I'm not dead!

Hey... I just wanted everyone to know that I'm not dead. I hardly get a chance to be on the internet, let alone to update my blog. I have some news though, I got a new job!!! I'm so excited, I've been praying for this for a long time. It will be the same pay, but I will have a ton of benefits and a much friendlier place to work in. I will also get to work with a very good friend of mine, Hayley. You can check it out here... www.lg-kfg.com

Other than that, all is good with us... We will be heading home to Illinois for a little break on the 22nd. Please pray for us as we are going through some changes right now with my new job and stuff. God has been so good to us and shown Himself to us so many times here lately.

May we all really know the true meaning of this Season. Jesus. My love to you all, and may you all have a very blessed Holiday Season.

I prolly won't post again till after the first of the year, and I'll be at my new job and on the internet all the time! :) Love, Emily

Hot Days

I'm sorry it's been so long since I"ve posted, please forgive me... So here's what's on my mind today...

Our air went out at work last Friday, and the guy just came today to fix it. He said he couldn't fix it today, that we would have to wait till tomorrow. It's 85 degrees in here today. Now, it is hot... but there have been a few comments such as... "It's hotter than Hell in here" or, "It's four times as hot as Hell in here". It got me up on my soap box.

How can a place be hotter than Hell? Is that possible? Don't think so... Last night Bro. Pavitt from England was preaching at our World Missions Conference. The title of his message was, Do you have the right view on Hell? He went through 13 points on what Isaiah said on Hell. It brought me to tears just thinking about all the people I know that might be going there... Do I have the right view of Hell? Obviously not, becuase I'm not knocking down those peoples doors warning them of what is to come, if they don't come to know my Saviour. It got me so convicted I couldn't stop thinking about it, and I still am thinking about it. How can someone just not care? They don't have the right view on hell. I'm hopefully going to bring in my notes from the sermon so that I have the verses to go with it. But this has been on my mind all day... Do you have the right view on Hell? Oh, and please pray that our air gets fixed soon... :)

Change again.

Have you ever just sat down and thought about all the things in your life that have changed? I was doing that today, and here's what I came up with...

Life seemed really simple when I was 12 and we were living in Indiana... My dad had been a pastor there for 9 years. This was all that I knew. I could tell you how to ride on your bike from my house to the church in town. I knew it like the back of my hand. The one thing I remember is, us kids would ride into the church to do our school work, and on the way we had to cross over railroad tracks. It wasn't the part that you could just ride over though, you had to get off your bike and walk over the tracks. Well, I was so little that I couldn't carry my bike and walk over it too... So, my big bro Mike would carry my bike for me, while I made the huge effort to walk over the tracks that came up to my knees (or so it seemed). For some reason, that memory has always stayed with me. I love my brothers and sister very much... We were all each other had growing up... boy, I miss those days.

So, obviously I've grown some since then, I could carry Mike's bike now :)

Mike is now married to Kristy, and has three precious little ones, and one on the way! The day he went off to Bible college was probably one of my hardest days, I was always close to Mike, he's so easy to talk to... whenever we went to theme parks, Mike rode with me. Shopping? I usually tagged along with Mike cause I knew he would look at cool stuff, and he would let me touch something if I wanted to :) He always called me a goon. Mike and I are the one's who have a preppy streak through us too... Mike and I also share a passion for music, we both love acapella.

Matt was the one who stepped on my kitten while he was playing basketball and killed it. :) Matt was the quieter one, usually with Nom when we went to do things. He's the mechanic in the family now. He's married to Corena and they have three of the cutest boys on earth. I hate being so far away and not being able to see Mike and Matt's kids grow up...
Matt's cool now... he likes alot of movies that I do, and we have alot more in common now that we've grown up. Matt would give me his left leg if I asked him for it... he's such a sweet, handsome guy.

Opey on the other hand, is hilarious. He's married to Renee. They are a cool married couple. Opey loves to have things nice, see... Mike and I rubbed off on him about the preppy thing. To Op, if you can't pay top dollar for something, don't get it until you can get the nice one. Op is a tractor salesman. And man can he ever sell those things. Opey is like Mom, he has a very tender heart. Op cries when he hugs me, cause he misses me. We share a love for contemporary music. By the way that reminds me that he has my cd's! Aurgh! Opey also comes and visits me in TN... I love that. I want everyone to see my house!

Naomi is my sister. I only have one, and she's the best you can have. She's the reason I chose to write all of this. Yesterday she went to Bible college. My sister is 24 and not married. I'm so proud of her for making this step. If anyone doesn't like change, it's my sister and me. We were so close after all the boys got married, we did everything together. She would make me buy something more ladylike and I would get her to get something more updated. We evened each other out. We would go to movies together, I would take all her "returns" back to Walmart... I can honestly say, when Phil asked me to marry him, one of the first things I thought of was my sister. What would Nom think, would she be upset, happy? I was the one who didn't want marriage. I wanted to have a career and go to college, now she's the one who's in college and isn't married. I miss our talks, and how close we were. Don't get me wrong, we're still close, it's just different now. And we both know that. I can read my sister too, I know when she's upset, or if I did something wrong, and she can do the same to me.

