Hello Everyone!
The past few days have been very amazing! Thank you all once again for your prayers for my grandmother. I really appreciate it!
My team and I went to the village I was in last year for a few days. We were close to it doing research and Jenna (one of my teammates) has been wanting to see how ministry is done after the research, vision trip, and a couple of years ministry in an area looks like. She wanted to see what the almost end result looked like. So we went and had a great time with Cindy and with the people in Pausa and the Paucar de Sarasara. We had a few american things from Cindy's "american closet". Yum Yum they were!
We left Pausa on Saturday after about 2 days there. We arrived back in Chaviña. This is the town we had begun research in. We finished it up that night and then we were off to Puquio on Sunday. We got to Puquio and found out the bus schedules for when we return to go to other villages and then we were off to Nasza. Wow...although it is really touristy here, I am loving the ice cream and some what american food! Thank you Jesus!
God Bless you all!
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Urgent Prayer Request Update
Hello to all of my prayer partners...
Praise the Lord my grandmother is doing very well. It honestly was a big scare. She has a severe bladder infection and her medications are taking a toll on her. The doctors are running some tests and said that everything will be fine.
Please continue to pray for my grandmother and for my family. Although everything appears to be fine now, she still suffers from many illnesses. But praise the Lord that He is in control and I have found comfort in that.
Thank you all for your e-mails and prayers that you sent me in regard to this situation. I had a good cry and really appreciated how much you all care.
Blessings to everybody~
Praise the Lord my grandmother is doing very well. It honestly was a big scare. She has a severe bladder infection and her medications are taking a toll on her. The doctors are running some tests and said that everything will be fine.
Please continue to pray for my grandmother and for my family. Although everything appears to be fine now, she still suffers from many illnesses. But praise the Lord that He is in control and I have found comfort in that.
Thank you all for your e-mails and prayers that you sent me in regard to this situation. I had a good cry and really appreciated how much you all care.
Blessings to everybody~
Monday, June 18, 2007
Urgent Prayer Request
Hello to all my faithful Prayer Partners...
I just received word that my grandmother is in the hospital with a fever and is having a very hard time breathing. Her name is Mona Hodge. Please pray for her health and for my family.
For those of you who don't know. Last summer, my grandfather on my father's side passed away unexpectingly. My grandmother on my mother's side was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's after already having a bipolar disorder. My heart has been troubled thinking about "what if".
I so terribly do not want to be out of the country again when one of my dear loved ones pass away. Last summer, the Lord led me home for the funeral and led me back to Peru to finish the work He called me to do last summer. I have been praying even before I left the country for the same situation not to happen again.
As you can imagine, my heart is troubled and burdened. I ask you to pray for my grandmother first and foremost, my family second and for me to remain focused thirdly. My team and I are suppose to leave tomorrow on another research trip and I feel as now I could not emotionally handle it.
I just received word that my grandmother is in the hospital with a fever and is having a very hard time breathing. Her name is Mona Hodge. Please pray for her health and for my family.
For those of you who don't know. Last summer, my grandfather on my father's side passed away unexpectingly. My grandmother on my mother's side was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's after already having a bipolar disorder. My heart has been troubled thinking about "what if".
I so terribly do not want to be out of the country again when one of my dear loved ones pass away. Last summer, the Lord led me home for the funeral and led me back to Peru to finish the work He called me to do last summer. I have been praying even before I left the country for the same situation not to happen again.
As you can imagine, my heart is troubled and burdened. I ask you to pray for my grandmother first and foremost, my family second and for me to remain focused thirdly. My team and I are suppose to leave tomorrow on another research trip and I feel as now I could not emotionally handle it.
Friday, June 15, 2007
An Amazing Birthday and Many Adventures
Hola Mis Prayer Partners!!
Let me tell you, rugged does not even begin to describe it. First of all, there are no toilets in half the towns, and if there is one, it has 3 walls and two rotting boards over a hole. Also, I almost ran into a chicken carcass that was hanging in our hostel this morning. We are having a blast, and are so blessed with people who want to help us that we have to hike a mountain to get away from them. That poses a problem because I fall on cacti, a lot! I am not even kidding, it happened yesterday.
My Birthday went extremley well. There was a small store in a town called Morcolla that we ended up in on my birthday to do research. The store had a pack of Oreos. Wow..my favorite snack. God is so good. I slept outside on a roof of an adobe house the night of my birthday with 8 blankets and my 15 degree sleeping bag. The stars we so amazing. It was like glitter above. Today, we found a "cake"...peruvian. It was so good though and Sarah and Jenna (my teammates)sang me happy birthday and we enjoyed half of it. Wow how we miss sweets.
