I have had a lot to think about in the last couple of days.  Funny how you plan things out and your plans come crashing down...I am embracing that though.  I have been walking with the Lord for about 10 years now...and I am used to things not going my way but ending up better than what I had planned when they go HIS WAY!  It is those "in between" times though that have left me anxious tonight...as I don't know what is next.  I say all this to ask for your prayers:)  I think of the song "Motions" by Matthew West...and know that I don't wanna just be "going through the motions" everyday...  Pray that I have clarity and peace:)

This might hurt
It’s not safe
But I know that I’ve gotta make a change
I don’t care
If I break
At least I’ll be feeling something
‘Cause just ok
Is not enough
Help me fight through the nothingness of life

I don’t wanna go through the motions
I don’t wanna go one more day
Without Your all consuming passion inside of me
I don’t wanna spend my whole life asking
What if I had given everything?
Instead of going through the motions

No regrets
Not this time
I’m gonna let my heart defeat my mind
Let Your love
Make me whole
I think I’m finally feeling something

Take me all the way
Take me all the way
Take me all the way

It is Tuesday morning on the Isle of Utila.  We have been busy.  A few of us got up at 5 AM to watch the sunrise and then went for a run and got back in time to shower and run out of water while my hair was full of shampoo hahaha!  After washing it out iwth bottled water we left at 7 am and drove around the Island...we went into the rich part and through the jungle.  It was really cool. 

Our friend Dora, her husband Edwin was our van driver in San Pedro...she got her necklace stolen last night and a gun pulled on her and her son right in front of the orphanage where we have been working.  Peggy (the pastors wife) got her purse stolen this morning....crazy!  The people are so desperate.  Praise God that she did not have her passport in the bag that was stolen...the Lord is good!  The enemy is always up to no good but God trumps anything that he tries to bring against us...he cannot destroy us!

Well...today we are goign to lay on the beach and snorkle and then off the spend the evening iwth the kids of the Island...we are blessed for sure!  We have a lot of down time during the day and ministry at night because the kids go to school at 2 different times during the day and have a break in between...probably because of the heat cuz it is so stinking hot here!

Well that is all for now...please pray for our group we are going to be traveling a lot the next 3 days...we are going to another island tomorrow for the day and then we will make the trip back to San Pedro on Thursday...  pray for some of our group...they were SOOOO sick the other day on the way here.  I did not get sick but it was really a nightmare experience...a lot of ppl on the ferry were throwing up everywhere and 2 ppl passed out because of the heat adn it was so rough.  Some of the ppl in our gorup are so scared that they dont wanna get back on so please pray that things are better this time.

Love and miss you guys!

Shauna

I am praying that God would speak clearly to me about some things...please join me in prayer!

Pleaseeee get on youtube and look up the Isle of Utila...WE ARE HERE AND IT IS SOOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!!!  It would be a good honeymoon location for any of you who may consider marriage some day hha!

Things are going really well!  We are all *I think getting over our stomach crud and all that.  We drank some water at one of the orphanages taht we thought was purified but it wasnt so we have been dealing with the big D!  It  is hot here but a different hot since we are on a beach it is windy. 

The coffee is out of this world great here and my friends bought me a bag of it at the market for my bday...I am pretty excited to sit on my couch and drink some

Today is some what of a free day... we ran 2 miles this morning and have walked about 6 more so I am zonked.  We are going back to snorkle in crystal clear water that is full of all these crazy rainbow fish!  God is really rewarding us!

I have met a lot of ppl around my age from UK, Scotland, Australia....they are here diving....a lot of them areunbelievers...pray that the Holy Spirit will move.  The place we are staying is awesome because we get to sit out with a bunch of them at night and talk...MOVE GOD MOVE!

Well that is all I have time for...can't wait to post the pics!

Buenos Dias....oh yea this Island is mostly english speaking so Im glad about that hahahahhaha

Love you!

SHauna