Our Trip Through Europe!

Our Journey Starts on Wednesday Oct. 22th and goes till Monday Nov. 3rd.

We will be traveling to Paris France, Frankfurt Germany, Milan Italy, Salzburg Austria & Switzerland.

Wed. 22nd - Mom & Lyd arrive in Switzerland @ 7:50 am. They will spend the day with the Brown's & we will get some food for trip. We will spend the night @ the Brown's.

Thur. 23rd - We will leave at 6:15am to start our travels on a train to Paris. We will arrive in Paris @ 11:34am. We will stay all day and then spend the night.

Fri. 24th - We will spend the day in Paris until 1:09pm when we board our next train for Frankfurt. We will arrive in Frankfurt @ 5:00pm. We will spend the night.

Sat. 25th - We will spend the day in Frankfurt until we board our train for home. We have two choices we leave @ 6:50pm & arrive in Kloten @ 11:35pm, Or leave @ 10:05pm & arrive in Kloten @ 6:05 am.

Sun. 26th - We will spend all day with the Brown's & go to Church @ 5:00pm. We will spend the night @ the Brown's.

Mon. 27th - We will leave @ 5:15am for Milano. & will arrive @ 10:35am. We will spend all day then spend the night.

Tue. 28th - We will spend all day in Milano then take an night train from 10:23pm till 7:00am

Wed. 29th - We will arrive in Salzburg @ 7:00am. We will spend the day & the night. We will go on a Sound of Music tour to see how they created it.

Thur. 30th - We will spend in Salzburg until 4:00pm when we board our train for Kloten. We arrive in Kloten @10: 55 pm. We will spend the night @ the Brown's

Fri. 31st - We spend the day with the Brown's & go to the Hockey Game in the evening. We spend the night @ the Brown's.

Sat. 1st - We spend the day with the Brown's. Maybe go into Zurich? Spend the night @ the Brown's.

Sun. 2nd - We spend the day with the Brown's then go to Church @ 5:00pm. Spend the night @ the Brown's.

Mon. 3rd - We hang out till Mom & Lyd leave for Home.

Peaceful!

Its funny what the meaning of a name means, how strange that many people are their names. It makes you think everyone should be named with much thought & care. Even if you are your name it is still easy to mess it up. Your name is not only yours but your families as well how do you treat it? How do you treat yourself? Cherish your name.

How have you given your will your life & and all you are to God? In the book I am reading ( A Shepherd Looks @ Psalm 23) I am in the Chapter that talks about "He Leadeth me in the Paths of Righteousness for His Name's sake". It talks about where is God leading you to are you giving your whole self? Are you laying your will down to Him and all that he has for you? I know that as Christan's we often forget who we are serving, we get caught up in the normal every day busyness that surrounds us. We get following a certain path and stay on it, Because like sheep we are creatures of habit. But I don't want that. All my life I have been taught that we need to lead the flock we should never just follow what everyone else is doing. Yet how do you do that without getting a big head and thinking you are better, or cause you have Christ that you aren't accountable to anyone else.

I know that my heart has always been to serve, somehow I have been born with a pull that I feel horrible with myself if I don't help out in some way that I need to be helping out somehow, and if I am not I feel really bad. Yet because of all that I have found that I don't want to be in the front I don't want center stage I am much more comfortable being in the back round and serving. I have found it very hard to push myself out from behind and put myself in the front.
I know that their is a balance and that I need to find it. How? what can I do to serve yet also lead?

I know that God has shaped ever part of my life and continues to every day. It is interesting to look back and see all that he has done to change me. Little me always bossy have grow up and still am bossy ha ha. I was shy and scared of life, and God said go into the working world. I know that working in the world started the chain of events that would change of me. Thanks to my wonderful parents who instructed and an incredible Father that knew that I could do it. I still can't believe that God has brought me across the world into Europe to live for 4 months. Wow !

I don't always start these with any thought to what I am going to write, yet when I get going it just keeps coming. I have never been good with words and when I put them down they actually make sense. I can state things that I never knew that I needed to say and feel so much better for it. I also don't have my sister to be my sounding board for all my thoughts.

HOPE!!!

I have been waiting to go to the Hockey game and I finally got to go to my first Pro Hockey game. I enjoyed it very much surprise haha. It was fun being out with Ami and the boy's and it was fun seeing Curtis play.

I have been learning how to plan a trip and not just any normal trip but I get to take Mom and Lyd through Europe YAY. I am so excited to show them all the neat & beautiful things that are in Europe. I want them to have a great time, and through it all I have learned too. They will be here in 9 day's.

I went to church yesterday and the worship was GREAT they where very anointed and I felt so blessed. The sermon was preach by the Senior pastor of the church and he had a good message the only problem was that his accent was so thick that it was hard to understand sometime, but I got the gist of it.

It was about having a dream or vision or desire from God, but then waiting years for it to come about, and while you are waiting for it sometimes you lose your faith or you get discouraged and want to give up.
Yet having the faith to wait and listen to God, cause he always gives it to us. Just like he did Abraham, Moses & David. No one is perfect we all mess up, but in the end God still blesses us.

