Brianne Henry

Well friends, it's been a little over four super busy months since I have updated this blog. Our lives are SO busy! But one of my hopes is to keep this updated better. Maybe I should set a reminder in my phone? That's what I do for everything else! As many of you know, big changes are headed our way! Baby Henry is coming! Allow me to share the story... In August, Luke stopped working at Dick's and I started working at PRHS. At the end of August, I ran out of insurance and my school insurance didn't start until October 1. Of course, my yearly doctor's appointment just so happened to be in that range. I called to reschedule and they couldn't get me in again until the end of November. After doing some research (we'll see how reliable that was!), Luke and I decided to "go with the flow," if you will. My research suggested that it took over 60% of couples at least six months to get pregnant when they weren't using birth control. So, six months.....

Wow friends, I have been a serious blogging slacker! Life has been so incredibly busy over the past month and a half. Blogging has crossed my mind, but actually taking the time to do it obviously hasn't happened. I started teaching at Pleasant Ridge High School in August. I am loving my job. It is a little bit of a commute (about 40 minutes one way) but the kids and my co-workers are definitely worth it. It's a small, farming community so I feel right at home there. My days are crazy busy! I have 5 class periods before lunch (which also means I'm starving by lunch time!). I also travel between 3 classrooms. After lunch I have my prep period and one more class. So my afternoons are super quick. I am teaching 4 different subjects (Computer Applications, Digital Multimedia, Graphic Design & Entrepreneurship), along with a Personal Finance 30-minute, 2-day a week course for juniors. The kids are great! I have had very little discipline problems without having to be really...

Hey everyone! Can you believe summer is almost over? I must say this summer has flown by and it's been so. stinking. hot. I pray that fall will come soon - although I'm sure it wont! Just wanted to give everyone a quick update on the Henry family. Remember when I wrote this...it was in May... "Anyway, Luke took a new job at Dick's Sporting Goods that is full-time, going to provide really good, super cheap insurance and a larger paycheck.  However, this job is, like mentioned above, full-time. Which cramps his seminary style. He'll still be going - but it will be more online and evening classes and possibly part-time. Fast forward a couple weeks and I land a teaching job for the fall. Is it sad that we are so excited and think we'll be so financially secure from a teaching salary?! So, beginning with my first paycheck in September, we won't NEED Luke's income from DSG to get us by (but we do WANT it!)." - Quoted from May's blog titled Obedie...

Fast forward our trip to Friday. Tuesday through Thursday were pretty similar. All days were split between the orphanage and the construction site. Wednesday we took the girls to a water park and then Thursday we did the regular park and Pizza Hut - just like in January. Friday morning after breakfast we headed to a city called La Libertad. This is actually the city that we flew into and where the team the week before us spent a few days. La Libertad has an orphanage through the same company (if you will) as the one we go to in San Miguel. This orphanage is HUGE though. They have around 80 kids, chicken & pig farms, greenhouses, etc. They are pretty much self-sufficient. The goal of San Miguel orphanage is to become like that in the future. The best part of the La Libertad orphanage was Samuel. Samuel was in San Miguel in January. After we left, the fire marshals came through and made them send some kids elsewhere because they were over the maximum amount. Samuel was one of tho...

I can't actually remember what night we took the trip to Alegria so I think it's worthy of it's very own post! Alegria is a town up in the mountains...along the way we stopped inside a volcano (!) and then had pupusas at the very best place in the entire country. I ate 6, which is a lot. I was very hungry! The temperature in Alegria was probably 15-20 degrees cooler than in the city. When we had to leave, we all chanted, "No Joe, we won't go!" We did NOT want to head back into the humidity of the city. We pray that mission opportunities will open up in Alegria so we can stay there instead! Haha! :) It was very foggy but this is a beautiful scenic view on our way up the mountains. Okay so the Lagoon de Alegria. Whoa, I was inside a volcano! The best part was probably the fact that I needed to go pee (imagine that!). So Joe decided he would show me where the bathroom was. It ended up that the door didn't close and everyone could see me so he had t...

Looking back on the week, Monday was my favorite day. I was SO incredibly hot and sweaty at the time though, that I didn't appreciate the day for what it actually was. We started out after breakfast and headed to a school. Our teams would visit 3 schools this day. The first school was a big assembly where all students gathered in the courtyard area. We partnered with a church in town where they did a drama, we shared the Gospel, Mike shared the history & played the saxophone and Randy gave an English lesson. Outside of the school. The dark blue is a locked gate at all times. The concrete all around makes for not much airflow inside!!! The kids waiting for the assembly to start The second school was a walk up the road. Lucky for me, I got to hop in the back of Walter's truck and missed the walk to the school (darn!). The rest of the team was walking pretty slowly to the school when Milton (translator) told everyone to start walking faster. Now, Milton is the type...

Luke and I got back last night from our second trip to El Salvador. This trip was different from our last one in many ways, but both were equally fantastic. Sunday was our first day on the mission field. We spent Saturday traveling and didn't arrive to our hotel until late that evening. We started off Sunday morning with two groups going to different churches. I went with a group to a church no one had been to in the middle of nowhere (not scary at all!). We met in a mud hut with about 10 people from the village. Then the church members joined our group and we headed down the paths to talk to the people of the community. We shared Christ with a few households and spent time getting to know the locals in that area. Rachel, Me & Luke leading singing (I know...me singing?!) Outside the door of a home where we shared the Gospel Around 11am, we met up with the other group that went to a different church, ate some lunch and then headed to the military base in Usulutan. I ...