Exploring

Today Mom and I decided to venture out and explore a little of Ft. Worth, besides just Walmart and other stores. Mom had looked up kind of touristy areas of interest in Ft. Worth and discovered a historical area of the city. So, off we went!

It was quite a neat place and had a very authentic Texas feel. The very first thing we did was sit down at a barbecue restaurant and eat a real Texan meal, complete with brisket, ribs, and smoked sausage. Of course we had all the other fixin's too like potato salad, red beans, and coleslaw. It was delicious!!
After lunch we wandered down the street in and out of little shops and learned a little bit about the historical stockyards of Ft. Worth. In the afternoon they had a cattle drive with the long-horned cattle, so everyone lined up on the streets and admired the huge beasts as they went by. All the while it's well over 100 degrees! The car said it was 113, which was of course a bit high due to it sitting in the sun...but I don't exaggerate when I say it's hot!! Thank goodness for AC. And thank goodness for my GPS too! I don't think we would make it anywhere without it yet.
Other than that, there isn't much going on right now. I just met my roommate yesterday and she's very sweet! I think we will get along great. We are hopefully heading to a young adults group game night tonight for a local church. Maybe we can make some friends! :-)
Tomorrow I'm meeting with a Cru staff guy and his wife to talk about maybe getting semi-involved in the campus ministry. We'll see if I have time, but I would love to help out in the ministry that helped me grow SO much during my undergrad.

Anyways, sending my love!!

Sarah

Settling in!

I have arrived...to Fort Worth, Texas that is.


Mom and I made the 18 hour+ journey from Michigan on Wednesday and arrived in Texas on Friday afternoon. We stopped at visited Greg, Stef, and Faith on the way down which was a nice beginning to the long trip. We pulled a Uhaul trailer on the back of my "new" Mountaineer and everything went quite smoothly...minus the few times mom had to back up the trailer in tight spots. I got to experience traveling West of the Mississippi for the first time! We also spent the night in Arkansas and ate dinner at a Mexican restaurant. I wanted so badly to speak Spanish to the waiter but nerves got the best of me. Finally by the time we left, I got up the courage to speak to the manager and tell him that I enjoyed the food! He seemed excited that I spoke Spanish and we had a short conversation. Love it!! Since being here, I'm obviously hearing a lot more Spanish...now I have to just put myself out there and use it!


As we were driving into Texas, I have to say that I didn't think it looked that much different than Michigan. There was green grass and green trees, it was pretty hilly and overall quite pretty. Now as I'm in Fort Worth, there are obvious differences due to it being a large city. The roads are kind of rough and traffic is a little crazier. It seems like I will never know where I'm going, but of course I will eventually. The area that I live in is quaint...lots of little houses (rentals probably) and pretty quiet.

Now the biggest difference of all, as many of you can guess, is the heat!! Oh my goodness, I just can't get over how HOT it is outside. Mom and I moved in all my furniture in 105 degree weather and it was miserable. And really, I'm never that hot because everything has AC...but I miss being able to go outside and enjoy the summer! Mom and I tried to take a walk tonight and it didn't last very long. The air is so heavy and the breeze is never cool. I'm not trying to complain, I knew it would be hot, but I guess it's hard to describe without sounding negative. ha. Let's just say I will enjoy this weather when there is 3ft. snow in MI this winter.

Here's my house:


So, the last few days have been exhausting and exciting, all at the same time. We've been putting together some furniture, shopping for groceries and other household goods, getting everything organized, etc. Mom leaves Thurs. and I start orientation on Monday. I haven't met my roommate yet, but she should be coming tomorrow! I'm excited about that and I hope everything continues to go well!!


Let me know how things are in Michigan!!

UPDATE FROM THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Hope you enjoy the updates from my 5-week trip to the Dominican Republic!

NUMBER 1

Hey all!! This is my first update from the Dominican Republic! I arrived a week ago and have spent the week settling in, making friends, getting to know the kids again, and working hard!! I will be here for 5 weeks total, one month left, and I'm excited to give an update!

