UGLIEST SWEATER???

YOU ALL get to decide WHO you all think ACTUALLY had THE UGLIEST Chrismas sweater!!!

#1Jacqui

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 #2 Bro. Sam & Sis. Janelle!!!

(They're married...our youth pastor and his wife)

 #3 Seth...

he didn't feel like spendin a whole $7 bucks at Saver's or Goodwill...sooooooo he JUST WENT INTO HIS DAD'S CLOSET!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!

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#4 Sheree

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#5 Travis

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#6 Jonathon

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#7 Zach

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 #8- ME!!!

#9-DENAE

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 #10- Liz

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#11- Shannon

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 #12- Delora

Place your vote on the left side!!!

WEEEELLL there were more of us AT THE PARTY BuuuuuuuuuT thats all that participated in the UGLY SWEATERS!!! WHen the voting is over i'll tell you all who I THOUGHT had THE UGLIEST SWEATER!!! Also, one person's sweater isn't really in the contest...guess who's??? Guess who won for the guys!!! Guess who won OVERALL!!!

Click below to see more pics from our party!!!

Thanks for A FUN TIME!!! :)))

GUESS WHAT???

We had AWESOME, AMAZIN CHURCH TONIGHT!!! It was like WOW!!! My hair is PROOF...AHAHAHA...check it out...

BEFORE CHURCH!!!

AFTER CHURCH!!!

Okaaaaaaaaay soooo...I just HAVE to tell you all about it!!!I was just praying before church about STUFF...and I was just telling God...that there are some things that I just don't get...I don't understand...people...circumstances...things going on...and I was just like God ALL I KNOW...IS THAT I LOVE YOU!!! It doesn't make everthing perfect, it doesn't change all the problems...BUT...I LOVE YOU JESUS!!!! AND that song was on my heart... More than anything...I love you Jesus more than anything...More than worldly wealth...More than life itself...I love you Jesus more than anything. (I can't find the song online...I really wanna listen to it if anyone knows who sings it!!!) I just kept praying I love you Jesus!!! I Love you Jesus!!! I LOVE YOU JESUS!!!

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 SOOOOOOO then church started and IT WAS SOOOOO AWESOME!!! Like the power of God just FELL!!! We were already havin a good song service...AND then the choir sang and you could really feel God AND THEN we were all worshipping and then we started singing who's report will you believe? ANd we all started worshippin and dancing and I just felt like really dancing and then I just started dancing like WILD AND THEN...its hard to explain...its ike I was dancing in the spirit BUT THEN I could feel God just take over me and its like he was moving me and the next thing I know I was slain on the floor!!! It was soooooo AWESOME to be able to feel God like that!!!

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I've only been slain in the spirit ONE OTHER time!!! It was at Conquror's Conference at the end of  2007 when Bro. Raul Alvear from Brazil preached. I remember he said everyone that has the Holy Ghost needs to take a lap around the building...NOW I normally don't run the aisles at conferences cuz it can be like a REALLLLLY LONG LAP and I'm usually like still only half way around when the song is like OVER...LOL...BUT he said EVERYONE that had the Holy Ghost to take a lap around the building...soooo like EVERYONE was RUNNING!!!

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Weeeeelll...when I was about half way around the building and it was pretty SLOW runnin cuz we were ALL runnin...but about half way around I remember Bro. Alvear said, Before some of you even get all the way around the building running, God is going to take over you. Well when I got to the front at that conference, I started dancing with a buncha other girls, and then I just started dancing like wild and then the next thing I knew I was slain in the spirit...

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JUST Like Bro. ALvear had said, God TOOK OVER before I had even made it all the way around!!! I remember feeling such awe of God!!! I didn't even really know what had happened...I was actually REALLLLY SCARED!!! I couldn't move and I was like laying there like OMW am I dying or something??? LOL!!! AND THEN since no one was like calling the ambulance, I was like OKAAAAAAAY this must be God touching me or SOMETHING!!! LOL!!!

