Please pray for Cesilia and her girls. They have stopped attending church since we left Mexico.
Continue to pray for Icho and Barbara as they continue to hold church in their home.
Pray for our village as they will be celebrating this week.
Pray for Lupita and Rosa. I miss them! I love them!
Pray for my Angelica that the joy on her face will stay and that her husband, Salvador pictured below, will find help for his alcoholism.
Pray that Salvador will find help.
So, I haven't posted in a few days mainly because it hurts to put my thoughts in the form of words. Make sense? I really am feeling blue. I never in a million years would have thought that I would be so homesick. I mean, I am reallllly homesick. All I can do is think of my people, my friends and all that is back at home in Mexico. I know it is hard to understand. Trust me, it is hard for me to understand because I didn't know it would be like this. I am finding that although I love America my heart loves my people and that is where it longs to be. Now don't get me wrong, I love being American and I love America, but God has called me to be with my people and it is hard to picture them there, hurting in any way and me here, not being able to help them. So, I am blue. I am trying to remind myself that I need to focus my time and energy on things that I can do here that will help them once I do return, however I haven't figured out what that is or how I can better myself while I am here. Please pray for me. I am a mess!
Okay, now on to more uplifting things! :o) Jerod and Alex have been given the wonderful opportunity to attend the camp that I attended as a child, Camp Cheerio. They will attend for one week starting next Sunday, the 16th. We are all so excited about this opportunity! It is an awesome camp and they are super excited! Neither one of them have received any mail for about 4 1/2 years. So, I was thinking that it would be the coolest thing in the world if I had all of my friends from all over to send them some mail. It is one of the things that the campers really look forward to and they think they are extra special if they receive a bunch! Will you help me make my babies feel special? You can send the mail early and if it gets there early they will hold it until they arrive. I am going to try and write a bunch so that they get some every day. Who knows if it will work with the mail system. However, it will be forwarded to our apartment if it doesn't make it on time and that will make them happy too!
The address is:
Jerod or Alex Wood
Camp Cheerio
1430 Camp Cheerio Road
Glade Valley, NC 28627-9731
I love all of you and wish I had a dime for all the times I thought about the people who read this blog and how thankful I am for you. ( I REALLY do! :o)) I have discovered that not ALL people in this world are really interested in missions. There are some sweet people in the world but they just don't really care what I have been doing for the past 4 years. They don't care about the Angelicas and Salvadors or the Barbara and Ichos or for the sweet little Cesilias in the world. If they do care and I am sure they do, they are just too busy to ask about them. So, thank you for following me on this journey, and please do pray for our village. Tomorrow starts the biggest festival that they have all year and it is one big drinking fest. We are praying that our friends stay strong and our alcoholic friend stays away from the alcohol. They really need your prayers because these festivals can get kinda dangerous when you mix alcohol and people from different villages things can get ugly. Please pray! I love you, Missy