If you don't already know, I am with a program called Orphanage Outreach (they have a fbook page if you're interested) working at an orphanage with about 42 children. I came down with them for one week about 2 1/2 years ago and fell in love with the little Dominican children. As I was looking for a summer program this year to be a part of, I emailed around and discovered that they were in great need of a Speech Pathologist! (Or someone, like me, who is being educated in the profession) I really had no idea what I would be doing when I came down, except working with a couple of the children here at the orphanage with speech/language/voice problems. Well, it turns out that 4 of us from college got to come together and HERE WE ARE!! Sara is also doing Speech Pathology with me and the other two are mainly focusing on physical therapy.

So, what do I do all week? Well, they jam pack our days and it's pretty crazy!! A typical week day consists of the four of us heading in to the small town of Monte Cristi by foot or getting a ride with the OO vans to the local rehab center. (Meanwhile all the other volunteers go out to teach English at the Institute that OO owns or into the local public schools). We are sort of pioneering this whole volunteer experience at the rehab center, which is intimidating and fun! They haven't had many volunteers just come down to work at the rehab center, except for a PT group last year. Well, anyways, our first day at the center, they allowed Nat and Elizabeth to get some hands on with physical therapy clients!! So cool, they love it. Sara and I were kind of expecting a slow start because they have NO speech therapist in this town and really never have, so they didn't have any clients lined up. But low and behold, within the first hour we had our first client!! It was a terrifying yet WOnderful experience, interviewing her and doing some on-the-spot therapy. Since then, word of mouth has spread and clients coming in for PT have also come to us for Speech therapy and we have about 5 clients. :-) Plus, each evening we work with a girl at the orphanage for about an hour after we get home, before dinner.

All of this work is really draining because I have to use my brain a lot! Those who teach English are drained physically after a day's work and I am exhausted mentally from trying to recall everything I have learned and trying to be creative. The other girls, Nat, Elizabeth, and Sara speak "un poco" of Spanish and so I translate a lot. I LOVE it. Truly, I love to speak Spanish more than most things! :-) And here I can do it ALL the time! When we're not at the rehab center we are probably either playing with the children at the orphanage, getting some sort of cultural talk, or using up our precious "siesta" (nap) time. We read, journal, nap, chat, etc. It's for about an hour or two during the middle of the day, which is amazing.

Let's see...daily life here is much much different than life in the States or even my life in Argentina was. We live in a "Ramada"...no, not like the Ramada Inn, but a pavilion with a tin roof, closed in by a chain link fence, covered in boards so that no one can see in. It's actually so much nicer that way because the air can circulate in and out. The ramada is full of bunks and we each have a mosquito net, which saves our body from being eaten alive while we sleep. The bathrooms are more or less like camping and we have to take navy showers to conserve water. The food is wonderful...very filling and quite nutritious. Lots of rice and beans, fruits and veggies. My ankles and feet are COVered in mosquito bites and we have plenty of other friends to keep us company during showers or in the bunk, ie spiders, cockroaches, etc.

I'm not sure if any of this makes it sound like I am not enjoying every second of it. HOnestly, the primitive setting does not bother me in the least and it's very similar to how I remember it two and a half years ago. We're constantly sweaty and gross, but it just makes you appreciate a shower SO much more! haha. All the little things in life seem to matter so much less here, material possessions, etc. No cell phone, Ipod, computer, tv. Makes relationships so much more important and your alone time with thoughts increases as well.

Thankfully I have been able to take time each morning to be alone with God and I find his Word rich and refreshing. I am also reading Crazy Love and loving every page of it. I am really trying to slow down and journal out my thoughts along the way. I'd love to hear your thoughts if you've read the book or are currently reading it, AMY! :-)

Tell me what you want to know and I will update you further!!!

Love and blessings a todos!!!!!


UPDATE #2 Simply Amazing

Hey all! Second week down, 3 more to go! It's crazy that we've packed so much in, yet we're not even half done! Well, in reality, Sara and Natalie are just starting up their last week, which is MUY triste (very sad), but I've still got awhile. I know it'll fly by.

Working at the clinic is getting a little easier, as we are getting into the routine of seeing the same patients and planning for them each day gets easier. Although, this week we added 2 new clients at the clinic and 3 at the orphanage, bringing our grand total to TEN! It is enough to keep Sara and I up late at night planning and busy during the day giving therapy. We have such a variety, from high functioning stroke, to almost non-verbal stroke, to stuttering, to language delay (possible apraxia), to voice, and more! I doubt that I will EVER experience this all at once again in my life. (Unless of course I return and live here ;-)). Day to day it can be frustrating, thinking "what difference can I make being here 5 weeks and then just up and leaving??" but when you experience the moments of a patient saying "hola" for the first time since her stroke and having a little boy laugh with true joy about stuttering when he had previously been terrified to even talk in front of us, or working with a teenage boy who is embarrassed about his high pitched voice finally make a breakthrough to a lower pitch...it's simply AMAZING. That's when you feel like you could do this for your whole life and never tire of the smiles and laughter brought about by better communication.

