God is so good. The community here takes my breath away. I can only say that these girls have taught me so much about myself. Last night I shared my life story in small group, which is something we do twice a week, and the response of love I got was overwhelming. God truly loves His children through people here on this earth. I am a firm believer that fellowship is one of the most important aspects in a Christian walk because God reveals a little bit of His character through everyone.. By knowing others you know God and His character more.

I just feel so at peace with what God is doing here in my life and in the lives of the millions this organization influences. I never even guessed I would leave with so many amazing friends, but God is so good and He knows exactly what I have been longing for.

My future is pretty much undecided right now and I am just waiting on God to tell me what I need to be doing—So this requires listening and constant prayer… Easier said than done.

Prayer request: Please pray I would be open to what God is doing in my heart, no matter how messy or hard the result may be—That I would constantly be seeking His love and His plan… That I would never stop being a reflection of His constant grace and beautiful patience.

I have so much to write about! Starting with our excursion with prosthetics into a tent city on Friday to drop off some patients and do some physical therapy. It was so much fun to play with all the kids and see a new way of life in Haiti. We took tons of pictures and played tons of jump rope and leap frog.

Abby Leonard and I took a good walk the other day and talked about the future and what the Lord is doing in our lives and how we should follow the things He places on our hearts and not just put them aside.

Life is so good right now. Snuggle parties every night, good chats, jam sessions, frozen nutter butters... I am loving the people here so much.

Oh and Abby Len chopped all her hair off... Or more like Jeremy did it. It looks so good!

Internet is being so jank here right now. So I don’t know if this will make it to you safe and sound, but I will try. I am sitting on my balcony with Katie (Tex), Abby, and Micah North! It has been so fun with Journey here and everything. This week has sped by. They left this morning. I never want to leave. I will certainly cry the day I do.

Hmm… What’s new here? It is hard to say really. I have been teaching. Making crafts with the amputee patients and God is working so much through this place and inside of me. He has given me some really amazing new friends and some life changing experiences.

I love the people I get to spend everyday with. I am so glad Abby is here. Tex is my bestie and it has only been a week or so since we met (hard to believe).. Brianna is a beast (you know you love it, B), Ashley is Ashley—One of my dearest friends since 8th grade, Chelsea and Erin— Some really awesome girls I get to privelidge to do life with.

Right now we are just soaking up the overcast sky. It has been so overcast this week and I am SO thankful for that.

Life is so good. Just great. Just utterly amazing. I thank God so much for this amazing feeling of peace within me. AH! I am just so excited for life—But I never want to leave these people or this place.

The people at MOH blow my mind daily in so many ways. They are each so great and make life here that much better. On top of bomb small groups we are having rad jam sessions pretty much every night and bomb snuggle parties. My fellow interns are such fun people and we are having so much fun together. We are all united for a common purpose of serving the Lord and glorifying His name, we all have a heart for missions... So it is inevitable that we would all be great friends.



We went out to Kayla's beach house on Saturday and Brianna and I had a great adventure involving a one person kyack and both of us shoved inside paddeling toward a Red Cross ship to go talk to the people. Needless to say we flipped over and were stranded out in the ocean. But we made it back with our mad survival skills and Brianna talking me through everything (I am a tad bit scared of water monsters...)

The Journey team is here! It is so great to see so many firmillar faces and have such great conversations.

God is so good.

I have never been so happy and content in the Lord than I am now. I am so sure of God's timing and His purpose for bringing me to Haiti. Last night I went to the youth worship service that is every Tuesday night. All the kids from the orphanage came running towards me and we all worshipped and danced together. And let me tell you, the dancing goes all night long... And it is tiring.

At the end when we were in prayer three of my kids were leaning on me while I held them.. My heart has never been so full of love and compassion. I could not fathom the fact that these children have to grow up with no parents. My heart could burst with the love I feel for these kids and it is so amazing that God loves them so much more than that.

Last night God placed in me a heart for this country and I am sure that I will live here at some point in my life. God is doing big things here and they are blowing my mind. His children are so beautiful.

Yesterday was the best day ever. I firmly believe that God moved in so many ways through so many people in my life here in Haiti. We began the morning by teaching the mommies at our usual time, only this time we had people from a team voulenteer to help. It was so amazing to have a person with each mommy, one on one teaching. Everyone was having SUCH a great time. Not only were the mommies using English but the Americans helping were having the experience of a lifetime. My heart was so full of joy to be supervising all of these people and see them building relationships unlike any other. We stayed an hour late because we were all having so much fun! God truly brings together people in the most random circumstances.

Last night we had a small group type thing with a bunch of the interns and some of the younger staff. It was amazing. We all shared our days and then two people, Diana and Bailey, shared their life stories. Every week we made it a plan to each share our stories. I have not had true community and thirstyness like this since I left for New York a year ago. These people are just so vulnerable and willing to share all of who they are. It is amazing how connected I feel to all of them and how I have felt so full since we had the small group.

"To know is to love, and to be known is to be loved"

I feel so loved and so full after last night. And we needed this group so badly, it is a challenge to experience what we do here and not have any intentional time to talk about it. God is good, and he has answered my prayers with this small group. Something as simple as sitting and talking about your day and sharing your story can be refreshing.. And to get to know others in a deep meaningful way is even better. I am so thankful for what God is doing in Haiti, through this mission and beyond. I could stay here forever.. And I am seriously wanting to get a job here after I graduate.