Wow this was a very good for me I needed a little encouragement that I the dreams that God has given me will happen, I just need to keep following the direction that he has set for me even if it seem strange.

I know all of this and I feel this is right. But when I am away from everything that is most precious to me it makes me ask what am I doing with my life? I get to go home for Christmas and when I get there I will have no jobs demanding my attention, and no immediate plans for anything which I am very grateful for. What I intend to do is spend all of December just being with my family. I have always known that my family is very special to me. What I miss a whole lot is the busyness the talking and even the arguing of the whole Tallo's clan ( and yes that includes Grandma Mills too). I guess that's what happens when you have 7 sibling and you live in a house with 11 people ha ha.

What God has for me next I don't know, but I'll take it in stride with God's help all things are possible.

Yay!

I took over two months but they finally decided what they want me to do after the Christmas break. I will be coming home and I will be staying home for good.

This wasn't a quick decision and it has nothing to do with me or the work I do. Ami & Curtis feel this time here in Switzerland is meant to for the FAMILY to grow together in a way they have never had the opportunity to before. They feel that with me here it was a good start in the right direction but now they need to do it on their own.

I was a little surprised at first because they talked over so much me coming back. Yet I can't feel a little relieved as well. I will have been away for 4 months by the time this is all over. I will be glad for a long relaxing Christmas with no work, then I can start over in January with whatever job I want to do. WOW that's kind of neat!

Right now I am trying to plan a trip with Mom & Lyd and I hope that I get everything all set before they get here. I am worrying about the price and the train tickets & good but cheap housing. It is expensive to have fun.

I CAN'T WAIT TO HAVE MOM & LYD COME! I AM SOOOOO EXCITED!!!!

I can't wait to go home either I am already counting down the day's & weeks.

Time Goes On!

Wow I can't believe how the time flies! We are already into our 7th week of being here. Before to long Mom will be here, and then I can come home!

I enjoy being here and experiencing all the wonderful opportunity's I have been given.

First being in a foreign country, which I never would have believed even earlier this summer that I would get the opportunity let alone have the guts to go for any long period of time.

Second spending time with a young family that has been through so much and is still growing. I can't explain it but even for all the time spent with my family/clan its different.

Third learning more about myself. I knew that I would learn new things and change in little way's, but for the very first time I have had to change how I live cause I don't get to go HOME each night to my own house where I am very comfortable. Instead I have to live and breathe my job. It isn't a hard job though it is tiring and I do have my own room, But I am still am outsider.

I know that God works through everything we do and that he always has our best at interest. I want always to follow what God has for me. WOW though I know that no one thought including me that I would get to travel the world , and live across the world. I can't imagine what God plans next for me, but it makes me wonder! He has given me so much more than I ever could have asked for, Yet we are selfish beings for we continue to ask for more.

I pray that my heart will always be right with God!!! I will not shrink away from the tasks he has set for me!!! I will first and foremost always be the servant that he wants me to be!!!

These are my thoughts as they come I don't know if they always make sense, but I need to get them out somehow.

Land of the Living!

Its been 4 day's but I finally feel good enough to be up and about.

It was very hard for a few day's I couldn't swallow anything it even hurt to breath sometimes.
The Dr. said that I had some extra acid that had built up and that's why I had such pain in my stomach. I am still in some pain but am trying to eat healthy food that will lower the acidic build up.

I was looking online and realized that there is a disease that you can get from acid reflux(GERD) it was not very pretty. I know that is not what I have but It still makes you wonder how do people let there bodies go so far that they get a disease from eating way too many acidic foods.

I was bummed that I didn't get to go to the first home game on Sat. with Ami & the boy's, instead I stayed home and rested with the baby. I did get to go to Church, they where working on construction so we only saw some of it but what we saw was very nice. It was a small crowd maybe a hundred or so. They had a great worship and sermon was well done.

We didn't meet very many people first I wasn't feeling one hundred percent ok and second we left really fast cause everyone was hungry.

Now that I seem to be over the hump, the boy's are starting to get sick. The oldest has a bad cough that won't let go and the youngest was up most of the night with a cough and runny nose and he just doesn't feel good. I am praying that they get over these quick and that no one else gets sick.

All in a Day!

I went out on my own into Zurich yeah!

I went in the morning around 10:45, first I had to get there so I traveled on the bus then the train. I was a little worried that I would go the wrong way or that I would get lost. I know that it was a silly worry.

I had fun I walked around then went down to the water and sat for a little bit.

Then I found a neat bookshop that sells English books, I bought a German/English dictionary.

Then I went back to the train station and walked around looking for somewhere to eat, I got to have fish & chips which was very good!

Then I came back the Apt. It was good for me to go and I had fun.

Yesterday I wasn't feeling well but I stuck it through. Today my stomach is a little weird, so I stayed home with Griffin for his nap while Ami took the older boy's to a huge Trampoline park.

We will see how it goes!