Pictures
I took a day to relax today and work on this stuff. I was finally able to add a bunch of pictures… I tried to put as many as possible directly on here, but this didn’t cooperate too well. I have uploaded a bunch onto the “Zimbabwe” album on my facebook. Feel free to check them out!
Also, a huge thank you to Michael Smalley for getting on here and updating the overall page and changing the layout and such to make it most accessible. You’re a life saver!!!
Dani,
I have been reading your blogs and praying for you every day. I am sorry you are so depressed and struggling and lonely. I wish I could reach out and give you big hugs and tell you I am so proud of you!! I can tell you that one of our new graduate nurses just spent ONE week on a missions trip to Haiti, and after only one week, she was ready to come back home to the safety of her family and friends. I cannot begin to imagine what you are going through, and I wish you were not all alone.
I will write again soon!!! Love you lots!!! xoxoxo
Aunt Kathy
OMG, thanks so much for all the updates, I know how much time this must take you, and the pictures were so appreciated . . . I haven’t had such good belly laughs in such a long time as reading your blogs. your honesty and realness is so refreshing! I hope LJ gives you plenty of time to work on this as I can’t imagine anything that will help get donations more for his ministry. Love you, your mom
Dani, Where to start, this is all amazing and very interesting.
I am learning thru you and it is a good thing what you are doing! I have tears just listening to the difficulty! Do we start out strong? No, it comes to us all in different ways and this is your path. We must endure trials in life for our soul to grow as God intends. Hardest of all can be lack of understanding the “whys” in life, our nature is to “know” and understand. That is not much a part of “it” at all. Give your best which in a day even a smile could be hard but you are definitely watched over and held spiritually. Darn, though, feeling the physical embrace is so great. Continuing prayers and thoughts coming from my heart to yours! Love you. Aunt Tammy
Dani,
I hope you received the email I sent to your tamu address. Please know that you are in my thoughts and prayers. I am so thankful your mom suggested I read your blogs, and I spent the weekend reading every word you had written since your arrival in Zimbabwe. My heart was very heavy for you after reading about your emotional meltdown, and I so wanted to send a big hug and comforting words. Your words made it all so real, and I felt as though I were going through it all with you. Your descriptions are vivid, honest, and straight from your heart. I was very relieved to hear that you finally got through and were able to talk to your mom and dad. Even at my age, I still need my mom and am so thankful she is here to pick me up when I need her. There’s no love like a mother’s love! I know your mom is missing you just as much as you are missing her. A friend of mine recently spent a year in Tanzania teaching English and living in a hut with a couple of her teenage girl students. I shared with her some of your experiences, and she was so able to relate. If you would ever care to communicate with her, her email address is: woods.amie@gmail.com. She would love to hear from you and would certainly respond. I was delighted to hear you sounding so much better today in your most recent blog. Keep the faith, Sweetheart, and, by all means, keep writing! I can hardly wait to get home each day to read your latest!
Love,
Nancy Yakim-Fluke