My words are not enough

Yesterday I went to the beach with shannon… the new volunteer. It was kind of raining so we just went to sit on the beach for a little bit. Anyway there were two wild cows far away and she thought it was so funny. But I see it all the time. And I grew up on a farm. J anyway.. after like 10 minutes they started coming really close to us and we were the only ones on the beach because it was kind of raining. She got scared and I told her we were fine that they are not going to do anything. And I kid you not I hardly finished my sentence and they started charging at us! ON THE BEACH! She panicked and I yelled at her not to move. I said just stay still. They came SO fast but here was no where to run or find safety.. we were on the beach! They came SO close but they stopped dead in their tracks right before demolishing us. I started laughing so hard I was crying and practically peed myself. Shannon was really scared… ok. I was a little concerned. But they ended up not hurting us and went the other way. I am sure it would have been worse for us to get up and try to out run them. Anway.. it was super funny to me and she said I was crazy for laughing that hard. Liam also said that I was crazy for laughing when we saw this Giant toad.. the biggest toad I have EVER seen… even on T.V. smashed to bits on the road. I thought it was so funny and couldn’t stop laughing but he said it was cruel. J I think Chanda and Krystal took all the compassion for animals and I have none. Ah well.

I can not begin to explain to you the great things that I am able to be a part of here. Today I went to Dulog with a group of Deaf friends. I met a few more Deaf yesterday and a couple again today. It was amazing. I went to the church service this morning that was for the Deaf and these people touched me so much! The pastor(Nilo) started preaching right from the bible about hypocrites. He said that through much prayer and preparation that he felt there was one of the Deaf among them who was not living a moral life and hiding from God during the week only to come and meet the Deaf on Sundays. He explained how he felt God was telling him that this person really only wanted to communicate with other Deaf but had no interest in God at all. He went on to say that this person is still very welcome to come but that they should hang out a lot more during the week and not just on Sundays. One of the Deaf started crying and crying and confessed that it was him. He said he didn’t really believe anything that Pastor was talking about until that moment. He was told God that if he was real he would call him out in front of the others who are the same as he. It was amazing. I cried. Also I cried when I was watching the closing prayer. It was so sincere and you could tell he was Connected to God! It was amazing. After three weeks of no contact with anyone who believed in the same God as me and now I am exposed to these people who trust in Him completely! They began to tell me how they know I am sent here by God and that the things I am doing here have been prayed for for a long time. I told them about my journey to come here and they keep telling me over and over again that God took their prayers and nudged me to come. Because I obeyed things are going to continue to happen. This is all things I have known but it is so great to have the reassurance from others here. AND they are Deaf so that is a bonus for me! The past two days Patrick and I have been together trying to brain storm about the vision and mission statement for LCOD as well as the logos for that and E.A.R.N.-H.I. We have pretty much got it close to done but there is a lot more involved for the brochures, programs, tshirts… a lot of things need to happen yet. But I am confident that all things will continue to go smooth. And Patrick has been very encouraging to me with all of this. I am so blessed to have met him. I am really going to have a hard time when I have to leave here… although I am already planning when I can financially come back. Eveyone here keeps telling me different days that would be best to come. My credit card is not being accepted online(yes mom and dad… my new one) to buy my plane ticket back home so maybe I will end up staying here the rest of my life. Except there is my school loans, car loan, Taxes in April, car and health insurance, I could go on. I will continue to trust in God and all will go well. Brian… I will save all my pictures for you.. don’t give in to facebook my friend. Holli… I havn’t heard from you in awhile.. tell me how you are… mom and dad: get an email account so I don’t have to broadcast when I want to tell you something… Kevin: keep doing well in Basketball. Everyone else.. much love and keep me in touch. I love to hear from home even though I say I want to stay here. I miss you all very much!