Happy January! And happy 2024! May the Lord be with us all this year and may we do His will throughout the year, striving to please Him. Enjoy this short review of what has happened this month.

Mama came to visit! To say we were all excited is an understatement. It is always a good time melding my two families.

We visited the dairy farm in Torbeck. I have been here many times but it has been quite a while. I didn’t even realize that Mama had never been. It is always a beautiful and peaceful time out at the farm. We enjoyed oohing and ahhing over baby cows and spending some time with some pretty special friends while there.

Of course, we had to get some work in. Mama spent quite a bit of time at the office. She always loves to see my sweet coworkers and they her. We visited some schools and she got to see her sponsor child for the third year in a row. I got to hang out with my friend, Ashley. This silly one belongs to one of my coworkers, I have spent a lot of time with her since she was born, enough that she will call me her Mama. But she didn’t want to talk to me in front of her friends. You know, first year at school, you gotta pay it cool.

We love to visit other ministries around us and of course spend time with my close missionary friends. We visited Centre Lumiere and got a tour of their growing garden. Mama was thankful to talk to them about how ministry is going.

At the end of last year, Rameau retired from RMI after 30+ years of service. It was a bittersweet time for all of us. I am thankful to have gotten to work along side him and blessed to know him. He is currently still working at my house part time but certainly missed in the office. Mama was able to be here for his retirement party. The staff all had wonderful things to say about him and we had a great time together. Edy made some beautiful and delicious cakes, Rameau loves his sweets.

Oti got in a lot of good Grandma time over the week or so Mama was here. He could tell I was getting ready for a visitor before her arrival and was already excited. He likes that she will play with him and is always thankful for the extra snuggles. He knows when Mama sends a care package that he is getting something in it so to see her in person he could hardly stand himself.

We got to spend 2 Sunday mornings in church together. 1st Sunday is communion Sunday so we took communion with our brothers and sisters. I did my best to translate the services that we attended.

Finally, we had to get in some extra special time with Sabina. Not sure what I would do without this friend of mine. We love her so much. She and I both refer to each others Mamas as Mama and they both consider us 2nd daughters. God provided with this one. We had some other fun times with friends but no pictures were taken. All in all, it was a wonderful time.

During some of our “down time” this month, we have started up an English club. We weren’t able to have the team we were supposed to have and are not in HFKz busy season so we are doing this in an effort to use our time wisely. I enjoy doing these English lessons, I learn a lot doing them and get to teach for a bit again.

Other things happened this month but as I sit here writing this and I can’t remember them all. It was supposed to be a busier month than it wound up being but God knows the reason why. We continue to do our best to get the work done here in Haiti. Please keep this beautiful country in your prayers.

It has been a December to remember! The season has been wonderfully busy! Oti and I spent a few days feeling pretty chilly and being under blankets before the weather went back to requiring fans. I love that even to take out the trash I have beautiful views! This country and its beauty never ceases to amaze me. Also, I made my first attempt at cheesecake for Christmas! It was a delicious passionfruit cheesecake shared with friends at a small gathering.

Sabina graduated!!! Well, Sabina graduated last year but due to different things happening in the country, she wasn’t able to have the ceremony until this year. She got a degree in Business Administration and Management from AUC. This girl works so hard at all she does, spreads smiles all around, is SUPER smart, and is kind to all she meets. I am so proud of her and thankful to know her! It was a pleasure to celebrate her.

We had some fun visitors this month. Of course, visitors always mean eating together. Thankful for these relationships and how Haiti has brought us all together.

A day at the island with good friends. It is crazy to see how much has changed over the last few years. The earthquake changed so much of this island and even since then I see such a different, the island is getting smaller. They are working very hard on cleaning out around the fort and trying to make it more of a tourist attraction. If you ever have the chance, you should visit! The history is cool and it’s also just gorgeous out there.

Ended the month (and year) with a beautiful wedding of a coworker. (I didn’t take photos of the bride and groom.) Now we are anxiously awaiting 2024 to see all that it will bring.

Interruptions are the worst. Personally, I can’t stand them. If I am working and super focused on something, you can expect to be snapped at if you interupt me. Even if it isn’t work related, if I am in the middle of doing something or going somewhere, I don’t like to be pulled away from that. And I think that most can agree that they react the same way. I don’t believe I am alone in this struggle. And we know that this isn’t good.

I know that as a Christian I am supposed to strive to be more like Christ. And I am the first to admit that I am far far far away from being like Him. I am the biggest sinner I know. But in my longing to be more like Him, I have to study Him and learn from how He reacts to others.

