Wouldn't change a thing about a thing about you!

Today was absolutely amazing! I almost don't know where to begin!
Okay... Well like Brae and I have done in the past, we managed get our hands on some flowers! So what we did was take 39 flowers and made them into 39 tiny flower arrangements. We also had 5 flowers that we planted into 5 different pots! We delivered all these flowers to the major hospital near us.  We gave the 5 pots to the different desks at every ward. A really cool thing that happened was when one of the nurses said she saw us in the paper the day before. So she knew EXACTLY what we were doing! She was so happy to see us! All the nurses were! They really thought this was a sweet idea! Some of them even mentioned rooms they felt would enjoy getting a flower! As we walked down the hallways we made sure to stop and drop off a flower to any of patients we felt needed them! Most patients were sleeping or had visitors so we had a quite a few left! But the ones we did hand out really enjoyed these flowers! They smiled and said thank you! We decided though that we would take the extra flowers over to an old folks care home, the same one my grandpa lived in before he past away.  This is where we really saw the impact of what we were doing! Elderly people are so cute and sooo thankful! They don't get many visitors. So when we walked in they were Ecstatic! By the time we got there, everyone was eating but the nurses said it was fine! So went to each table one by one! And gave every person a flower. As we gave each lady a flower we told them how special they are! and to have a great day! Each lady LIT up like a little kid on christmas! Their reactions were priceless! I'll never forget those  HUGE smiles! They were just so cute! <3 The sad part was we were 7 flowers short! Brae and I felt SO BAD! but we told them we would come back again with more! And thats exactly what we plan to do! AH god is so good! I really hope he continues to remind how these lady's and patients how special they really are to him! and to Never Lose Hope!

Special Thanks goes out to Floral Inspirations! Thanks for all your help!

An encouraging call

So it's been WEEKS since Brae and I did any Tesh and Brae day stuff! But its never too late to start up again! On Wednesday we decided to make some phone calls! We grabbed the phonebook and picked 10 random numbers! We called them up and told them how special and important they are! And how we just wanted to encourage them!  A lot of the people liked it and said thank you! But one family didn't speak english so that one was a challenge. Out of the 10 numbers we called about half weren't home. (hahaha of course those were all the numbers I called). For those who didn't answer we ended up leaving voicemails!

Let us tell you a little Story ;)

So its been weeks since we have done a Tesh and Brae day! We apologize! Sometimes life just gets a little hectic! But we finally got around to doing one this week.
This week Brae and I decided to bless our school librarian. We don't know her personally. But our youth leader knows her quite well and told us that she could use some blessing! After hearing this Brae and I jumped on the chance to bless her! We weren't gunna let an opportunity like this pass by. We immediately started thinking of ideas! What would a Librarian like? After thinking for a while, Encouragement notes came to mind! We found a lot of cute verses and sayings and ended up making 10 little encouragement notes! Along with these notes we also bought some starbursts (cuz who doesn't like candy?)
We decided to give these notes out to 9 random people in the halls. Some we know quite well and some we didn't! Everyone was so willing to help us out! It was Awesome!
We told all of these 9 people to take their note and give it to the librarian sometime through out period 3. And thats exactly what they did! Throughout the whole hour she received these notes. One after another. And with every note she got she became more and more confused. Who was doing this? and Why? She kept asking them questions and none of them answered completely. At the very end of the period when we knew they were all done. Us ourselves went to go give the librarian her last and final note along with her starbursts! We told her this was her last note! And that it was us two behind the whole thing! We told her we wanted her to feel special and we just wanted to do something to brighten up her day! She thanked us numerous times! And was Over Joyed! I hope these notes will continue to bless her! When she's sad or confused or when life just sucks, she can look at these notes and realize people care about her and things will get better!