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SInce that time, there have been several times where I have felt God like that...but I reconized it and got scared and stopped it from happening. Buuuuuut...TONIGHT...I felt God taking over and I was like, I AM NOT STOPPING THIS...I NEED GOD!!!

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I am SOOOOOO thankful that we serve a REAL GOD!!! I am soooo thankful that I serve a God that I can touch an feel!!! Despite ALL the problems and confusion going on...living for GOD is STILL THE BEST LIFE EVERRRR!!! I LOVE HIM SOOOOO MUCH!!! AND when he touched me it was like he was just saying back to me...

I LOVE YOU TOO!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

I WON!!!

I WON THE UGLY CHRISTMAS SWEATER CONTEST!!!!

(Don't BE JEALOUS!!!;)

I couldn't believe it!!! I like SOOOOOO wasn't even trying...JAC totally helped me get started with it and then like 2 hours before it was time to leave...i got TOTALLY inspired with the hot glue gun and started goin cRaZy!!! AHAHAHAHA!!!

Weeeeeeeeelllll I WON FOR THE GIRLZ...then there was ANOTHER winner for the guyz AND THEN there was an OVERALLLL WINNERRRR!!!

 I'll post pics SOOOOON! I can NOT wait for you all to see it!!! ANNNND everyone else's!!! I'm ACTUALLY gonna have a contest on here and LET YOU ALL VOTE ON who YOU THINK Is the ugliest...that will be coming SOON!!! :) ANYWAYZ, I do NOT take it lightly that I won this award...

it is an EXTREME HONOR!!!

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NOW...the BIG question IS...

WILL I HAVE THE GUTS...

TO WEAR THIS AWARD WINNING UGLY SWEATER...

TO BIBLE COLLEGE THIS MONDAY NIGHT???

♥Mary Frances :)

Ugly sweater???

Sooooo our youth Christmas party is TONIGHT and the theme is for everyone to wear and UGLY CHRISTMAS SWEATER...and the person with THE UGLIEST sweater wins an award or something!!! Don't worry...i'll be postin pics!!!

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Sooooooo Jac volunteered to help me come up with one...said she was headin over to Goodwill and would stop by if she found anything for me. So when she stopped over at the house to show me her stuff...she had like THE CUTEST hoody everrrr on...I was like OMW...I looooooove your jacket!!! Its sooooooooo CUTE!!! Then...just to be a bRat...I couldn't resist sayin...

Sooooooooooo...

 is that what your wearing to the party tomorrow night???

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!  
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!! 
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!! 
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Just KIDDIN!!! JUST KIDDIN!!!
She knows I LOVED IT!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Does it bother you???

Soooo recently, someone was trying to set my friend Jac up with a single guy in his THIRTIES!!! Annnnd we hadn't even seen a pic of this guy or NOTHING...it was just like all TALK!!! LOL So we're like talking about it and I was like, sooooooo like, does it BOTHER you that he is in his THIRTIES??? Cuz that just seems really waaaaaaaaaaay older...Im all I really think it would bother ME!!!

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Sooooooo Jac kinda pauses and thinks about it for a second then says,Well Mary, I AM 28 years old...thats getting close to thirty! So I'm like, Oh yeah, huh...THATS TRUE!!! I forget that your 28 NOW!!! Then Jac kinda pauses again and says...

 ANNNNNND MARY...

YOUR 29!!!

I'm like, HUH?! Oooo! OH YEAH...thats RIGHT!!! I AM 29!!!!

BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

 

♥Mary Frances :)

I wish...

I was holding a seven-year-old I bring to church on my lap last week and I was smoothing her cheeks and I said...YOU ARE SOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!! And she said...I'm UGLY!!! I said, I SAY YOUR BEAUTIFUL!!! And she said, Weeeellll...I SAY I'M UGLY!!! I sighed and said...I wish I could give you some of my self-esteem!!! HAHAHA!!!