Since you know a little about my routine already, this time I'm going to talk about our Fridays. They are wonderful days of travel and relaxation. In the morning we travel to the Haiti/DR boarder, where they have an open market for Haitians and Dominicans to buy and sell goods. I posted a couple of pictures of the experience, but even the pictures cannot describe the different scenes. It's absolutely indescribable. One thing that it has made me realize is that I have never genuinely wanted for anything in my lifetime. I've never wondered where I would get my next meal, I've never had to go without a pair of shoes, and I've certainly never had to struggle for survival. All of these things you witness at this market, with Haitians rushing back and forth across the bridge that separates the two in order to quickly get what they need, bring it back to the Haitian side, and run across for more. The boarder is only open for 3 hours and, therefore, it is chaos. Haiti is a much poorer country than the Dominican Republic and, therefore, the Haitians are under much more stress to get what they need to live on. You do see the contrast at this market as well, with people who are clearly more wealthy than the others, dressed nicely, etc. I suppose that just makes the contrast even greater. Everyone is generally very friendly to our long line of "americanos" and return our smiles, wave, and say things that are mostly not understood. At times we are so jammed together that you discover what it means to be really "friendly" :-)

Next, we return to the orphanage to change quickly and head off to a buffet lunch at a restaurant which has amazing food. Then, we're off to the beautiful beach to enjoy the rest of the afternoon!! I have posted some pictures for you to enjoy. :-)

You may be asking me, So Sarah, what have you learned from all of this?? Well my friends, I am still processing through it all, and I will get back to you next week. I just want to say that I love you all and I would love to hear news from any one of your lives. Please update me :-)

With love and joy,

SArah Anne

UPDATE #3 Beauty Untold

So, here I am at the end of week 3 in the Dominican Republic! We just said goodbye this morning to Natalie and Sara, so now it's just Elizabeth and I. Except, it really isn't "just us" because we have lots of new friends and interns to spend our time with. But it is definitely a different dynamic without the other two.

As many of you know (because I got tons of well-wishes!), Tuesday this week was my 22nd birthday!! This is the second year I've missed my birthday at home...sorry mom! It would've been nice to be home, but I did definitely enjoy it here as well! They have the lovely tradition here of pouring cold water on your for your birthday, which I was delighted to experience in such heat! One of the older girls that I have gotten closer to gave me a cute beaded bracelet for my special day :-) One thing I definitely miss here, though, are hugs!! It's really hard because no one wants to touch...it's so so hot! But I love hugs mucho :-)

On Tuesday we also got the privilege to get to visit the local public hospital. Monte Cristi isn't a huge town and, if comparing their hospital to the states, it is quite primitive. One thing that struck me was that if the pharmacy is out of whatever medicine you need or supplies you need for a surgery (stitches, oxygen, etc) you have to go out and personally buy it. There are people waiting all day, some never making it into an appointment with a doctor all day. They have some sort of organizational system, but to the "untrained" eye it doesn't seem to be very effective or efficient. But they do what they can with the resources they are allocated. What else do we expect?

We also got to experience the English camps this week one day because the clinic was closed. That was quite the experience. I did camps back when I was here 2 1/2 years ago, but I've forgotten just how insane the kids can be! Our clinical work is taxing on the brain and your energy sometimes, but the camps are absolutely draining! You have to run around all day in the blazing heat, singing songs, playing games, making crafts, etc. Especially in the second camp they went to, where the children were not as used to the educational exposure that the other locations had been. They get so excited to sing and use beads and run around with us silly gringos. One little boy this week threw his arm around my neck and proudly told his friends, in Spanish of course, that he was going to New York. I'm not sure he thought I could understand him and I'm not sure it would've mattered if he knew I did. He also later kissed me on the cheek, as evidenced by a picture we captured. I'll post it later.

