I want to fall in love, but not with earthly things!

Hey folks, I'm going to apologize ahead of time for how short tonight's entry is going to be, I'm pretty beat from today. Today we woke up and went to the babies home. We painted and took breaks from that to play with the babies, now I say that but I think it was more like we took breaks from playing with the babies to paint. Either way, we took some of the older toddlers on an outing today. We took them on the 3 minute bus ride back to the guest house to watch veggie tales sing along video. I was given Emma (Emanuel) as my baby for the outing. He is so stinking adorable! It was cute because he was sooo excited to go on the bus and whenever he was riding it he would just stare out the windows. I taught him how to blow kisses so we did that and waved to everyone as we drove by. I was amazed at how smart he was! He would be saying things like, "We go on bus!" and pointing at objects and identifying them, I know that it's probably not that big of a deal as I think but dang it was cute! After we got back from the outing we finished the rest of our painting. We ended up painting two smaller rooms and then the majority of the big room. It was pretty neat to see them moving some furniture into one of the rooms we painted and having it look all put together at the end of the day. I must say though, my favorite part of the day was taking my favorite group of toddlers on a little adventure inside the compound. I call it an adventure but really it was more of them running off and us ending up look at the cows and playing in the grass. Either way though, I loved it! It was entertaining to watch Emma running as fast as his little legs would go trying to catch the birds. After he figured out that catching the birds wasn't going to happen he started picking up rocks and throwing them at the cows through the fence, I thought it was funny but was forced to tell him not to do it. All in all, it was a very productive and good day! The main two prayer request I have tonight are to continuing praying about the one from last night and then also that the things from back home wouldn't distract me while I'm here. Like everyone, I have several struggles (and/or distractions, whatever you want to call them)  that I am trying to work though and one of them has been in my life for several months and I feel like it's been kind of holding me back, not physically really but more mentally, and I'm at the point where I'm sick and tired of it. I've started having the mindset that, "Oh, it must be here for a reason since it's been here so long. God must have a plan including it, or what not." And I just ask that y'all pray that if that's not the mindset I should have, which I'm thinking it's probably not, then God will just make it so blatantly obvious that I would be stupid for not changing my ways of thinking and that He would change my heart and mindset. And I just ask you guys to pray that while I'm here I can focus of God and falling head-over-heals in love with him! I know that didn't really have anything to do with my trip really but seeing the amount of people who read this and knowing the power of prayer I thought I would throw it out there. Well, so much for being a short entry. I am pretty beat from today and it's a whopping 10:30 at night here, so I'm going to hit the hay. Oh yeah here's a little funny for you, last night I was crawling into bed when my foot brushes against something at the end of my bed. I shined the light from my phone down through the covers expecting to see come crumbs or something and low and behold a gigantic bug. Now I don't know if I had killed it when I had touched it and I didn't take the time to find out! I jumped right outta there, the mosquito net did give a little bit of trouble, grabbed my pillow and got in the bed next to me. Luckily it was empty so I just slept there for the night. Hopefully that's my last encounter with any kind of African creepy crawler. On that note, I'm head to bed! Thanks for your prayers!


Good night and don't let the bed bugs bite,
Allie