Saturday, May 14, 2011

Time to pray.....

Hi friends,

Please pray for my friend's 7 year old daughter who is having multiple seizures and they don't know why. They are hoping to know more today, but this poor little girl is suffering terribly and so are her parents. Please pray they would get the results today, that it would be from an infection and they could treat it quickly and life could return to normal soon.

Number 2. Yesterday some friends of ours decided to make bread and sell it in a nearby village. So, they took the bread that they had made and were driving it around to the small stores all over this other village. You have to understand that in the villages, you could have 2-5 stores on one block alone so they were just driving their truck slowly and someone would hop out, sell the bread and they would keep going. Well... the someone who was driving was their 13 year old son. In America, this is extremely abnormal, here, very common. If you can reach the pedals, you can start to drive, drink, smoke, marry, just about anything. Anyway...as they were moving ahead a little 5 year old darted out in front of their truck and not knowing what to do very well, the 13 year old didn't stop soon enough and once he did he had already hit the little boy and done damage to his head. HORRIBLE stuff. Now the custom here is that whoever does the crime has to be held in the jail until it is proven they will pay and not try and escape the situation. So the dad was held in jail until 3:30 am when they called.... you know who. Poor exhausted husband who can't think straight past 11:00pm had to make plans at 3:30 am to help out in this situation. So at 6:30 this morning he drove the father of the 13 year old to the hospital where the little 5 year old is. Two hours away and they are going to try and figure out how to help this family. Please pray that this little boy's injuries aren't as bad as they sound and that he can have a complete recovery from this and above all... that God will get all the glory in this situation.

Thank you all for keeping up with us and praying for us and for generally holding us up through prayer. Some days just simply staying above water can be hard here, other days finding water to stay above can be hard b/c there is none, then other days are just simply glorious! Right now with our move just 8 days away, 2 church services to go, a wedding to attend, two more trips to our new village still to be made, curtains to be MADE, a washing machine to purchase, a yard sale to have, school to finish, and a house to pack..... I am a little stressed. So..... pray whenever, however and about whatever and you will be covering something of importance to us!! Love you all!! Missy