Adolfo has passed

It is a sad day for us here. Tata Adolfo who was very precious to me has now passed away. He died early this morning. I am sad but happy. I am so happy he no longer has to shiver in the cold nights and endure the pain that he had. I am sad because now sweet Mada is now alone to endure all life's trials by herself. She is a rock. She has cried but not like many here do. She just cried a few silent tears and said, " All he wanted was for his children to come and visit him." Yesterday when he was sitting out in the sun, trying to warm up, he saw a plane and said he hoped some of his kids were on it. He has 7 children and only about 3 of them came to see him regularly. Anyway, please pray for his family as they are all mourning the loss of their father, grandfather and so on. The next 9 days will be somewhat sad around here. They mourn for 9 days. 

Our internet has been horrible here and some days we have none. This is the first time we have had it in awhile. So, I will try to post a picture I took of the Mada and Adolfo two days ago. It is priceless. Really priceless. Some days I am so thankful for the little things I am able to offer these people, like electric blankets and lasting memories. Until later.....

Baby it's cold outside!

Hi friends! For some reason people always think that it never gets cold in Mexico. Well I am here to tell you it is cold here! I am sitting in my bed, with flannel sheets on, long very furry pjs on and socks and I am still cold! I would say it is about 50 degrees in our house. We don't have central heat here, and with tile floors and concrete walls it feels like an ice box. I am only setting this up so you will understand how my neighbors must feel.

Adolfo, who is still hangin' in there; is all bones. He truly looks like someone from a concentration camp. He is always in his bed and just doesn't want to eat. But he is always cold. They live in a wooden home with concrete floors and some of the cealing is open so the air comes in pretty easily. It literally hurts me to think about. So tonight I brought over an electric blanket. You would have thought I brought over a million dollars. It was so fun to watch as they touched it and saw that it actually got warm. So after about 15 minutes he stopped shivering and went to sleep. I felt so much better just knowing he would sleep a little better. Please pray for them. There are so many just like them that are cold. Really cold. The kind of cold that you can't make stop. We don't know how good we have it. I complain when I am cold and I at least have tons of blankets, pjs, a mattress, a space heater and plenty of ways to get warm. They have nothing.

Thanks for praying!

Door has swung open! ;o)

Well friends, next stop, Saint Tommy! We went to talk to our "person of peace" today and found him at home with his family. He took us to meet the  town leader and Greg explained that we wanted to live among them. He said he saw no reason why we couldn't do that. Which left us feeling very excited.

We then called our "person of peace's" brother, who lives in the US and asked if we could rent his home. This home is about 75% finished and still needs a lot of work before we could live in it. However, his brother was very excited and agreed to allow us to live there. Now we are going to try and fix it up over the next 6-7 months so we could move in sometime next summer. I will post pictures of our future home ASAP. We are sooo excited about this home and this village. We are very happy and know God has planned this all out for us. He is in control of our every move. Yay God!   Thanks for praying!

Off to get answers

Hi friends! Thank you all for praying for Annie. She is healing well. We went back to the Dr. yesterday and he said it would be more traumatic to give her more stitches. He said she looked good so we are just taking it easy and eating soft foods.

She is LOVING all of the attention! I need make a correction of sorts from my earlier post. I commented on how Alex was taking good care of Annie, mainly because that was the picture I had and I was commenting on that. However, Jerod also took very good care of Annie. Those fake nails she has on her fingers were painstakingly put on by none other than, Jerod! So, I wanted you all to know that although I don't have a picture to prove it; Jerod was loving on his sister too!

We are off today to "Saint Tommy" to find out if they will allow us to live in their village. If you read this, please pray. We are REALLY  hoping that this would be the answer to our prayers and we would be able to live in this village and maybe in the home that Greg was shown last week. We will find out today if the door is wide open or slammed shut. Thanks for your prayers. Love to you all! Missy

2 stitches busted

We were on our way to the car when blood started pouring out of Annie's mouth. We turned around and headed back to her room. She had 2 stitches that had come loose. We waited for the bleeding to stop and the Dr. said we could wait until tomorrow to see if they would restitch it or if we could let it heal on it's own. She is nervous to move her mouth. Right now we are cuddling in bed watching the movie, Elf. Please pray her mouth heals quickly! Thanks! Missy

Halloween pictures

Halloween on November 3, 2010! Jessie has come to town!

                                        So this is Jessie, Ken, and Slash from Guns -N-Roses

Since the elections have already taken place, this is Nancy Pelosi, crying. Beside her it says, Liberals Unite.  Then beside her is the Biggest Loser, which we could say they were both the Biggest Loser pumpkins! :o)

Tiana, Cheyenne, Annie, Jenell, and Sammy

We had a great night! Please pray for Annie, she has her outpatient surgery tomorrow. I will post more tomorrow. Love to all! Missy

Shoe boxes

Well Christmas is fast approaching. A few years back we decided to have a Christmas party for our friends here. It was an awesome event and we had all of our friends come. Since we weren't able to receive some of the shoe boxes through the American organization that provides them, we decided to make our own and give them out to all of the children here. We had a few friends who decided to donate money so that we could make that happen.

This year I thought I would try again to see about having some of the shoe boxes delivered to our area. However, this proved to be a bit more difficult than I had hoped and I don't think it will be possible again this year. (I need to start the process a lot earlier than I did.) We do plan on making the shoe boxes again and having another Christmas party for our group. It is so much fun and it is so neat to see the faces of these kids when they open their boxes. The only part that I think is missing is the personal touch. What I mean is; in the real shoe boxes there are sometimes pictures of an American family and a note with a personal message to the child. We would be happy to have them send you a message back and take pictures of them opening the box with your message in it. We are just looking for some people to "adopt-a-box" so to say. So, let me know if you are interested. Thanks!