Well I decided that since it has been quite a crazy week with many things that have happened to us all, I should give all of you an update. And if you dont really want to hear whats going on in ma life...fine whatever. Haha just kidding. Anyways. Well I havent emailed ppl in quite a while, so thats another reason. Anywho. Well as some of you know, we had like 20 or 30 footballs that a VBS team gave us to use with the church. We kept them on the back porch and then all of a sudden, around christmas time, poof!! they all disapeared. Then a bunch of my "friends" stopped comming around and we didn't see anyone. We had been suspecting some people, but then one day one of my neighbors decides to finally tell me whats going on and tells me the names of the people who did it and the people who told her who did it and a bunch of other stuff. So I was pretty mad about that but just like whatever. Anyway, ummm...Ok well we have a bible study with a bunch of these kids, like my age and up, and my parents decided that we were going to talk about stealing and not only that its bad but our responsibility to our friends and neighbors to let them know that what they are doing is bad. Then we also talked about how Satan wants us to keep secrets and do things in hiding where they can get to us. But that if you bring it out in to the open that he can't use the secrets against you because they then, have no power over us. So a bunch of my friends that had decided to come started fidgeting in their seats and some left early, but then a few of the boys stayed after and told my dad who had done all this. We made sure to tell them all that it really wasn't the balls we cared about, sure it sucks that they're all gone but we really just care for them and that we want them to know that they matter more to us then the balls. Well then, the sister (letisia) to a guy that had asked me out before (and got angry when I said no) came and asked to talk to me in the back. So i was like sure. So we went back and she started crying and telling me all about how her and her brother (Bertrand) are not really brother and sister but that there step siblings. Anyways, I learn to find out that her step mom keeps beating her and she doesn't leave her food or anything and does a bunch of crap to her. So my mom and I prayed for her. Then she left. Well, THEN the next day I come back from dance class and my neighbors sister meets me shaking and could barley speak saying that Bertrand had come and said that Sabana (our horse guy), Denis (one of the guys that told us that Bertrand and Randsome were the ones who took our balls), and I should meet him down at the soccer field at 10 a.m. and that if we dont come something bad will happen. Then he showed her the knife he had with him and told her that if we didn't he was going to stab Denis, and that she shouldn't tell me this part. She stood there shaking, with tears in her eyes, and kept pleading with me that I should please not tell Bertrand that she told me about the knife. I ran into the house and told my dad and he said that it was all talk. But of course being me, the emotional one, haha, I couldn't just leave it alone and started crying like a ton and then like couldn't stop. I was (and still am) afraid of Bertrand a lot because, he is capable of doing really terrible things and has been known to do a ton of things. He has gangs in like almost every quarter and if he gets angry he can either try and do it himself of have one of his gangs go and attack the house of the person that made him angry. His parents are afraid of him, and he almost rapped his step sister. I thought that he had changed because he had got baptised and I went to his baptism and all...ahem but I guess not. Weeelll...I was also afraid for Denis and Daniel (the other guy who helped tell us about who stole the balls) ok PAUSE!! Let me explain this all
Daniel, Denis, Blessing (my neighbor), and Randsom, used to all come to my house and we were kind of like a group.
Bertrand is the guy who I used to play soccer with a lot, and then got to know cause of church, and then he asked me out and...ahem I didn't really see him at all (wewh!!) haha
Letise is Betrands step sister
Sabana is the Fulani man who works for us and takes care of our horses
Randsom...well he has been known to steal and I always denied it because we were friends, but now I have no reason to trust him
Ok back. And Blessing is totally scared of him. Ok so Finally we prayed about it and my dad went up the neighbors to talk to Blessing and her sister, then came back and said that we needed to go to Denis's house, so that we could tell him what was going on and that he should be careful. So my dad, Blessing, her dad, and I went and talked with Denis's parents about this and that Bertrand was armed. So they said that we should go to Bertrands house in the morning. Anyways, so then after that we went to Randsoms house and was talking with the guy he lives with and who works with my dad. They want to send him back to the village because he steals things from the house, and my dad has been saying that he needs more chances, and Katelyn, Lum and I are the ones who pay his school fees. So we go there and he calls Randsom out and we talk to him and he denys it all and says that he doesnt even know Bertrand that well, even though we used to all be pretty tight and like play soccer together. Then he started stumbling around with his words and making "mistakes" about what we had asked him. Anyways. This made me really sad because we used to be such friends. I cut into all the accusations and told him that I really cared about him and that even though it has been hard I have decided that I would forgive him, and that I REALLY WANT to believe him but that he has no proof for me, but that if he gives it that I would. He just looked at the floor. So then we left that and went home and SLEPT! I was an emotional wreck and definately needed the rest.
