What do you believe?

     Ever listened up to Casting Crowns's Spirit Wind?  Well I have many times but never really listened to what they were saying.  In Ezekiel 35 it talks exactly about the dry bones and how Ezekiel spoke to the valley of dry bones.  It is truly amazing if you take the words in deep meaning.  

     People may say that all these miracles and prophesies were only for the Bible times.  They actually are still happening in this century.  Just we don't realize.  As Christians we should be sharing this Christmas with the neighbors and the poor.  This year my family is sharing Christmas with the kids in our village.  Maybe YOU should do a city or neighbor event.  People have turned Christmas into a family holiday, when it is for sharing, loving, smiling, and just being Christians.  It makes me upset when people write Xmas,  anyone ever have a thought of what that means?  Christ is in Christmas, and people who are mad at Jesus say that.  Correct them if you hear that.  What I am trying to get at is share Christmas with others who can't, and share God with the ignorant.  

Christmas is Jesus's birth, not santa's gift night.  We should be thankful that Christmas means our Messiah's birth.

 

Surprise For The Kids

     You will never believe what happened on Tuesday!  Alright so it was dark out and my dad left to get bibles. I wanted him to be esteemed when he got back so I laid out a towel on his bed, got a lemon drink, and then I waited and waited to open the gate right when I saw his lights.  Then there came the LIGHT!  I ran to open the gate but depressingly if was locked ( which I asked Logan if it was locked and he said no).  So I went up to his window and saw someone in the front seat laying way back.  I thought it was Wilber but he had a white hand.  So I walked away to let the car go through the gate and told Logan "Someone is in the car!" :/   I thought it was James Courter for some reason and to my astonishment it was my cousin Nic!!  I hugged him so hard.  Then after a couple minutes I thought "mom and dad knew but didn't tell me!".  Then he sat down and started taking things out of his bag.  Logan said it's Saint Nicolaus!  Now it has been a couple fast days.  I asked if he was staying until Christmas, but nope:(. But I can't complain he came and he has his own family.  I thank Jesus for having such a generous family that would  come all the way to Haiti!

Life is a climb!

     Yesterday I was out with my friends and was going to play.  I decided I wanted to climb the Breadfruit tree, because Logan and Obeline have already done so.  Oberline showed me how and so I made the attempt without mom, dad, or Logan.  Once I was up I felt like I had accomplished something grand.  Then the terrible thought slipped into my mind about how to get down.  I didn't tell anyone that I couldn't get down.  Thankfully Oberline said she wanted to get mom to see what I did!  When they came out she was surprised and frightened.  Then Logan came out and came up.  I couldn't get down and I was a little bit paralyzed.  Many people came around and kept saying I was stuck.  I got down on my belly to slide off but sadly no one was under me so there I hung for about a minute.  It was getting really hard to breathe until a guy put me on his shoulders and got me down.  I said thank you and went straight inside.  I still couldn't breathe very well and I thought no one was in the house so I started crying.  My dad was In his room and and brought me in.  He thought Logan did something and shut the door on him. I told him I was fine just still stunned.  We talked it over and I went back outside a little bit later to play.  Then this morning I went back out and climbed the tree again.  I succeeded, so woo hoo!  

Thank Jesus that I can climb and not be afraid 

The Little Things Of This World

     Today I was trying to help my dad in any possible way.  He has a tendon thingy with his shoulder and can't do very much.  Please pray for him.  

     Anyways Logan, Oberline, and my mom were gone for the next 2 hours.  I was helping my dad out by lowering cords of the roof for the Internet.  It has been a terrible signal, I told my daddy that there was a little ledge under house that I could maybe crawl onto. He imediatly said NO because that would mean climbing off the roof!  So we got a ladder and everything was going good with the project until my dad said he can't get it up high enough.  I volunteered (being the only other person there and also quite curious) to go up on the ledge, climb the ladder with one hand, hold the Natcom thing with some other cords, and put it on the ledge. I made it secure and climbed down waiting for my dad to get a signal. Waiting with all the hope and pride by helping my dad.  He came out and the signal was terrible :(  Then Wilber appeared and was giving him advise so I went back to reading Alice In Wonderland.  All was getting well with the Internet. 

