After a stressful week last week, we have started anew. The kids' and our schedules are hectic. Our days and evenings are full. Since Peruvian schools have started back in March, the traffic is even busier than we imagined, so that also added to the stress. It sometimes seems like all 8 million people are on the streets at the same time.
Last week, every night was full, so the kids grew tired and grouchy. By the end of the week, when B. left for the jungle with our supervisor, I felt a little overwhelmed. Trying to juggle meetings with lesson plans, and our classes with the kids' homework, dinner, and baths was a little bewildering. B. left early Thurs. I had the truck (which is a stick shift), and I got to experience driving the kids over the mountain to school and back in the morning and again in the afternoon. Thank God that He was my pilot, and I surrendered to being copilot.
We'd asked you to pray about Sk.'s swimming lessons. He and Sy. have lessons every Tues. and Thurs., and last week, the lessons began. Thankfully, since he does get a P.E. grade for his lessons, he is experimenting with the water quite well. Thanks for your prayers. Sy. was all excited about the lessons, and after one day in the pool, with her male instructor (who happens to wear a Speedo), she decided she was NOT doing that again. After 2 more days of spankings and temper tantrums with her, she still would rather a severe scolding than trying the pool out. Pray for patience and understanding on our part, and continue to pray for them for the changes that they are encountering here.
B.'s trip went well. They ended up not spending the night, but drove straight back. They took turns driving, which totaled around 16 hours there and back. They visited a village by the Perene River. To get to the village, they had to park the truck, and cross over on a makeshift cable trolley, which was hand-operated. There are 2 Christians, Enrique and Rosa, in the whole village. The others do not believe in anything. While there to ask the chief permission for doing ministry, they were welcomed into the home of Enrique. The family was celebrating their son's birthday, and they were offered dinner, which was cooked on the ground in coals. They had chicken, sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, and beans called habas. The trip was successful with permission being granted for ministry, and they made it back home a little before midnight on Thurs. Pray for these villagers hearts to be opened for repentance and acceptance, and for those that will be coming to share the Good News boldly and well. Pray for the 2 Christians that are there, to be encouraged and strengthened, and to be willing to share with others!
Meanwhile, Thurs. night, I arrived at the school (on our side of town) to teach ESL and a Bible lesson, and the classroom had no chairs. I discovered that it was the school's open house, and all the chairs were being used in the auditorium. After I set up our projector and laptop for our lesson, a sweet student arrived and threw out some gymnastics' mats for everyone to sit on, and I was told that the stand (that I was using for the projector and laptop) was needed in the auditorium! Thankfully, out of no where, people began to bring in chairs for the students and a table (for a makeshift stand). The devil likes to use such opportunities of our weakness to make us crumble. God showed him who was in control though! Toward the end of the class, the parents gathered outside of the doors and windows and peered in, watching and listening to our English class.Pray for those that are in need of a Savior who heard to give our class a try!
After a stressful week, we have started anew. Pray for us to be lights for the world to see. Pray for us to ALWAYS represent Him in the way we speak, think, and act, even when we do face challenges and struggles. After all, HE IS IN CONTROL.
Pray for my sweet mom, Pearlean, as she goes for her second round of biopsies on Wednesday (tomorrow) around 1-1:30, on her thyroid gland. She says her neck is still sore from last week's round. Her thyroid is 1 1/2 times the size it should be. Two years ago, she had a goiter and one gland removed. Now, she has nodules in the remaining gland.Pray for good results, and for the procedure to go smoothly.
Thanks for all of your prayers! God bless you!!
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