HOME AT LAST! THANK YOU, LORD! Angel's had to be watching over me! I was ordained July 4th, 2002 with All Nations International Mission in Palmdale, California. I was ordained by Rev. Robert Watts in Hereford, on the Arizona-Mexico border. I visited his his lovely family the first week in July after bringing them a 1983 Ford pickup truck. He and 'Grandpa' have been missionaries in China, Viet Nam, India, and the Phillippines. Bobby's wife Ruth was born in the Philippines and there is much prejudice against her just because her skin is brown. She is very nice and a hard worker. The Watts family prayed for a pickup truck for their Mexico missions work. The Lord responded by having someone way up in Minnesota, next to Canada, donate a rusty 20 year old Ford pickup truck. I volunteered to drive it to Arizona. I had NO idea what I was getting into! It had been sitting by Mille Lacs lake by a barn in the field, and is full of rust, dirt, ticks, and one dead mouse. It is a floor shift (the truck, not the mouse!). I had never driven a pickup in my life. It was a mission for either an idiot or a 60 year old woman of faith. By the time I got to Iowa it needed oil. All its gauges work!! I can't get the hood open, so I ask a guy with a beard and a boat for help. He put oil in it for me, 2 quarts. Thank you Jesus! He was goin to a bass fishin' contest, hope he won! It was terrifying driving thru construction! This truck was wider than the 2 cement barriers I had to drive between! (OK, it just seemed that way) God's angels had to be REALLY busy! Guys, that's really scary for me! I can't drive at night - I tried! I CAN'T SEE!!!!!!! No joy to my day as I whizzed south on the Kansas Turnpike on June 21, feeling miserably hot in a truck with no airconditioning, and a 23 year old kid WHOMP!! hit my right rear fender. He whipped me a hard right turn, cruisin wildly over the right lane, shoulder, down a little hill, over a ditch with an inch of water, up the other side, coming to a panic-stricken halt short of a fence. I'd like to add - with a cow staring confused at me, but no cow. While rock n rollin down n up I was screaming 'Jesus don't let me roll over!' I could have been killed. Course then I'd be in heaven .. nice .. Folks, I actually turned that old truck around in the field, re-crossed the ditch, and gunned it back up the rather steep incline to the road! I had been starting up in 2nd, which I called low (first gear) all the time. I couldn't get up the incline, so HAD to shift to superlow (first gear), then I got up. The hood smoked a bit, and later Roy in Wichita checked it and said the battery'd been thrown to the side and it needed water. O joy. Glad I didn't know it! Roy is one of the Apostles Bobby Watts knows. The trooper at the accident scene was very kind. His name was Harsh but he was nice. He led me to a motel where I spend the night. I was VERY shaken up!
Well, I stayed home almost a week recovering and spending $660 fixing the truck to continue the drive to Arizona. The Lord assured me the worst part of that trip was over. It was. All told I spent nearly $2,000.00 of my own money, which I put on Visa. A Social Security check of $726 wont cover my expenses - and my rent went up. PRAY the Lord bring in my needs. He has never failed me! But we are told to ask - and we will receive. While in Arizona near the Mexican border I had internet access - usually - if satellite wasn't down, but computer kept crashing and I lost a LOT of data, some can't be recovered. However I DID get my pages which I lost onto Watt's daianco server. Praise GOD! If I enter the old tripod link which tripod stole into the google.com search engine, I could find it! Then I picked 'cached' and it was there! Then I had to change all links to daianco. what a chore! Home at last Tuesday, July 9. A private shower! yay! The Watts family live in a mobil home. They are wonderful. I felt just like Grandma to the kids! Glenn (which for reason unknown to me I kept calling Greg) is a darling. The only boy and the youngest. He asked ONCE if I like cream and sugar in my coffee, and he never forgot, never had to ask again! O2b young again! Rachel is the youngest girl and loves to fight with Glenn. Their parents don't enjoy that tho! haha! I'm a bit naughty I guess, cuz I got a kick outta it. Franny and Mercy are the oldest and precious, lovely, dear girls. I absolutely adore them! We 3 shared a room and bunk beds. Quite a change for a Granny used to living ALONE! Bobby's wife Ruth is lovely, and he is very blessed to have her! She's smart, kind, and a great cook. I am not so sure she doesn't pull off a miracle now n then. Neighbors bring them food and fruit. I kinda get a kick outta that. People came all the time, every day, all day and half the night. Again, a MAJOR change from my life where no one ever comes. Missionaries who serve the Lord should not have to live in such poverty, tho they don't consider it that. They have NO reliable vehicle. The one we drove overheats and they weren't sure they could spend the $5 for antifreeze! Folks, this is a SHAME to the Church! All in all this was quite an experience. Reverend Grandma Carolu Joy, truck no more! PICTURES web links below Ordination Certificate link below
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THIS IS THE JUDGMENT
that the Light has come into the world,
and men loved the darkness rather than the Light,
for their deeds were evil.
GOD so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
Eternal LIFE. For God did not send his Son into the world
to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
He who believes in Him is not judged;
he who does not believe has been judged already,
because he has not believed in the name of the only
begotten Son of God. John 3:16-19