Jesus was interrupted many times that we see, and I would imagine there were other times that are not recorded. I would like to look at two (or three) examples. In Matthew 9 we see it happen twice. In the beginning of the chapter, we can see that He is preaching to the people. In verse 18 it says as He was telling them these things, this to me says that he was not yet done sharing. A man came to Jesus to plead with Him to heal his daughter. (Check out the story in Matthew 9.) And in verse 19, it says Jesus and His disciples got up and followed the man. Jesus could have easily told the man to wait, He was in the middle of something. He could have ignored him altogether. But He didn’t, He quickly got up and followed this man to heal his daughter. Now, in the same chapter, verse 20, a woman approached Him. This story is a little different because she does not actually speak to Him or ask Him to heal her in the beginning. She simply wanted to touch Him. And again, Jesus could have kept moving. He could have ignored her, or even been annoyed that she was touching Him. But instead, He stopped what He was doing. Twice within this chapter Jesus stops what He is doing happily to help and heal others.

There is another time in Matthew that Jesus is interrupted. Matthew 14 really touches me. At the beginning of the chapter, John the Baptist is killed. John was a good friend of Jesus, his cousin. The Bible shows us a picture of a close relationship between the two. So clearly, this death is hard on Jesus. In verse 13, we see that Jesus drew away. He wanted to be alone. This is understandable after the traumatic death of someone you are close with. You want to be alone to mourn. And yet, when Jesus goes somewhere, we know crowds follow Him. He is trying to go away to be alone, and they follow Him. In verse 14, the Bible says that Jesus fills compassion on the crowd. He stays with them, He heals the sick and later in the chapter we know that He feeds them. In a time where all Jesus wanted was to be away, He chose to use that interruption as a blessing.

Jesus continously has patience with those interrupting Him. He constantly stops what He is doing to heal them, love on them. What if we all started doing this? What if we stopped getting so annoyed and started loving on those who interrupt us? I will admit that this is an area of great weakness for me. An area that I need a LOT of work in. But I am working on it. Because I long to be like our Savior, turning interruptions into blessings.

November has come and gone faster than I can believe. It has been a month of work as well as celebrating.

Top left: Otis favorite place to be. I love having a dog that just loves to be near me.
Top right: Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving celebrations these last few years seem to get smaller and smaller. But the joy and love shared remains the same. It was a good day with these people.
Row 2: Mamas birthday was the 11th. We called to sing happy birthday and share our best wishes with her. I love how much my family loves one another. Mama was so happy to see them and Rameau, Niolita, and Sabina were so happy to talk to her as well. Of course, she was sung to in several different languages, Ra even added in a verse about how old she is getting.
Row 3 left: Belated birthday celebrations with some of my favorite people. Tina always makes a delicious dessert, this year it was coffee caramel ice cream. We played Monopoly Haiti and Isaac beat us into the ground.
Row 3 right: This little guy! When we got to his school he came up and stood talking to me. I love his little hands in his pockets, clearly mimicking an adult he has seen standing this way before. I so enjoyed our conversation… he told me all sorts of things. I was thankful to see that he was added to the program that day as well.
Row 4/5 left: Otis loves me, y’all… that is no secret. Sometimes you just need a little snuggle time and he is ALWAYS ready for that. But he also knows no boundaries.
Row 4 right: A missionary friend scheduled for some of us to spend a few hours one afternoon at a local hotel. They renovated since the last time I was there. It was beautiful! I was also happy to hear that they are getting a lot of business.
Row 5 right: Some friends spent a day with us at the house. Otis has missed having kids around and he sure was happy to have a friend for the day. The only complaint I heard was that dog is too lazy!

There is something so unique about storytelling. Whether it be a true story or something made up, whether it be something based down for ages or something brand new. Storytelling is something that is a part of every culture on the earth in one way or another and dates back to Bible times.

In Genesis 17, God promises Abraham that the land of Canaan will belong to him and his descendants. We know that Abraham never sees this day, but clearly he believed what God told him because he passed this story down. This promise was a story told over and over again throughout the generations. Several generations later, Joseph is told of this promise.

Now as Joseph starts to die, he remembers the story he was surely told as a child, one that he told his children. He remembers that promise so many years ago to Abraham. And he reminds those around him while also making a request. Genesis 50:24-25 24Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die,  but God will certainly come to your aid and bring you up from this land to the land He promised Abraham,  Isaac,  and Jacob.”  25So Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath: “When God comes to your aid, you are to carry my bones up from here.”  HCSB Joseph wants his bones to be buried in Canaan when the Israelites reach that promised land.