Seriousley though, I wish for Christmas...I could give some away...I wish I could make people see the beautiful person that they are!!! I've NEVERRR been able to understand how these beautiful girls can't see what they really are!!!! I used to think that girls just said that they were ugly cuz they were fishin for a compliment...but i'm startin to realize that people are seriousley lacking self-esteem...I take it as a personal mission to help change that...LOL... Any of you girlZ out there tonight....feeling down...feelin ugly...YOUR BEAUTIFUL!!! NOT because of what anybody else has said...BUT because GOD MADE YOU!!! The only way you could get any prettier is to love God more!!!!

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 "It is the holiness of God that makes us beautiful. Christ in us is the beauty that  radiates to the entire world.There is something about a strong relationship with God that brings a radiant, ravishing beauty that will not be overlooked.  Real Beauty comes from God."

-Bro. Garrett from Apostolic Standards Bible College class)

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The MORE you love God...the prettier you'll be!!! :)

♥Mary Frances :)

COME ON CHRISTMAS!!!

OMW!!! You guys...I'm soooooooooooo hyper!!! Its CHRISTMAS TIME aaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnd THIS song makes me even MORE hyper!!! You all have GOT to listen to it!!! Its Called; COME ON, CHRISTMAS by Matthew West...its sounds a lot like a Micheal Buble song...I LOVE IT!!! Its soooo happy and Jazzzzy and makes me bounce and twirl and whirl ALL over the room!!!!!!! ENJOY!!! :)))

Come On, Christmas

Come On, Christmas!
(Written on the beach) by Matthew West

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I left the lights up all year round
’cause I couldn’t bear the thought of taking ‘em down
I’ve been singing “Jingle Bell Rock” since July
all the Neighbors look at me like I’m crazy but I
Got a feeling that I just can’t shake
It’s lasted 365 days
Now I’m too excited, I can’t sleep a wink and
I stare at the snow outside my window just thinkin’

Chorus
Come on Christmas
I don’t why you’re taking so long Christmas
I’ve been waitin’ all year for you to get here
and I can’t take another second
Can’t you hear me beggin’?
Hurry up Santa Claus
I’ll give you my number
Just in case your reindeer get lost
And I sure wouldn’t mind
If you’re early this time
So, Come on, come on, come on Christmas!

Go HERE to listen to it!!! :)))

♥Mary Frances :)

HATERRRR...

I just found out...THAT...one of my bestest friends in the WHOLE world is a total Mary Haterrrr!!! I was SHOCKED...when I found out...and I am SURE you all will be too!!! If your wondering WHO it could possibly be...weeeeeeeeeelllll....HOLD ON...I'm about to tell YOU!!! ;)))
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The current MARY HATERRR award goes to THE ONE AND THE ONLY...

KIMMY KAT!!!

YES, I know, I too was SHOCKED to find this out...this is how the news to me ALL unfolded...

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We were havin a lil phone convo the other day, Kim had called me, seeking MY ADVICE, no surprise there eh? ;) Seekin my advice an forgiveness to someone...you know, who should forgive FIRST??? and in all my 28 years of WISDUMB, said, Oh just be the one to forgive!!! (LOL!) ANd she said, yeah, buuuuuuuuut...and I said, weeeeeeeellll JUST REMEMBER...your the one with THE HOLY GHOST!!!

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And Kim says, Oh...THATS TRUE!!! Your RIGHT!!! MAN!!!

I HATE it when YOUR RIGHT!!!

ANd I, still in my aura of WISEDUMB and total humility said...

WOW!!!

You must REALLLLLY HATE ME THEN!!!

AHAHAHAHA and Kim said....

Shuuuuuuuuuuut UP!!!!

Awwwwwwwww I LOVERRRS my little HATERRRRR!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

UGG BOOTS???

Soooooo aprently, i'm one of the FEW girlZ, that has NO desire to own a pair of UGG boots!!! ACTUALLY, I just found out what they are...LOL!!! I keep seeing ads for them EVERYWHERE!!

