Prayer works!

Well, prayer works because for some unknown reason, our computer is typing perfectly now. I am hoping it stays that way. If it starts to act up again, I will tell you because someone out there has some awfully strong prayers! Love to you all!! Missy

Adolfo

This was when our team came. Adolfo is in front. Please pray for him.

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Can't keep up!

Hello friends!

I now know what it is like to be a full time, working mother! Home school ain't easy. I went to school long ago to get my certificate in Elementary Education and thought it would be fun. Okay I was only 23 when I graduated and really had no idea what I was thinking! Today I have read a story about someone in History whom I have never heard about, learned things about Rome that made my mouth drop, played with shaving cream, danced around singing an Alphabet song in Spanish, tried to be as good as Annie's last teacher, (Miss Sorensen) and learned about run-on sentences! Obviously I need to re-learn the stuff about run-on sentences, huh?

This was our first day of school. I have to lean my head back to look taller than Jerod, I really am shorter now!  :o(

So as you can see, my days are full and I am trying to figure out how to manage them a little better so that I can enjoy my blog more often. I really want to change our look but don't really have time to do that either. Our church service starts in about an hour and I still have to help Jerod come up with a craft. I guess the good thing is all of the kids seem to like school this year. Well... that is all but ANNIE! On Friday she had a "stomach ache." Then when school was over she was miraculously healed! I am trying to incorporate lots of fun stuff but she still says, " That's not how Mrs. Sorensen does it." Today we were getting ready to pray and we were taking prayer requests from all 3 kids and Annie rolled her eyes and said, " Do we have to do this EVERY day?" It was quite comical at the moment. So, I think we are dealing with some homesickness, or rather school- sickness. She misses the interaction she had with the other children. Please pray!

This was Annie counting bears. She liked this activity.

We are seeing our group grow each week. Our children from the street are coming now. We had 3 new ones come on Friday night. That has brought our numbers up by 4 now. We are encouraging these kids to bring their parents now. Pray that they would come.

Our neighbor, who is also our landlord, isn't doing well. His name is Adolfo and he has diabetes and is just deteriorating daily. He is a sweet man and he and his wife, Mada, have been so kind to our family. Please pray that we could help him to have comfortable last days. We don't know how long he will last here on the earth; but he is growing weary of this life. Yesterday he told Greg he was worthless. Ever since we got back he would hammer a nail in a board every morning. I couldn't figure out why and I have now realized it just gave him something to do each day. It is sad. Please pray for him as well.

This was Jerod on his birthday. Notice we didn't have candles. I thought I would say, "Poor us, didn't even have enough money to buy candles." It really is because I am a slack mom who didn't buy any! He liked the matches better, I think!

Okay my dad hates it when I say this kind of thing because he starts to worry; however, I would appreciate your prayers for our safety. Everything looks the same as it did when we left, but prayer never hurts! :o) Thanks for prayin' and for keeping up with us! Love you all! Missy

Great day, long day!

Hi friends! I have been trying to download pictures but it just takes tooo long. I took pictures to show you just how great they are doing but couldn't download any of them. Sorry, I will keep trying. I must say we had a great day! If you prayed, thank you! We have been having a lot of fun lately as well as doing a lot of work. We have visited many people, and we are still doing our weekly English class with the kids on the street. One little boy from our group on the street, who is 12 has been coming to our church each night. He has helped us with a community service project and has been very interested in all we do. Please pray for Hector as we continue to see him hunger for what we have, a relationship with Jesus!

We visited a woman tonight who has recently lost her husband and we met many people who are interested in what we do. We were encouraged by the strength this widow seemed to have, she has been coming to our services regularly and is trying to figure out her life. It is always tough to go in some of these homes and realize just how little they really have. We are so very fortunate!

I am still not feeling all that great. I continue to itch all the time and my head just feels bruised. I still have a big blotch of red on my face and am beginning to be impatient with this illness. Please keep praying!

My mom and Jerod both celebrated there b-day on Monday and I was happy to see Jerod talking to my mom on the phone as they both wished eachother a Happy Birthday! My mom noticed that his voice is changing and that is for sure, it is strange how quickly our kids change! Okay, I am definitely rambling...so goodnight!I will write more soon.  Love, Missy

1st Day of School!

Please pray, first day of school today with all 3 of my munchkins! I think it could be a very long and frazzled day. I will write more later today. Love to all! Missy

1st Day of School!

