I had the opportunity this week to show the love of Christ to our water delivery man with a donation of $85. Berny had lost quite a bit of money in the robbery a couple weeks ago and a few families in the states followed the call of God to help Berny and his family out. How wonderful it was to hand him the envelope and tell him that there were people praying for his family and that God loved him very much. He didn't know how much was in the envelope because it was sealed but I said that I hoped it would help him out with the loss. All he would say is "It's enough, It's enough!" He was very thankful for the help and I pray that we will have more opportunities to be a light in a very dark place. Thank you families for responding to God's call and putting it into action.
For the first time in San Jose, we saw a rainbow over our house this past week. It was so big and the end of it seems to land right at our house! It was very pretty! We also had another little, and I mean little, visitor in our house. Check out the pictures below! However there are no pictures of the girls this week. But will have some for sure next week. Have a good one!
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
An IMB Weekend
Not much excitement happened this week. Praise the Lord we have heard of no more excitement as far as robberies go either! But what we did have was our monthly IMB group meeting. These meetings can be different. Sometimes Member Care (counselors)come in for a training session. Sometimes we have different speakers come in. But this month our Mentors talked with us about church planting. It was Friday from 4-6pm and then continued Saturday 9-12pm. These weekends are packed with helpful information that will help us with church planting here in Costa Rica and in Puebla as well. Below is a slide show of a few pictures from the weekend and a few extras(double click on the pictures to see the pictures on the web). As you look at the other missionaries you will not have their names. But God knows who they are. Please send up a couple of prayers as you look at the pictures of our fellow IMB missionaries that are in language school just like us.
Monday, September 15, 2008
A week of Celebration!
Not only did we celebrate the Independence of Costa Rica this week but God's safe deliverance from what could have been a very bad situation: A robbery!
Yes, and I will rejoice, for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Philippians 1:19
Taking a step of faith has a whole new meaning when there is a gun not two feet away from you. For precautions of water diseases, we have a man deliver some water to us on a weekly basis. This particular week, my husband wasn’t home, so I was taking care of the water exchange. As I went out to unlock our gate, which is about 5 yards from the door to our house, I noticed out of the corner of my eye that another man had walked up on the sidewalk. Not really paying attention to them because people walking by are not abnormal, I proceeded to unlock the gate. However, when it was time to open it I realized I couldn’t because the man had stopped and a conversation in hurried and anxious Spanish began. As I looked from the ground up to the other man I came to the gun he held in his hand that he was using to rob our water delivery man. At that moment the words “get in the house” ran through my head but I knew I needed to lock my gate first. So I reached down slowly and locked it as quietly as I could and turned very slowly to have my back to the robbery and walked the longest 5 yards of my life back to the safety of my home. I have never been so scared in my life, but at the same time depended solely on my faith in God, to keep me and my family safe. I truly believe that God was guiding each of my actions. Every step I took was just as hard as the first one, but I could feel God walking every one of those steps with me.
What a week it has been. Trying to get used to Evie being in a big girl bed and trying to potty train at the same time. Her teachers at school and a friend of ours told me she was showing lots of signs of being ready. I really didn't plan on tackling it yet but I thought I would give it a try. Well after 3 days of accidents and no success I decided to stop for now. She would go everywhere but on the potty. One time she didn't have anything on and decided to go #2 on our back patio which we smelled and found some 2 hours later. So we will try it again a little down the road. It's too stressful at this point in time.
There was a storm one night this week and Mylee and Evie were a little scared of it. But I told them they needed to go right to sleep so they wouldn't hear it. So I prayed for them again and left the room. About 20 minutes later it was all quiet. I was praising the Lord after about an hour of trying to get them to go to sleep. I go in their room each night after they are asleep to make sure they are covered up and to turn their fan off. Well this night of the storms I was surprised to find them in the same bed. But they were asleep! It was so cute so I took a picture of it!
You can find this picture along with a few others of some other happenings throughout the week. Just click on one of the pictures in the slide show! Thanks for visiting...We will see you next week!
