He Works it all together for His perfect will

Alright, I got myself exactly 28 minutes to try to write something to yall before this little cafe we are sitting in closes!

The place that we were staying at the past few days did not have internet, so that was the reason for the lack:(  The past few days we have been staying with a pastor named Mark and his wife here in Hattieville.  It was such a blessing and we are were able to spend time with also his wife and 2 children!  Lets just say the little one, he has some dance moves like no one has ever seen!

The Somerville Boys

Pastor Floyd and Mark helping us with Count Me In

We went around visiting pastors some more, inviting them to the conference and was able to meet up with some people we did not know at all as well.  When we got to church Sunday night, we had like a dance RAVE for Jesus in that church.  It was seriously about 100 degrees, and we were dancing like there was no tomorrow, literally!  It was so refreshing, and we were so thankful to have that time to be refreshed with the Lord!  In the past couple days we also we able to scope out a place to have Count Me In Camp! We were so excited!!!!!  We visited a couple places that did not work out at all and we got to the point were I was starting to get a little worried.  We know that there are a TON of kids that would come and we were just needing a place to have it.  As we were meeting with one more pastor, the Lord just really encouraged us and there was just hope and peace that fell over our spirits.  So, as I have been trying my best to make the Lord my first thought in everything, to lean on Him and realize that I am nothing without Him, there is nothing good without Him....we just prayed and asked the Lord to just bless the steps we were taking and to guide us and prepare the way to where we were suppose to go.  Then it happened...we arrived at the grounds that was perfect!  It was a boarding school....where kids can sleep!  They had like 28 acres!!!! They had facilities to hold 200 people comfortably!!!! WHAT!  God you know exactly what is best, and what is better than even we can imagine.

Hatieville Church Service

Visiting the Nursing Home with the Lady who Kisses Jesus who lives under her bed

So today we met with some more pastors and also just drove up to some churches too.  We went to an Anglican church and was able to meet with someone that we have never met before and she invited us into her church to talk for like an hour.  The Lord is so good and as the Lord continues to do a work to prepare for Count Me In Camp and the Leadership Conference...the Lord also is doing such a work in us as well.  The Lord continues to answer Lauren and my prayer....Lord let us die to our flesh and make us one who is more like you, one who is living out of your will alone.  It is funny how when we have this prayer....how we can go with it and actually die to ourselves, or we can continue with our lives.  It has really been for us...there is no other option but to die to ourselves.  There is no where else for us to go, no where for us to run.  I feel as though the Lord is completely changing us both into new people, and for that I am so thankful.

Alright, well i just have a couple minutes to leave, but tomorrow, there will be more...and pictures as well!!!!

I really miss you all and thank you so much for your prayers!!!!!!!

Opened Doors

Wow, it is so crazy how we have only been here for like a week, but it feels like we have been here for weeks!  The past few days have been so fruitful!  As most of you know, we are having a Pastor/Leadership conference this March and the Awaking Church (our home church) will flying in to host.  The past couple days we have been meeting with pastors, trying to get our car fixed, experiencing the Lord's refinement and so much more! 

As we I am writing our car is gone once again trying to be fixed...our bumper finally being put on and hopefully our windows finishing the tinting process.  So as I mentioned a time before, our AC broke and we only have 2 windows that work! haha it is seriously like a hotbox:)  The incredible pastor Henry is helping us try to get parts from the states to fix our car.  His family is just so great! Him and his family has let us stay at his house for the past week, cooking us meals, letting us shower and giving us a bed to sleep in! 

Baizner Family

A couple days ago we met with Pastor Crawford, who is helping us with the conference and had such a great time being encouraged and talking through what the details of the conference is going to look like.  At this time we are trying to still secure a facility to have the conference.  Please pray that the Lord will open doors to exactly where we are supposed to host it and that He would continue to make the way obvious. 

Talking about Count Me In and the Leadership Conference

We have been meeting with Pastors, and yesterday I believe we met with about 10 or more pastors!  It was so crazy how every hour we had appointment, after appointment.  Almost everyone was really excited about the conference and was excited about everyone coming together with the desire to experience revival.  We also have been able to meet with many different denominations of pastors.  It is so great to see how God is bringing everyone together.  We had some really amazing meetings too where we had the opportunity to pray for pastors...one pastor gave us anointing oil to use as we prayed for healing! 

Meeting with Pastors!

We also were able to talk more about Count Me In and share the vision of having a country wide camp with with the youth!  We visited a youth group and was able to present to them details about the camp and get their feedback.  They were so excited, the youth, the parents as well as the youth pastor!  We are praying for a facility to open up for us to use that will hold all the people the Lord wants to bring.


God continues to transform my heart as well.  I feel like everyday the Lord says "Tati, are you ready to die to yourself, because this is what you pray for, and I am giving you opportunity to do it."  I feel like the Lord continues to humble me every single day.  It is in so many ways that I am having opportunity to trust the Lord, and look at what is right in front of me...not tomorrow, not next month, not in June...but right now.  If we do not have tomorrow, did I live this day????? I need to start living where my response will always be yes!

My little nephew!

Today we went to a Central Assembly of God and was able to really have a great time with the Lord worshiping.  It was really great to see how they are really going after the fullness of the Lord and I was so excited and thankful to leave so refreshed.  Tonight we are hoping to get over to Hattiville where we can go to church tonight haha we are praying our car is done being pimped out! (haha meaning our bumper is on).

Thank you so much for your prayers!!!!  Thank you for your love and thank you for support! I really miss yall a lot!

Made it to Belize!