Please pray, first day of school today with all 3 of my munchkins! I think it could be a very long and frazzled day. I will write more later today. Love to all! Missy

Missing you all!

Hi friends! I say every day that I have to update the blog and every day passes without an update. I miss writing on here because it is like I am talking with my friends. I miss talking to friends. I have so much to tell you and never have time to tell you. So, even though we just got home from church about an hour ago and it it is 11:15 at night  I  still wanted to talk to you all.

This past week has been good. I hear things that make me laugh from my kids and that is always a good thing. Greg hadn't shaved for a few days and he kissed Annie and she said, " Daddy your spikes are hurting me." I love that! Then she said tonight that she made some kids laugh through their lungs.  Where does she come up with that? Alex said something the other day and now I can't remember for the life of me what it was. They are all very Mexican again. Annie has really started to come out of her shell and is speaking Spanish again quite well. She forgets how to say some things and asks us, but all in all we couldn't be happier with how she is starting to remember. The boys play so well with the kids here. They have been enjoying Hotwheel races. Greg moves the truck out of our carport and they race cars for hours. It is fun to see.

Jerod turns 14 on Monday and it was neat to see how he wanted to spend his birthday. On Monday we have church so we wouldn't be able to do anything to celebrate so he chose to celebrate it last night. He wanted to rent a movie, which was Tooth Fairy, and watch it with our projector, then he wanted me to make homemade pizza, which was quite tasty if I do say so myself! :o) Then he received the gift that he wanted, a few Hotwheels and an ax. I would never have dreamed that at 14 those would be his wishes, but they were. So we watched our movie together as a family after he chopped some wood with his ax. :o) It was a great night!

We have been teaching a few words in English to a bunch of kids on the street and playing games with them for about an hour each week. These kids are precious and range from age 5 to 14. They all love to come and we all have a blast. Today after playing, Jerod invited them all to come to our church meeting. We were pleased to see that about 5 of them came. They sang songs with us, prayed with us and then heard how to have a relationship with Jesus. We were happy to see that their parents allowed them to come! We are hoping that some of them will come soon! Please pray!

At church tonight I was thinking of you all and wishing you could have seen the sight I saw. It was really quite funny. We all gathered in our friends home to worship and about the time Greg wanted to talk, the rain started. We are in the middle of our rainy season and it is going good. It poured! Now why is this funny? Well because we were beneath a tin roof. The noise was so loud that you couldn't hear anything. Finally Greg said, " Thank God for rain." and he sat down and we waited for about 15 minutes for it to calm down, then we prayed and the kids left to do their study and Greg was able to talk again.

After church I took some of our friends home because it was still raining. On the way we passed this little old woman, I would say in her 80's and all she had over her was a piece of plastic. It broke my heart. So, we invited her to get in the truck. She couldn't even hear, I think she was half deaf. She just smiled and did her best to climb in the truck.  So I asked where she was going and found out she was on her way to buy a candle. Her children have moved away, my friends told me that they don't care for her at all and she has no power. She just wanted to see. So after buying her 2 long wax candles like you would see on Little House on the Prairie, we drove her home. That is when I felt so ashamed. She had to first walk through a huge puddle to get to her gate, stand in the water to open it, then walk through what to me looked like a river to get to her home. Of course she did this in the dark b/c there were no lights. My friends said she lives very humbly. Now these friends are friends who have NOTHING so for them to say she lives humbly means she has NOTHING, literally. Our plan is to visit her soon and find out how we can help. Please pray for her. Her name was Eloise. Okay, I know that I have been long winded, my heart is heavy.

Ya know so many people ask about how things are here in Mexico. My answer is always the same, "It looks the same as it always has." Now that doesn't mean there aren't bad things happening. I am sure there are. There are bad things happening everywhere. But... I have been to a lot of places lately and everywhere I go, the people are precious and kind and loving and want to do their best to make a living so they can have water and food and a bed and their kids can have school supplies. I have found that in my opinion the majority of the people here are just wonderful! My heart breaks for them! Times are tough for them but just like that sweet little Eloise, walking through 6 inches of water on a cold dark night, she had the biggest smile. She was used to that life and was just thankful for a shorter walk. Please pray for Mexico. I love it here! Love to you all! I really will try to get some photos uploaded soon! Until then!