Have you ever met a lady with way too much peace? WEll let me tell you. Part of our research includes finding a person of peace. Our lady in the the previous village would not leave us a lone and brought us every official in the town...plus more. This is a good thing, but when it turns into all day and that they won't leave you alone, you get kind of annoyed. WE call her...la mujer con bastante paz. WE were thankful for her.
Ok...so yes i fell in a cactus. I have fallen in a lot of cacti while I have been here in this beautiful land of Peru. Well, yesterday we had to hike up a small mountain to take a picture of the town we were in for our research. WHile Sarah and I were hiking, i suddenly fell through a whole and a cactus caught my fall. I have no idea where the hole came out of. It was DEEP. All but my shoulders and head were in the hole and I was freaking out. I thought something was going to eat me underneath. The earth around me also fell through and I was honestly just freaking out. Sarah started laughing and didn't know what happened because she was infront of me. Well, i spent the rest of the day with a nife in many areas of my body taking out "espinas"...cacti whatever the word is in english. I forgot. I am still getting the out of my shoes.
Don't freak out...I am fine. Just very well ventalated. (from the many holes i have in me)
The day before yesterday, we were in a hostel that had a pet parrot. That was interesting. It would charge me and peck at me. I ended up kicking it our of instinct because it sort of scard me once. It was an interesting friend to have at the hostel. IT also served as our hostel guard "dog". It sounded like it was barking when it cherped sometimes.
God has been doing amazing things. WE have meet with most of the mayors and have found many people of peace. WE have been able to gather lots of information and plus more from the amazing people our Lord and Savior have put in our place. Tomorrow we got to Andamarca and then on to Puquio from there.
OH:::we get Ducha calliente tonight. That means a hott shower. You have no idea how long it has been since we bathed. Yes, we smell. I lost track after about two weeks i think.
Well, until next blog...Blessings to you all!
Let me tell you, rugged does not even begin to describe it. First of all, there are no toilets in half the towns, and if there is one, it has 3 walls and two rotting boards over a hole. Also, I almost ran into a chicken carcass that was hanging in our hostel this morning. We are having a blast, and are so blessed with people who want to help us that we have to hike a mountain to get away from them. That poses a problem because I fall on cacti, a lot! I am not even kidding, it happened yesterday.
My Birthday went extremley well. There was a small store in a town called Morcolla that we ended up in on my birthday to do research. The store had a pack of Oreos. Wow..my favorite snack. God is so good. I slept outside on a roof of an adobe house the night of my birthday with 8 blankets and my 15 degree sleeping bag. The stars we so amazing. It was like glitter above. Today, we found a "cake"...peruvian. It was so good though and Sarah and Jenna (my teammates)sang me happy birthday and we enjoyed half of it. Wow how we miss sweets.
Have you ever met a lady with way too much peace? WEll let me tell you. Part of our research includes finding a person of peace. Our lady in the the previous village would not leave us a lone and brought us every official in the town...plus more. This is a good thing, but when it turns into all day and that they won't leave you alone, you get kind of annoyed. WE call her...la mujer con bastante paz. WE were thankful for her.
Ok...so yes i fell in a cactus. I have fallen in a lot of cacti while I have been here in this beautiful land of Peru. Well, yesterday we had to hike up a small mountain to take a picture of the town we were in for our research. WHile Sarah and I were hiking, i suddenly fell through a whole and a cactus caught my fall. I have no idea where the hole came out of. It was DEEP. All but my shoulders and head were in the hole and I was freaking out. I thought something was going to eat me underneath. The earth around me also fell through and I was honestly just freaking out. Sarah started laughing and didn't know what happened because she was infront of me. Well, i spent the rest of the day with a nife in many areas of my body taking out "espinas"...cacti whatever the word is in english. I forgot. I am still getting the out of my shoes.
Don't freak out...I am fine. Just very well ventalated. (from the many holes i have in me)
The day before yesterday, we were in a hostel that had a pet parrot. That was interesting. It would charge me and peck at me. I ended up kicking it our of instinct because it sort of scard me once. It was an interesting friend to have at the hostel. IT also served as our hostel guard "dog". It sounded like it was barking when it cherped sometimes.
God has been doing amazing things. WE have meet with most of the mayors and have found many people of peace. WE have been able to gather lots of information and plus more from the amazing people our Lord and Savior have put in our place. Tomorrow we got to Andamarca and then on to Puquio from there.
OH:::we get Ducha calliente tonight. That means a hott shower. You have no idea how long it has been since we bathed. Yes, we smell. I lost track after about two weeks i think.
