me and my beautiful grace

I just want the world to know just how great, important, and amazing this young woman is! She is growing in so many ways that is so fun to watch. She has had some major adult responsibilities this year in taking over the kitchen and hostess jobs Bethany left behind. But more importantly, God is using her in her Bible Studies with the young girls on the island. Susanna is such a great friend and fun person to be around - everyone loves her and knows her! God has also awakened some new passions in her in learning to work with non-hearing people. We have one deaf student in our school that she has diligently been pouring time and effort into teaching how to communicate. Kira is growing in vocabulary and wonder at the new words and ways to express herself that she now has. Susanna has even reached a level of communicating with Kira that is influencing more understanding and relationship with her own family. She has been greatly encouraged and basically fell in love with the Sunset Presbyterian team who brought down four deaf youth and Mrs. Jill, a 17-year veteran teacher of the deaf. We are all seeing some amazing and unique atrributes in this girl that go beyond all that we already know. Pray for her decisions about colleges, costs, Christian fellowship, work, and transportation in the states as she desires to pursue a Christian counseling degree (maybe license) while focusing on learning more sign and being actively involved in a deaf community and ministry. She is already aspiring to be great things as she is mapping a path to a master's degree program in Oregon specializing in empowering the deaf to live and work within a hearing world.