God is good.

Saturdays are lazy on the compound. Let me preface this with saying that you know you are in Haiti when you think that sleeping until eight is sleeping in. So at nine I watched a world cup game with the help of a ghetto piece of junk antenna that Jay bought at the Haitian market. At around 1:30 we moved the TV and antenna down to the long term patient ward, aka a tent, and watched US v. England with all the patients. I will never forget being in the big tent with all the patients and about 8 Americans gathered around the TV watching the game. At one point goats even walked by in back of the TV. I said to one guy "I will never forget watching the cup with goats walking by in the background" and he pointed out that majority of the people who watch the cup probably watch it like that.

But overall today was a lot of fun. We moved from our pink house into the guest house because we needed to give it to some staff who were moving around. So here I am. laying in bed, upstairs in the guest house, blogging away with fans blowing like mad.

Heres to CHAITI! (Yes, Chaiti)

I have taken on the project of teaching English to the kids who live in the orphanage at MOH aka the Hope House. It is so rewarding to spend so much time with them and I love it when I walk into the yard and all of the kids yell my name and run up to me. It is so challanging to teach them and make them behave, I have a new found respect for teachers (even more than I already had, which was always quite a lot). I am teaching English and Art mostly. We do crafts and draw pictures while learning English words and with the older kids we are reading Chronicles of Narnia. I mostly read but sometimes they work of the courage to read to the class.

I love teaching the kids but the thing I love most is teaching the Mommies. The Mommies are ladies who live in the orphanage with the kids. There are about six kids to a mommy and it is trying to be like a home setting. They are so eager to learn and shy to speak. We have class during the day while the kids are in school. It is so much fun building relationships with them. I cannot wait to hear all their stories and become close with them.

I am having so much fun spending majority of my time planning lessons and teaching but I also get to hang out with the kids and tomorrow I am going to go on an outreach with the temporary teams.

We showered in the rain again the other day. SO fun. We also enjoy sitting on our roof over looking the mountains drinking fruit champagne and talking. I love all the interns here so much and I will be sad to leave them. I am making so many new friends here and I know someday I will come back here, I would love to work here full time someday.

Student Journey team comes a week from today-- I am so excited.

Things are going so well here and God is working in big ways. This week is surgrey week so a lot of doctors are here and they are constantly in the O.R. There is never a dull moment around here though.

The time I am having here is beyond words. I visited two orphanages the other day and was blessed to play with tons of children. I am learning some creole and I am trying to set up lessons with someone for about an hour a day so the interns can become better at speaking.

The intern group is so great. We have all become such good friends and I have only been here for four days.. Now that is hard to believe! It feels like forever since I got here. I have been in the ocean twice already.. One on a beach day that some staff and interns went on and once at someone's house who works around MOH... At this house it was SO much fun. We all took a dip after the sweatest day of my life. Then we showered in a make shift shower in the back yard... AKA the jungle! It was SO much fun. I am loving the time I am spending with the staff and interns.

MOH is so amazing. They absolutely have a dream for this nation. They have fed more meals since the earthquake than any other organizations including red cross. They have so much faith that this nation can change. They have created an organization called Haiti One that feeds many of the Haitian schools around the country and plans to feed them all someday soon. By Septemeber they will be feeding 50,000 people a day. This place is so driven and they were the first to respond with with meals and medical care because they are already established in Haiti. If you want to donate to help Haiti, donate here. They have by far surpassed all the other aide organizations.

Although news coverage has mostly ceased in Haiti there are still bad things taking place here. The streets are filled with rubble and there are still dead bodies underneath the rock. There is still so much more to be done.

I had the best day today at a beautiful beach in Haiti. Although there is sarrow there is so much beauty. I love the life that fills all of these people. I thank the Lord for this place and opportunity.

Again sorry for any typos.

Made it to Haiti safely after a couple of excited events including being wrong about the time my plane departed and getting there ten minutes before boarding time. I got to Haiti last night and was welcomed by a group of friendly fellow interns, we are already becoming close friends. We went to a two hour youth worship service where I witnessed what it really means to be on your face, literally, for the Lord.

Ashley Carter and I are roommates and we will be getting another roomie tonight. Today we did so much work with medical supplies. We organized stuff for hours from all the donations mission of hope has recieved. It was SO hot and gross.

For lunch all the interns went on a tap tap (a haitian truck like a taxi that you pay to ride in the back of) and went to Gwo Poppa Poul (Big Daddy's Chicken). It has been so fun so far, it is definitly a different experience than being on a team... So much more fun (if that is possible).

Ashley, Brianna, and I just showered in the rain... Because it was better water pressure than in our shower... Which is literally a TRICKLE of water. LITERALLY.

I am so enjoying what God is already doing in Haiti and I can't believe I get to be with all these amazing people in this place for TWO MONTHS! Praise the Lord for all He has blessed me with.

(Sorry for any typos, I have to be fast with this).

Continue to pray for this BEAUTIFUL country.