Now, I certainly do not want to add to God’s word, but I do have a few guesses about how those generations have felt. Abraham probably thought he would get to see this promised land as his. I am sure that Isaac and Jacob also longed to see the land as theirs and didn’t get to. Joseph maybe thought, “Wow! Look at how God has used me! Certainly he will allow me to see this promised land!” And yet, none of these men got it. But they didn’t lose hope, they continued to tell this story, this promise, to their children.

After Joseph, all of his brothers, and the king had died, the new king came in and wanted to get rid of the Israelites. He ordered for all male babies to be killed. One mother saved her son by putting him into the river. We know that this baby was Moses, who grew up in the kings house. I don’t know if he heard this promise as a child due to who raised him, but we do know that his biological mother helped to care for him. We can imagine that she shared the old stories with Moses just as an Israelite mother would.

Now, Moses grew up and God used him to set the Israelites free from slavery. And as they were leaving Egypt, Moses remembered the promise that Joseph had made his brothers make so long ago. Exodus 13:19 Moses took the bones of Joseph  with him, because Joseph had made the Israelites swear a solemn oath, saying, “God will certainly come to your aid; then you must take my bones with you from this place.” HCSB

Moses wandered around in the desert for 40 years with the Israelites due to their sin. And we know that while Moses got to see Canann from afar he didn’t get to enter the land. But we can also clearly tell that he held onto God’s promise as well as the promise made ot Joseph. Moses clearly passed these promises down to the next generation. When Moses died, Joshua became leader in his place. The people of Israel finally were able to enter the promised land after many generations heard the promise. And Joshua upheld the promise made so long ago to Joseph. Joshua 24:32 Joseph’s bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt,  were buried at Shechem in the parcel of land Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for 100 qesitahs.   It was an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants. HCSB

And again, this story is passed down, as we see the author of Hebrews mention it again in chapter 12. The hall of faith reminds us of so many stories of wonderful faith. And it also mentions the promise that Joseph made his brothers take. By faith. By faith, Joseph knew that the stories he had heard of God’s promise would one day come true. By faith, he didn’t say IF God saved them, but when God saved them. And by faith, the next generations listed to what he said. Hebrews 11:22 By faith Joseph, as he was nearing the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the Israelites and gave instructions concerning his bones. HCSB

It is our job to share these stories, to share these promises with the next generation. If we aren’t telling them, who will? If we aren’t raising up children to know the promises of God, who will? The next generation needs us to tell them the old stories. We need to carry those bones until the day finally comes.

September. I often procrastinate and write a blog post at the end of the month. By then I have forgotten what has happened during the month. This month I told myself that I would write it throughout that month so this wouldn’t happen. But here I am, starting on the 12th of the month and I honestly don’t remember what has happened so far this month. Life moves by so quickly but also so slowly. And days that are normal for me are days that others would be shocked to hear about. So far this month I have spent a lot of time with dogs. This should come as no surprise to any. I love puppies, I love mine and I love other peoples. Oti was of course happy to have me home and continues to be happy. He only gets mad if I leave the house. Most mornings he will hardly let me get ready for work because he is so close to me. He also is back on his mode of destroying toys. That toy you see on the bottom left lasted 6 days before it started getting ripped. The photo was taken after almost 2 weeks of having it. It looks gross but if I throw it away he tries to dump the trashcan over to get it!

I was thankful to be invited to a school dedication this month. Some friends and fellow missionaries, Juska and Jona of God’s Vision for Haiti, opened their school this fall. I am so proud to know them and get to serve alongside them. They are Haitians that are truly giving back to Haitians and encouraging others to do the same. Such a large and nice school is a big deal. I am excited to watch the school open and see how it all goes. I pray that all who are affected are blessed by it. Lydianne and I went to the ceremony and enjoyed the time together.

Oh, y’all… remember in the first paragraph when I said I was going to update this throughout the month? That was a good joke. Good intentions on my part but the follow through just didn’t happen. Here I am, finally updating again after about 7 weeks. It’s been busy! And that is such a blessing. It is insane to think of where we are this year vs where we were last year. Last year I was just praying that we would be able to leave the house and travel at all and this year we have not had to close once and have already visited almost all of our schools! Traveling means seeing the sunrise and sunset most days, being in the car for hours, being so so so tired, and feeling so fulfilled. I love getting to get out and visit these schools. I see so much of Haiti and it’s beauty and get to meet so many sweet kids. It also means yummy street food!