     Then tonight I lay on a bed looking at creative ideas on Pinterest  and the Internet goes |

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So bye bye Pinterest.  All though I think I stored all of that knowledge in my brain.  But thanks be to Jesus that we even have Internet and that I can blog.  Think about when we get to Heaven the new "Internet" God has.  That's going to be awesome!

     

The Life of a Missionary Kid!

     Sorry everyone... I haven't been writing for a couple months.  I have been sidetracked with family when I was in America.  Anyways back on what I wanted to talk about.  Today I woke up to the bright daylight of Wednesday at 6:25.  I got to read my books I got from the new library, which I love to do in mornings.  We had Bible Study and today it was my turn to read (with some awesome coffee!).  It was just a pleasant morning. I also got to see Misty my horse who is Pregnant! She was so gentle this morning when I groomed her.  I did all my school that was required of me, then I went out with my friends.  We went to the back and started working our tails off.  We were raking leaves with a plastic broken rake, a metal rake, and 2 branches of coconut.  And so my friends Onaldine, Lovely, Oberline, and I went to clean the leafiest yard that ever lived to be:)  the leafs here are bigger than two of my hands!  We raked and raked with my horse in the pile we made...naughty little cutie!  After we were done in a section of yard we burned the pile.  We had a jug of water and everyone had there fill except Misty.  I took my cup, filled it with water, and put it to her lips.  The first cup of water I gave her she was wondering how to drink it.  The next time she grasped the cup and didn't spill a drop.  The water was colder than she normally has so she shivered all over!  My friends thought this was just outrageous and 

laughed.  Then the sun was high and therefore too hot to work in so we went inside and gave them bread.  

   

  Then after we ate my dad and I went to Arise Haiti, also known as Jame's house.  We talked and talked for about 3 hours.  Most people would think I was bored out of my mind, but I love to listen to serious matters.  When we went home on the moto is started sprinkling and the wind was cold so I tried to stay straight behind my dad for shelter.  We reached our house and my friends were waiting to go out and work some more.  Then again we raked and raked and swept and swept.  Lovely wanted it to be black black dirt for my dad.  It was getting dark when these 2 naughty teens came forth and tried to talk English with me.  I could not understand them at all, they were mixing their sounds up.  The girls and I were in a fast mode to complete the work before the moon rose so the boys were a big distraction.  So we started burning our leaves, we could not see if the job was done for it was very dark out.  We were alone until my mom came out saying this was WAY to late.  We had three big fires going, but Wilber started 2 unexpected ones.  My mother was worried because a palm tree was in the fire.  So we got my dad and it was fine ( which I told her).  In the end everyone was happy (except for two blisters of mine), it felt like we have accomplished a great task.  Once our family was in and showered I still smelled like smoke:(. That is the end to this little story I hoped you enjoyed it!  I did not write it just for you but God, for he is always watching you and guiding you like a shepherd, and loving you like a father.  We should all be thankful for a God like him!

Snow!

   Today Logan was singing Christmas songs while I was playing piano.  We were just having fun with music.  We were singing Silent Night, O Come All Ye Faithful, Away In A Manger, and a couple others.  Then my mom needed Logan's brilliant experience with technology, so I went out in the rain that was sprinkling.  I usually wait for my friend (who is home schooled as well) Eva to come over around 2:00.  I started to look at the falling sprinkling rain and I saw SNOW !!  It was just a little little snow,  most people couldn't even see it but it was there!  I can't wait for the new startling thing that God does!

