hot and sticky

Well 3 weeks in and what an adventure it has been. Just to start I would like to make a list of just some of the craziness that we have faced thus far.

Hundreds of mosquito bites
swollen eyes
throwing up
the runs
humidity that makes my hair into a fro
bed bugs
crazy thunderstorms
being denied by taxis
migraines
Heat rash
Family problems
relationship drama
dehydration
dog fights
ants
cockroaches

All of that only3 weeks in, and yet we stand every day with smile on our faces and embrace what is next. We have not lost our joy. We have not stopped praying, or laughing or praising Jesus, because even though it has been a bumpy ride we have also been blessed with making new relationships with amazing new people, going into villages and preschools and churches to pray and bless others. Being able to preform 3 dances and multiple songs to bless our Fijian family. Countless laughing fits as we become more unified as a team of sisters sharing passion to change the world of education in Fiji. We have been helping build a preschool by making materials and projects. We also were able to pray over the building that was damaged by the hurricane in December. We taught a seminar to local teachers about becoming a teacher that God can use, and how to value yourself, and how to value a child. We saw walls come down in people lives and were able to stand in prayer and support them. I am amazed that is has only been two weeks because of the amount we have experienced and gone through already. God is shaping and molding us daily into the women and teachers that he desires for us to be. We are learning to be spirit led and to submit everything we have to Him. We are living in a foreign place with new discoveries of culture and challenges every day, but we can meet those head on and smile because God is with us and we are a unified team. I have been abundantly blessed by the girls on my team as we all grow closer all the time. We have now been in Lautoka for 2 weeks and suva the capitol city for almost a week. here we will be partnering with a few new preschools as well as hopefully setting up a mobile preschool for the villages around us. We will be teaching more seminars and hopefully reaching out and touching many more lives.

Please keep us in your prayers
HEALTH AND SAFETY, this one is huge and is being attacked almost daily

Continued inspiriration for projects and lessons

Energy despite the heat, and to acclimatized

Continued unity and team harmony

Thank you all so much for your support while I’m on this new journey