Have you ever traveled, and you get the feeling you just want to be back home, living your normal life, surrounded by a lot of people you love? Well the last two weeks I was in Guatemala, I experienced that feeling a lot. I'm so happy to be back home in the DR living my now, normal life. I have missed being here. I have missed this place and these people who have such a strong hold on my heart. I have missed sleepovers with the girls and all the laughter that fills my house on those nights. I have missed hearing los niños on my back porch, banging on my back door for cookies and popsicles. I have missed long walks down Bobita road talking about life with Jill and Audge. I have missed sitting at Millie's (thats Milagros, my dominican mom) drinking coffee and seeing how much trust and faith she puts in God. But here I am, back in the place where I truly believe God wants me to be, with the people He has placed in my life right now to love and challenge me, and my heart is so full of so many things like happiness, laughter, and too much love. And I continue to fail at thanking Him for giving me so many people and blessings that I am unworthy to have. But I'm writing this to give thanks that God in His grace never gives up on me, and allows me to live here surrounded by love and work for an organization that is centered around Him and His Son. God has really made some incredible things happen with Manna. Two years ago, Manna wanted to do more, wanted to impact this place more; So, Manna was able to start a school with one grade and taught classes in our dormitories that we use for groups. Now, we have two grades and are in the middle of trying to finish building our very own school house. We are just waiting on more sponsors and funds to be sent our way. So we wait, and we pray. We pray for more funding, but also we pray for more people who have a heart for this place, or just for missions, to come and teach. And we know God will answer, whether He answers with one new missionary or twenty, He will answer; because God is forever faithful and forever He is with us. And as I am trying to figure out how to raise funds to stay here, and how I feel like I need to worry, I don't. Because I know God will provide people to sponsor me, to help me stay here. Because He answers. So we continue to pray, and we wait to hear and see what our Father is going to say and do. So if you find yourself reading these ramblings of mine, please pray for Manna that God will send more funds and people that we need to help teach and serve Him and the people here in the DR. Please pray for me that God will send funds and sponsors my way so I can continue to live here and spread His love here in this place, and most importantly give thanks for all of the special things that God has done and is doing here. God is here, he is working in this place, and for some reason, we were lucky enough for Him to have chosen each of us to spread His love here in the DR.
lovelovelove,
Keely
Millie and I
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The girls watching Vampire Diaries
The niños with their cookies and popsicles:)
Our new school building!
"And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him." (1 John 5:14-15)
