Home Bible Studies

Last night we all went to Rueben and Xiomara's house for a home Bible Study. (Sorry that the only pictures I can find of them at this time are of their baptism) We gave them both a ride from Tegucigalpa as well as some other church members who work in Teguc as well. We had to take two trucks as we had quite a few people travelling with us. We were a little concerned when we got to the house and the other truck with Rueben and Xiomara was not there. Thankfully we were able to call their cell phone and find out that they had stopped by the church to pick up more chairs.

Being that this was the first home Bible Study, we weren't sure how many people would show up. We were so pleased when we had 20 people attend. Bro. Armando preached and it was a great service. We are planning on having our service at Bro. Armando's house next week and Bro. Rueben will be preaching (his first time ever). Jason gives them a pretty detailed outline to study and then they preach it. These Bible Study times gives these men opportunity to have a little bit of leadership in the way their church is going. They asked if we could start them and we told them that we would help them for a couple of months and then they would have to run it themselves. Praise the Lord for men that are making huge strides forward for God.

Please pray for our family. We have been sick more often than healed. This morning I woke up with body aches, a fever, and nausea. I feel different than when I had the colon infection so I think that this time it is just the flu. We have another group coming in on the 31st of this month and staying for two weeks. Please pray that we would be all healed by then.

Jason left to take the Jacobos to San Pedro. They fly out tomorrow at 7:40 am. Once they get through customs then Jason will take off to drive back to Teguc. I loved having them here. They were here three weeks and while they may have gotten tired of us we greatly enjoyed our time with them. The kids are enjoying not having a baby around all the time. Tonight they played with their train tracks, Lego's, play dough, and all of the other things that were put up when Isabelle was here. Isabelle's problem was that she loved to play with whatever the boys were playing with much to their frustration. :-)

Please pray for the Jacobo family as they return back to the states and deputation as they are looking at going to language school the first of May. Please pray with them that they will reach that goal.

Ranting

Nothing much has been happening to me since I have been home with a colon infection. I am doing better, but ate some meat for dinner. I am supposed to only be having soft foods, but since no one else living here at this time is also on this "diet" I made a roast for dinner. How can you make a roast and not have a little piece? I am thankful that I am starting to feel better though.

Is anyone else, like me, getting frustrated with forwards. I get at least three a day. I should be thankful as some people I know get more than that. I usually try to be nice to the person who sent it and at least skim it. I think that if it was so important to you that I see it you would delete the fourteen other headers and retype the subject line so it would look like you actually cared who read it.

I got a forward the other day that stated that the words "In God We Trust" was not on the new $1.00 coin. I was able to email the sender of that email back and tell them that that was not true. The words are on the rim of the coin. My mom showed me one before we left the states. It was really neat looking.

Anyway.....Thank you for letting me get on my soap box for a while. I hope to have more newsy news the next time I write, but I will have to be allowed out of the house first.

Blessings and Sickness

Jason has received a huge opportunity to preach. One of the men in our church works for the president as an electrician. He talked to the Captian of the President's Guards and they have invited Jason to come and speak to the President's Guards on Thursday the 2nd of August and every Thursday thereafter. What a great opportunity this will be. They wanted him to come so badly that they have given him a gas voucher for 4 gallons "to make sure he gets there in time"

Please pray for me. I have spent today very near the bathroom. I went into the ER tonight and am being treated for a colon infection. I am not allowed to eat until Monday and then only soup that day. Pray for my family as I am not a happy sick person.

Back from San Pedro

We made it back from San Pedro Sula yesterday at around 5 PM. We had a great trip, but our way home was a little harried. We left at a good time and as we drove out of San Pedro Sula I was stopped by the police. This is normal as they do random stops. As a very white woman driving a huge truck (our F-250 is twice as big as most Honduran trucks) with Washington State plates I attract a lot of attention. We didn't have any problem with the truck papers (that was a blessing), but I was not carrying Audrey's Passport of Birth Certificate with me. While we are here on a residency visa and so are the kids, they do not have cards until they are teenagers. They stopped us for almost 45 minutes trying to figure out what to do with us. They were going to make us wait while they called Migration or (worst case scenerio) one of our trucks would have had to stay with Audrey in San Pedro Sula while the other truck with one of us would have had to drive to Tegucigalpa, get her birth Certificate out of the safe, and drive back to San Pedro Sula to show them. Thankfully they just let us go.