Yes, and I will rejoice, for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Philippians 1:19
Taking a step of faith has a whole new meaning when there is a gun not two feet away from you. For precautions of water diseases, we have a man deliver some water to us on a weekly basis. This particular week, my husband wasn’t home, so I was taking care of the water exchange. As I went out to unlock our gate, which is about 5 yards from the door to our house, I noticed out of the corner of my eye that another man had walked up on the sidewalk. Not really paying attention to them because people walking by are not abnormal, I proceeded to unlock the gate. However, when it was time to open it I realized I couldn’t because the man had stopped and a conversation in hurried and anxious Spanish began. As I looked from the ground up to the other man I came to the gun he held in his hand that he was using to rob our water delivery man. At that moment the words “get in the house” ran through my head but I knew I needed to lock my gate first. So I reached down slowly and locked it as quietly as I could and turned very slowly to have my back to the robbery and walked the longest 5 yards of my life back to the safety of my home. I have never been so scared in my life, but at the same time depended solely on my faith in God, to keep me and my family safe. I truly believe that God was guiding each of my actions. Every step I took was just as hard as the first one, but I could feel God walking every one of those steps with me.
What a week it has been. Trying to get used to Evie being in a big girl bed and trying to potty train at the same time. Her teachers at school and a friend of ours told me she was showing lots of signs of being ready. I really didn't plan on tackling it yet but I thought I would give it a try. Well after 3 days of accidents and no success I decided to stop for now. She would go everywhere but on the potty. One time she didn't have anything on and decided to go #2 on our back patio which we smelled and found some 2 hours later. So we will try it again a little down the road. It's too stressful at this point in time.
There was a storm one night this week and Mylee and Evie were a little scared of it. But I told them they needed to go right to sleep so they wouldn't hear it. So I prayed for them again and left the room. About 20 minutes later it was all quiet. I was praising the Lord after about an hour of trying to get them to go to sleep. I go in their room each night after they are asleep to make sure they are covered up and to turn their fan off. Well this night of the storms I was surprised to find them in the same bed. But they were asleep! It was so cute so I took a picture of it!
You can find this picture along with a few others of some other happenings throughout the week. Just click on one of the pictures in the slide show! Thanks for visiting...We will see you next week!
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Additions to our Home!
No, Evie is not new to our home but the big girl bed she is sleeping in is. We arrived home after our first day of classes and the gentleman that that does all the handyman work on the IMB houses was ready to make the switch of beds, but needless to say I wasn't so ready. Mylee was really easy to switch to a big girl bed. But Evie on the other hand has the word FREEDOM blinking before her eyes. So this week has been sort of a week of struggle getting her to stay in her bed. At one nap time I heard Mylee yelling "Evie get out of my bed"! But she is getting better at it. The reason we took her out of her crib is because we are getting ready to tackle the potty training task. I think she is very ready and will have it down with a little instruction and a few "incentives". Please pray it goes well.
The other new itew we have is a Radio Flyer Wagon. This has been passed to us by another IMB family when they left and when we leave we will pass it on to another family. It has been a fun asset to our home as it brings a few memories of the wagon at Grandma and Grandpa's house that we had to leave behind.
Please pray for Evie as she has just been diagnosed with RAD-Reactive airway disease. During the rainy season (October-January) we were told this is going to get worse before it gets any better. We have started her on 2 weeks of meds hoping this helps her. Please pray her condition will improve and we will not have to resort to a Nebulizer. Thanks for visiting us. Have a great week!
Monday, September 1, 2008
Evie's Week
As you read in the previous blog, Evie stayed with some friends of ours, whom we refer to as Grammy Diane and Grampy Steve, during our week at Playa Ocotal. I asked them to take some pictures of their week together so you could see what a great week she had as well as us and she didn't have to endure the long bus ride as we had to do. Above is a video of Evie singing a song. It also is a really good video to show you a little bit of her personality. I think this is her singing about 3 different songs but she ends with Jesus loves me because her last line is "for the Bible tells me so". Remember to push the pause button in the read music box at the left side of this webpage to view the video. Below is the link to see some pictures of her fun week. Enjoy!
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