Sorry I have not written until now. We arrived in Ireland
after a long travel day.
We left our home in the Dominican Republic at 2:30 am on a
bus and traveled about 2 and ½ hours to Santo Domingo to get on our flight. We
then had a two hour delay… in which I had to phone my family because we were
going to be late… the pay phone being the only option… after making two phone
calls in order to get a hold of someone… and paying $80 (apparently that is how
much a 2 minute phone call costs…lesson learned) I waited for the flight to
leave for Orlando.
When we finally arrived in Orlando I was lovingly welcomed
by my family and friends who had traveled to the airport to have lunch with me.
We got about 90 minutes together… which was really amazing and awesome. I really
loved getting to hug on the people I love and get some new clothes since over
half of my clothes got stolen in Haiti of the clothes line.
We then got on another flight from Orlando to Dublin. We had
to land in Boston to get a light taken care of or something but then it was
smooth flying from there. We landed in Dublin and got detained in a room for a
few minutes because there was such a large group of us and we didn’t yet have
tickets to leave the country (at least not for the entire group) but after our
AWESOME logistics team handled it all, we finally got on the bus to arrive at
the camp ground. We set up our tents and then fought to stay awake the rest of
the day. We arrived at 10 am Ireland time so we tried not to nap so we could
get used to the time change.
The week was full of so many amazing, crazy, incredible God
things… as you could imagine any prophetic worship conference was. I am still
trying to find the words to describe all of it… so thank you for your patience.
I LOVE THIS COUNTRY… it has been so refreshing and light
compared to the dark and heavy Haiti and DR, so it was a nice time to get
renewed and refilled before we head into eastern Europe.
I am now about 30 outside of Dublin still staying at the
campground for Debrief with my squad… this is where we just get to sit down and
evaluate and reflect on the first two months with our sqaud leaders and squad
parents.
I am doing so well, I am really started to embrace the
Freedom that I have, that Christ provides… and it is SO GOOD.
The weather is between 60 and 40 everyday… BRRR>… a
little cold for my preference but I am adjusting. I woke up with a head cold
today, BLEH… but am doing my best to disallow it to get worse… I think it is
just the rain and cold and such a dramatic shift from the hot Caribbean
islands.
My team will be spending the month of September in Moldova…
yes, I know, Where? Moldova… an eastern European country which happens to be
VERY poor. We do not know much about what our ministry will look like just yet
but our contact is currently running a boys home for homeless teenage boys to
come off and stay off the streets and is doing church planting… I will let you
know more when I find out more! We leave Dublin on Monday and fly to Budapest
and from there we will take a train to Moldova! I always wanted to train
through Europe… not exactly how I pictured it, but God orchestrated and with a
purpose so it is even better!!!
Love you and miss you all!
I am on a 6 hour time difference from Texas so I am usually
online between 4-6 pm your time… get on facebook and chat with me and as
always… EMAIL!!!
*when I get internet access fast enough to upload my account
I will give you the final results of the donation DRIVE… what I do know is we
met my October deadline!!!!! less than $3000 to go! Thank you, more on this
later!
