Cockroach tooth... :/

Today during worship we talked about how no matter how hard your life is someone always has it worse, but that despite all of that we should still look for the blessings in life. So we went around the room and my students said something that they were thankful for, among the responses were, “I’m thankful for my family.” “I’m thankful for God taking care of me.” But a lot of them also said that they were thankful for me. I am so blessed to have this class. I look around at all the other classes and thank God for mine, not because the other classes are bad, but because these kids are a perfect fit for my personality.

God does still take care of us, and care about what happens to us. That has been made so obvious to me in the 2 and a half months that I have been serving Him. I resolve to learn to trust fully, and that I don’t underestimate His power, or what He can do. I am thankful for so much. I am thankful for my family that has come behind me and been supporting me in prayer, and love. I am thankful for my friends that have chosen to encourage and uplift me. I am thankful for my students who never cease to amaze me and are always teaching me something. I am thankful for the life God has given me, and I hope and pray that I can always bring honor and glory to Him. I am thankful for my SM family, which care about me, and love me.

I have realized that if someone can love you in the mission field then it’s true love, because they most definitely don’t love you for how you look, or even sometimes how you act. I have learned also this year that complaining about your circumstances don’t change them. Complaining about things only make them worse for you and have the potential to bring others down around you. I am convinced that I will never be the same because of this experience.  

I am learning so much about myself, and the mission field points out the things that need to change in your life. I am going through a lot right now, simply because I see so much that I want God to change in me. I know I’m here for a reason. I just hope I can learn all the lessons that God wants me to learn.

I am trying to teach my students decimals and I have now realized why it isn’t easy being a teacher. I try and teach them the concepts every way I know how, and they still don’t get it. I am learning that I have to go back to more basic concepts in order for them to grasp what should be their grade level, and heavily lean on God for leading and wisdom.

I love it here. I don’t think anyone will really understand unless they have been here, these kids, and how they are so encouraging, and how much I want them to learn. I only pray that I can be the best teacher for them, and frankly right now, I feel like I am not being the best teacher.

They are taking a test now, and of course I pray for them before the test begins, but I also realized that while they are taking it, I can sit at my desk and pray for them individually. Especially my struggling students.

So I woke up Friday morning with a weird bump on my leg, throughout the day it began to look more like a blister and began to get really red around the sore. It sent shooting pain up through my leg, and so I went to our local Doctor, Mr. George’s wife, who is a better doctor then the ones employed at the hospital, she put some natural leaves on it, and it started to draw out the pain. But for some reason it wasn’t healing. So she came back today and looked at it, and asked if she could pick at it. Later I found out that the reason why she wanted to pick at it was because she was taking out what happened to be a cockroach tooth. L Nasty! So I guess we found out what it was from. It is starting to heal and I am thankful for the wonderful people that God has placed here to take care of us.

I hope you all are doing well, and that nothing is going horribly wrong. I pray for you guys and hope that God will lead in your life, like He has been leading mine.

If you could still keep our school in your prayers, for financial reason, that would be much appreciated. I know that God knows the end from the beginning and I know that He will take care of everything.

Anyways much love to all and God bless.