. In our room was Me, Amy, Lynette and Jan J.
They also left a few notes for us such as.. "Wanna go fishing?" and "We luv you"
Here are the 'lovely' girls who sent us fishing....
Nicole and Stephanie
Aren't they adorable!!!!! :)
And here is the group of us today:
In back l. to r. Me, Lynette, Jan, Karla, Cindy, Sandi, Marliyn, Jeanette
front l. to r. Amy, Sarah, Stephanie and Nicole. Not pictured are Vicky and her mom.
Saturday night at Perkins: Sarah, Sandi and Jan.


Some of the spiritual things at retreat were the Banquet we had on Sabbath afternoon. We feasted on wonderful food....with messages from God's word with music. It was good.
Let's not forget the Prayer wall where anyone could write a prayer or praise. We did lift those requests up to God.

I'm so thankful to have such a wonderful church family. It's something that I treasure! Lynette just called me tonight and said that she had a phone call from Linda Micheff and Linda shared with Lynette that The Micheff Sisters felt so Blessed to spend the weekend with the women of the Dakota's. We are good people. I personally hope that I can continue being that good person everyday.
The Micheff Sister's Website is: http://www.micheffsisters.com/news.html