Well, until next blog...Blessings to you all!
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Our Plans Always Change
Hey Prayer Partners!
You know...our plans are never GOds plans it seems. However, we know that His are WAY better!
On Friday, we were at dinner at this amazing restaurant called "Miranda's". After eating at all other restaurants, we decided that place is the best. That restaurant also serves as the central convi station and transportation place. We needed to ask them about getting to the rest of the villages on our Sucre (one of the provinces) list. When we asked them about one of our "legs" of villages, he said that there is only one convi that goes that direction once a week. The roads are nearly in-passable. The only way we could research those 4 villages was to rent a driver for a day. After prayer and thought, we knew that was the only way. By car, the first village was 3 hours away uphill. We climbed about 3 to 4 thousand feet. We would have passed out hiking that.
Our plans were to go there day by day and hike to each one and pray for a vehicle to pass. God had different ones for us.
We started off yesterday with casino cookies, water, tangerine's, bread and only our research material. The first two villages were fairly close to each other in distance. At both of them, the mayor's invited us into there offices and told us all about there towns and what it needs and what it has and just about everything. We were able to research those very well. The Puesto's de Salud (Central Health Clinic in each town) also had maps in every village that we were able to look at and draw our maps of the villages. God places people of peace in our foot steps and really made our job of gathering information very easy.
We were also thankful that we had rented a driver because there were no hostals for us to stay in any village. There were also no restaurants except in one village what was rarely open.
So, we now only have one more "leg" of 4 villages left to research in the Sucre Province. Tomorrow ( My Birthday!) we head to Morcolla and then by Friday, we will be in Puquio (google it).
Thank you for your prayers. Please pray for my team as we travel. We can get pretty sick traveling every day. SO far, only Jenna has trown up on our bus/convi rides. I am sure she could use your prayers as well because I don't think she likes trowing up. Hehe.
Also, Please be praying for my family and my dad. He is having knee surgery on June 14th. He did something at work and is having to have surgery on it. I am anxious being 4,000 miles away from home during this. Please pray that I will have a peace about it all. Pray that the Great Physician will be with the doctors hands.
Also pray for a fellow missionary friend of mine. He is a part of the creative ministry team here in Peru this summer. He just found out that his good friend was in an accident and the doctors have performed two surgery's but nothing is looking promising. My friends name is Brian and his friends name was not given.
Until next entry...God Bless!
You know...our plans are never GOds plans it seems. However, we know that His are WAY better!
On Friday, we were at dinner at this amazing restaurant called "Miranda's". After eating at all other restaurants, we decided that place is the best. That restaurant also serves as the central convi station and transportation place. We needed to ask them about getting to the rest of the villages on our Sucre (one of the provinces) list. When we asked them about one of our "legs" of villages, he said that there is only one convi that goes that direction once a week. The roads are nearly in-passable. The only way we could research those 4 villages was to rent a driver for a day. After prayer and thought, we knew that was the only way. By car, the first village was 3 hours away uphill. We climbed about 3 to 4 thousand feet. We would have passed out hiking that.
Our plans were to go there day by day and hike to each one and pray for a vehicle to pass. God had different ones for us.
We started off yesterday with casino cookies, water, tangerine's, bread and only our research material. The first two villages were fairly close to each other in distance. At both of them, the mayor's invited us into there offices and told us all about there towns and what it needs and what it has and just about everything. We were able to research those very well. The Puesto's de Salud (Central Health Clinic in each town) also had maps in every village that we were able to look at and draw our maps of the villages. God places people of peace in our foot steps and really made our job of gathering information very easy.
We were also thankful that we had rented a driver because there were no hostals for us to stay in any village. There were also no restaurants except in one village what was rarely open.
So, we now only have one more "leg" of 4 villages left to research in the Sucre Province. Tomorrow ( My Birthday!) we head to Morcolla and then by Friday, we will be in Puquio (google it).
Thank you for your prayers. Please pray for my team as we travel. We can get pretty sick traveling every day. SO far, only Jenna has trown up on our bus/convi rides. I am sure she could use your prayers as well because I don't think she likes trowing up. Hehe.
Also, Please be praying for my family and my dad. He is having knee surgery on June 14th. He did something at work and is having to have surgery on it. I am anxious being 4,000 miles away from home during this. Please pray that I will have a peace about it all. Pray that the Great Physician will be with the doctors hands.
Also pray for a fellow missionary friend of mine. He is a part of the creative ministry team here in Peru this summer. He just found out that his good friend was in an accident and the doctors have performed two surgery's but nothing is looking promising. My friends name is Brian and his friends name was not given.
Until next entry...God Bless!