I did absolutely fall in love this week though. Because we don't usually go to the English camps, the kids didn't really know us and weren't as attached to us as they are to the other volunteers. I was just kind of watching an activity when a little girl kind of came up to us (kind of hung off to the side too). She was one of the most precious little girls I have ever seen. Her distinctive features gave her Haitian heritage away and I can't describe to you her huge brown eyes looking up at me and how they melted my heart. She hung out with me for the rest of the afternoon. I'm not sure she spoke Spanish fluently, but it was enough that we could communicate. At the end of the afternoon when I told her we would be leaving soon she ran away from me and I found her by herself, with huge tears rolling down her cheeks. When I tried to tell her goodbye she just followed me to the van and when her friend tried to pull her away, she stubbornly pointed to the van and said "I"m going with them." Talk about your heart breaking and melting at the same time.

I fell in love a second time when I found one of my favorite little girls at the orphanage sitting on a chair all by herself, crying. She wouldn't answer me when I asked what was wrong, so I just pulled her onto my lap and rocked her until she slept. Ahh...these children are slowly taking my heart!!!

UPDATE #4 Travel Time

Hey all!

So, this is my final update before I will be back in the USA next Saturday night. CRAZY!! I can't believe that I've been here for an entire month already! In some ways it seems longer, in others shorter. One thing that is unique to living down here though is that we definitely have a day-to-day mindset. One of our mottos is "This Is It" and that's truly how we live. I don't worry about what we're doing tomorrow (except in a therapy mindset with my clients) and I haven't thought a lot about life back in the states and what's going to be going on when I get home, when I move to Texas, etc. When I do let myself think about it I worry slightly about finding a place to live, having $$, etc., but I know God will work everything out if I just lean on him. Phew.

This week was the first week with just Elizabeth and I. We've adjusted fairly quickly, although we do miss our other halves!! I have Elizabeth help me with some speech things and other things I do by myself now. Some pretty cool things have been going on therapy-wise. Still loving the work and loving the variety of patients we get to see each day.

An exciting event happened this week! Twice a year the leadership brings a group of interns to Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, for the day. We just happened to be lucky enough to experience it!! The trip was a whopping 5 hours each way, but it was totally worth it! We had fun exploring the colonial part of Santo Domingo, where we visited a fort from the 15th century, a museum with a lot of the country's history, and ate..drum roll...PIZZA HUT!! Legit Pizza Hut that tasted exactly like the US. We also went shopping and bartered with local vendors on the street. The island has some pretty interesting history.

I really enjoy the interns that are here volunteering alongside of us. We've gotten some more time to get to know them and each week we get two one-on-one times to spend with a pre-chosen intern. We also often play cards, the most popular game being Nerts, and have a lot of fun doing that. We are from all over the country and it's a unique experience!

I am looking forward to returning home, but I am doing so with a bittersweet taste in my mouth. I will spend this week living life to the full with my clients, kids at the orphanage, sweaty walks home, beach time, reading time, star gazing time, etc. See you in a week!!

Love and hugs.

Sickly

Monday was a national holiday, Flag Day, and so we did not go to campus. Instead, we got everyone together and played sports all day. It was lots of fun and drained lots of energy from my weary body. We started with Ultimate Frisbee and then ended with the oh-so-popular soccer, or ¨futbol.¨ It was Argentines and Yankees alike. I enjoyed myself. That evening we played games at our hotel with some of the Argentines and continued the celebration and fun.

However, the next morning I woke up not feeling well. I´m not sure if it was the running around the previous day, sharing mate with everyone, or staying up too late...maybe a combination of all three. Whatever the case, I remained in bed for the day with a fever and did not go to campus with the rest of the group. It was not very pleasant. The next morning I still had a bit of a fever, but I took some medicine and got to campus. When my fever broke, it was like flipping a switch...I switched immediately from fever to cold. My nose turned into a faucet and I developed a cough. I´m still in that state, with a slight sore throat, but doing better. SO many of the people we had been hanging out with within those few days before I got sick are sick too. It´s going alllll around.

As far as ministry, I had been feeling rather discouraged because I hadn´t been able to be on campus, but today was great! Candice and I got to have a really great conversation with a girl and I left feeling more sure than ever that God wanted us to talk to her and remind her of God´s love and plan for her life. If there was one person we were supposed to talk to today, I am sure it was her.

