01 March 2012
|Dear ones,
Well, can't believe everything is all packed (almost) and in less than one hour we head for the airport in Orlando to go back to Perú! True! We should arrive home in Arequipa March 2 around 1 p.m. So thank you all for praying for us as we go!
We have heard that the rains are subsiding now down there and that school starts on Monday, March 5!! Wow! I am not ready so please pray for me to get that way fast!! Plus we have heard that the lovely young couple in our guest apt. are moving out like tomorrow too, and the other family needs to move in soon!! Please help me pray to get all that ready too! I am truly really looking forward to this year's teaching - guess I will have 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th grades Bible ("Christian Formation") and English. Guess the classes will all be around 25 in number, so that will be a lot of work, but a real challenge and opportunity to give them God's Word. THANKS so much for praying for this.
Please also help us pray that the ambulance will sell soon and that Bob can purchase a better vehicle for his trips in and around Arequipa, to the churches and the brethren, being able to take some of them to accompany him! Thanks so much.
Please pray for the leaders to be ready to be named as elders in the main church in Arequipa. We have heard they are doing well and are thankful.
Please pray for the future of the radio in Chuquibamba. Things are not right there and some changes will have to be made. We are super thankful that Bob's Bible studies and other good Christian programs are aired on a Christian station in Arequipa as well as the one in Cotahuasi, through our brother, Bradley Shaw and family.
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH for all you have shared with us. We truly enjoyed seeing many of you in these past two months! Thanks for your hospitality, sharing with us, and prayer. Please keep up the prayer part especially!!
Knowing I will not have time for another letter soon after we get back, we truly again want to thank you and we trust you will have a fruitful spring, and on, serving the Lord. God bless you with MANY BLESSINGS.