3 months!

Oh my its been a long time!  Its been two weeks now.  A lot has happened.  A whole crusade has gone by.  I'll give you some highlights and some happenings of these past two weeks.  It's been busy and has gone by super fast.  Two weeks ago I went to the bush!  We chopped down trees to use as poles for the tent we set up for the Crusade.  We had to march, cut, and climb our through.  Then we cut down some trees. Then the most fun part happened, we had to carry the trees out of the bush, climbing and maneuvering our way through.  Honestly, it was fun.  It was really tiring too but I'm happy I've done that and can say I have.  We didn't go too terribly far into the bush either.  Probably teen fifteen minutes into it.  Oh, and we woke up at 5 in the morning to go, that's another thing I forgot to say.  We got back around eight or so started setting up the tent.  We didn't get everything finished until about one I believe. 
I got to talk with a lot of people too which was nice.  I miss all of you and its really nice to communicate.  But its so hard to find time and it takes a lot of time.  Especially these past two weeks.  But yeah then I was exhausted the rest of the day and had to go to the crusade.  The week went pretty well, nothing too extraordinary happened.  But Thursday was a great day!  In the afternoon, teaching was a lot of fun.  I was able to joke and be serious at the same time and the students were paying attention and trying and understanding and that's so nice.  It was encouraging.  I was so tired at the end of that day though.  It was raining so we had the Crusade in the tiny church, so I'm pretty much sitting right in front of the speaker, straight up in my chair, sleeping.  Ha ha, I couldn't help it.  I was out!  Straight back and everything.  That was funny to talk about and laugh about. 
Friday I went to Calcuta, northern Belize.  I went with Alondra's mom who helps with the kids during the week.  We went right after school to catch the bus.  We arrived just in time at Belmopan to catch the bus to Belize City.  That bus ride was only about an hour long and it was a nice bus and we got seats.  Then once again, right when we arrived in Belize City, we had to run to the next bus.  It was packed!  I got the last seat.  Now it was a horrible spot, but I got the last seat.  It was right where the wheel is so you don't have any leg room, and it was next to this HUGE lady.  I was crammed in there, and the worse part about that was, sense we had to hurry up on each bus, I hadn't been able to go pee so my bladder was full!  I was crammed, and ready to burst.  The ride seemed to take forever.  This bus would stop everywhere and like every 5 to 10 minutes to pick up more people.  It took about 4 hours until we reached our destination!  I quickly went to some trees and relieved.  Then everything was better.  There was a time were I was trying to tell myself, it'll be alright.  This pain will be so worth it for how good it will feel when I get to use the restroom.  Unfortunately that wasn't true.  =P
I really didn't do much in Calcuta.  I went to church then next day and ate and sat around a lot.  The weekend was a lot of sitting which was unfortunate.  I also ate some dairy.  Which happened to activate some poison wood I apparently got when going into the bush the week before.  Poison wood is similar to poison oak.  That weekend it got really bad.  It engulfed my body from the waist up, all the way to my face.  Monday I went to the doctor and got a shot, some medicine, and some lotion.  That was pretty miserable.  Its pretty much gone now except its on my hands and my fingers.  They itch and are rubbed a lot and irritated because they're my hands and when you handle things its going to happen.  But I'm surviving and its going well.
Then something really special happened this past Friday.  Friday November 12, 2010.  Danielle and I have been dating for one year!!  That's so crazy and amazing!  Oh my, I've already written and said so much about it, not publicly, and its so wonderful.  Especially how much we have grown as individuals, and together!  How we are able to still be in our relationship, yet take a year off and serve others and be working for God.  It's not easy, but its so worth it and so great!  I am so grateful and so in love and I believe we are blessed so much and God is taking care of us.  =D
Then another wonderful and special event happened yesterday!  41 people got baptized!  Within the past 4 weeks 50 people have been baptized.  Our church has more than doubled.  Our church isn't big enough to hold everyone.  That's an issue, a great issue to have, but we need to figure that out.  Anyone want to donate money or know a church that could be a mother church and support us?  That would be nice.  But it's wonderful praise God!!  We have so much work now added to our already full plates.  Praise God!  We are so exhausted.  Praise God!!!  We can't do it, we need help of God.  Praise God!!!  It's easy for me to get overwhelmed with everything that we have to do, but that's the problem.  We don't have to do it, we only have to be willing to be used, God will do it.  We are working, doing all this work, for credit, to be acknowledged.  No, we are doing this for God!  Yeah, sure I'm tired, exhausted, behind in everything, feeling incapable, but God isn't.  That's why I'm here.  Please continue to pray and support me, the church here, the school.  We need it and if there's anything that you want to do personally feel welcomed.  If you want to come and teach here from January on, feel free.  One teacher is going to be leaving, plus we could use another teacher as is.  If you want to support with money, WE NEED IT!!!  We barely scrape by each month, if its coming and doing manual labor, WE NEED IT!  We need new buildings, fix ups etc.  If you want to preach or help train laity, or help give Bible studies, or give a crusade, WE NEED IT!  If you want to pray, WE NEED IT!!!  Thank you for everything.  And another wonderful thing that I should share is, that PUC raised some money for the damages done during the hurricane and will be sending the funds soon hopefully.  They said they raised over $350!  So that's wonderful!  These are some happenings of the past two weeks and my life.  I miss you all and love and miss you again and would love to hear from you.  So please comment, it's really encouraging and makes me feel loved and listened too.  Please share it with other too.  Thank you once again.  Much love and prayers!  Oh, and I've been here for 3 months now.  Crazy!