I wonder how they got the name UGG??? Like the first time someone saw them they were probabley like, UGH!!!!!! Ahahaha...noooooo they aren't that bad...actually kinda cute...now BURBERRY on the other hand...THATS what they should have name THAT BRAND!!!! That woulda been soooooooooooo PERFECT!!! All the girlz would be like oooo did you see the latest UGG purse??? Its just soooooooo UGH!!! Bahahahahahaha...

I guess what I'm REALLLY, REALLLLLLY, REAAAAALLLLLY trying to figure out is....

WHY??????

ANY girl living in the Phoenix Metro area of ARIZONA, would feel the NEED to wear a pair of

SNOWBOOTS...just to accessorize??? LOL

Although, I must admit I have VERY MUCH been wearing my jacket this winter ANNNND...I was soooooooo cold the other night I actually put on socks with my FLIP FLOPS!!! LOL!!! I know, I know, NOT exactly the fashion statement of the year!!!

It was like 50degrees out though, windy AND RAINY...and that is COOOOOOOOOOOLD for AZ!!! Ahahaha...Buuuuuuuuuut still...SNOW BOOTS????  My friend is from Alaska and he said that it is the OPPOSITE THERE!!! All the girlz, even though they totally NEED them, REFUSE to wear snowboots, cuz they are soooo uncute!!! AHAHAHAHA!!! ONLY in PHOENIX...where there is NO SUCH THING AS SNOW...will you see girlz, accessorizing with these things!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

What i'm doing...

Basically, what I am doing to lose weight now is...

 counting calories!!!

Counting calories and sticking with low fat and low carb foods...but basically i'm just counting calories!!! If you go HERE there is a calorie counter and it will tell you how many calories to eat, according to your gender, height, current weight, age, with how much weight you want to lose and the amount of days that you want to lose them in. (SOOO COOL!)

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Now, what I am doing though is changing my daily calorie intake so that my body doesn't get into a rut...I havn't come up with an exact routine yet of how i'm doing it all but I will let you all know when I do!!! :) Also, the calorie counter will tell you HOW MANY calories you can eat if you want to maintain your CURRENT weight...which I thought was pretty cool too!!!

I got down to...

 281 this week!!!!! :))))

♥Mary Frances :)

The Mind of God...

Several weeks ago at the end of Bro. Brown's Bible College Class on Man's Wisdom, Bro. Brown was talking about the mind of God. And he was talking about how we as humans can't fully understand the ways of God. He said that God doesn't value the same things that we as humans value. For example, the Bible clearly states in Psalm 116:15 "Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints." 

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And Bro. Brown was talking about how we as humans, WILL NEVER VALUE DEATH!!! He said it doesn't matter who it is and how old they are, its always sad to us, and MAYBE, if its an elder person, to some degree we may think of it as precious, but at the same time we are still SAD about it...no matter what we're still gonna miss that person... And he went on to say that we'll NEVER see the death of a young saint as precious...YET...the Bible clearly states that GOD THINKS its PRECIOUS!!! Because God doesn't think like we do. God doesn't value life...humans do!

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He said that God is God and we may not always understand him, but he is STILL GOD!!! He said that we've got to get the mind of God IN US. I can't remember the EXACT scripture he used, but I am pretty sure it was, Philippians 2:5, "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:" And I can't remember exactly how all he said it, but he said something along the lines that its not normal or natural for us to think like God, but that we have to pray and ask him to put his mind in us.

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I left DIFFERENT...

The song Sis Abbott wrote; ♪♫"I left a DIFFERENT WAY than I came in!!!"♪♫ Is currently running through my mind!!! YOU SEE, when I walked into church last night...I feel like I walked i with a TOTAL spirit of HUMILITY!!! I mean I'm tellin you all...there was soooooooo an AURA of humbleness hovering around me...BUT...when church was OVERRRR...

I left feeling TOTALLY...

CONCIETED!!!

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AND its all thanks to my SECRET PRAYER SISTER!!!! LOL!!! She left me a belated Thanksgiving present at church last night and when I saw the gift...I TORE IT OPEN!!!! (I'm sooooo NOT into calmly, gently, slowly opening gifts...I just get TOO EXCITED...LOL)...soooooo I tear it open and OMW...It was like THE CUTEST casual shirt I have everrr seen!!!

