Friday, August 7, 2009

Hey guys this is Railey, Lauren, and Danielle here! First we want to say hello to katie, macall, zachary, and laura...

This is Lauren. So if any of you went to Newberry Salkehatchie then you'll understand me saying this, but the people here are worried about my eating habits. You probably won't understand that if you weren't at Salkehatchie with me, but I think it's funny. Anyways I just wanted to say that today we met some kids at the work site and they do not speak english so right of the bat it was hard to know what they were saying but we could atleast get names across to each other. We had to leave for lunch but came back later and decided we would sing songs and play games with the kids and the greatest thing happened. We would start singing a song in english then they would know the tune and sing along in their language or even if they didnt know the song they would pick up the motions and english words so fast and sing along with us! Anyways thats all i have to say so see you later!

Soo this is Railey...uh i have aweful short term memory so i dont really remember everything that happened today/yesterday/the day before at the moment, buuut, we flew into beautiful Jeremie this morning and it was completely different from the exciting chaotic city of Port-Au Prince. It is wonderful and tropical and i dont want to come home ha. I am having a blast here evry second of the day. The people on this trip are amazing me daily with their wilingnes to serve and their passion for the people of Haiti, from nick hanging out of the van to record the busy streets of Port-Au-Prince at night to Patrick pushing himself right in with the million hation workers on the work site to lovely Danielle pouring her heart out to the children of the community. We were able to spend most of our time today with the children at the work site and that was such a strnge but awesome experiance that i will share at a later date maybe not so late in the night ha besides im sure several others will share..anywho we are safe and wondrful and extremely well fed!! and im going to sleep now so goodnight!

This is Danielle now! everyone says Jermie is soo pretty. Today we went to the site and got to play with al these children but the one that stood out to me was a todler named Banushe. He was literally starving to death. He was so malnourished and it just broke my heart because the little girls would show me that he had no shoes but there was nothing i could do about it. But the only thing we could do was me and Railey held him the entire time and he fell asleep in Railey's arms and he was the prettiest baby ever! Al in all im learning so much from the children and its been very amazing, goodnight!

12 comments:

  1. it is soo good to hear from all of you! i am so glad that you all are getting to experience this. needless to say, i am quite jealous. :) i hope that you continue to have opportunities to minister to these children. i hope God continues to work in your lives and in the lives of these children. give them all hugs from everyone back home. continue to stay safe. we are all praying for you. i love you guys!

    ReplyDelete
  2. OOH!!! I MISS YOU GUYS SOOOO MUCH AND YOU DON'T KNOW HOW EXCITED I AM TO HEAR FROM YOU GUYS!!! I LOVE YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH AND I PROMISE I AM PRAYING FOR YOU DAILY!! YOU ARE ALL SO WONDERFUL AND I KNOW YOU WILL DO WONDERFUL THINGS BECAUSE I KNOW THE KIND OF PEOPLE YOU ARE AND YOU ARE ALL SOO WILLING TO HELP SPREAD GOD'S WORD WITH THE PEOPLE OF HAITI AND DO ANYTHING YOU CAN TO HELP THEM!!!! LAURA AND MACALL AND I LOVE YOU GUYS SOOO MUCH AND WE CAN"T FOR YOU GUYS TO GET BACK SO PLEASE DON"T STAY IN JEREMIE FOREVER> PLEASE COME BACK HOME!! I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU ALL!!!!

    -KATIE!! (ps. the capital letters are because i am excited!!)

    ReplyDelete
  3. Glad you all had a great day! Lauren, just eat and quit making people worry over you. :P
    I'll be praying for you all to have an even better day tomorrow, although it seems that it may be hard to top.

    ReplyDelete
  4. oh and ps chandler might be happy to know that she now has a facebook again if you'd like to pass that along.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Danielle, you have a kind, sweet heart....

    ReplyDelete
  6. This is June!
    This all sounds awesome! God is so amazing and I am sure He is amazing you all every step of the way!!!
    i am so glad you are having this opportnity and experience. Try to remember everything Railey by the time you get home...we want to hear it all! Eve and Blakely say hello and we can't wait for you to love on her!!! I am praying and praising God all the time for you guys and I love you my monkey girl!! Take care or each other and keep posting.
    LOVE, KISSES and HUGS

    ReplyDelete
  7. heeyy y'all im glad you're enjoying this so much, im sure you're doing amazing things and i'm so happy for you and the people from haiti who are having the awesome chance to meet you; i know they have you as great example of life, and the other way around too. God is doing amazing things through this aweomse group, i miss yall and im praying for you! be safe everyone and take take
    love always, Rebeca

    ReplyDelete
  8. take care*, thats what i meant. haa portuguese speaking people... :)

    ReplyDelete
  9. :( i miss you. come home as fast as you can.

    ReplyDelete
  10. Your testimonies made me literally cry. God is SOOOOOO GOOD!

    ReplyDelete
  11. Danielle, It was so good to hear from you. We all miss you and are praying daily for all of you. I new that it was going to be very hard for you to see the way that these people have to live, especially the little children. It breaks my heart too. You know how I hate to hear stories about children who are hurting. I am very proud of you. I know that these children will still be in your heart long after you leave Haiti. Maybe you could find out how we could sponsor this child. Are you melting in the heat yet? It sounds like yall are being well taken care of. Have you needed any of the things that I made you pack? Well, this is the third time I've tried to comment but either the computer logs me off or I keep doing something wrong with the blog so I hope I am sucessful this time. I love you, stay safe. Say Hi to Peter for me.

    ReplyDelete
  12. Im so happy to hear from you all! I knew you girls would be amazing with all the little kids. You are all so sweet and caring and you are doing great things for these kids. Keep ministering and sharing the love of God. I wish I could be there with yall, but I have no doubt that I will feel as if I experienced it all when you tell me everything. I am praying for the whole group that God will continue to bless the people of Jeremie and work through you all. I LOVE YALL SOOO MUCH!! :)
    Laura

    ReplyDelete