Classic Mary Moments: African food...

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

African food...

I was thinkin about Jestina the other day!!! I haven't seen her in about a year now but MAN...We had some GOOOOOD laughs together!!! Here she is teachin me how to make African food...

FRIED CHICKEN baby!

I remember the first time she taught me how to make it!!! She was askin me to teach her how to make some American food and I said SURE!!! And I was like and then you can teach me how to make some African food!!! And she was like ok sure...How about FRIED CHICKEN!!! And I was like laughin I'm like thats not AFRICAN food Jestina!!! Thats like African American!!!

And she was like "No Mary, fried chicken is NOT African American food. I learned how to fry chicken IN AFRICA! I was like what for REALZ??? WOW!! I thought it was reallly cool that its actually an African traditional food that was incorporated over here after all this time!!!

And let me tell you something...you ain't had GOOOOOD fried chicken until you have had Jestina's!!!

NO ONE can make fried chicken like THIS GIRL!!! She can put in just the right seasonings right into the flour and OMW... MMMM!!!I mean I don't usually put other people's cookin over mine...BUT when it comes to Jestina's FRIED CHICKEN...I do...Its BOMB!!!!

She gave me some advice while she was teachin me too!!! "AND Mary, If your gonna make fried chicken for black people, you BETTER make A LOT...or else they gonna be YELLIN at you!!!"

The Votaws!!!

He has preached all over the US, China, Taiwan, the Philipines, Vietnam and many more Asian countries. He preaches in underground churches in communism countries. He converted a man on death row in prison to Christ and 3 hours before that man died he baptized him in Jesus name. He prayed the first man in Vietnam to kill and americn soldier through to the Holy Ghost and Baptized him in Jesus name. He has converted trinitartin preachers all over to the Oneness doctrine...BUT ABOVE all else...I thank God that I TOO am ONE OF THOSE souls he reached out too...he gave 7 years of his life to New York City!!! I thank God that he answered the call!!! It wasn't until his 6th & final year as pastor there, that our family came into church...we were there for 9 months before we came to AZ and then right after that the Votaws left NYC for the mission fields of Asia...I THANK God that someone had a burden for NYC!!!

Sis. Kathy!!!

This is the woman that invited my Momma to a Pentecostal church!!! She told me that she was actually new in the church herself and that she would see my mom in the front yard of our house playing with us kids and she just wanted so badly for my mom to have what she had just recieved herself. It may have been just one person that she was witnessing to at that time, but that one person has had an affect on her own five children and now its her Grandchildren that are still recieving the blessing of Sis. Kathy's witness. 25 years ago, it wasn't just my mom...I may have only been two at the time, but it was ME she was winning too! I thank God she wasn't afraid to be a witness and that she didn't give up on my mom. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. (Acts 2:39) When you decide to live for God it doesn't just stop with you!