All I can say is, growing up has changed alot.

Alot of change came for me when I met my husband. I had never felt needed like he needed me before. I saw him almost everyday for the first year that we dated. If I didn't see him, or even if I did... we were on the phone every night. He was the first one I said hi to in the morning and the last to say good night. My husband is my best friend, maybe that's why things changed so much for me and Nom. Phil (that's his name) came in my life at a time when I didn't expect it. He quickly stole my heart. I wanted to be with him all the time. I had never felt this before. I wanted him to know my family, and my family to know him. :) He was afraid of my brothers, and I loved that. (that is what big brothers are for) Although, it was hard for my family to know him, or to know him as my boyfriend because he was so different then people we knew. He grew up totally different than I did. I like that though, because there are things that I learn from him, and things he learns from me. On June 26th of last year, I married him. One of the happiest days of my life. But it also came with a huge amount of change. I now live in Tennessee, I attend Temple Baptist Church, and work at Tennessee Farmers Mutual Insurance Company. I live 9 hours away from all of my family. What I once knew as everyday life; seeing my family, SMI, Friday nights with Nom, tractor pulls, Bethel, piano... all of that has become an occasion for me. I must say though, with all of the change life has brought me, God has been with me each step of the way. The nights I cried myself to sleep because I missed my family so much, God was right there giving me grace to wait till the next time we got to go home. Life is easier now, I still miss my family just as much, and miss Illinois. But God has given me peace to be here. This is where he has Phil and I in this point in our life. It may not always be what we want, but God will give contentment to those who ask Him for it.

Mondays...

Today has been crazy at work, they have decided to put me up front by myself, so I am driving myself nutty trying to get all of my work done, then have customers coming in by the minute. It's so wonderful! ;) Um, yeah... so my birthday is in 16 days! I'm going to be the very young age of 22.

Phil is getting ready to start school, his first day is the 31st of August... yup my Birthday!!!!!!! :)

Um, nothing much new to say... Mom and Nom came down for a couple days, that was fun... I got to see Nom for a while and spend some time with her, she will be busy at school but I'm so excited for her.

Natalie, my friend from England is coming to visit us for two weeks in April :) I'm very excited about showing her everything. She has no idea... She's my age and we get along great... you can tell by my phone bill... one call to her for 30 minutes was almost 50.00... she got her phone bill, it was 1.40 in american money. LOL She'll call me from now on... :)

Church is great, all the college kids are starting to come back, so I'm getting excited about seein all of "my girls". I went to Hayley's on Saturday night to play games with her. I was there till 11:30 playin Golf. If you don't know how to play that card game, you should find out cause it's fun...

Oh! I got my cartilage pierced for my birthday... it's cute but kills. The only bad thing is that my hair is getting long, and when it's down, you can't see it! :( Oh well...

Okay, I'm done rambling... :0) Good day!

Will someone dig a hole?????

and put me in it!!!!!!!!! Ok, just a little airing out here... I was in the newborn nursery last night, was there two minutes and Silas puked all over me... That is just the beginning of my night. We get home, and Phil loves to aggrivate me... to get me mad just cause he thinks it's cute. So he starts doing things he knows makes me tick... So then, guess what? Emily's in a bad mood... so he makes up and we start to enojoy the evening again, THEN!!!!!!! I had to make a Texas Sheet Cake for the Pastor's School at Temple. So I begin doing my wife thing in the kitchen baking, everything is going well, until I start to make the frosting. I had to make it three times before I finally got it right. By this time, I was so frustrated it wasn't funny. So I ask God to make me forget this evening and everything will be fine in the morning. Right?

NOT!!!!!!!!! Thursday morning everything I touched either broke or didn't work. Seriously... It's crazy! I made a customer about have a heart attack because I can't read numbers. I was late to work for the second time this week. On Tuesday the rest of my furniture came while Phil was still in bed, then this morning... I am seriously going to go hybernate soon...

Catching up...

Man, things have been crazy at my house. We got back from London, and went straight to Illinois to see family and show them the pictures. We had a blast and enjoyed the time spent with our church family. Hopefully soon I can take the time to go through our daily "doins" of when we were in England. Don't have that much time right now though. I would like to post pictures too, but Phil has to help me with that. We'll just leave it at, God did a great thing for us, and worked in our hearts while we were there. We got so close to the church there, that we both cried when we had to leave. There are so many people there who don't know God... Please pray for the missionaries that are there, and for the people to listen and have tender hearts.