It really was beautiful

I am SO sorry I have not been able to post sooner!  We thought it would be easier to do video blogs for the past couple days, and well then the video would not load and then you could not hear it well...anyway so that just did not end up working well.  But I hope that all yall were able to see on facebook that we arrived safe and sound here in Belize this past Sunday night.

one of the cities we went through

Mexico was truly an experience!  As we left the border on Friday we were very much going into a situation where we were not going to know anything.  We woke up at 7am to get ready and get all of our car stuff situated, but it turned out we had to wait until noon to actually be able to leave because our paperwork had still not been processed.  As we were pulling out, let me tell you, driving a 15 passenger van while towing a car is a very different feeling and a lot of pressure!  It took a couple hours to go through the process of crossing over.  We had to get our vehicles checked, get insurance, check ourselves through, get our cars sprayed, and so much more!  It was a time where we almost laughed the entire time because of the fact that we do not speak Spanish, we were almost completely unable to communicate with anyone.  For example there was this one guy who was saying to us "Teeps? Teeps?"  We responded by saying we were so sorry that we did not know what he was saying.  I guess it turns out he wanted a tip from us! haha  So all that to say we believe that our lack was really able to help us in this part of the trip.

This is what i looked at for 48 hours:)!

bridge over some river

It was crazy after we reached the border, completely going through without any problems (all three of the people in our caravan), we stopped to exchange some money and the guys we were with and a little lunch.  Then we a man who is part of the cartel (which for those of you who dont know...they are the bad people who want to rob you).  And he offered to take us through if we paid him.  So our fearless leader Marconni decided that we should do that for the next 60 miles of the journey, where it is the most dangerous.  And let me tell you, I know it is not like this all the time, but the trip was literally like cutting butter! The Lord truly heard the fighting prayers for our safety going through because it was not even scary at any point!!!!

huge statue with man trying to carry oranges?

As we got past that first 60 miles we were pretty in the clear.  Now the details from here are a little bit more difficult because basically I was the only one who could drive, and we did some crazy hours on that road.  We drove from 12 that afternoon straight, until 11pm that night.  We had stopped at a hotel, but instead of staying in the hotel, we totally saved our money and slept in our cars! haha  The funniest part was that there was a dance party going on, on the opposite end of the compound.  We tried to get the most sleep we could and then woke up 3 hours later at 2am to begin driving again.  So in all reality I really think it was 2 hours of sleep! WHAT!  Then we were on the road again where we would drive, and drive and drive! We made some stops here and there for the bathroom, or to fill up on gas but we then literally drove until 10:30pm....now for those of you who are want to know how long that is...it is pretty much driving for more than 20 hours!!!!!!  I no longer will ever thing a trip to the ATL is long!!!!!

Jesus looking out over Mexico

We then found a gas station, we slept again in our car for another 3 hours and then woke up to finish the rest of the journey.  And of course there are always your little fun adventures here and there but the two that stand out the most was when we pulled over on the side of the road for a minute and our vehicles literally sunk into the soft tar.  We went to move our cars and could not.  We finally were able to get our car out but because the bus was so heavy, it was not budging.  So we stood on the side of the road in Mexico trying to wave down trucks to stop and pull us out.  Now let me tell you...it took about 15 trucks till a little chicken truck finally stopped offering up their services.  We got out! Praise the Lord.  And then the only thing that was tricky the entire trip was one time the military people stopped us at a checkpoint and started talking to us asking for a flashlight (I guess they like those).  We said we did not have anything in the little we could get across to them, but as this man was talking to us...there was a guy in our back car trying to open the door to see if there was anything he wanted.  Now here is the punch line....the only little bag he could get to was a bag with make up...haha jokes on you as we pull away!!!!

bus wheel stuck in the earth!

We finally arrived in the city next to the border of Belize later that night and was able to get a hotel room and get a good night rest and a shower!  We woke up early the next day again (6am) and started the process of waiting at the border to cross over into Belize.  This was once again a all day process where we had to wait for our paperwork at many different checkpoints.  Upon our last stop of giving a man 1000 bucks for bringing our car into the country we were home free!!!  Thank you Lord for your protection and making the way!

they are obsessed with white bugs in Mexico (even though i know this one is dirty)

we literally could not take any more to the point of delusion!

Our Fearless Leaders!!!!!

Later that night we arrived at Pastor Henrys house (a pastor I have known for a long time here near Belize City) and he welcomed us in with so much love!  This is where we still have been staying as we are trying to get some details taken care of with our car, my tooth (have to go to the dentist today), etc.

But since being here it has been great!  We have been able to talk to a couple pastors and leaders about the conference in March as well as Count Me In and they were very receptive to both!  We are figuring out details that might work for Count Me In, as well as we had an opportunity to meet with the Pastor who is "covering us" for the conference.  We are really excited to start meeting with more people and just be used in whatever way the Lord says!

Oh we also got our windows tinted the other day and our bumper but back on the car:)

I am so thankful that the Lord is at work in what is happening but also my heart.  It is crazy to literally feel like sometimes you are having open heart surgery in the middle of walking through life.  But it is good, it is really good!

So I gots to go get in the shower right now so we can meet Marconni to see about getting our air conditioning fixed in the car.  Check this out...so our ac broke and there are only 2 windows that role down in the car!  Now for those of you who have been to Belize before, you understand but lets just say it is like sitting in a hot box on wheels.  Please pray the Lord supernaturally fixes the ac/or the windows and it is for free!!! haha

Love you all lots lots and miss you so much!!!!!!