We ended the day with our Friday activities of English club and our Vida meeting. We decided to do a ¨Christmas in June¨theme, since it is cold in the USA during the winter and it is cold here now. The Argentines were quite confused by the theme, but many of them still arrived wearing red and green. We made cookies, hot chocolate, and played Christmas songs in the background. It was a fun evening. Later it turned into a dance party, but that´s just ´cuz we enjoy dancin´so much. haha.

Anyways, tomorrow is our service project. We´re going to an orphanage, which should be a good experience and give us a chance to really love on some kids who don´t get much love.

Speaking of love, I send some your way! Thanks for keeping updated and supporting this sweet ministry here in Argentina. :-) I´ll be seeing you soon!!

Hi all!

Another week has passed and I can't believe it! We only have 2 weeks left here in Argentina. The time has really flown by! We actually only have about 7 more days on campus and we will be going to Iguazu to see the beautiful waterfalls in the north of the country.

I had a very up and down week. I was so discouraged on Wednesday because we just couldn't find anyone who was really interested in hearing what we had to share. Everyone had the attitude of "well, whatever works for you"....I got the feeling of "WHY am I trying to convince these people to accept this free gift when they don't even want it?" I know that was the wrong attitude to have, because number one, it's not me "convincing them" but instead presenting the gospel and letting them make a choice, praying that God will lift the veil from their eyes. Number two, I had to remind myself of God's love for each one of these students and the pain he feels at their rejection of his truth. I can't imagine. I get the comfort at least of knowing that they're not rejecting me, instead they're rejecting God. Even though it was a discouraging day, it was good for me to remember that we're fighting for lost souls and I need to have a broken heart for them, no matter how hard it can be to feel sometimes.

The next day was much more encouraging. It was really cool because a couple of girls and I got to share the gospel in Spanish to a girl from France. None of us were using our native languages, yet we were able to communicate very well. It was neat!

Thursday was very interesting. Sam, one of my fellow team members, and I went and passed out a bunch of fliers for English club and a talk/debate we were having on Friday. We were encouraged by some of the students' responses and afterwards we were SO pumped and ready to do ministry. We decided to go talk to one girl sitting alone and ask if she wanted to do a survey. She didn't speak English, so I then asked her in Spanish. She immediately asked if the survey was about God. Nodding my head yes, she calmly looked me in the eyes with a nasty look and said, "I don't want anything to do with this God of yours. You all come here and think you can evangelize to our country like we're one of your colonies. Well you should just go home." And then she looked back down to her book and resumed her studying.

I honestly felt like I had confronted Satan himself. Sam and I were so excited to do ministry this was clearly intended to break us down and discourage us. To be truthful, it did put a damper on the rest of my day, but it was also encouraging in a way. It showed me that Satan and spiritual warfare is real. Our whole team had been feeling it all week. It also showed us that what we are doing on that campus is making a difference and we're making headway with the gospel. Satan does not like that. I love these verses from Luke 10:16-19

"He who listens to you listens to me; he who rejects you rejects me; but he who rejects me rejects him who sent me."

The seventy-two returned with joy and said, "Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name."

He replied, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.

Thanks for the encouragement and prayers!!

This is our whole team of 14 in La Plata!

Hi all!!

Today is a day of rest!! Yay! This past week and weekend has been full of stuff to do and so it´s very nice to just have a day to listen to a sermon, chat a little, take a nap, post some pictures, and head to church a little later on. Since I haven´t been doing a very good job on keeping y´all updated on daily activity, I´ll do that now.

We had the fun opportunity to go to Uruguay as a group last weekend. Each week we get one free day with which we can do whatever we´d like. We took a bus very early in the morning to Buenos Aires and got on a ferry to take us over to Uruguay. We got to walk around a pretty town called Colonia and enjoy the sights of a new country. It did seem rather similar to Argentina, but it was quiet and peaceful. The group rented motos to ride around the city, but a couple of us decided to stay on foot and so we adventured the city on our own.

Over the week we went to campus every day and talked to students. The time on campus goes by very fast though. One day a week I am discipled by one of our staff members and another day our group had to plan English club.

This past Monday was my birthday, which I enjoyed very much! Our group went out to dinner together and then afterwards had decided to go bowling. Well, once we got back from dinner we discovered that the bowling alley is closed on Monday nights, go figure! So instead we decided to go upstairs and play cards and whatnot. Well, when I got up there my group had decorated and brought a cake for me. :-) It was very cute of them. I also got flowers from my roomie and earrings from Elizabeth. They made it a special day!

