Brother- sister- new friends

tsk tsk, us Ambers have been slacking on the whole blogging thing...but in all fairness its been a pretty busy week. Its Amber Rae here, and i'm totally pumped to let y'all know that my brother and sister are here!!! who would have thought, that all the way in southeast asia, on two seperate trips we would meet up!? Sitting across from them in a restaurant yesterday, it kinda hit me how strange it was and yet it felt completly normal and right :) Jared has dived right into helping add onto a home in Lorega, even though apparently the other builders just stare and him and don't speak to him...sigh :) And the kids in Compassion and Lorega love Rachelle and Jared, and vice versa. Last night was a very encouraging night for me - a couple weeks ago when we were in Lorega i met a couple girls about 13 years old who i realized i wanted to get to know better and focus my time with them - I usually choose to be with the younger children because well i love them, but I realized that as a 20 year old girl, i could be a good example for them...here's hoping ;) Anyways so last night Rachelle and I brought nail polish and rounded up some of the girls and went down the street under a street lamp and spent an hour painting nails! And it was alot of fun and encouraging to build relationships with these girls. I told them that this weekend we would be travelling to another island, and one of the girls said, "oh...than we shall not meet again"...and i was surprised and said, "of course you will! I will come to visit you next week!" and the way her face lit up warmed my heart. She thought i wasn't coming back. And i am just excited to see them again and know how their life is going!! Now that we have been here for a month, we are starting to actually build relationships with these lovely people and remember names and faces and have more of a reason to come back often. We pray that they will see God's fire in our eyes and that our love comes from Him. I just thought i would share quickly :)

Peace out
Amber Rae