Friday, June 8, 2007
The Lord Does Provide!
Hello Everyone! Hola a Todos!
We have now researched one of our "legs" of one of the provinces that we are researching. We are off today to a different "leg".
We went and researched San Salvador de Quije and were amazed at what the Lord had waiting for us there.
We had to take a convi to Potongo. This was the scariest convi I had ever been in my life. Packed to the max and cargo that was taller than the convi itself. The poor vehicle was falling apart. THe door didn't close. Haha...but we made it to Potongo! Ps...the driver was a maniac!
We were told from Potongo that the hike down to San Salvador de Quije was only 30 minutes. Well, that turned into 3 hours. We ended up hiking in the dark. That was interesting! But WOW so beautiful as we got to see the stars. It was like glitter. Well, we were about to give up and sleep outside under the stars when we saw the village from the top of the mountain. We were so happy! We aventually got down to the village and this lady was hollaring...Gringos...hospedaje aqui! This means...white people...here is a place to say. Well, basically that is what she was saying. I don't know how to translate hospedaje.
As I was climbing up the stairs to get to our room, i saw a man reading his Bible! We later began to conversate and found out that he was a christian and he is the brother of the lady who owns the hospedaje. He lives in Lima, but travels there often. We had an amazing time with other believers. We also found out that there is a pentacostal house church there and about 30 or less attend.
Well, my time at the internet cafe is up...Please be praying for us as we travel these next five days or so.
Also, I turn 21 Monday! Praise the Lord for another year!
Blessings to everyone!
We have now researched one of our "legs" of one of the provinces that we are researching. We are off today to a different "leg".
We went and researched San Salvador de Quije and were amazed at what the Lord had waiting for us there.
We had to take a convi to Potongo. This was the scariest convi I had ever been in my life. Packed to the max and cargo that was taller than the convi itself. The poor vehicle was falling apart. THe door didn't close. Haha...but we made it to Potongo! Ps...the driver was a maniac!
We were told from Potongo that the hike down to San Salvador de Quije was only 30 minutes. Well, that turned into 3 hours. We ended up hiking in the dark. That was interesting! But WOW so beautiful as we got to see the stars. It was like glitter. Well, we were about to give up and sleep outside under the stars when we saw the village from the top of the mountain. We were so happy! We aventually got down to the village and this lady was hollaring...Gringos...hospedaje aqui! This means...white people...here is a place to say. Well, basically that is what she was saying. I don't know how to translate hospedaje.
As I was climbing up the stairs to get to our room, i saw a man reading his Bible! We later began to conversate and found out that he was a christian and he is the brother of the lady who owns the hospedaje. He lives in Lima, but travels there often. We had an amazing time with other believers. We also found out that there is a pentacostal house church there and about 30 or less attend.
Well, my time at the internet cafe is up...Please be praying for us as we travel these next five days or so.
Also, I turn 21 Monday! Praise the Lord for another year!
Blessings to everyone!
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Still ALive!
God is so good and faithful. His mercy endures forever and his protection is some what humorous.
We just arrived back from a long journey where we researched 3 villages. We hiked 2,000 feet up in 12,000 feet altitude. Wow...that was hard. We found some amazing people of peace.
On the down side, the last village we were researching did not want us there. THey did everything possible to get us to leave. THere was definitley an evil presence there. We barely were able to get beds to sleep in. They all told us they were occupied. One man in the plaza felt sorry for us because it was FREAKING COLD:!! I had on all my clothes and the wind was blowing. The guy went to the hostal and found us some beds and we sleep there. We did as much research as possible and then we left out this morning on the only bus that leaves that town. (one per week on Sunday) So we didn't want to get stuck there and the convi's are so sporatic. Nevertheless, we were able to find some restaurants and map out the city, take some pictures and ask the waitress all the questions we had and she was able to answer them.
We just arrived back from a long journey where we researched 3 villages. We hiked 2,000 feet up in 12,000 feet altitude. Wow...that was hard. We found some amazing people of peace.
On the down side, the last village we were researching did not want us there. THey did everything possible to get us to leave. THere was definitley an evil presence there. We barely were able to get beds to sleep in. They all told us they were occupied. One man in the plaza felt sorry for us because it was FREAKING COLD:!! I had on all my clothes and the wind was blowing. The guy went to the hostal and found us some beds and we sleep there. We did as much research as possible and then we left out this morning on the only bus that leaves that town. (one per week on Sunday) So we didn't want to get stuck there and the convi's are so sporatic. Nevertheless, we were able to find some restaurants and map out the city, take some pictures and ask the waitress all the questions we had and she was able to answer them.
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