As November begins, I can honeslty say the last two months have been wonderful. I love getting to see God at work. The days all run together sometimes and I can’t pinpoint what happened when, but I know that busy days running together is a blessing. Otis and I are doing well, he doesn’t love me traveling but he is spoiled enough without me. Please continue to pray for Haiti.

dwell

1

: to remain for a time

2

a

: to live as a resident

b

: EXIST, LIE

3

a

: to keep the attention directed 

b

: to speak or write insistently

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dwell

The way the world is, it is so easy to dwell upon the things around us. It can be rising prices, insecurity, health problems, natural disasters, wars, relationships, anything. If I ask you to make a list of all the problems you see in the world you would take all day to finish it. There is so much trouble. So many negative things that we can dwell on. And we should think of these things, we should be praying about these things. But should we be dwelling on them? Should we be living in them? Should be directing our attention to them? Should we remain in them? Should we constantly be talking about them?

8Finally brothers, whatever is true,  whatever is honorable,  whatever is just,  whatever is pure,  whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable — if there is any moral excellence  and if there is any praise — dwell on these things. Philippians 4:8

Paul clearly tells us what we should be dwelling on. Where we should be living. We should be focused on these thing. Give your time and your attention to these things. The things that are true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, of moral excellence, worthy of praise. These things, the things of God, this is where we are to dwell. Now, imagine I asked you to write a list of these things, how long would it take you to finish?

In short, let us refocus, let’s reevaluate where we are dwelling. If you are in the wrong place (as I often am), how can you redirect your attention to the things God calls us to dwell upon?

“1They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. 2And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, 3and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”” Exodus 16

The Israelites just got out of Egypt, a place where they were literal slaves, and here they are already complaining. They are actually saying that they prefer to live in Egypt because they are starving. Their complaining is something we do often and a conversation for another time, but let’s look at how God provides.

“4Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.” Exodus 16 God is going to provide a miracle in order to give them the food that they need. He will rain down bread from heaven. But He has rules about this. “5When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat. 16This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Gather of it, each one of you, as much as he can eat. You shall each take an omer, according to the number of the persons that each of you has in his tent.’” 17And the people of Israel did so. They gathered, some more, some less. 18But when they measured it with an omer, whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack. Each of them gathered as much as he could eat. 19And Moses said to them, “Let no one leave any of it over till the morning.” 20But they did not listen to Moses. Some left part of it till the morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them. 21Morning by morning they gathered it, each as much as he could eat; but when the sun grew hot, it melted.”

They must go out and gather every day. And they must gather enough for each day, not too much and not too little. (This is with the exception of the 6th day in order to keep the Sabbath v22-26.) We can see that everyone had enough. We also see that those who did not listen to Moses and tried to hold onto it for tomorrow learned the hard way. Their manna grew worms and stunk. It couldn’t last longer than a day. And it melted in the sun, the heat was too much for it to withstand.

Again in Deuteronomy 8:3 the Bible talks about manna, “And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.” Man does not live by bread alone. This can be a confusing concept. Of course, you don’t live on only bread, sometimes maybe you want something to go with the bread. But this is not what the Bible is talking about. The Bible isn’t telling you to add some peanut butter and jelly, it says we live by every word from the mouth of the Lord. We understand this better in the book of John.

John 6:48-51, Jesus is speaking here, “48I am the bread of life. 49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”“

Jesus is the bread of life. He is the bread that came down from Heaven. God provides for us in another way, in a more fulfilling way. In the Old Testament, manna came from Heaven to provide for the Israelites but in the New Testament, Jesus is sent from Heaven to provide for us all. Jesus is the bread that allows us to never die but have eternal life. In the same way that the Israelites needed to seek out manna every day, we need to see out Jesus each day. We cannot expect yesterday to hold us over today. We must go to Him and receive our daily bread. The great blessing is that every morning when we go out to seek Him, He will be there, waiting for us.

While I was in the states, I had the pleasure of witnessing a young lady be baptized. I don’t know her but I was very impressed with part of her testimony and her honesty. She admitted that since being saved, things had been hard. It wasn’t like the Lord came into her life and everything was suddenly better. That takes courage to admit, courage a lot of us do not have.

There’s something important in that, something that we all need to note. Just because you are a Christian, that does not mean that your life will be easy.

