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Tuesday Tea: Beggin’ for Money

Well, not really beggin’ but we kinda are. If you’ve followed this little blog of mine since last year, you may already know that Cory and I are going to Africa this summer. Last summer, Cory spent two weeks in Rwanda and we will be heading back in June.

I was heartbroken when I couldn’t go last year and swore to myself I wouldn’t stay home again. With planning in full swing comes the tedious task of support letters.

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Thank goodness, I’ve got a husband who can write like nobody’s business.

Since he wrote our letter {and has been working 72+ hours/week} I thought it was only fair for me to address and stuff the envelopes.

So for the past two nights, that’s what I’ve done.

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In our support letters, we included a self addressed, stamped envelope {which is why I had the printer out} and I knocked those out pretty quickly on Sunday night.

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Yesterday I went to the post office and picked up 140 stamps {which won’t be enough} and man, have they gone UP.  I worked on these for about 3 hours last night but had to stop because of the major hand cramp I had. These take a little longer because we hand address the envelope and sign the letters but I was pretty proud with how many I got through.

Until I realized I was only half way through our list. We are so blessed to have a long list of family and friends to send these letters too.

Even if it’s a tedious task, this is a part of being a missionary. Missionaries are funded by donations and the best way to get donations is to ask beg.  If beggin’ is what I have to do to be able to get to Rwanda to help those sweet babies, you better believe I’m gonna do it!

I’m so excited to be linking up with Jenni, Khala, Samantha and Reneé today with the first installment of Tuesday Tea.

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Since this link up is meant to be what you’d share with your girlfriends while curled up on the couch with a glass of your favorite tea, I thought this would be perfect since I’d probably ask my girlfriend to grab some envelopes and start stuffing!

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