Feelin' the love.

Okay. This place is cool. REALLY cool.

There is something totally neat about being in a room of 20 people who love Jesus, representing 11 families, all departing soon for 10 different countries of the world. It's SO cool because there are ALL kinds of people here. Older, younger, more conservative, less conservative, single, married, kids, no kids. And everyone is passionate about somewhere...

Afghanistan, Belize, Netherlands Antille, Sudan, Lebanon, Honduras, Haiti, Peru, India, Angola.

It is cool. And this is going to sound like the weirdest thing, but this place just feels SAFE. I can't explain it. No one is trying to show off (at least not yet)... it's just this place with all these really amazing families. I love it.

So pretty much the coolest thing that happened since we've been here-- we arrived and there was a HUGE box with our name on it... It was from all of you at my church-- YOU RASCALS! It was a giant box of love. Dozens of letters-- all of which I am going to read every single day I am here because they are really, really, really good. And I am going to keep them and bring them with me to Haiti so that when the going gets tough, I can remember this feeling. I am probably more dehydrated from tears than the altitude...

And candy. And snacks. And hot chocolate. And games. And princess garb for Nia. And cars for Nico and Josiah. And dozens of pages of quotes from The Office-- which are hilarious. And Starbucks giftcards... cause, like, there's a Starbucks CLOSE by!

TONS of stuff.

Wow. We're overwhelmed with love.

Thank you. You have no idea how meaningful it is...