40 Flowers 40 Moms

I don't know about you, but my mom rocks! She has been the most supportive woman ever! Tesh's mom has also been a blessing to both of us. (I even call her mom as well). Not only is she a fantastic mom but just a wonderful woman in general. This week's Tesh and Brae day wouldn't have been able to happen with out her help! Since she is a florist, she let us use her extra flowers. AND she helped get them ready as well! Man, she has such a beautiful heart! :) We also had our friend, Marcail, helping us! It was defiantly nice to have those extra hands with all our flowers! Marcail told us that she can now see why we would want to do this every week! Ahhhh!
Wow, we had some sweet reactions! Some were good and some not. Out of the 45 we offered flowers to, only 5 said no. Of course this was disappointing for us but most of them said that it was because they lived out of town and didn't want the flower to die. As we were walking around some ladies would stop us asking what we were doing or "are you actually doing that?" They were so pumped that we thought of them when handing out flowers and that they were free. One lady called us down from the other end of the hall because she wanted a flower and her friend wanted to give one to her client! There were times when we would hand one out to a lady and suddenly there was a line of ladies waiting for a flower! One of our favourite reactions was this one lady who asked if she could have a second one to go bless someone else. As we were walking away, she followed us and told us how she was just thinking of going out and buying someone a flower. She told us how she hadn't seen this lady in a long time and suddenly she found her! She said we were like the 3 wise men that just showed up! Haha!
All these moms are so amazing! They were worth all of the time these flowers took! I just encourage you to do something really special for your mom tomorrow! The amount that she deserves it is crazy! And... To any moms reading this, THANK YOU! You rock! God bless!
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Roses! ♥

Hello everyone! It's time for another Tesh and Brae Day update! :)
Yesterday we had the most beautiful weather ever! The sun was out and so were many people. (including us) after spending most of the afternoon cleaning up garbage from the ditches... we quickly headed home to finish our project. All week we had been working on a scavenger hunt for our friend Steve. Steve has put so much time, effort and money into Tesh and Brae Day that we wanted to bless him back. He drove all around town looking for clues! We he was on his journey, we were waiting for him at a restaurant near by to buy him supper! It was really sweet for us to be able to pay him back for what he has done for us. Even though he didn't expect it, we are pretty sure he appreciated it anyways! :)

After supper, we all headed over to Tesh's house. For an hour, we cut roses and made them look all pretty so we could hand them out. It was kind of a last minute thing so we didn't have lots of people on our mind for who we should give them to. After some thought, we decided on 14 people we should give them to! Everyone had amazing reactions plus we got a lot of hugs! One lady was just sweeping her garage and we happened to drive past her. we stopped to give her a rose. at first she was a little scared of Steve's orange crv slowly driving past her house but then when she got the flower, she was so excited! Another lady we went to visit was going through a really rough time. Tesh and I didn't really know her but we went there anyways. when we got to the door, she opened it and was immediately shocked that two random girls would bring her a flower. she kept repeating "You will be so blessed for this. You will be rewarded greatly!" Most people just took the flower and closed the door but she stood and talked to us for almost 10 minutes. While we were there to bless her, she was such a blessing to us.
After a long day of smiling and blessing people, it was defiantly so good to crash. I know I am soo thankful that God is using us in this way! woo! God bless! <3

Hope

"God is using us in amazing ways!" That was the first thing Tesh said to me after Tesh and Brae day yesterday. Not that we don't know that God is using us but yesterday was such a sweet reminder. 

On Wednesday, our small group headed out to the city for the evening. The plan was to make a build-a-bear but we had no idea who it was going to be for. After much thinking and praying, a beautiful, young girl came to mind. This girl is quite sick and has barely been in school and has lost a lot of friends because of all of this. Tesh and I both agreed that she would be the perfect person to bless. As we were on our way to build-a-bear, we picked out the name Hope for our bear. We thought it was a cute way to give someone hope. 

Thursday, when we brought it to her (like most Tesh and Brae Day's) we stopped to pray first. It's always comforting knowing God is with us as we go out to bless people. When we went in, her mom lead us to where she sitting. She was so shocked! AHHHH! Man, i'm so pumped! We stood around for a bit and then we took her out for coffee, then we went and watched a movie. It was defiantly emotional! God is so so good! 

A word of Encouragement

Hey Everyone!!! This week brought EXCITING NEWS!!! A girl who just started at our youth became a christian! AHHHH So Awesome! We are so proud and just so thankful! Of corse Brae and I couldn't just sit around.. we wanted to do something for her! Because after such a high like that.. We knew temptations would be just around the corner.. waiting for her! SO.. me and brae put together a little jar. We filled this jar with some of our favourite candy and also notes of encouragement and Verses that help us get through tough times! That way when she reaches that hard spot she can just read these over and will always remember turn to god! SHE had the sweetest reaction ever! She gave us hugs and couldn't stop smiling! I'm so thankful she's apart of our youth and we wanna be here for her when things do get tough! Hope this jar will Remind her of all the good God really does!