Saturday, January 28, 2012

SSMTC 2012




Ladies, it is so hard to believe that a week has gone by and this time last week we were resting up for our adventure to Galveston for the evening.


**Beth Herring and I, great friends and room mates for the second time**


Siesta Scripture Memory Team Celebration #2 was just as much fun as 2009! And yes, the teaching was amazing from Beth Moore and 2 John. God is so good and so fun!



This time my sweet roomie and I opted to move into the Omni to celebrate and be around the other Siesta's. It was a very wise choice and I stretched her by placing us on the 12th floor. Thank you Miss Beth for being such a good sport! I am an extremely light sleeper and being on the 12th floor was a great place to be, and let me say the Omni staff were gracious! We all felt like "princess'" in their hotel.



My closer friends and I all ganged up on Thursday in Houston. Three of us flew in and then Beth met us there in her car. We enjoyed a late lunch at Pappasito's before heading to the Omni.

**Beth, Debbie, Lisa and myself**

Not long after our arrival we began meeting other Siesta's and by Friday afternoon we were all enjoying being together once again.


**Yolanda, Susan, Beth, Judy, Michele, Debbie and Marsha**
**Yolana and Nesha**

**Rene, Leigh, Kathryn, myself and Debbie**



Friday late afternoon we enjoyed lunch at Berryhill prior to gathering at Houston's First Baptist Church. Beth Moore taught from 2 John and it was a word in due season!! It was remarkable as she had just memorized the entire "small" book and spoke it over us, it was amazing! God is amazing and He has certainly used her as a vessel in my life. I recognize it is Him in her!


**Yolanda and Heather**



I enjoyed getting to visit with both Amanda and Melissa at the celebration as well as in Church on Sunday morning at Bayou Christian Fellowship.

**Amanda and myself**

**Mellisa and myself**


Saturday after the conference we enjoyed barbecue, how can anyone go to Texas and not eat Mexican food and bbq??!! Then in the evening we drove down to Galveston and dined at Fishtales. It was amazing! We enjoyed a walk on the beach after dark once the fog finally lifted.





It was a great way to come together to meet up with old friends, meet "face to face" with those you blog and or facebook with, and to make new friends! Scripture and God's word has a way of knitting our hearts together. It was a blast to recite my 24 scriptures with Beth, my roomie, and for her to do so as well. Because we could say all 24 scriptures, Beth Moore and the LPM Team/Staff had a gift for us. Her latest DVD teaching!!! (fulfill your ministry) and also there were 6 door prize drawings and I was blessed to win one of them as well. (Thank you Beth Moore, LPM & De Anna!)







I would love to encourage any of you to hide God's word in your heart, that is what I am going to do in 2012 once again, this will be my fourth year to write 24 scriptures on my heart.




Yes, indeed...lets move up to Higher Ground(s)

11 comments:

Marilyn in Mississippi said...

Thank you so much for sharing this! I'm so proud of you!!

Marilyn

Tracy said...

I loved reading about it, too! Proud of you for all the work and excited for you that you had such a wonderful time celebrating with all the other siestas! Love & blessings...

Andrea said...

WOW...what a beautiful event with beautiful women!

Hugs and prayers,
andrea

Heather - On the Road... said...

Yolanda,
I just love your pictures and recap of the event. It was a definite game changer for me, and after I got to process with my best friend the other day, I know God is going to continue to work His word and will into my heart and life.

I am so glad to have met you face to face! It was wonderful to worship with you last weekend and I will never forget it!

Love you!

TRUTH SHARER said...

Oh, how I love to see and hear all about this JOYFUL time you had together with Beth H. and all the Siestas and Miss Beth and Melissa and Amanda too! GOD'S WORD is the Word made flesh dwelling within your hearts! I just weap at the thought when I hear that the WORD of GOD is abiding in more and more people.

Thank you for the challenge. I am in the James study right now [not teaching it - just receiving it] and God has done a miracle with allowing me to memorize the book. I just started 2 weeks ago and I already have almost all of chapter 1 memorized. I would suggest everyone see the tutorial that Miss Beth has on the James intro about memorizing -- under the Acrostic ABIDE. It truly is the way to go. Just when I was losing my own memory....God gave me a whole new one by His Spirit. I almost feel like I want to memorize chapter 1 of every NT book! We'll see if God has the same agenda....but for now it's me and James!

JOY in these last days, Stephanie

Leah Adams said...

Looks like it was such a blessing!! So glad you got to go.

Runner Mom said...

Love this! Love the pictures! Love the fun you had! But, most of all, love the heart that you have for the Lord!
Hugs!!
Susan

Carol said...

I loved your recap of our Siesta weekend. I'm the one who came up and introduced myself to you as one of your blog readers. We were staying at the Omni also but on the ninth floor. I saw you at BCF Sunday morning too but never got the chance to speak. The whole weekend was incredible and spoke so loud and vivid. Loved, loved every minute of it.

I'm with you on memorizing these scriptures and hiding them in our heart. I'm leading/teaching the James study now and have just finished memorizing Chapter 1 and now on to Chapter 2.

Thanks for sharing with us and I look forward to reading more of your blogs and see you again in 2013!

Carol

Beth Herring said...

i just relived our fun times again as I looked through this post! oh, let's do it again soon!! and Marilyn will come with us!!

Unknown said...

It was great to hear of your celebration recap! :) I wish I would have met you...but maybe we can connect on FB. :) If you're interested, here's my recap of the celebration...along with other God ordained moments in Houston! ♥
God bless you!
Lisa Braun

Lisa's Pic's said...

But I think I met some of you in the hotel lobby if I remember correctly. I went back over your photos and recognize some of the women. :)
Big hugs to you all!
Lisa Braun
(I'm using my most used google account...sorry to confuse you because my pics are different :)