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I was like sooooooo EXCITED I was showing it to like EVERYONE and then I was like...okaaaaaay I can't wait...I have GOT TO go put it on RIGHT NOW!!! LOLOL!!! Soooo I did...AND when I saw myself for the first time...you can even ask Jac, she was with me, I like SCREAMED!!! I was like...

 OMW!!!

 I look soooooo CUTE!!!!!!

 I could NOT stop lookin at myself and taking pics....

THANK YOU SECRET PAL!!!

You MADE my night ...I mean...TOOK AWAY MY EXTREME spirit of HUMBLENESS...BUUUUUUUT...TOTALLY ...MADE MY NIGHT!!! :D

SOOOOOOOO now you know what to pray about for me!!! ;)

♥Mary Frances :)

Guess who's BIRTHDAY???

Weeeeellll...this lovely month of November marks the THREE YEAR birthday of my BABY...

 CLASSIC MARY MOMENTS...

is THREE!!!

 Can I get a woot! WOOT???

Sooooooo with this three year celebration, I thought i was time to explain the whole conception of this blog, how it began and got started!!! Would surprise you if I said that a VERY handsome, Apostolic young man was involved? Oh WAIT ACTUALLY...it was two HANDSOME MEN!!! LOLOLOL!!! Of course your NOT suprised...RIGHT??? Like DUH...where would life be like without handsome, Apostolic, men?! (BORING!!!;)

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So ANYWAYZ, we'll start off with guy #1!!! Okaaaaay soooo I had made this blog, MARY FRANCES WRITING, which was supposed to be a serious blog...to impress guy #2...LOL...who had this really professional, suave and inspiring writing on his blog... AND I thought for sure when he read MY WRITING, he would be soooo impressed, we could combine our talents and write books together...bahaha...NOTICE i'm STILL SINGLE??? Okaaaay but we're NOT talking about guy #2 yet...we're STILL on guy #1!!!

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I Died In Your City...

This poem was read during one of the preachings at WCC. My heart was soooo touched when I heard this. I just can't explain to you how it gripped me...I listened to the preaching CD and copied it word ofr word to share with you all...its so devestatingly sad, yet its so motivating...its compelling... Let it speak to YOU!!!
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I died in your city, yes I died,

I'm in hell burning and my brain is fried,

I was on drugs and alcohol,

My back was up against the wall,

The fellowship from down the road,

Wasn't there to lift my load,

The bus ministry that was supposed to be,

Never came and invited me,

I will get to it later, so you said,

 but you can't now, you see, i'm dead!

I was in your city and on your street,

I was a teenage runaway with nowhere to go,

But you wouldn't tell me how to save my soul,

Maybe I was rich, maybe I was poor,

But thats no reason for NOT knocking on my door.

So I ran to the master of death instead,

Like I told you before now i'm dead.

Oh it wasn't as if you didn't care,

But you said its another's job to go there,

Your what, might have, or could've been,

Is what could have saved me ...
from this place i'm in,

There are more out there, just like me,

So don't say some other time please,

Or wait till later, or wait for fate,

Reach them now, before its to late!!!

REACH THEM NOW,

BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!!! 

♥Mary Frances :)

Furtherin my testimony!!!

Sooooo several weeks ago, we were having testimony service at my church and I when it was my turn to testify I was like, I just wanna thank God for the Holy Ghost!!! And I was talkin about how I still remember that day when I finally got it...I was ONLY 6 years old but I was the best day of my whole life!!!

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And I was talkin about how there is NO birthday, no achievement, no goal, NOT even high school graduation supercedes that day in my life. And THEN I like paused...LOL...and I was like and I'm sure that day would be EVEN  better than my wedding day...BUT... I really don't know...since i've never actually gotten married...ahahaha...I'm like I mean I know it WILL be BUUUUUUUUT...I can't actually say it is UNTIL I know...Everyone starts laughin...(I said it really just to make this one man, my friends dad, Bro. Dave laugh...cuz he is ALWAYS jokin with me about findin a husband and stuff...he was laughin really hard when I said this...)

