"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love." --Martin Luther King, Jr

Jojo and John. . .some young neighbor kids that comes over to play with us. 

Judah...

Living in Yuli, is so much fun! I love the children here and am so grateful God chose me to minister to them.

Let me tell you about my student Judah. . .

When I met Judah I noticed he had what I assumed to be birth defects. He walked with a limp and his head is not shaped normal. He was so very out-going and encouraging to me my whole time at school.

I adore him!!!!

Judah showed me around the school, then took me to the playground. I noticed as I played with him and the other littler children, he was nice and gentle with them. After playing, we had a footrace. By this time I had completely forgotten that he had a limp and I beat him. I only realized after the race that I had won it unfairly because of his limp. But, as I watched for signs of disappointment, I found only joy and excitement in his eyes. I think I may have impressed him with how fast I could run :-).

Judah spent every break with me. Working on English phrases, saying words from his english book and laughing with me when I would try to say a chinese word. Then I ate lunch with him. Between nodding at him and smiling we had a great time.

Later that day, I learned that Judah did not have birth defects but was abused as a baby. It hurts me to even think of what was done to him. This young boy, Judah, one of my sweetest students! was hurt as a helpless baby. But although he was hurt he is still a happy child and so loving. I pray God can use me in a special way to have an impact in his life this year as well as all of my students.

~LeeAnn

My home in Yuli, Taiwan

My Home in Yuli, Taiwan.

"Humor helps us to think out of the box. The average child laughs about 400 times per day, the average adult laughs only 15 times per day. What happened to the other 385 laughs?"

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"what would you attempt to do
if you knew you could not fail?"

(unknown)

A "non-happily-ever-after" Fairy Tale By LoN

Once upon a time there were these funny little girls and they decided to go outside and take pictures in the rain.

But it was so freezing cold that the only girl that got her picture taken was LeeAnn.









The other sister, BreAnne was to cold to be outside anymore. The batteries in the camera died and she just gave up hope...



So alas, there are only a couple pictures of BreAnne. But she was there and a part of the "taking pictures in the rain" fairytale.



Sadly there was no meeting a handsome prince or living happily ever after.



Instead BreAnne and LeeAnn went inside and got warm by the fire ~ alas they are still waiting for happily ever after.

valentines is coming up....

I came across this today.... it made me laugh =)

life

life can be hard at times.... sometimes very hard, but to know that i can always talk to God is so comforting, and that God is with me at all times is the most wonderful thing to know. then there are times in life when it seems as though anything couldn't get any better and i'm happy that Gods there for me to thank Him. through the good times and the hard times.... thanks God, for being there for me.

~lon

I have a skill....

In my online classes, I have to take part in a discussion group for each class. In the first week my instructor gives us a certain amount of questions about ourselves, we go and answer them, and then discuss out lives with our fellow online students. (I personally would rather not take part in this discussion but because it is required I do.) One of the questions that I was ask was: What is a special skill that you posses or use? I was like, ha, me? skill? I can't draw, I'm not much good in music, so... What skill do I posses? I was kinda stumped! But in my quest for just conquering the problem and writing an answer to get it done, I came up with a skill that I have: I am good with "old people"! Which I am, it's not a lie, it's not even bending the truth, but to me it didn't seem to really be a skill. I wrote my post about my "skill" in discussion group and then waited for my fellow classmates to comment on my post. I just checked it, and I got all kinds of replies to my post confirming that I do indeed have a skill!!! I was kinda amazed, I mean, I know that it's difficult for people to take care of the elderly, but to me it doesn't seem that big of a deal. So people out there in the world, I do indeed have a skill, I just figured out that it's a great skill, a skill that some people do not posses. Ahhhh, how lovely and reassuring, God knew what he was doing when he gave me my skills!!!

a day at home

A day at home consists of food, sleep, and schoolwork with the ever pleasant interruptions made by family members. Like right now, when I'm suppose to be working on school work, Han is sitting beside me talking about knitting. Now I have to admit, writing this blog is not school, but I need to practice my writing skills ;-). So, lets talk about knitting... I should learn how to knit, it would improve my life greatly! and how would it improve my life? well I could make clothes for all my children, socks for my family, and my mom would be proud of me!!!! okay forget it, I shouldn't learn how to knit, but I think it would be great fun to learn like just a little bit. Ahhh well, Han has just left so I should get back to my schoolwork while I can. Have a great day....

~lon