Another birthday from God

It has been almost a month that I have not blogged!  Crazy right?  Anyways I will cut to the chase.  My family is living at my mom's brother's house.  And he has 2 boys, Ethan and Preston.  Preston is almost 6 and Ethan is almost 8!   Preston just learned how to ride his bike with 2 wheels!  So we celebrated at 10 below, the yogurt place.  Recently I turned 11 on July 1, and I got to ride horses with my cousins!  They have never even seen, touched, or ridden a horse!  So that was really exiting, but the best part was they loved it! 

 I was introduced to my new favorite game, Horse Tag!  Funnst game ever!  All thanks to my other cousin, I got lots!  Then my friends came over and did a bike ride with me a long ways.  We also had one big sleepover! 

    God has blessed me with the age of 11, and maybe many more years to come.

Galloping

A little bit ago I went with my brother to go ride my horse to the river.  I can ride her by myself now! 

 We were on our way when it started sprinkling.  Me and Logan both thought CLOTHES!  We need all of our clothes dry before we pack them.  Then I tried to turn Misty around and she galloped 

, galloped, and galloped.  I could barely hold on with no saddle and just a rope attached to her bridle.  I was slipping closer and closer to her neck, I stayed on for about 16 seconds.  Then I fell off under her, she kicked me in the back, and maybe have stepped on me a little.  I was balling, it hurt so badly.  As Logan was running towards me the horse just was happily galloping around and getting so close to me.  As I was going to go under the barbwire fence Misty came at me at just stopped with her tail in the air.  I don't know if she was happy or sorry.  Although I might be a little scared of her I still love her, and I am thankful to have her.

      

   I am still hurting now, but at least God saved me from getting trampled on by a horse.  I praise him for saving me.

Where are you working?

In a couple of days my family is going back to America.  Such a long trip, and SO BORING!!  My heart breaks when I leave Haiti, but I am very exited too!  I wish the whole earth would make a machine and either make a big bridge from America to Haiti, or push Haiti to America.  

  I can't wait to snuggle up with my Gmas'  and play games with my grandpas....like Wahoo!  Also bike riding, and really doing whatever God wants.  I have two different lives that I love So much, so how can I go back and forth?  If God wants us to live in Ametica or Haiti so be it.  " Where are you working?  How can I help?"  Remember that to say to God.

Fighting For Others

Did any one of you know that 200 Nigerian girls were kidnapped because they dared to get an education?  Isn't that just nuts?  These girls have not been found yet, and are hidden in the forest.  The girls' parents searched for their daughters because their president wouldn't.   These girls were forced at gunpoint to get in a truck.  What kind of world is this?  Why is no one doing anything about it?  Did you know that the world is being lullabied asleep when Evil is happening?

There is a lot of evil in this world that we don't even know about....I don't even know about.  But if we KNOW what bad things are happening, why don't we do something about it?

We should fight for our rights and the rights of people in other countries.   

    God made the earth so He can destroy it as well.  But He loves us; oh how he loves us.

He right now is protecting you, defending you, standing with you, fighting with you, and loving you. God loves us so we should love others.  And we never have to be afraid to stand up.  This is the God of Angel Armies, and he is always right by your side ready to strike.

  

A Blessing From God To Me

Just now I got a blessing from God!  I told my mom that I wanted a watch last week and, today I got one!  

I will tell you how.  Oberline came with the backpack she brought to Port.  She said " Abby I got a watch for you", I said "no, that is yours, see the color on it".  Oberline said "Abby here is my watch" and brought it to me.  It really was another watch in the back pack!  My mom got the pack from another store that sells things that people have already used.  What a miricle from God!  It has a bad battery though, but my dad is working on it.    

   God always blesses me little by little each day!

He Has Risen!!

Happy Easter Everyone!!  HE HAS RISEN!!!!!  

Is Easter about egg hunts and the Easter bunny?  No!  It is about Jesus Rising From The Dead!  Some parents have brought the "Easter Bunny" in their houses, and ruined their children because they told them Easter is all about the Bunny!  I am not saying that we can't have a hunt or hide gifts, even my family does that.  Just remember to tell you children what the true meaning of Easter is.  