Friday I got a very special opportunity to go to Buenos Aires for their weekly meeting. I had asked a week or so ago if it would even be possible, since we have our weekly meeting here in La Plata on Fridays too. The leaders talked it over and figured things out so that I could go. I was SO so excited to get the opportunity to see all of my friends from when I had studied abroad. It meant a lot that they let me go! I ended the evening spending the night in the apartment of Kim and Alexis, two of the girls I became close to while in BA. It was just like I had never left!

Saturday I went to visit Vicky, my host mom from last year, but she was out of town sadly. The one day I came to visit! Hopefully I will get another opportunity to see her. I enjoyed being back in my neighborhood and seeing all of the old places I used to walk by every day. It was a great day!

This is a picture of us dancing at our Friday night meeting in La Plata. We had a very fun dance party!! :-)

Runnin´ the Race

Buen dia!!

Hi everyone! I hope all is well in the USA...it´s going well here in Argentina, although the weather is getting a bit colder. Sad day to know that I´m missing out on the lovely summer weather! But I do enjoy fall (which I missed this past year) so I get to see it here. I am currently at a locutorio, a place to get internet, and trying to upload pictures for everyone, but it´s not working! So, I will definitely do that soon! I know I keep promising it. :-)


Thanks Pastor Dave for your awesome words of encouragement! I too love the verse from Jeremiah 29:11 and have reminded myself of it since arriving here in La Plata. I also am reminded of this verse from 1 Peter 1:6-7 :

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

I feel like the whole experience of summer project is the process of being refined by fire for me. It´s great and fun and exciting....but it´s also challenging, draining, and a huge learning experience. As our leaders put it, when you´re on a summer project we each come with a big bucket of junk, following along after us. Througout the summer our junk starts to slosh out and get onto everyone else. Our sins become much more evident and we´re put in a position of great growth. It´s hard to ignore change! And, as Pastor put it, it hurts to change our ways sometimes...but so necessary if we´re to continue on the path that God has for us.

Gosh, I´ve been learning SO much! We listened to a sermon on Monday morning (my birthday, whoot whoot!!) that we followed up with a discussion. I ended up in tears, which shows that it impacted me in a great way. It talked about just the absolute need to share our faith no matter who we are, what we´re doing, or where we´re at. It used a great illustration of the Titanic. After the Titanic sunk, there were many people floating in the water in their life jackets, with no one to come rescue them. There were also people in life boats that we´re not even full. The lifeboats didn´t stop to pick up those who were desperate to be saved. The next morning searchers arrived to a sickening scene of hundreds of dead people floating in their life jackets.

Those people didn´t die because the Titanic sank...They instead died because those who were already saved wouldn´t go back for them.

Isn´t that how it works with us? We´re so content in our salvation that we don´t recognize the fact that there are hundreds and thousands of people we see each week heading in the direction of Hell. We have a voice...we can tell the truth. At least if people hear the truth, they can make a choice too, just like we once did.

Anyways, that was a tiny piece of what I´m learning. We´ve also focused a lot on the power of the Holy Spirit and how we need to yield EVERY area of our life to him, even the very difficult areas. This is convicting for me because there are definitely some areas that I need to hand over the reigns on.

Lastly, how I am doing. I´m genuinely joyful and content with being here in La Plata. I get tired easily, but I know a lot of that comes from long spiritual conversations with non-believers (or even those who believe) and pouring yourself out constantly. It´s easy to get discouraged when you have a day where you only have one conversation with a person and they´re not even that interested in what you have to offer. However, it´s teaching me more and more that God does not define success like we do and it´s not MY job to work in the hearts of those who we talk to. He will lift the veil from their faces when the time is right. I get to constantly be a seed planter! Spiritually I am constantly learning and (hopefully) growing. I am developing new friendships and I can´t wait to see where they lead.

Thank you SO much for keeping up-to-date on my experiences and know that ALL of us here appreciate your prayers. Know that you´re helping us over here be the bearers of Good News!!

You can pray for:
BOLDness! Our goal is to share the true gospel and it can be intimidating!
Energy! We are only running this particular race for 3 more weeks and we need God´s strength to keep going.


Ciao!!