Annie looking for shells. That is the Gulf of Mexico behind her. She was excited that she didn't have to go back to the hospital!

Annie and Jenny

Annie hugging Jenny, her physical therapist.

Annie and Dustin

Annie saying goodbye to Dustin. He helped her in the "tub room." This was the first time he saw her smile.

Yea! We get to go back to Mexico!!

Well, the Dr. looked at Annie and said we could go back to Mexico! Hooray! We are all ready to leave Galveston. It has been a great place to be if you are stuck somewhere, however, we are now ready to leave. The doctor said she may have some scarring on her waist area, we are going to pray that she doesn't! He said it could take up to 3-4 more weeks for that area to be healed. Not exactly what we were hoping for, but, we'll take it!! He told us she could only take baths in purified water, not real easy in Mexico, but it should make life interesting! She saw the psychologist again today and she gave us some more pain medicine for her bath time, we are hoping that will ease some of the pain at this time of day.

What to do now? Well, our plan is to fly out of Texas to Puebla, Mexico. That is where our boss lives and his wife, Jennifer worked in a burn unit for 3 years. She will be able to help us if we see Annie isn't healing properly. There is also a very nice hospital there if needed. We will be staying in a mission house there until we head to Guatemala for an annual mission meeting with our company. We should be returning to our home in Mexico sometime in early July. That is the tentative plan anyway. I will continue to keep everyone updated on Annie until we can say she is completely healed. We love you and covet your prayers for the upcoming weeks as we will be traveling, we will be in different environments, and we are getting pretty tired.

These pictures are of Annie using her right hand to Putt Putt and of Annie with her two biggest fans, Jerod and Alex. I will add more pictures to the slideshow soon! Love you!!

Trying to be "normal" again

Things are going well! We are starting to feel a little guilty because we are trying to do things as normal as possible. That means EATING! ;o) We ate at a Mexican restaurant today and shared our story with some of the Mexican waiters. Everywhere we go people ask questions about her and we get to share what God is doing with her tiny body. Annie continues to open up doors for us wherever we go. We know God has huge plans for her!

As you can see from these pictures, she is doing much better physically. We still have a way to go before she is healed, but we are claiming her as a miracle! Many of you have commented on how she looks healed already. Her hand looks so much better and we are very excited about that! Under her clothing she still has a long way to go, but little by little we see God healing each and every burn! She still has some psychological problems that we are trying to overcome. Please be in prayer for all of us tomorrow as we will meet with the Medical Dr. at 7:oo am. We will also be talking with a psychologist about some of her fears and how we can handle them. Pray for a calm Annie. We are hoping that tomorrow will be the day when Annie is given the green light to go home! We shall see. Thank you all for praying and for loving and for being the wonderful support we all needed. This blog has done more for us than I could have ever imagined! I would like to thank our supervisor, for setting it up! Greg and I are not real computer savvy and he had it set up within a matter of minutes. It has ministered to our hearts over and over again!

I would like to say that many of you have sent emails saying how you want to leave a comment and are unable to do so. I tried to do that and if you click the envelope you are sending an email, if you click on the word comment, it should give you the option to jump to comment form, and that SHOULD allow you to post a comment. Hope this helps all of you who, like me, are not "blogheads".

We will post an update tomorrow as soon as we know what the doctor says is in our future! Love and hugs to you all!

Another Sunday to worship!

Another day of worship! Yea!! We are headed to church today. A large church in Houston made us feel so welcome last week, that we are headed back there again today. So many churches here in Texas have shown us an outpouring of love and we are very thankful to them all. Of course we have felt this outpouring from churches all over the world in many different languages. When we felt called to Mexico, I (Missy) was so scared and thought the safest place to be was in the center of God's will. I was quickly told that was wrong. Being in the center of God's will is maybe the most dangerous place to be because Satan doesn't like it. However, I was also quickly reminded it may not be the safest place, but it is the BEST place to be! Our whole family has experienced the blessing of being in the center of His will.

Annie is doing better each day, crying a little bit less. She is definitely trying hard to use her hand more as you can see from this picture! :o) She is a real fighter. She still hates bath time and that may not go away for some time. We praise him that she still has her personality and is our little "Sunshine." She wakes up with a smile on her face and then asks for medicine. Please keep us in your prayers on Tuesday. We are hoping that the Dr. will tell us we can go home. Annie keeps asking when we can go back to her Mexican home. As of now, our answer is someday soon. Please also keep us in your prayers about her seeing a psychologist on Tuesday. They are a little concerned about some of her fears and they will be doing an assessment of her on Tuesday as well. Keep my parents in your prayers as they travel back to SC today. They were a huge help to us and we enjoyed every bit of our grandparent time.

We are off to church, hope you all have an incredible Sunday! Love you all!

We don't like baths!

Hi everyone,

I (Missy)am trying to find things to write to you that will be of importance to each of you without boring you with the details of our daily life now. Our biggest struggle with Annie is bath time. Bless her heart, she screams at the first sound of the water running. She is petrified of this time of day. She cries during the entire bath saying, "I can't stop looking at my booboos." The bath itself is scary for her, and we now know that she doesn't want to see her booboos and she doesn't like anyone else to see them either. We tried using sunglasses but that didn't seem to help. She is very "hung up" on when her skin will look normal. Unfortunately we don't know when that will happen, if ever. At first I was a little bummed about her having to wear this body suit and now we are counting that as a blessing because it hides her burns. Please pray for a calmness during her bath time. Also pray that she will start going potty without fear. We know these are small issues to deal with and are so grateful to God that the worst is now over. (we hope)

We went to see the movie Kung Fu Panda today and I was struck by a very neat saying. They said, " Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift, that's why they call it the present." I really liked this saying and it spoke to my heart. I am glad her accident is over, and I don't know what tomorrow will bring, but today has been awesome and I am rejoicing in the now. We are amazed at how many people Annie is touching. One day she will understand just how big our God is!

This first picture was taken on Sunday at church as Annie worshiped and the second one is of Annie with Shriner.

We still are in the wait and see mode until Tuesday. At that point we will know more about our future. Until then we are focusing on walking better, using our right hand and dealing with fears. As soon as we know when we will be able to leave the Texas area, we will let you know. Love you!