Pray!....at 9:00pm

Hi everyone, I know most of you, if you read this, you read it at about 7 in the morning or 7 at night. So, for those of you who read this today, please pray for Adolfo at 9pm tonight. Our group is going to meet here at his house and pray over him. Now...... I am embarrassed because I don't put near enough faith in our prayers as they do. They told me today that they would wait until tomorrow to decide about going to the Dr. They wanted to wait until after we pray over him tonight to see if the prayer is answered. I assured them we would pray and I would have many others praying for him until then. Love ya! Missy

Adolfo

Hi friends, I am writing you with a heavy heart. My sweet Adolfo is suffering horribly. I went over yesterday to bring them some chicken and rice soup and I saw him without a shirt on and he was in a lot of pain. I asked what was wrong and he showed me a ton of blisters all over his arm, upper back and all around his ear. I immediately thought, " Oh NO!!!" I am sure he has Shingles. I have always tried to put into perspective the things I go through; thinking, " Hope something good comes out of this." However, when I had Shingles I didn't think that, I thought, "Nothing good can come from this!" Well, I am so thankful that I had them so I would know what it is he has.

 They had gone to the "Clinic" here and whoever is in training there gave him some vitamins, hydrocortisone and ibuprofen. He was in such pain and I am one who definitely understands the pain he is in. I asked him his symptoms and I knew that is what it was. So I ran and got Greg and we prayed over him and said we would talk to his family about taking him to the Dr. The day went on and he suffered and we went back over there to talk with the family last night.

We explained what we thought he had and explained how serious this is for a 94 year old man with diabetes. So as the culture may go, they talked it over between themselves about what should happen. Then they looked at us and said, "Well we ( Adolfo's two daughters) can't take him until Saturday morning. Of course I wanted to scream, " THE MAN COULD BE DEAD BY THEN!!" But... Greg calmly says, " That will be fine we will be ready at 8:30am on Saturday.  So, Adolfo stands up and says to them, (in their language) "Tell them that today when they prayed over me that I was in a lot of pain. Tell them my head hurt and my whole body was hurting. Tell them that while they were praying something cool came over me, a powerful breeze that touched my body and took the pain away." He said that in front of his one daughter that we believe is into some kind of witchcraft. It was awesome!! Anyway, will you pray for Adolfo, I told him we would and I know it means a lot to him. This just may make him a believer after all of this is over with.

Okay, on a lighter note, my computer has it's days. Some days it is fine, like today, and some days it starts out bad and then it fixes itself. So, who knows?!?!? I will keep you up to date on Adolfo and I will try to write more later. Love to all! Missy

Keep prazying!

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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