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Soooooo yeah people, you need to remember to join me in prayer for a husband!!! Now don't be thinkin that I'm bein all carnal with this request!!! I would REALLLLY like to be able to tell people that getting the Holy Ghost REALLLLLY WAS better than getting married!!! LOL!!!

This IS NOT about ME!!!

...I'm just being totally humble...unselfish...benevolent...NOBLE...

I'll give God ALL THE GLORY...

I just want to further my testimony!!!

SOMEBODY...GET A BURDEN!!! ;)

♥Mary Frances :)

Church Thanksgiving Feast...

 This past Sunday had to be one of the MOST MEMORABLE Thanksgiving feasts EVERRRR for me!!! Lets just say that the outreach has picked up like BIG time and we got a whole church van and my sis's mini van FULL of kids...it was soooooooo AWESOME!!! BUT it made for a WILD ride!!!
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 Lets just say that it began with someone "letting loose" in the church van and it smelled SOOOOO bad that another kid threw up!!! I was like OMW...aaaaauuuggggghhhh!!! LOL And like everyone was screamin and I had to break out my Victoria Secret body spray and like the boy that "let loose" was all like DEFENDIN himself!!! He is all like, YOU know that EVERYONE boofas...boofa is the African word for "lettin loose"  he is all , it was just a boofa...i'm like UH yeah...one that caused another kid to THROW UP!!! Like WOW!!! 

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Gobble till you wobble!!!!!

I'm STUFFED!!!

BUT who's ready to go SHOPPIN???

♥Mary Frances :)

Happpy THANKSGIVING!!!

I am ESPECIALLY thankful for...

MY FAMILY!!!

MY FRIENDS!!!

Two...

Weeeeellll its OFFICIAL everyone as of this past Saturday there are NOW....

TWO MARY GINTY'S!!!

I'm not sure Mary Jo realizes JUST HOW PRIVELEGED she is to share this name with me...AHAHA...Don't be JEALOUS EVERYONE!!! LOL!!!

Ummmm...

SORRRRY Everyone that my blog has been LAMO-O the last three days...I have A LOT going on right now!!! A LOT on my mind...STUFF i'm tryin to figure out and everything is just soooo busy...MY BURDEN for Esther is HUGE right now...I just couldn't stop cryin at church tonight...if you all could help me pray for her I would GREATLY appreciate that!!! I'm soooo desperate for God to work a miracle in her life!!!
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I'm sorry to all my friends that I owe emails and phone calls too...AnywayZ,  I promise to start postin again as soon as I can clear my mind to write something NORMAL...weeeelll you know normal for ME!!! LOL! Gnite!!! :)

♥Mary Frances :)

TODAY!!!!!

YOU SEE WHAT MY LIL TIMELINE SAYS???

It says....

TODAY IS THE DAY!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!

She is gettin up as Marry Joe Mesa BUT will be going to sleep as Mary Jo Elizabeth Ginty!!!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!
♥Mary Frances :)

Thankful for...

Weeeeelllllll with Thanksgiving around the corner...Its time to start saying WHAT I am Thankful for!!! AND as I said last night in our family prayer time, right now I am especially thankful for...

ESTHER!!!!

As you all know, I absolutely LOVE AND ADORE this girl!!! LOL!!! We have been spending a lot of time with each other this week. She called me up Monday night at Bible college and asked us to pick her up and OF COURSE I was happy to have my baby over!!! She has been here everyday since then and my sis drops her off in the morn for school. She said that she is gonna try to start going back to church...AND I was pretty much freakin out when I saw her in the ABOVE pic cuz she was in APOSTOLIC girl clothes...LOL...

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I was like jumpin up and down clappin my hands when she couldn't see me and letting out SILENT screams...We don't know what all we're gonna do next, we're just playin things by ear and letting God unfold everything...BUT...I've been really happy all this week!!!

