Happy Valentine's Day

Yesterday I was finally able to accompany Matt again to his weekly scripture readings in a Haitian home a mile or so away. Everytime we go there seem to be more and more people, and who most of them are or how they are connected to the family, we have no idea! This time there was a brand new baby, 10 days old, who looked both premature and malnourished. I could not get over how tiny he was, making a continually-rounding Lily look like a toddler.

One of the men there is constantly asking us for money, explaining how expensive everything is and how many debts he has...but the rest of the family continues to ask for nothing but more of the book of Mark and more prayer. This time, the prayer requests were all for children, brothers and sisters, cousins and grandparents who were not yet saved, and we had a really good time of lifting up each of these men and women to the Lord. Grandma, the obvious head of this large clan, continues to ask that we prayer for the Lord to heal her blind eyes. "I believe He can do it," she says each week, waving both crumpled hands in the air.

Going there is always such a humbling and joyful moment in our weeks!

Meanwhile, Matt has gotten some kind of food poisoning and was up the entire night throwing up. He's feeling a lot better, just tired and sore, today, so Valentine's Day will consist of some napping and a "Date Night" with the Bundy kids this evening!

"What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what I whisper in your ear, shout upon the rooftops!"