Grade 2

This is my class. Teaching a class in another country has proven to be a lot more difficult than i had expected. They don't have family at home that will always be there for them or even when we as teachers want to talk. Home life for the children is a lot different and they don't always know how to show respect because of it. Many of the children do not have a father figure in their lives. If they do have a father figure it is not a good one, so that puts pressure on us to really show them what a fathers love looks like. It has proven to be a challenge but I see the importance of doing this. I truly hope that these children will leave this class as one of the best classes ever. Not because of me or my influence but because of what God can do through me. I am just a tool in God's hand and i will let him do the work that needs to be done.

Enough

As I sit here and think about this past month it has been really hard..... With Adam and Sammie still sick as we speak it's been tough. Thank you for all the prayers they have helped a lot!!!
You know as I sat today and just cried I was asking God what more can I do and then the words came to mind, " I am enough." And I thought wow..... He really is enough and all this time I have been fighting with myself trying to figure out what more can I do, what more can I do. I have this beautiful baby in my arms and she is choking because all the stuff in her lungs and I have a husband who is needed the restroom every ten minutes and now starts coughing and then out of no where throws up all over the place and that is usually followed by Sammie puking.... I feel that in all this mess there has been no peace for me and my joy was out the window. Until today I had been so hard on myself and just really stressed out because it felt like I could do nothing to help them and my house is a pit because every time I do something it just gets undone, I realized that I had been doing all this stuff on my own and I have been the one to try and fix it....I can't do it by myself and I'm not supposed to. No matter how hard I try I will never be enough but Christ is!!! Thank goodness!!!
I just wanted to share that all with you...I don't know what you're going through this week but I just want you to know that He will always be enough for us and that when we feel completely helpless and like we are never enough, He is.........

Soft-serve Ice Cream

We just got back from walking to the store to pick up a few essentials. Just as we were leaving the store we saw a van that said ice cream on the side of it. We laughed at it a bit because it looked funny and then we saw that it said "soft-serve". I figured it was because they drive around all day with ice cream in this van and by the time anyone buys some it is soft. So we were curious and thought we would at least have a look inside. We look inside and there sits a soft-serve ice cream machine in a van. After seeing some other people get some and it looked like normal soft-serve we thought, what the heck, we might as well try it. So we got our ice cream for the walk home and had to laugh about this van that was really only sitting in the parking lot of our grocery store because it was there broke down and couldn't move.