Wednesday (Brandi)

Today was a great day!
While preparing lunch I asked the staff if they have ever heard of Operation Christmas Child. One said, yes they are coming on friday to pass out gifts! I was almost in tears. I knew the kids were getting a treat, but I had no idea it was that!!
All you MOPS friends will probebly share in my excitement. For years we have put together shoe boxes and sent them. This year my boys really got into it. I always joked that I wanted to hand deliver my shoe box!! Would you believe that our amazing God had that in store for me all along??!! What an awesome God we serve!! I am thrilled beyond words. I told the staff that my kids and I and my MOPS group have been putting boxes together for years. They may not know to the depth this will touch my heart! I am just so excited!

Tomorrow, I will join one of the female volunteers at the local school that many of our kids go to. She teaches Choose to wait. A biblical principle on purity, but it is also so much more than that. I heard her speak to the kids about it on Monday. I was blown away at the principles she was teaching. I LOVED it! God has put Choose to wait on my heart, and I will see what God does with that. I am excited to accompany her and listen to her teach again!

Tonight we drove threw another shanty town. Its like your mind gets numb to the painful sights we see here. I took a few pictures so I can show you all, but I will never forget the sight of those places. At one point you just have to put the camera down, even I dont want to be witness to the severe poverty of this country.

We then drove up to a mountain called Monkey Mountain. Which should be called MokeyLESS Mountain, because we didnt see one monkey. But the sunset God painted across the sky was amazing. I know amazing and awesome can not really describe some of the landscape we have seen here. But it will have to do. It was a huge contrast to the depravity we witnessed a few minutes before we arrived to this place. God is the God of all things, and all people. From the depth of sin and poverty to the highest of heights as the magnificent sun drifts down below the horizon. His power leaves me speechless, and I am amazed at how much my heart can take. Without my God, I wouldnt be able to be witness to this place, my heart wouldnt be able to handle the sights, sounds, smells, emotions from one extreme to another. But He is God of all......