I'm still alive!

Hey everyone, thank you so much for all of your prayers! It case you didn't hear, I had dengue fever and went to the hospital in Haiti August 22nd 2 weeks ago. Doctors thought I should leave Haiti so my mom flew to New York to meet me at my aunt and uncle's house in Lynbrook, New York. I've been resting here for the last week. Jesus is healing me and I feel much better because of many people's prayers. Life is not boring!

Someone asked me what God wanted to teach me, and I learned that it really is possible to experience the fruit of the Spirit in any situation. I actually was laughing at various points in the hospital because of the Holy Spirit moving in my heart. At the same time, it times effort. We have to press in and really fight to focus on God throughout any circumstance, many times choosing faith over what our emotions may say. I didn't do that at certain times, and suffered loss and let the enemy get me down. But when I did choose to focus on Jesus I was delightfully full of joy.

During the process of being sick I did get frustrated honestly, but I realized that every negative thing that may be frustrating ultimately is a result of Satan's influence on humanity. Even sin is a result of Satan's influence, so we can be furious with Satan in a godly way in difficult circumstance and use that Godly emotion to wage war on the evil one. God has also showed me how much fun music is and he is calling me more and more to worship Him with music.

To top things off, my mom had an accident with power tools and had to go to the emergency room on Saturday September 3rd (which can happen to anyone by the way). As a result her finger was damaged and is in pain, but we're believing God will heal it supernaturally as we do all we can physically.

So now I get to go back to Port-au-Prince, Haiti tomorrow and rejoin my outreach team as we leave for other parts in Haiti on Wednesday Sept. 7th.

We will be going to another town in Haiti called Morri to build water catchment tanks so that people would have clean water to drink and to know Jesus as the provider of living water.

Another exciting thing going on is that there is a 9 month School of Biblical Studies (SBS) in Taiwan that many students, both Haitian and foreign are interested in going to! Of course, they will need much prayer as well for the application process, learning English and for all the finances necessary to get to the school.

As my mom is healing and we get out on our assignments from the Lord, if you could agree with God and pray in the following ways I would be so happy!

• Pray that God would pour out His spirit on our team and bring unity, love, wisdom and the power and authority of Jesus Christ, to see many hearts turned back to the Lord and a release of signs of wonder to confirm the message that we preach in word and deed
• Pray that God would pour our His spirit and turn the Nations of Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Benin, Brazil, Panama back to Him!
• Pray that God would do a miracle and make my mom's finger better than it was before.
• Pray that God would open all the doors to get visas, passports and all the favor necessary to get the destinations that the Lord has ordained.
• Pray that students feeling led to the SBS will have everything they need (finances, passports, visas, english)

Thank you so much everyone!