Beautiful Haiti

We have been so busy getting our house set up, getting our classrooms ready, working on lessons plans that today we decided to take a little break.  So our friends Amanda, Brice & Naiyah took us to the beach to swim.  Both Lyndlee & Naiyah loved it & it was so sweet to watch them both.  The water was so beautiful, I got to take some really beautiful pictures & video which we still hope to share as soon as the generator gets fixed here.  Please still pray about that, we are down to one & it keeps Roger & John so busy.  

We start school on Wednesday, we are so looking forward to meeting our students.  Brennan has started teaching at the college & loves it!  Lyndlee is doing great, she loves her little friend Naiyah so much & says her name, they like to hold hands & walk together too!  

There are lots of dogs here so we always have to wave, say hi, & say dog although she calls them gogs.  She is so friendly when we are walking around, just waves & waves at everyone we pass! 

We have met more people & more students which has been great.  My teacher aides are teaching me Creole everyday, although they laugh a lot at me trying to say things, they are sweethearts.

All is well with us, the Lord continues to bless us.  We love you all & miss you!

Haiti

We made it safely to Haiti.  All is well, Lyndlee did great traveling, what a trooper she is.

We are very limited on internet usage right now so we will give a better update later & hope to post pictures.

Just wanted to let everyone know we made it here.  Thanks for all the prayers & support.

We love & miss you all!

Janna, Brennan & Lyndlee

Only Days Away.......

I can't believe that in only 3 days, we will be heading out for Haiti.  We are so excited, ready, nervous, scared, & sad.  There are too many different emotions all at once to try to explain what we feel.  We are so ready to get there, to meet all the wonderful people we will be working alongside, to meet all the wonderful people of Haiti.  We can't wait to meet our students & their families, to see where we will be living for the next 2 years.  We can't wait to start unpacking & stop living out of our suitcases!  We can't wait to start working & just let the Lord use us for His ministry there.  We know we are going to teach in Haiti but also know we will be the ones learning everyday!  We are ready to learn & to soak up all the Lord wants to teach us. 

The goodbyes have been hard, so hard but we know the Lord is right alongside us every moment of this journey.  We rejoice in the Lord & all that He has blessed us with.  He has given us so many things, so many blessings, so many wonderful friends & family that have been such a great encouragement to us.  We know this move will be hard for everyone involved so we just continue to ask for prayers, for wisdom & strength from the Lord.

We have had a great last 3 weeks, visiting with friends & family.  I wanted to include some photos from our time.  Probably the next time we write will be from Haiti, from our new home! I am hoping to be able to upload videos/photos to show everyone where we will be living! Thanks again.  We love you all!

For Him,

Janna, Brennan & Lyndlee Jya-Ying  

Week In Texas, Family Fun & Wedding

We had a great time in Texas with our family.  It was a long drive to Texas with 7 kids in car seats & 13 adults.  We stayed at a beautiful home by the lake that also had a pool.  We all had a blast. Jeremi & Jenni's wedding was beautiful, & the kids loved the dance time!  It was precious.  We have really enjoyed this week with our family & the special memories we have made.  Hope you all doing well, we love you all!

Busy Life

Hello to All!

We just got back from a 2 day camp in Mobery, Missouri.  It was a great time with first grade kids!  We were their missionaries for the week & got a lot of cute & funny questions asked about moving to Haiti.  My favorite was while in line for lunch today, this sweet little girl looked at me, handed me her Bible and said, "Missionary, can you please hold this for me!"  I just about started laughing but told her of course I would!  Lyndlee loved her very first camp time.  She practiced walking all over the camp grounds & would go to anyone that would hold her.  She even joined in on the clapping, singing & dancing with the campers.  Our favorite was today during meal time, all the kids were banging on the tables & singing goofy songs, & Lyndlee joined right in with banging on the tables, I couldn't believe my eyes & thought oh boy, we are in trouble!

We have some road trips planned for the next few weeks with friends & family to Mexico, St. Louis, Joplin & Texas!  Then will be home for 2 weeks, finishing up our packing for Haiti.  After that we will head to Joplin to live with my parents until we fly out middle of August!  

