Galilee, sweet Galilee

This is one of my favorite pictures and I took it with my friend Lynsday's camera but we were sitting inside a cave looking out over the Galilee with this tree in front of us. It was beautiful. This was on the Mt of Beattitudes. The church on the Mt of Beattitudes

On the boat ride over to the other side of the Sea of Galilee.

Here is me in Caesarea.

This is at the famous Jordan river baptismal site. Thats Ashley on my left and Lyndsay on my right. LOVE THEM! This is Ann and I of the Tiberias branch. I was under strict orders of mom to go meet her and she really has an amazing story of what she has done to keep the church going in the Galilee area.

This was the view from the Tiberias branch house balcony. Incredible. This is a branch that more than any other is overseen by the Lord.

On the Sea of Galilee.

Some fun Egypt pictures...

Galilee

We leave for Galilee in just 2 days and I am so excited. I have a goal to read all of Jesus the Christ while we are there. I want to really study Christ and his life while we are there. I am so grateful for this incredible experience that I have been able to have here. And I think that Galilee will be life changing for me. Brother Brown said this about it, he said, "it will be an experience that will linger in your hearts and minds for decades to come." And this it will.

Best Monday ever!

We met the coolest priest today named Theodosio who showed us all over this cool Greek Orthodox church and he is also a cook at a local place where all the priests live and so he said we can come eat some really good Greek food. Really he taught me about love because he loved us and I loved him in like the coolest way. After we left we were even standing outside the church and he came out to teach us something else too. He was so nice and I realized how much I love people. More than anything else I have learned to love people here in Jerusalem. I will try to get a picture up of him later. But that made my day. Just a little tender mercy I thought I would share.

Happy Birthday Mom!

I love you tons Mom! I hope you can feel my love all the way from Jerusalem because I am sending it. Here is a video to prove it.
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Love you lots.
Love,
ME

Romans, Rocks and Castles, OH MY!

okay well theres not much to explain above except that I almost got killed by a Roman guy Below we are standing in the Jordan River. Brother Brown was kinda funny about us standing in the Jordan. He said if you want to stand and get all kinda of diseases in that river than by all means go ahead. The river now a days is a little polluted and murky is all. I am glad I did it though. At first I just touched it with my finger but then I got brave and took my shoes off and stood in it.


This is Ashley and I and the valley behind us is where Jacob would've wrestled with the angel and then where he would have met Esau and sent him all these flock and heards to try to make peace with him so that he didnt kill him over the whole brithright thing. It was beautiful and I loved Jordan. It was a lot cleaner than Egpyt and they have green apple Fanta! Best soda ever! Below was our feast of a lunch which was much deserved after our not so 5 star hotel meals. I am sitting with Brooke and Lynsay, in case you were wondering.

Above are the Allens, they are one of the service couples here and he is the doctor that takes care of all of us. They are so amazing and I love them dearly. We got to their house when we want a late night snack or to make cookies with them sometimes.
Above was our first view of the treasury from the canyon. It is absolutly breathtaking. Below is the typical jumping pictures. Yeah... we got mad hops!
This is Becca and I below at the castle. We got to the castle just before sunset and we had to RUN up this huge hill to get up to it but it was so worth it. My friend Jeremy took some other fun silhouette pictures of me at the castle at sunset but I didn't get them from him yet so that will have to be yet another post.

Petra rocks my world!

Above is me at the monistary at Petra. This place is huge and so neat because it was carved out of the rock. Below was the next day at a place called Jorash. This is the best preserved city of Roman ruins in the world.

Above is me cracking the whip Indiana Jones style in front of the treasury at Petra. It was pretty fun.
Below I am at a church in Jordan where there is a cool mosaic map on the floor of what the ancients knew of the middle east. It is pretty accurate and way cool. This was called the Church of St. George at Madaba. You should google the map on the floor. It is cool.


Here are some fun pictures from our trip to Jordan.