Some people think that Jesus's body was taken by his disciples during the night, when everyone was asleep.  Really, the Inportant People of the area payed the soldiers to tell everyone the disciples took the body of Jesus.  Is that true?  No.  He rose from the dead, JUST LIKE HE TOLD US!!  If we are to believe that nonsense we are really messed up.  But God forgives if if we sin and make mistakes.  Don't you just love that OUR God forgives the biggest of sins?  Just remember God loves, forgives, and even sent his Only son to die and take our sins for you.

Breath Taking Creation

Yesterday morning we got a  beautiful boy bird from a man named Edain.  We named the bird Rio and built him a bird cage in our moringa tree.  Then Edain and another man brought 2 more birds, then 2 more again, and 1 more again.  So we got many birds!

  After lunch I ran to Edain asking him if I could help him catch some birds, so we went together.  When I was with him a lot of the traps were broken.  He was mad because people stole the traps and the birds.  He kept on saying to me "I don't like that people are stealing Abby's birds.  God knows everything".  

The trap that they have to catch the birds is a dead stick with a string on it.  They pull the string far back then they balance it with a little stick.  Once they put food in the trap the birds will come and step in ,then the little stick triggers it all.  

  Today we got eleven birds!

      I am a little bit struggling because the birds are sad, and they want to be free.  But if we let them go, or just don't catch them, other people will eat them.  What do you think we should do?  

   These birds look like they have makeup on and have a little bit of iridescent wings. 

           

   God's creation is amazing and breath taking.  I am glad I even got to set an eye on these wonderful birds. 

Don't Got Time

     Everyone knows that there are good times and bad times.
For example,  we got 2 new baby kittens that have opened their eyes.
Also, Oberline and I are having a great time going down to the river and catching fish, shrimp, and this green thing that looks like a snake with our friends.

There was a 12-13 year old boy who became crazy.  His mother tied him up and left to go some where.  The boy found a way to cut the rope, and ran down to the nearest river.  He went to a deep part to swim, and he swam under the water.  He drank so much water that his body was fat and he died.             His mother went looking for him and found his body laying on the water.

       Our life is short here on this earth, and we don't have all the time in the world to accept Jesus.  Right now my dad is at a hospital with a lady who needs her arm checked out.  The workers at the hospital were mocking my dad, God, and they wanted a whole lot of money.  I can just picture him coming home sweaty, sad, frustrated, and discouraged.  To cheer him up when he gets back, I made him a lemon slush drink.  He loves those and it is a little thing I can do to bless him.

You know it is a good thing that God loves us because we sin every day.

More kittens

Yesterday our mama cat Meme had 2 more kittens!

We don't know if more are still are coming.

The kittens make a mouse noise and they are as big as the palm of my hand.

       I thank Jesus Christ for these kitties.

Miracle Cookies

     A couple of days ago Logan and me made some No Bake Cookies by ourselves!  When we started scooping them out they looked really watery.  My mom came running out of the room, "What do you mean watery?  Did you boil them for 3 minutes?".   Ah no.  I put them back on the stove and turned on the fire.  Mom said that we cant put them back on the stove, and they will just be sticky.

     When we got back from the orphanage Logan said " The cookies hardened!!!" It was true.  The funniest part was I told my mom" God could make them hard" but she kept on saying " He can but He doesn't do miracles on cookies.  They are the hardest cookies to make".  What do you know!! HE made them hard!!!

                     I know there just cookies but Thanks for making them hard!

     Also my dog carmel got hit by a car yesterday and died.  When we had our family burial sad time I made sure I would not cry one more time, because Carmel is in with Jesus playing around the rivers of Heaven.

