Classic Mary Moments: What Mar means in Amharic...

Friday, July 27, 2012

What Mar means in Amharic...

Okaaaaay sooooo...When Hanna and Anali were here, we were having a discussion about my nickname,

MAR BEAR!!!

Also, people just call me Mar too...Mar, Mar-Mar or Mar Bear...

Now you may have difficulty understanding this, since you can't ACTUALLY hear me talking, buuuut...Anali was like, so why is your nickname Mar Bear?! And she prounounced Mar like the way you would prounounce bar, in candy bar.

Now people mistake Mar when they see it ALL the time, so I just explained it to her. No, no, its NOT Mar, like bar, its Mar, like the first part of my name without the Y. Mar, prounounced like Mer, from MERRY Christmas. So Anali is like OH ok and she gets it...MAR BEAR!!! :)

So Hanna is sitting there and she is like, WELL, in Amharic, which is the Ethiopian language, Mar, not sure of the exact spelling, buuuuuut MAR, prounounced like Bar, ACTUALLY means HONEY!!! So Mar Bear, prounounced WRONG actually means...

HONEY BEAR!!!

NOW you can't tell me thats NOT GOD!!!

Mar Bear... HONEY BEAR!!! Think about it, HONEY BEAR!!! That fits me EXACTLEY!!! Cuz i'm sweet and fluffy and soft and CUDDLY!!! (I'm purrin right now...those of you that KNOW ME...KNOWS what that means;) Awwwww...THANK GOD FOR AMHARIC!!! Mar...its probabley the ONLY word i'll everrrrr learn, BUUUUT honestly, is there ANY OTHER WORD that I would need?!?! I think NOT!!! ;)

So HOWEVER you say Mar Bear, EITHER WAY IS FINE NOW!!! Or you can even JUST call me HONEY BEAR!!! :) Annnnd if your handsome enough, and on-fire-for-God ENOUGH, feel free to just straigh up call me...

MAR!!! ;)

(Pronounced like BAR!!!:]

♥Mary Frances :)

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!