It feels like life is so crazy these days & I imagine it will only get crazier!  But we are ready & excited for it!  The Lord bless you all!  Much love.

Branson fun & back home to boxes!

                                                                    How cute are they?!!

                                                               Stuff to ship to Haiti
                                                               Silly Lyndlee
                                                                     Lyndlee & daddy
                                                 one of the sweet Acrobat girl with Lyndlee
                                                        he needs a few more kids to hold
                                                       Beautiful Chinese Children!
                                                       Lyndlee Jya-Ying
                                                                   

Well, this past weekend we spent in Branson with Jetts & Heardts who also adopted their babies from The Home of God's Love in Taiwan.  They have little Kyler & Ava, who Lyndlee adores & loves to spend time with, of course we love them as well, and consider them both siblings to our Lyndlee.  We went to the Chinese Acrobat Show & they performed just for families that have adopted Chinese babies so it was really awesome to see all these other Chinese children running around.  All three kids, mind you they are all close in age, all close to 1, sat for the entire 2 hour acrobat show & loved it.  It amazed us all.  Lyndlee only started to get a little restless because she kept looking back towards the back & could see the door & she is a go baby and kept pointing towards the door & would say Go!  

After that, we went to Silver Dollar City for the next day, now we weren't for sure how this would turn out, taking 3 one year old babies there but again, they surprised us all & did great! Sunday we hit some outlets stores & ate lunch & then departed our ways.  It was a great weekend with friends!

Then we came home to boxes!  Now that we thought they would be gone by the time we got home, it was just nice to get away from it for a few days.  We shipped our things early to Haiti this past Monday & are praying it all makes it there, guess we will know in August when we arrive! Living these past few weeks has been interesting to say the least, since we packed a lot of our stuff already.  The Lord is teaching us new ways to live!  For instance, Lyndlee is eating in her stroller for meals, since we had to ship her high chair, she doesn't mind, as long as she is getting her food!  Brennan is learning to take a shower with no curtain, he does mind that but I keep telling him just to take bubble baths like Lyndlee & I do, he says no thanks!  I am learning to make dinner with the few dishes, silverware, pots & pans that we have left.  We have learned to sleep with little pillows since we shipped those as well.  The list could go on & on but we are truly blessed!!  We have been sorting & packing for awhile now & come to realize just how blessed we are.  We have so many things, some things that are so silly, material things that mean nothing.  We are getting so excited for our journey to Haiti & for the Lord to use us there!  Please keep us in your prayers.  We have a busy next few months with some camps where we will be the missionaries, brother's wedding in Texas, visits to see friends/family before we leave, a new nephew being born next Tuesday.  Busy, busy times.

We love you all & pray you are well!

Hello family & friends,

We hope & pray you are all well. We wanted to send some updates on our life these days.
Lyndlee is doing wonderful, she is 13 months soon & getting into everything, not walking yet but well on her way. She still enjoys food so much, playing with her toys, loves bath time, she really is into reading/looking at books. She loves people, almost everywhere we go, she will find strangers, smile at them & hold her arms out to them which really puts us in a awkward situation because some people will often put there arms out to hold her! What a goof she is. Every Sunday when we pick her up from nursery, they always tell us the same few things: that she did great and that she loves to eat all their snacks. I pretty sure we owe them boxes & boxes of cereal!
About this time last year, we were getting all our adoption paperwork completed and August last year we were in Taiwan picking up our little Lyndlee. And now this summer brings about big changes for us again. We are headed to Haiti! So these next few months we will be busy packing & all that fun stuff and mid August will arrive in Haiti. We will be missionaries at Sonlight Academy. We will both be teaching & we are very excited for this and for the Lord to use us for His ministry there in Haiti.
Sonlight Academy's website is sonlightministries.org and we would love for you all to take a look and see the ministry going on there in Haiti.
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Please be keeping us in your prayers as we begin to start this new journey in our lives.

We love you all.
Brennan, Janna & Lyndlee Jya-Ying