"Ask and it will be given to you; Seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened."
Today was yet another great day! We started out the day in church with our Mexican family. The verse for today is an answer to prayer from our last blog. At the end of the last blog we asked for prayer for divine interventions while we wait to begin our work. God totally answered those prayers today.... TWICE! After church when we were waiting to get into the car, everyone was outside talking. A lady came up to Laurie and was in great distress. Laurie asked her what was wrong but couldn't understand what she was saying. This was a great opportunity for us to pray for her. At first when Laurie asked, she said no she didn't want any prayer but then when Tia Betty asked her she said yes she wanted prayer. We formed a group around her and we prayed for emotional healing because she was in such great distress. Afterwards we took her to the hospital cafeteria to eat something and when asked she told us she was doing better and was grateful for the prayers. Praise God!
After this we went back to the house for some lunch. We ate together and fellowshiped. During this time of rest... we had a great time killing and destroying all of the hormigas (ants) who have been habitating in Chelsea's computer for the last few days. (When I say we enjoyed... I mean Laurie enjoyed laughing at Chelsea trying to kill all those pesky ants). What is funny... is they have been crawling out of her computer all day long... still coming out as we speak! There must be hundreds living inside of there! So after we sprayed all the little ants.. We had to clean them all up so we found Tia Betty and Laurie was trying to ask her for a broom. She was doing sign language to explain broom while shouting "alfombra" because she thought it meant broom... Tia Betty looked very confused... and then Laurie looked up "alfombra" to realize that it meant rug.. no wonder Tia Betty was so confused!
Before church at night we walked to a cafe close to the house to enjoy some coffee! Muy rico (delicious)! After church we went to eat dinner and take a walk at the park. At the park is where we came upon divine intervention #2. We were walking around the kids park trying to burn off all these tortillas we have been consuming and out of no where this little girl just came right up to us and started talking to us. We quickly struck up conversation with her and her brother and asked them if they believed in God. The brother laughed at us and said no he didn't. Through some broken spanish we tried to ask the questions why he didn't but he was uninterested. Although we left broken hearted both of us felt that the Lord truly placed these kids in our path to plant that seed that He will continue to water. We will definitely keep praying for them (Cielo & Jose). We look forward to many more God moments as the trip progresses and want to thank everyone who is praying for us! After these experiences we are fully convinced that the Lord will continue to answer if we simply just ask in faith. May this verse resonate loudly among us on this trip.
Laurie & Chelsea
P.S. Japones means Japonese in spanish and we just decided its a really fun word to say and have been saying it all day!
(Ha-POH-NES!)
Are the hormigas all gone? I sure hope so - in your computer, yuck. I so enjoy reading your blog and all God is doing.
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