God Moment at a Family Reunion!!!!

On Sunday Aug 6th we went to the Neufled Family Reunion. We had fun, it was neat to see actually how many people we do have in our family, and it was nice to talk and get to know them better. We just couldn't help but notice one little 9yr old girl named Brandi.We saw her walking around for a bit, than she came to us, gave us a few high 5's, and than just went on her way, We assumed she was just bored and was looking for someone to play with. There was one thing we noticed about her, this girl wasn't talking and laughing like most kids do, and in asking around my family, we found out that she was born with parylized vocal chords, so she didn't have a voice, but she could hear perfectly fine. She was currently going through speach thearapy to see if she would be able to develop her voice one day, which was encouraging. We went and talked to people for a bit and mom came to us and asked if we would want to sign (sign language) to someone. She knew we have a friend that is deaf and that we know sign language, so we went to talk to this person and it was that little girl. We started talking to her, and she opened up to us on such a more personal level it was amazing to see the big smile on her face when we did that, after that she followed us around for a while and kept giving us hugs and was just so happy. When we decided to leave we wanted to say goodbye to her , so we found her and said goodbye , she came up to us a gave us both big hugs, she was soo cute. This is common for children to do but how this certain situation affected us was a big part of it. We truly believe that God was talking to us through Brandi, reminding us of his power and showing Carla where He want's her. When we got home that night and talked about how we felt we realized it affected both of us in the same way, at the same time... BIG God moment!!!. That night we prayed and talked really late in the night, Carla realized that she wanted to look for a nanny job in town here somewhere, and continue with co-leading in a ministry for teen girls because that is where her true passion is. We just want to share our story so that maybe someone else can be touched by this girl and our time with her (though not a long time) and that it can maybe be an encouragment to others! Unfortunatly we didn't bring our camera along so we didn't get any pictures of the reunion, ohh well! We can just imagine,as Brandi goes through speach therapy, getting healed, and jumping up and down, singing and praising God with that voice! Healing has become our prayer for Brandi, and we hope we get to see her again one day!!!