//Alright, so we are here in Montrouis, Haiti at Canaan Orphanage. It’s a beautiful place with 60 kids! Sixty! Sesenta! They’re all so beautiful though. This blog was written back in the Dominican Republic. I added to it with things from Haiti, so in between // is from Haiti. I miss everyone so much and love you so much.//
I have a missionary friend who went to Uganda and one of her blogs started out with…. Props to all the bloggers out there.
I feel EXACTLY the same. I’ve had such high expectations of writing these crazy blogs that are gonna change lives and I think I’m gonna have to practice patience and work on it because it has been extremely hard just to find internet the first two days. On top of that, we don’t have a lot of time so I haven’t come prepared to a computer.
My first experience with a computer in the DR:
Juliette, Christal, and I were sent on a mission to buy food and find internet to put up a blog so everyone could know you’re in the DR and safe. We walked off of our Catholic church property and hung a right. Asked a few people “Donde esta el internet� and got a few fingers pointing down the road more. So we walked and ended up finding out that the internet we were getting directed to was closed on Sunday. So, we decided to go into a hotel thinking they probably have it. We walk inside this hotel/casino, Hotel Aurora to be exact(I think) and ended just tellin the lady I’d pay for internet. So she asked her boss and they invite me behind the front desk to a computer and I rushed to get that blog out and it was pitiful! It probably did more harm than good because it was so vague, I’m sure it sounded like I was a brain-washed zombie.
Our 2nd experience came from an actual internet café! I was shocked walking in, there is 7 or 8 computers and it’s 1 dollar for an hour of internet. Hopefully I can start spit-firing some blogs that will have a little more juice to em.
//didn’t happen//
This is my very first experience, I can remember, of being outside of the U.S. It has been pretty eye opening. I have met some awesome people already.
Oba, Josa, and Henri are three guys who were staying on the same property as us in another building.
Willy is a young kid who, from my understanding, spends his days trying to earn some money for his mother. I taught him the game where you put your hands out palms down and the other person puts their hands under yours palms up and tries to slap your hands. Also, he likes boxing so he showed me a couple boxing training things, like when the trainer has the mits on and the boxer hits his hands. It was really cool, but hard to know what to do at the same time because I know he’s out trying to get some money, but I don’t know what for exactly. I don’t wanna be here just to supply someone with money, I want to supply their soul with the food from God that satisfies souls and meets your every need.
//We were able to to spend almost everyday with Willy. It was really cool because no one ever gave him money and every day he would be waitin at our gate. I don’t know why but me and Willy definitely had something special. He was always askin where I was was and I was always lookin for him. I wanted to see him one last night but he never came out at night so I didn’t expect to see him. As I waited by the gate, I went through in my head, in Spanish, how I would tell him about God’s presence and how strong He is and how He’s watching and protecting him. All this in my head, I went on to ask him if he had ever felt God and If he wanted to. In my head he said yes. So I asked if I could pray with him. All this in my head, I started prayin for God to surround him with His presence and give him an encounter. As my eyes filled with tears, I know for a fact that where ever Willy was at, he had an encounter with God.//
I will be keeping these young men in my prayers for sure though. God is chasing after them and I pray that their eyes will be opened and they’ll see that and completely surrender to His will for their life.
I’ve still got so much work to be done in my heart and life to be able to start affecting lives so I’m prayin for some breakthrough!
//This Sunday, we went to the service that they have here at Canaan. Before the service we had breakfast and there was a group of girls in here having a devotion time. As they sang “Mighty To Save� my heart started to get extremely heavy. During the service, again as the kids were singin His praises, God decided to let me experience a little bit of what he feels when he hears these orphans signing to him. I could bearly hold it together. I almost had to walk out to let everything out, but I wanted to hold it in and stay with them. I experienced a fraction of God’s heart for these kids and Canaan is only a fraction of the orphans world wide. I cannot imagine the heart that God has to be able to handle what I went through this Sunday.//
I’m praying for my friends and family back home also. God has so many promises over our lives and it’s too easy to let stress, fear, worries, greed, selfishness, grudges, anything to block Him and ignore His voice. God wants you to live a fulfilling life, but it’s not the life we want! He wants to fulfill every desire in our heart, but it’s not our desires. God completely shakes and breaks hearts and they are conformed to His, and when that happens you start wanting the things He wants, your heart starts breaking for the things His breaks for, you start seeing people the way He sees people, you start loving people, He completely turns your life around and it’s so much more than what you can even imagine. Ask God for something different, something more, something better. Be scared! Haha the old you should be scared but not really, you should be excited. A life away from Him is so much more alone and unfruitful. A life with Him, by Him, through Him, for Him: there’s no other life like it, because there’s no other life with out Him.