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It was Tuesday morning and I got up and I was like YAAAAAAAY i have someone to take care of again!!! Immediatley put on my apron and started cookin up pancakes!!! Kim comes over and she like WOW...your sooo in your realm right now aren't you?!!? I'm like YUP!!!

I was givin her a cookin lesson on spagetti the other day...she LOVES spagetti...

She then told me that I'm soooo messed up for takin her pic while cookin...haha

 AND the below pic is of ME...IRONIN...ahaha!!! Kim saw me ironin and was just like WHAT?!?! YOUR IRONIN??? You NEVER Ironed for me Mary...I'm like ummmm...your 30 and she's 15!!!! AHahahaha...I'm like don't feel bad...I don't even iron MY OWN clothes!!! BUT if Esther wants to wear a long skirt and it needs to be ironed...I will sooooo IRON IT!!!

AnywayZ, I am soooo happy and excited about everything God has done and is doing and is going to do in her life!!! Don't forget to pray for her!!!!!! Ooooo wait to you all see her outfit for Sunday...it is sooooooooo BEAUTIFUL!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Dead Church!!!

I don't usually post forwards and stuff...BUT WOW...this really SPOKE TO ME!!!
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A new Pastor in a small Oklahoma town spent the first four days making personal visits to each of the members, inviting them to come to his first services.The following Sunday the church was all but empty.

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Accordingly, the Pastor placed a notice in the local newspapers, stating that, because the church was dead, it was everyone’s duty to give it a decent Christian burial. The funeral would be held the following Sunday afternoon, the notice said.

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Morbidly curious, a large crowd turned out for the “funeral.” In front of the pulpit, they saw a closed coffin, smothered in flowers. After the Pastor delivered the eulogy, he opened the coffin and invited his congregation to come forward and pay their final respects to their dead church.

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Filled with curiosity as to what would represent the corpse of a “dead church,” all the people eagerly lined up to look in the coffin. Each “mourner” peeped into the coffin then quickly turned away with a guilty, sheepish look.

Special THANKS!!!

My Sis and my neice want to give a SPECIAL

THANK YOU!!!

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To our good friend Renee!!! She sent my sis and MJ a beautiful Edible arrangement ALL the way from TEXAS to help begin the celebration of MJ's adoption on SATURDAY!!!

It was a very pleasent surprise for my sis when she got home from work and for MJ when she got home from school!!! We wish you were gonna be here to see the ACTUAL adoption on Saturday...BUT are VERY excited about you coming out here for the party in February...AND about us going to Texas in March!!! (Can't wait to see your house!!!)

Once again, THANK YOU for your thoughtfulness...

they really LOVED IT!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

GAME NIGHT!!!

We had family game night last night...one of the games we played was my ALL TIME FAVORITE...

CANDY LAND!!!

 NOW, if you are thinkin that Candy Land is a BORING, non-competitive, unskillful little kids game, you have OBVIOUSLEY...NEVER played with THE GINTY'S!!! This game can get VERY VIOLENT especially when playing with my brother John!!! We WILL CHEAT to beat each other!!! Ahaha!!!

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AnywayZ, last night It was Cesar, MJ, Esther and ME playing...thats a 4-year-old, a 9-year-old, a 15-year-old and a 28-year 0ld playing...

Guess WHO WON???

GUESS WHO doesn't like losing???

Yes, I realize that I'M 28 and he is 4...BUT...I like LOVE WINNING!!! LOLOLOL!!!! Plus, its bad to teach kids that they are gonna win every time...I believe it would have been a detriment to his health if I had LET HIM WIN!!! I woulda been teaching him a LIE...soooo I was just being a good Christian by beating him...Bahahahahahaha!!!

The BEST PART is that...

his MOM was the one taking the pictures!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

What the devil CAN'T DO!!!

I was thinkin the other day ALL that the devil will do take away someone's testimony. I was thinkin about when people leave church or mess up their lives in the world. I was thinkin about ALL that the devil can do to mess somebody up. The devil can take away our joy and our happiness. He can take away our innocence and purity and corrupt our minds. He can take away our peace of mind and hope for our future... He can take away our morals and ethics and rightousness. He can take it ALL AWAY...and leave us empty and broken...he can do all that...IF you let him...