The Bus And The Taptap

     Yesterday early in the morning my grandma and papa left to go back to America.  I miss them so much, it feels like the time just flew away.  We sent them on a bus to head to Port-Au-Prince.  I hugged them several times before they left.
     Once they got on the bus I couldn't see them anymore.  It was dark on the way back so it was hard for my dad to see.  There was a taptap in the middle of the road that didn't have its lights on.  We were about 1 foot away from the back of the car!!  I remember hearing the break and the wheels skidding on the road.  When we started again a guy yelled to my dad about almost hitting his car.  Them my dad said " YOU CAN'T JUST STOP THERE!!!"  and drove off.  He doesn't like driving in the dark.
     I am so glad that God protected us from hitting that car, and that my gma and papa mad it back home.

Here in Haiti!!!!!

     Last sunday my dad and I went to Port-Au-Prince.  We had a great time talking and singing to one another.  When we arrived at Harold's office we started to have our Ramens and watch a movie.  I had to navigate for my dad to Port for the very first time!
     We arrived at the airport and were waiting for Grandma and Papa to arrive.  When we saw them I could hardily not smile!  I gave them both a huge hug.
     On the way back I snuggled with Gma while my dad talked to Papa.
      I have had an amazing 3 days with them.  Although I think I am making them really tired by asking them to play games with me.  I sure do love my Gma and Papa!
      I thank Jesus for letting them come to Haiti!!!!!!! 

The Party

Yesterday was a missionary's Birthday.  We had her party at my house.  There was another  family here who had 4 children.  We were laughing and talking, you know being kids.  I really got close with a girl named Sara, Oberline got close with another girl named Hannah, and Logan got close with a little little girl named Rebecka. The 1 boy that was about 7 sat out with the grownups talking.   I would like to play with them once every 10 days.  It is not often that we get to play with other english speaking kids.  I think our family is going to be Good friends with the Easley's.  We ate cake, brownies, chips, and drank juice, and some other things.  At the end of the party the kids started a wild balloon  fight.  The little 7 year old boy was so funny, because he hit Hannah and his balloon slowly deflated in front of him.  It was quite a funny sight to see.

     I thank God that we got to meet the Easley's on Debbie's Birthday.

See ya'll!

     Early in the morning our 3 visitors Nic,Todd, and Justin left to go back to their families.  I had the most splendid time with them.  I feel like it has been a month since I have seen them.  Last night I told them all, "When I go back to America I am going to visit all of your houses....so I can see your WHOLE family."
     When my family was having our morning devotions (without Nic, Justin or Todd) we got a call from the driver that our visitors arrived safely in Port.  I wanted to say YES but also wanted to say HHH (sigh).... I miss them too much already.
But I am looking forward to seeing more visitors coming soon!  I hear my grandma and my papa just got their passports!  WooHoo!
 
      I thank God for letting Nic, Todd, and Justin come to Haiti.

Riding into the River

Yesterday, I rode misty to a river.  Of course, I cant steer her by myself, so my dad led her to the river I should say.  I have started a little daily thing to do, everyday my dad takes me to the river on Misty.

The last 2 times I went to the river, I asked if we could cross the 12 to 13 feet wide river.  Anyhow, we didn't cross.  Then, yesterday we crossed the river!  On the other side of the river, there was grass about a half a foot tall all around.  In Haiti that is really amazing because the grass is usually all the way down to the brim.  Then there was a field that was going to be plowed, but had no one there.  So we practiced riding there.  Oberline didn't want to do it so the rest of my family happily tried to ride.  My dad said when he got on " This horse is like sitting on a 2x4 the wrong way".  Somehow that is how I like Misty.  

    If any of you remember my blog "Little Filly" Logan named her Butterscotch.  Any ways I saw little Butterscotch but not very well through the trees.  

     After that we started heading back, I was actually riding misty in the little river.  My heart was pumping when we went in.  The funny part is when we were in the middle of that river Misty just happens to lay down.  Instantly I jumped off the horse in the water.  When everyone crossed the river we were all laughing.  There was 2 children swimming in a different part of the lake.  One of the children made a big jump in the river and spooked Misty.   So we stopped then started again.  I hopped back on her a little bit afterwards. 

 Yesterday I had a Exciting day.  I do Thank the Lord for My horse Misty.