Feeling Better

Its a Haitian Holiday so no school for two days!!! The children were up bright and early ready to play this morning. As I'm writing this I have a group of little girls sitting on my bed playing games on my iPhone. It took the Haitian children about 5 minutes to figure out how an iPhone works, and to fall in love with it. They even figured out that you can go online and buy more games. They keep asking me to buy some for them. I'm trying to explain to them that most of the games they are choosing cost money, but I don't think they understand. They just stick their bottom lip out and say, "Please, Ms. Carrie". How am I supposed to say no to that?? I apologize to any of you sending me donations. I'm afraid some of your money has been used to buy race car games on my phone.
My health is 100% better today. I had a horrible stomach flu for 4 days. Haiti is not the place you want to be when your stomach is sick. It took me twice as long to recover from it because of the heat and the food they kept trying to get me to eat. There isn't many options here when it comes to food. Goat soap is not a good idea if you already have nausea to begin with!! I survived though. I'll remember this day. Its my first sickness as a missionary. If I'm anything like the rest of the missionaries I've met there will be many more illnesses to come. But I don't mind that. Its safer to be sick while doing God's will then to be healthy doing something else. Besides, I had plenty of Haitians praying for my recovery. There's no way someone can stay sick for that long with so many prayer request going up. One day the entire church came to my door and sang hymns for me. It was precious. Everyone was asking me if I was going to leave them. They said, "Surely, you will not stay in Haiti if you are this sick." I kept trying to reassure them that I wasn't going anywhere, but I could tell they were still worried. Its an amazing thing to see how much they appreciate me being here. I didn't expect that. I didn't expect to become so close to these people so quickly. God has truly blessed my life.