Quote of the Day

"You always grow to love the people you pray for. That's because you develop God's heart of love for them. Don't pass up the chance to experience that." ANON.

I love you and am praying for you. Have a great week. Be blessed and be a blessing -Erin-

Small Victories

Good Morning Everyone. I hope your day is going great! I had a small victory today and wanted to share it with you. Since coming back to JA I really felt like I needed to try something different with the kids I was working on speech therapy with. So instead of weekly going over the same things and having kids quickly lose their motivation and just stop trying I have now started focusing more on where most of them struggle academically and started using that to help them both with school and speech. Most of their struggles are with reading or writing. I have started working with them more on that and as we are reading, or going through dolch cards I have them voice along. This way they work both on reading comprehension as well as having an opportunity to work on speech and use their deaf voices if they want. Today after 7+ months of working with one of the girls (who had yet to voice for me. she would always copy my mouth movements but never make sounds) we were going through a words book and as we were reading (signing) the words together she just started using her voice! She used it for about 3 pages and then went silent on me again. I don't know what triggered it if she is just now starting to get comfortable enough around me and starting to trust me enough to hear her deaf voice or what, BUT I praise God for this small step that was taken! I'm off to unload, sort, and put away donations! Be blessed and be a blessing. -Erin-

Sunday Afternoons

As they say in Jamaica Good Night everyone, In the states we say Good Evening. For the past month I have gotten to spend my Sunday afternoons with my team down here after church. It's a great time to relax, talk, play games, eat food and just enjoy some down time with each other. Today we had our final Sunday afternoon together before the Hubers fly back to the states on Wednesday for a 2 month stay before coming back to the island in July. Please pray for the Huber family as they travel back to the states on Wednesday and transition back into the states. I hope you have a great week! Be blessed and be a blessing. -Erin

My week

The weekend is here and I am praising God! It was a great week but very very busy and I am thankful for some time just to get out of the school and away from the sea container boxes I have been unloading, organizing, and putting away all week. Its been so great to get back into my routine with the kids again. I have been so busy since I have gotten back that today I had to do some MAJOR cleaning of my apt. Wednesday Morning I woke up with a tic on my shoulder (who knows where it came from or how it got there) but after that I knew I needed to start cleaning, and doing some laundry but this morning was my frist chance. The picture is of a couple of my little guys who are entertaining themselves. They had a couple of old desks and an old plastic containter they were racing around the court yard. Some of the kids would sit on the desks while others would push them around. For some reason I have been having trouble putting pictures on my blog so I will have to post one picture at a time. Have a great weekend. I love you and miss you. Be blessed and be a blessing -Erin-