So, on a lighter note... life has been good. I dont really know where to start... Deann and her girls came down and spent a week with us. We were able to spend lots of time with them, which was great because Phil and I both needed it. Hopie was my flowergirl and just has a really special spot in Emmy's heart. Not that Deann and Morgan don't.... but ya know. They stayed two nights in a hotel and we went and had a pool party! It was so fun, we had pizza and soda, then swam and swam... It was so much fun! We went to the Dixie Stampede on Thursday night then they had to leave on Friday... So much fun though.

Okay, I have to seriously go to work, but I'll post later today or this week. Love to you all!

Status: London, England - Piccadilly Circus

Hey all! Yup, yup... I'm in England! Sorry that I haven't been able to write while we have been here, but internet was the last thing on my mind while being here! We were in Corby, England (Northants) for two weeks then today we came by train to London. What would have been a three hour car drive (possibly longer) just to get us to the outside of London, took us one hour by train and to our hotel on Russel Square. We have went all over today looking at the sights... my feet are killing me! :) We have went to....oops guess you will have to wait till I get back to hear about our trip! Phil says it's time to go! :) Love and Prayers to all.... Please pray for us we are here till Wednesday then we drive to Illinois on Thursday!

Ramblings

So, yeah.... the past couple days have been absolutely crazy! My living room floor is covered in clothes, suitcases, and tons of odd and end stuff. Only an hour and a half left and I will be off of work for three weeks! Kind of a scary thought, but oh well.

I am so excited about this trip, God has worked so much in Phil and I's lives this will be a huge part to add to our stockpile of God's blessings. I'm taking my songbooks so that maybe I can play the piano some over there... I never get to play anymore which makes me sad. I'm praying that someday we will be able to get a full size keyboard so I can take it places with me. I'm also taking two of our family cd's. Then we can say we have cd's in London too!

Ah! I'm doing hair for a wedding tomorrow too! I will be there from 11 in the morning to 6 in the evening! Doesn't help much for my packing schedule but, they are paying me, and I love to do hair so it will be fun anyway. I did the Bride's hair two weeks ago, and she loved it. It turned out awesome! I was so happy! :)

Don't really know why I felt like rambling a whole bunch of stuff... I'm hoping to get to blog while we are in England. It would be cool to type a daily journal in here to remember little details too.

Well, I will post in here later... please pray for us, and pray I won't get sick on the flight.

Love and Prayers from me, Emily "The Redhead"

Our trip!

So, I choose this post to talk about our trip to London, England. We are leaving on May 30th from Atlanta, Georgia. We will get to Heathrow airport at 7:30 on the morning of the 31st. Bro Pavvit is suppose to have someone there to pick us up and take us to his home in Corbey. We will spend two weeks with him and another missionary starting a church in a near-by town. They have a goal this summer to start two churches, and to be preaching on street corners in London, every saturday. We are so very excited about this but most of all to get an idea of how it will be when we get there to do the same things for our ministry. I am so excited to see the culture and just how they do things there. I know God will also give me a stronger burden for these people because that is what I am praying mostly for.

When we finish our two weeks with the missionaries, we are staying two days in London by ourselves. Phil has been there before and knows how to go places and the really neat things to see. I can't wait to see Big Ben, Zebra Lane and things like that. There are a ton of places we want to go but I can't think of any of the names!!!! aurgh! Then we will fly back into Atlanta and go straight home until the 21st of June.

How exciting is this?????? lol If you could see me now, I've got goosebumps from talking about it! God is so good, and has done so much for us... All the praise and honor goes to him for what He has done, and what He's going to do in and through us while on this trip.

Any questions, suggestions of things to see, or things to be aware of? Let me kn0w! ~ The Redhead.

Hey, Hey, Hey!!!!!!

So, yeah... I'm here. I am the official Mrs. Emily Christine Rae Rowell Hulett. Noone has a name like me :) Life for me is hectic right now. I work from 8-5 at Tennessee Farmers Mutual Insurance Company. I am a CSR... basically I do all the dirty work with the customers and keep them happy with thier agents. My husband, Phil, works for McAlisters Deli. If you haven't eaten there, you have to. It's so good. They have 2 pound baked potatoes, with tons of stuff on them. Anyways, he works from 5-11:30 every week night except Wednesday. Needless to say, weekends are a treasure in our home. Well, work calls... I'll blog more important things later.


OH! I can't believe I almost forgot!!!!! I'm going to England in 24 days!! (with my husband of course...) I'll also tell you more about that when I get more serious. This is also a way for me to keep my big bro updated on his lil sis. :0) Love ya dude.

Okay, so ttyl.... The Redhead (At Temple Baptist Church, I'm known as "The Redhead" Even by Mrs. Sexton, the pastors wife.)