Sweet emails I've been getting lately

Hi those of you who still read this page......thanks! I have such happy news! Here are two emails I received ...............

Dearest Debbie!
I would like to send this E-mail in order to greet you But the great reason is to tell you that Adelyne NKUNDIZANYE who was my classmate in BIBLE study from ERM.She requested me that i must send this message to you, Because she can't be used the Enternet.this the message she wrote to you
Hi Debbie my name is NKUNDIZANYE Adelyne i live at KICUKIRO DISTRICT kagarama Sector nearest Perpetue.
I GREET YOU in the name of Jesus HOW ARE YOU? me also with my kids we are well, I request you to give my greetings to that woman who you told me that she pray for me her name is Lianne YARBRONGH.So tell her she continue praying for me with my family.I believe that God will award her. I wont also tell you that those rabbits you offered me its produced an others smalls rabbits its number are 6.Thank youof that GOD Bless you ever so much
his love
NKUNDIZANYE Adelyne.

The above email was sent by Ernest for Adelyne. I have included her picture.
Then this email from Tabitha.......
my dear debbie how do you do am very happy to write you,you are my mother I love you so very much my children teach bible greet you and they love you,God bless you my dear,mother I wont to tell you one thing if is possible can you send me the bible of english,mum greet my dady you know his,is your husband ,God bless you for send me the picture , is your child Tabita.
ived today.......

The Habit DID Die (blogging a lot) However......

One month of thinking is over and now I just must write out a few things that have been on my heart! Just now I got an email from Tabitha. She was one of my 19 students and she was the one that still had a mother! She is now a true orphan as her mother died of AIDS as her father did earlier. Her email was such an encouragement however......for this reason......she has a Bible class of 14 students! Praise the Lord!!!
Here's how she "put it."
I'm going to try to paste....be right back.....

I am happy to write this letter becouse i miss so very much,do you remember me my name is Tabitha you tought me bible and english in ERM Dear God bless you so very much becouse you tought me,I have fourteen chidren and Iteach bible for children anather thing I believed God and Iknow English my Dear pray me I stoped my study becouse Ihave not parents my mather and father died becouse they sick AIDS BUT GOD HAS POWER

She is saying she had to stop her studies... she was done with HS-6 I believe, but will not be going on to do the "Nationals" for continuing her education. (If I remembered correctly!) This is such a common problem there.
Anyway, just thought I might share some of the emails I have been getting from our dear brothers/sisters in the Lord there in Rwanda.....

Habits die hard.....

I wanted to write today! It was such an encouragement to have so many come to the Sunday open house. I wanted to thank you.....if you are still reading this!
I found it easier to speak up in Rwanda then in my own home church! Interesting isn't it! I'm hoping that as a few more days pass.....I can think better and understand better what it is that God has done these past few months. It wasn't about me.....the trip to Rwanda.....but I am seeing that coming back with a different perspective on things involves a bit of introspection to assess the changes! I want to be forever changed! And I want to be able to communicate what it is God has done/is doing better than I tried to on Sunday!
I'm so grateful for my dear husband! He really is giving me time to adjust to life back here! I need to start working once again. I have found all the people who I worked for before I left still want me back......after fending for themselves all summer! (I clean houses/help elderly people live in their homes.)
I'm listening to the birds of Rwanda right now on my audio tape player. What a joy it was then and now too! God didn't have to make them with so many different songs but HE did! Why? Think about it! It's because He loves us and this, His creation shows us by the care He put into it all! My students even had a song talking about this!

They say it takes only 21 days to start a new habit! I'm beginning to believe it! I keep coming back to this page and wondering if I should post anything.....well, I wonder if there is anything worth recording.......AND I think yes! there is! God is the same here in US as HE is in Rwanda. The circumstances I find myself in today are very different from last week, but I know a few more things about this wonderful God we serve! I long to share them, record them, never forget them so to encourage others!

The lost bags are found

Here's a praise! I received word that my lost luggage is coming to my doorstep today! What a wonderful blessing! Thank you for praying about this!
I'm so very grateful.....Virginia's ESL books are in that bag too......along with my son's drum, tea and letters! So! praise God with me about their return!

Will you read this, even though I am home now?

I just wanted to let you all know that I made it home! Thank you for praying about the journey homeward. It was so uneventful that I just don't have much to say about it. Oh, I do have a prayer request however, two of my bags were lost somewhere enroute. So, my son's drum didn't get home ......yet!
Thank you for praying!
I have received many emails from friends in Rwanda.....that has helped........!

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