My Birthday =)

Yesterday was a hard day for me.  We have a team visiting and they are so wonderful.  They are from Siloam Springs and all of them are friends with the Tugwells.  I am thankful they are here but it made me really miss my friends and family.  I had a very up and down day yesterday.  I prayed that I could still be content on my birthday even being a part from everyone who I longed to be with.  God provided more than I could ask for.  I woke up and one of that lady’s on the team gave me a book that my wonderful friend Katie (who is now a 4^th grade teacher! YAY) got together.  This book had letters from my friends and it was truly the encouragement I needed.  I fell on my knees thanking God for my friends and that God saw that small encouragement I needed He provided through my friends =)  The day got even better!  We went to a church where the men on the team were leading a Pastor Conference.  Well, there was also summer school going on.  My heart is always drawn to run to the little kid’s room but today I felt like I needed to be in the older kid’s room.  God told me to talk to this girl who I saw yesterday at church.  Her name is Jennifer, she is 14, and she is part of the orphan program.  I was drawn to her and she was drawn to me.   I don’t know what is going to happen but I have a feeling God wants me to help her in some way!  The older kids sang Happy Birthday to me in Creole.  It was the most beautiful song I ever heard and I wanted to burst into tears, but I didn’t because they would have totally made fun of me haha.  As if meeting Jennifer was not a big enough blessing… I met Sandy.  Sandy is 20 years old and is a teacher here in Haiti.  She wants to learn more English, she is beautiful, and I can’t wait to see what God does through us.  I will see Sandy and Jennifer a lot because they go to Pastor Andre’s church and Lori and Noel work with pastor Andre at least once a week!  I love how great OUR GOD is!  He went out of His way to tell me “well done” on moving to Haiti and because you said yes I will bless you.  Thank you Jesus.