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BUT despite ALL that the devil CAN take from you, there is ONE THING that the devil CAN NEVER take from you!!!! What he can't EVER take away from you, is WHAT GOD HAS ALREADY DONE FOR YOU!!!!

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The devil wants to ruin you. He wants to destroy you. He wants make you think that you can't make it. That you've backslid, you've failed God so why even bother. Why even keep trying? He wants to take away what God's done for you...BUT he can't. The devil can't ever change what God has ALREADY DONE!!!  

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If you have ever obeyed Acts 2:38, repented of your sins, been baptized in Jesus name, YOUR SINS were washed away and the devil can't EVER change that!!! God has already FORGIVEN YOU!!! He has already filled YOU with the HOLY GHOST!!!  He has ALREADY brought you salvation!!! He has already redeemed YOU!!! There is NOTHING the devil can ever do to change that!!!

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What it comes down to ultimately is one thing...CALVARY!!! It doesn't matter what you do or what you have done or what anyone says...the devil can NEVER take away CALVARY!!! Jesus has ALREADY died for YOU and there is nothing, nothing, NOTHING the devil can ever do to take that away!!!

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"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)

♥Mary Frances :)

Jealous!!!

I'm Jealous of My MOM;

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I know it sounds odd to hear one say that about their own MOTHER...BUT its TRUE!!! Cuz  NO MATTER what I do in life, NO MATTER how hard I try, NO MATTER how hard I strive, I'll NEVER, NEVER, NEVERRR, EVERRRR....

HEEEEEY!!!

You guys can view THE REST ....all 152 of the WCC pics HERE!!! For anyone that didn't see their pic...my computer wouldn't let me copy/paste some of them...sooo just go to my WCC Picassa Album!!! :) CASSIA!!! Here is our pic!!! ;)

♥Mary Frances :)

WCC Pics!!!

Weeeelll Here it is EVERYONE...my LONG awaited WCC pictures!!! I hope you all ENJOY!!! Feel free to STEAL any that you want!!! :)

BEFORE CHURCH!!! LOL!

AFTER CHURCH!!! :)

I Clean up pretty nicely don't you think?!?! LOL!

THE QUESTION!!!

Weeeelll it seems like EVERRR since I got back from WCC I have been asked TWO questions NON-STOP....LOL...

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1. WHEN are you gonna post your WCC pictures on your blog???

2. DID YOU MEET ANYONE???

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The answer to the first question IS...its lookin like SATURDAY!!! I have so many pics and i'm tryin to crop them and make a picassa album and write comments with them...soooo JUST WAIT!!! ;)

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Answer to the second question...uh YEAH...I met A LOT OF people!!! Made LOTSA NEW FRIENDS!!! HAHA!!! EVERYONE Is like NO MARY!!! DID YOU MEET A GUY??? HAHAHA!!! I don't know why that question is bein asked to me MORE than like ANY OTHER conference I have  EVERRRR been too!!! But the answer to that question is...

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YES!!!!

(STALKERS!!! You all been spyin on me!!! :)

He's TALL, DARK, mysterious AND...

Outreach technique...

Weeeeeeeelllllll I thought I would share with you all my NEWEST outreach technique...NOW this is an ECLUSIVE Mary technique that TOTALLY works...BUT I'm tellin you, you ain't gonna hear it in no evangelism class...

K!!! So my mom calls me like RIGHT before we were leavin for church and said that Esther had left a message on Facebook to tell Mary she wants to come to church tonight. Soooo i'm like okaaaay WHY didn't she call me??? So I call her grandma's cell phone and get a DISCONNECT recordin...I'm like OH thats WHY...somone didn't pay their bill!!! HAHAHA!!!

Sooooo I tell my mom and my sis I can't get in touch with her but lets just go over there and see what's going on...I mean by the time we get there she may be GONE...or who knows...she may be READY and WAITIN for me!!!