Hey everyone, just wanted you to know... I'm leaving monday morning... so I'll be home (home home) prabably saturday!! Yay! Love you guys!!! See you soon!!

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Hey everyone! Hows stuff going for you? I am here in Africa, and I really just decided I didn't have anything of great importance to say... How sad. I am praying for you guys. I love you tons! Sarah

Hey Faithful peoples!! I love you guys, "too much!" I'll see you soon and you can make fun of me for all the funny things I say and do!!! Love ya!!

Mozambique is COLD!!!! These past few days have been really cold. I am bundling my children up in 3 layers to venture out to chapel every morning!! They tell me June and July are worse!! Good grief!!! How do these people bathe in June and July, I am "fearing the cold water" even now in May!! My "I don't need hot water for bathing" philosophy has totally vanished!

Besides the cold, things are going well here. All four of my kids are healthy. Helena (the tiny baby) is looking like a baby now. And crying like... I don't even know anything that cries as much as her to compare with... She is definitely a nocturnal creature!! Katie has started eating with us only, no more baby food for her!! Except her milk, which she is rather possessive of, but doesn't feel any qualms about drinking milk from anyone else she sees who has a bottle! She will be turning 1 on the second of June! She has really grown a lot this year! Sonia is doing well. She is starting to take some steps, although, only on promise of food... That probably isn't good, but at least she is taking steps... Merita is the big sister. She takes her role quite seriously, always walking around with Helena or one of the girls. She is a good helper!

Around the orphanage things are going pretty well. Things are changing every day! I am especially excited about the fruits going out in the garden! The kids are going to be full of fruit!! What a blessing to be able to have land to work like that. It takes stress away from always going to the store and picking stuff up all the time!

I am definitely getting excited about coming home! The staff keep teasing me and saying that I can taste America! I am excited to go because my best friend is getting married, seeing my family, needing a break, etc. But dreading leaving all these kids and people and Africa. Once you get Africa in the blood, how can you get it out?? I was talking to my grandmother the other day and I told her, it seems like I just got here. But then, I look at myself and I am carrying a bucket of water on my head while I have a kid on my back... I am pounding my own maize for sudsa... I have cracks and perpetually dirty feet... I just shook hands with another American and I bowed and looked down, without even knowing... and I realize, I didn't just get here, I'm African. I love this place, and these people, and even though some times it is SO hard, and I would like nothing better than to pack up and go home (walk/swim if I had to), I KNOW that God has called me to this place at this time, for HIS reason!! And HE is so, so, so, faithful!!