I feel quite lame for not blogging thus far. I tried a few days ago but half of it got deleted right toward the end, so I didn't post it. Then later that day I tried again but didn't have time to finish, so I didn't post it and I just saved it. But by now that one is completely outdated. So I am starting fresh in the hopes of finally making a valid post to our ever growing blog.
We have been pretty busy so far, some are more crunched for time here than in the U.S. But, we were discussing tonight during devotions how you might have more free time in the states to spend with God, but you don't necessarily look for God in the activitied throughtout the day. here we meet God in many places. I think though that we see God more here because we know we can and are supposed to see him here. But we don't really look so hard at home to find Him because we don't know we are supposed to. I need to work on looking harder for God in all of life wherever it may be. Most every night we share in our group where we saw God that day. I have seen God in our team here, they are so loving and genuinely caring. One of my favorite things that happens a lot is when we are all just laughing at once. especially at night when we get the giggles. I just see God in this happiness. Another place I see God in Keith and Ida (the couple in charge of many things at the mission and our hosts.) They are so incredibly faithful it is amazing. There are a lot of things that go wrong or are frustrating here, but every night when we pray or talk they say they had a great day and thank God for it. Yesterday my word for the day was Peace. I saw God in the peace that I found when I went on the Under 5 relief trip to Kasaya. We weighted the children and recorded and have vaccinations if needed. For a lot of the day however I just got to play with the kids that were in teh village. At one point toward the end I had one little one on my lap fot an hour and she just fit right into me. I was also surrounded by about 8 other kids and all I did was draw something in the sand with my finger and they would copy it. they were actually quite good at it and we did that for a long time. I just felt a sense of peace and calmness. Today i saw God in the opportunity for Kathy (a vet student at CSU) to give birth to a cow and perform surgery on it. That was such an amazing experience for her and she was so peppy nand excited about it later. I was very thankful that God gave her that blessing and happiness. There are really too many things to blog about but hopefully the others will touch on the things I have not. you might notice from Austins and Dans that we are in a silly mood tonight and Dan was actually speed skating around the room so that had us loughing pretty hard. I hope that all are well there and I miss you and love you!

Hugs and kisses. Emily