Well hello everyone!! Just wanted to come in and update everyone on what goin on here in Kansas City, MO! Well this past week has been awesome getting to spend time with the kids and Scott (Founder of Fusion) came in to town! We were really excited...it felt like we were all his kids and we were excited for Dad to come home! but he was here for Counter Surveillance training. On Friday we ran are usual 2 miles, then came home got ready for survival training and we did that till about noon and thats where I got Poison Ivy for the 2nd time since I've been here! Then Scott came into to town with his friend who was a security officer for Sudan. We had a little training that night mostly just talking about it and how to know if people are following you and what you should do if they are. Saturday morning we woke up went to Campus met with everyone and there Scott tells us what were gonna be doing all day. So it starts with going downtown to the Plaza. We are working as a cohort and each of us have 4 clothes pins one on each arm and 2 on your back pockets. We also had a bright pink peice of engineer tape tied to are arms. We pull into the parking garage and the exercise starts at 1:00pm. As soon as we get out of the car we are not in a different country and we have no idea who is after us or on to us or is following us. We are now in the game. So we step out me and Mara were the front look outs while Alison, Becca, and Rebekah are the back. We see 2 guys coming towards us with tags on and we say "Chubby Bunny" which is our code word if were on to somebody to get them to leave us alone. we cant run or fight them off. But the first 2 guys we saw were supposed to be Government officials. Which means what ever they say we do. So we say out code word then he says were government officials and the code word wont work on them so he takes one of my safety pens then we quickly turn and start walking fast, we go into stores around every corner trying to lose them. Eventually we lost them we had what were supposed to be criminals coming up to us. We noticed tons of people following us and we had to lose them. We would get messages through the day and we couldnt be followed into where we met with chuch leaders or we couldnt have our pictures taken. If we did the church leader would die. So we would have to very quietly walk into meat with them we just sat down by them we couldnt look at them or make anyone think we were talking. So we would get our information and move on. The info would lead to other church leaders without directly saying it so if we were bugged they wouldnt have the all the info. So we then see 2 government officials coming after us we start walking the other way really fast and we go into Barnes in Nobles and we go upto the 4th floor and hide...but they already saw us so we are hiding behind a shelf on the ground and this guy sees us and is like what the heck are u doing! So we tell him and then he helps us by going down and looking for the Government people. He didnt see them so we left, but when we went out there were 2 more and they followed us into a parking garage we couldnt get away from them there was no where to go so most of us got are clothes pens stollen. We had to watch everyone everywhere! It was super fun but really exhausting and frustrating! My cohort got one of the church leaders killed because a criminal had followed us to her and took our picture sitting next to her. Later on that day we went out and shared the gospel but couldnt get our pictures taken doing it. So we had to keep looking around and always be aware who had a camera and was around us. At the end of the exercise we were sooo exhausted!! We said goodbye to Scott and will see him for our next crazy training!! He also told us that from now on we always have to be on the lookout because hes gonna have random people follow us from time to time. So when ever were driving some where we always have to know whos behind us and for how long. When were out somewhere see if anyone is following us. Its gonna be crazy! Anyways so that was Counter Surveillance training. On a different note I have found 2 Swahilis bibles and possily some Kirundi bibles thanks to the help of my mom! Im so excited for these awesome kids to have them. Hopefully I can give Bahati and Nehimanas parents one 2. Yesterday after church I got to take them out for lunch...Being on the budget that I am we went to Sonic. They loved it and I bought them Sundays afterwards and they had never seen Cherrys! They though it was candy and put the whole thing in there mouth! I was like noo you dont eat the stems! haha There so awesome. They told me too that they dont wont me going to Africa because its very dangerous and there scared for me to go there. It made me sad to think about the things they must have seen while they were there. Im really excited I get to go home in a week!! yay!! Next Saturday Ill be with my family in Memphis! I miss them soo much and cant wait to be with them and share things with everyone in person! I cant even write about the things I have learned and all that I have experienced! Its been incredible and I know the most intense trainings we havnt even done yet! I cant wait for Fall break and for the the other trainings and for going over seas....but im really gonna miss the CBC kids! Please continue to pray for the kids there and for that community. Also pray for all of us at Fusion that the Lord will continue to give us the strength that we need and we will become the people he wants us to be! I love being apart of what God is doing here and so honored that he is using me for the lost people that he so dearly loves and they dont even know it! Anyways Im gonna head up to CBC and hang out with my favorite kids in the whole world!! Thanks everyone again for your prayers and please continue to pray! Not just for me but for all of us who are going to the Nations and all of us who are going through this program. I hope everyone haves a great day! Also let me know if theres any prayer request I can keep in mind!

Love you all!!

God Bless!