Good morning! We made it. We are home. We have all our kids, carry ons, and luggage! That is amazing! God was definitely with us! The kids are tired, but excited. Their next adventure is graduation. Please continue the prayers that they will follow God's will for their lives. My prayer is that this adventure gave them inspiration. Sometimes we need to see where people do not have the privileges we have to see how trivial our big dreams are. Our dreams become bigger when God is the leads and guides them. Pray the seniors allow God to guide them where He wants them to go.
Ms. Stevenson
P.S. I will not be adding more pictures here, but Facebook will have the pictures. I am sure the kids will be putting their thousands of pictures up on their Facebook accounts. It just takes too long to do them through the blog. Thanks for watching our journey here on the blog.

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Wow! I seriously cannot believe that it is our last day on the island! Didn't we just leave? Let me fill you in from my perspective of what has gone on in the last couple of days. Where did I leave off? I think I last wrote on Tuesday. So, Wednesday was the straw market/sight-seeing. That was pretty fun! I have never gotten to "barter" before, so that was a first for me...what an experience! However, even though the sight-seeing and shopping was fun, i must say I enjoyed the last part of that day; it really made me think. We went to an orphanage for the mentally handicapped children. WOW! How much do we have in America, yet we complain. Every orphanage that we have visited thus far, I have connected with one person in particular. The handicap orphanage was no different. There was one boy, I think his name was Lunies or something like that. He loved to smile, and OH what a smile he had! He was so happy in such a sad place. All of them touched me that day. Fast forward...Thursday we fed a village. I'll just have to tell you about that in person! That was fun to. The afternoon was probably the most touching part of the trip for me though. We went to a girls orphanage. Again, I connected with one girl in particular. She was deaf, therefore she couldn't hear or speak. I haven't found our her name yet, but I call her Bonita, Beautiful. She was such a blessing that I cannot even describe it. That one is a "tell it to you in person" one as well! Today, we went back to the handicap orphanage and worked our tails off. We all put in extremely hard effort. We moved two piles of dirt, a pile of rocks, and a lot of cinder block. Yeah, I'm still tired! Anyway, I want to thank everyone who has gotten onto this sight and prayed for us! We couldn't have done it without YOUR prayers! Thank you! Lord willing, we will see you soon! Take care!

Ok we have a few minutes of free time. We just got back from a good game of beach volleyball and now I am sitting by the pool while the rest of them play in the pool. It is so beautiful. The breeze is blowing so it is not hot out at all. Anyway I promised pictures from yesterday so I will work on that now. Enjoy.
Ms. Stevenson

Good morning. We are off to the orphanage. I am going to do some blogging this afternoon. We have some free time and need to pack. Pictures take a while to upload, but I will try to put some up. Pray for us. We dont want to go home, and have a long day of traveling tomorrow.
Ms. Stevenson

Yesterday morning (Wednesday) we went to the straw market and shopped. Then we went and had lunch. After lunch we went to a handicap orphanage. Then that evening we to the beach to have devotions. Enjoy the pictures.

Yesterday morning (Wednesday) we went to the straw market and shopped. Then we went and had lunch. After lunch we went to a handicap orphanage. Enjoy the pictures.

These are pictures of the trip to the island. We took a speed boat that sat 30 people. The boat took us to the "natural pool". It is called that because it is a huge area in the middle of the ocean that you can stand up in to your knees. From there we went to snorkel. We looked for star fish and conch. If you found a conch shell without a live conch in it you got to keep it. Some of us did! It was awesome. After snorkeling we went to the island. It was a different island than Catalina island, because the Hale's (the missionaries we were working with) got us a better deal. When we arrived to the island it was like a paradise. The water was blue and you could see all the way to the bottom and we got an all you can eat buffet. Then from there we took a speed boat to a huge catamaran that sailed us back to where we started. Here are some pictures of that day.
Ms. Stevenson