I was stopped twice on the way home, but everything worked out fine and we were able to make it home with only a slight delay.

We spent the rest of the night trying to get Snuggles back from a family in the church. There was an accident on the roads and we had to go all the way around. On top of that Sunggles got hurt while he was at Teresa's house. We had to take him to the doctor. His leg was all swollen up and so the doctor gave him some Anti-inflamatories and an anti-biotic. He is doing better today. He is running around and having a great time. The saying "It's only a dog" does not apply when is is the first dog we have ever paid for.

Busy Days

I have so much to say and so little time to say it. We are leaving for three days to go to San Pedro Sula. This is the other major city in Honduras and we are taking the Jacobo family there to see it.

Jason took his tests on Friday and they determined that he had Dengue and lifted off his restrictions. Ever since that time we have been running. Praise the Lord for his healing.

Saturday, Xiomara and I started the first lesson in our Discipleship course. It went well and we are excited on the growth in the family. After lunch we went with Adelaida and Armando to their house for lunch. We had a great time, but Adelaida had to go into the hospital with pre-term labor the next morning so please pray for her that she make these last few weeks. She is due on the 24th of August. I told her it would be to much for her to cook for all of us, but she is stuborn (not at all like her friend Cassy) and did it anyway. We are glad that everything turned out good.

Sunday I took over the Sunday School class again. Praise the Lord for the 18 kids that came. We were down a little, but it was a cold (about 75 Degrees) and raining so the adult attendance was also down.

Please pray for our ministry that God would bless it and that it would grow.

Jason's sickness

I was going to try and write last night, but there is just to much to do. It seems like when it rains it pours. Jason has been sick off and on since last Thursday. He seemed to be getting worse and yesterday I finally suggested that if he felt that badly, he needed to go to the doctor.

He went to the Emergency room yesterday and they kept him for a while. They finally concluded that he either has Malaria or Classic Dengue. Both are very similar in the symptoms, but Classic Dengue is not a illness that stays with you. While Malaria is a illness that can reappear at any time. Both illness come and go for a week or more, but Malaria is usually every 24 hours you get sick and the next 24 hours you are well.

Jason is still sick this morning so that is a good sign. He will have to go in Friday morning for some more tests. Please keep him in your prayers. This is especially hard on him as we have visitors that are here and he wants to be able to show them around Honduras.

Electricity

Isn't electricity wonderful! We found out just how wonderful it was when we got it cut yesterday. We haven't even been in Honduras for a month and we got our electricity cut yesterday because the old tennents of our house did not pay their bill and neither did the landlord during the time the house was unoccupied. There is a new rule that when someone doesn't pay for their electricity for two months they cut the service. When you move into a rented house in Honduras all of your utility bills will be in the landlord's name. This is because it can take months to get a new account with electricity, phone, or water. If the landlord keeps the accounts in thier name then the new tennants can move in without problems.

As we were getting in the car yesterday to go to church someone rang our doorbell and gave us a slip saying that they were cutting our electricity because our bill had not been paid for two months. It said that when we paid the bill they would reconnect us. We immediately called our landlord and he told us that they were sending someone to the bank right away to pay it. So we went on to church. We called him several times and finally after the banks had closed and there was nothing we could do about it, he told us that they were in Guaymaca and there are no banks there.

This morning, we got an electrician that was building a house nearby to hook our electricity up for us. This will cost us a fine, but the landlord said that he would pay it.

This afternoon we have to go by the water and phone companies to make sure they don't cut those services too.