New Supplies!

We hired Lesbia’s son out of respect for her to work on our building. You have to keep an eye on him to make sure he is working. He started late in the week working on our building. We told him Friday we wanted to use our building Saturday, but he started late in the day Saturday putting the smooth coat on our floor anyway. We had to have our kids study outside.

We bought 10 new tables for Santa Rita while we were in Guate. They fold up and have a handle. They are going to be wonderful for medical teams. Jimmy also found 50 chairs all the same color in Santa Elena! Thank you to everyone who gave money towards SR.

While we were in Guate we also picked up 50 more Bibles and a magnetic white board. It was nice to have a truck to fill up!

Yonder

Aaron

Ana

Rosalino

Jesús

Erlinda

Alejandro

Heriberto

Jimmy held his study in our storage room. It was almost dry. We have a good group attending. Please pray they will soon come to know the Lord.

CRAZY ITEM OF THE DAY: For the last month there has been about a hundred people camped out along the side of the highway right next to the military base outside of Santa Elena. This group of people have decided that they want the land the military base is on and they want the government to give it to them. They are just going to camp out there and block most of the road (at night it is really dangerous) until they get their way. Everyone hates the military, but they are the only ones we trust.

A Wonderful Weekend

We held our Bible studies in Santa Rita in our new meeting place this Saturday. We are so thankful for this house. God worked a miracle. We had a great turnout!

As soon as we pulled into the village the kids started running out with their new Bibles. All had completed their devo sheets. 3 more kids received Bibles this week.

With this open area many people can stand close and listen. One dad came for awhile and thanked Jimmy for what we were doing with his kids.

Marco Tulio

We learned about being Fishers of Men.

Jesus with his 12 disciples in a fishing boat.

The adults were as excited as the kids to have their own place to meet. We are located in the Kekchi part of the village, so we had a couple new Kekchi people.

Lesbia (we are meeting in her house) was in Santa Rita for a town meeting, so she came to the Bible study too with her sister that lives in SR.

On our way home we saw some lights in our town. There was a small fair. So for Valentine’s Day we stopped and road a ride. Jimmy tested positive for Dengue again, so it was really sweet of him to be willing to go. I like the rides that spin fast and upside down!

A nice sweaty Valentine’s Day picture!

My beautiful gift from Jimmy!

Sunday in New Horizon was just as good!

Araselin & Oshi

Darwin, Alex, & Alfredo

Gregory & Quincho

Lico was back for a week before he leaves again for work. Giovani and his girlfriend came with their son. He should have received a Bible but we are all out. Please pray for Giovani. He is very interested. He and JImmy have become friends and we do believe that soon he will accept Christ. Gregory has become friends with Quincho. Both of them are Christians and it would be wonderful if they could encourage each other. Gregory is going to start going to SR with us. These two could really be great leaders. We are a little concerned about Gregory. Now is a time where he has to start choosing what is more important to him. Please pray for both of them. Two Kekchi guys have been coming faithfully, Carlos and Marcos. Neither one are Christians, but they have been doing their devo sheets. Zacarias needs to get saved too. Please keep praying for the Bible study in NH. This week was so encouraging to us!

Please pray for Jimmy. He does have Dengue Fever again. He has been taking an equivalent to Loratab for the joint pain. It seems not to be as bad as last time, but I think it is because he just hasn’t had the option to feel bad... he’s just been too busy!

The Weekend

We had a great weekend both in Santa Rita and New Horizon! Aaron brought his violin and we all learned a new song!

This little boy in the front is a piece of work. His name is Fredi; he’s always entertaining!

We had 2 new Kekchi teens come in NH. They just moved here to go to school. Pray they get involved!

Vanesa received a Bible. She used to come a long time ago, but then her mom stopped it. Not sure why she has been given permission to start coming again, but we are thankful.

Not having your own meeting place is always a hassle. We spend the first hour in Santa Rita every week trying to find the key and then moving tables from the school into the Salon. Last week we started very late because they were having a town meeting in there. It took us several months in NH to get our own meeting place, so we don’t want to get our hopes up. Lesbia, who lives in NH, owns land in Santa Rita. She has already given us permission to store things in her house.

This is what it looks like right now. We are going to talk to her this week and see if we can meet there. We were given some money towards purchasing supplies for this work and also some Christmas gifts. Please pray we can stretch this out to buy tables, chairs, pay for my truck repairs AND have enough money leftover to extend her house so that we can have a porch to meet under. Please pray with us this week!

This is a big blessing. The owner of our house is going in with us to pay to seal the roof. We found some sealer in the new Trooper store in Santa Elena. Jimmy and Quincho painted half of it today.... they ran out of paint. Maybe soon it will stop snowing inside my house!

CRAZY ITEM OF THE DAY: Nothing says “welcome to our Bible study” like a nice puddle you have to step over as you come in the door. Most mothers don’t uses diapers here after their kids start walking. This is what happens before they become potty/nice grassy spot trained.