Well then today, my dad decided to go and meet Bertrand down at the feild. He sees him walking towards and and pulls out right in front of him, jumps out, grabs Bertrand by the belt and searches him for any knife, there wasn't one this time thank God. One of Bertrands friends that was with him looks over at my dad and is like "you be na Police man?" My dad just tells him to shut up and tells Bertrand to get in the car, bertrand was like no ill just walk and my dad looked at him and was like GET IN THE CAR NOW. SO he did. Gosh if I were him I would too! Eekk!! haha So then he gets to the field and Sabana is there grazing the horses and Bertrand just claims that he was only going to meet with us to plead his case that he hasn't stolen the balls. In the end they found out that he had balls that I had "given him" haha. Nice try bud but I didn't actually give you any. Weh bad luck for you! haha. Ok so then in the end my dad let him know that most of this quarter was looking out for him and knew about his plans. And that if ANYONE got hurt, any of us that he would come with some police and pick up Him and randsom and that he would let them do ANYTHING to them. That even if it wasn't them that he would be out hunting for them, and that they would LOSE. That was the same thing that my dad told Randsom. He also told Bertrand that he had no right to come near to, or speak to me and that if he did he would be sorry. Wewh, dad's and their girls huh? Well now were just waiting to see what happens and I went to visit Denis and Daniel to make sure everything was ok and what happened that morning. So far everything is good and I have to bring my Pepper spray with me when I go out and I have to take someone with me. haha. Gosh I am so afraid though! I just keep praying that nothing will happen to me or to my friends. I also went to try and visit Randsom as a friend to try and see what he really thought but he wasn't home. He was brought into all of this crap by Bertrand and it just makes me so sad that he would have to be pulled down in this. Keep praying for him that he would just like get some sense knocked into him and see how good he has it...ahem I just wanted to like slap him that night and be like, you know what stop being such a dumb butt. haha but i didnt' lol. So thats that. Ill give an update of what happens lata...Now for the GOOD NEWS! Yay!
So off of this depressing state, we knew about this one handicaped orphanage becuase we went there in the summer with the team that came and helped fix it up. So now we met this lady from Spain who has come to do theropy with the kids. She barley speaks English and came all by herself. She studied what's called 'hippotherapy' that is therapy that they use with horses and the kids. It really is amazing. So she needed some horses and somehow heard about us (the jackson ranch =D ) haha and so she wants to work with us on this. She said shell bring kids down on mondays at three ocklock and that she wants to teach me about it so that I can be one of the people who carrys this on when she leaves which will be in like four months. So she came today and we looked at the horses and decided on the horses that would work best. She counted the steps of the horses in a minute and said that if they had close to 46 steps per minute that they would be better for the therapy! Interesting huh? well I have been reading this book by Kim Meeder called "Hope Rising" about a ranch in Oregon called Crystal Peaks Ranch that saves abused and unwanted horses and brings them back to health and teaches them to trust people again by pairing them up with these abused, unwanted, handicaped, and broken children that come to the ranch. It just has a bunch of stories about the ranch and what amazing miracles have happened between the horses and the kids, how they have both learned to trust again becuase they can connect. It just makes my heart break and sometimes jump with joy! I can't wait to start going on this. Well Ill make sure and put up pics on facebook and my blog...of this. So thats this big news!
Well dancing is going well, Ive been chosen to be one of the people that goes to this opening thing and dance so that they have a nice intro or whatever and to advertise the dance classes. Im pretty excited about that. It's on Friday...woppii!! haha. Umm ya we've learned the Salsa, the African Rhumba, and the Rock. And then next time were going to learn the Bottle dance. That's a fun one. Its wednesdays and Sundays. fun fun! I've already learned a bunch of dances though cause of dance classes in Yaounde...so thats nice for me
Ummm ya were going down to Yaounde with the gang for the Valentines Dance next week. So hopefully that will be fun! =D well see y'all later and thats all for now! But keep checking in becuase I want to keep up the Bloggin...thehehe see y'all!!!