One of the greatest examples of this is the apostle Paul. If you look back to when he was Saul, he was a respected member of society, someone who things most likely came easy to based on his citizenship and job. (Acts 22:3) And then he became a Christian and started working for the Lord. When he starts traveling to different places to share the Word, here is what he says: “except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me. ” Acts 20:23. The Holy Spirit is telling him bad things are going to happen to him wherever he goes. Imagine, you just gave your life to Christ and are now working to share Him with others and you know this will bring you problems.

And that is what happen to him, we can read all about it. Paul shares many, many accounts of suffering he faces. (Acts 21:27-36, 22:22-30, 23:2, 35, 24:1-9, 25:2-3, 7, 26:24, 27:11, 42, 28:3-4, 16) Perhaps there is more that he went through that is not recorded, we don’t know. He gives us a summary of his suffering in 2 Corinthians 11:24- 27 “24Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. 25Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; 26in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; 27in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.”

And yet, Paul was not discouraged, he continued to work to share the Gospel. Just as we do not need to be discouraged, but need to continue to share the Good News. All of the suffering in the world is worth it if one more person comes to know the Lord. And there will be suffering, we know this. Everyone will suffer in his or her own way.

But we have a promise, one that we cannot forget. In Matthew 25, Jesus shares of the judgement to come. This is our great promise. “31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32and before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35for I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. 41Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: 42for I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: 43I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 44Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? 45Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. 46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.” Those on the left will go into the eternal fire, eternal suffering. And those on the right, we will go on to be with our Lord in a place where there is no suffering.

We all will have suffering on this earth, the big difference between those in Christ and those not in Christ is whether or not we will suffer when we leave this earth. Which side are you on, left or right? Do not be discouraged, you who are on the right, when you are in times of difficulty, God is with you and will be with you until the end. You will one day be in a place of no suffering. But those on the left, the suffering you face today is nothing compared to the eternal suffering that is to come.

The summer months! It’s been a busy summer. June started out in Haiti. I have so many puppy pictures and that’s about it. I did snap a few others, thankfully. Niolita’s birthday was the 3rd and we got to celebrate her. The Schrurers should the Nunes and I around Zanglais (the MEBSH side). We got in some nice views, good quality time, and history lessons. It’s always a pleasure to be with those two families. Rameau and I share a love of beautiful flowers. I had to make him stick one in his ear like me.

On June 22nd, I flew back to the states. Nathan, another agape affiliate, and I were thankful to hitch a ride with Agape. They land in Venice which is not too bad of a drive for Mama and Lenny. It’s always good to travel with someone else, someone that gets that instant culture shock. The last week of June I spent catching up with family and some close friends.

July was again busy. I spoke at several churches, was blessed by a fundraiser at my home church, and caught up with more family and friends. How wonderful to have so many loved ones that it is sometimes hard to fit everyone in. Of course, I had to sneak in some time with fur babies as well. Linda and Ducky don’t mind me being back in the states, it means more love and inside time for the both of them.

The Galbraith crew helped Gigi G move and I got to take sweet Casey girl to her new home. A lot of the RMI Gainesville crew got together and we have a great time. I am so thankful for these team members and their families. I so enjoyed my time with them!

Mama and I visited Epcot and Animal Kingdom for a few days. It has been almost ten years since we were there. It was great to spend some time just the two of us. We ate so much and saw so many beautiful people and things.

Y’all know if we are going to be anywhere that there’s even a hope of a Haitian restaurant we are gonna find it. We found a great place with amazing food. It was fun to catch with the employees who were all Haitian.

I spent the first few weeks of August saying “see you next years” and getting in final snuggles. On the 18th of August, I flew back home. It was an interesting trip. Mama and I were all set to leave her house at 2am on the 18th. At about 11pm on the 17th I got an email saying my flight from Jax to Miami was canceled but my flight from Miami to Port was still on. We figured it out and wound up booking a flight from Tallahassee to Miami instead. The American Airlines customer service had claimed flights were closed due to weather and that ALL flights into Miami were being canceled. Knowing this, we went in with caution (and I didn’t sleep, of course). Thankfully, we got to Tallahassee and everything went smoothly. After that, all other flights were normal. I am not sure why I couldn’t fly out of Jacksonville but I know that God provides. Thankful for His provision and protection throughout this journey and all of my life.

It is good to be home! I have missed my people, my place, my dog, everything so much in these last 2 months. Please continue to pray for me and all of Haiti and her people. Things are hard but we know the King of kings.