Great Thanksgiving!

We just had my in-laws in for Thanksgiving weekend. Sounds simple right? They flew in from FL to Guatemala. It was a quick trip – Wed to Sun and we barely touched the surface of places to see and things to do. But I think it helped break the ice of them coming here and feeling better about where we live and what we’re doing here. In another month we have completed 3 years here and it’s amazing!

I cooked thanks giving and was so glad it came out well.

Here is the turkey, green bean casserole, and yams. The rest was on the table. Everyone liked it but i still think my turkey could have been moister (is that a word?). I was so bummed I could not find my baking bag. I so wanted to cook it in a bag! heehee

Until next turkey time! Gobble Gobble! We did have left overs Saturday night and we may have more tonight – i will say it’s better left over! YUM!!

Update on us…

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We’ve made it to our 4th state and it’s all going well, but not without lack of sleep and catching colds. Please pray for our colds and i may have an ear infection. ugh!

We’re excited about what God is doing and He’s all over this trip! It’s wonderful and amazing!!! We do need monthly support to continue the calling God’s given us. If you are led by God to do so, then support as you are led at www.tinyurl.com/Donate2SHP

I just wanted to pop in and update ya’ll (we’re in TN right now and my countryness is coming back). Oh my throat is sore and my ear hurts… we’ll see what we need to do, go to pharmacy or a clinic? UGH!

Love to you and yours….

Trip Prep and Prayers…

Hello… so what are we up to? We’re cleaning the house real good.. one, it needs it and two, i like to come back from a trip with the house in decent order… heehee. With this we’re cleaning so much. Today, my husband took the kids car seats out of the car and I cleaned them! How long have those raisins been there? UGH! The seat covers are ALL perty now and I even re-checked the belt adjustments. For both kids the seats were getting too tight so I knew we needed to adjust them to their growing size! YEAH! I dont know about you but I like getting these things off my check list.

I am starting to think about packing, like the weather in all the places we’re going and how to pack minimally gong up! I am making sure I have all the Time/Date/Places all figured out before we go. What are we doing where and what do we need etc? It’s best to do as much as I can before we go so when we go, we just fall in place. Oh if it were a perfect world! But I make sure we’ve left room for changes and traffic and weather! Things out of our control and we KNOW it will happen. I believe God challenges us to truely reveal our walk with HIM! I love it (God’s ways, not being challenged)! Because it surely challenges me and in most cases I say, “you;’re right God, when he says ‘LET IT GO!” heeheee

I have prayer requests I am emailing but realized it may be easiest to post here:

I trust you and your prayer teams will pray as you are led to do so, and any prayers are GREATLY appreciated!

• We have items in the storage unit to sell (table, chairs, 1966 malibu parts, wet/dry vac, ladder, etc)
• We need a projector to use during our travels in the states for our presentation , it can be returned to the owner after we leave Nov 7. Although we’ve been praying for one to use here in the field to show the Jesus film and other evangelical videos
• We need to buy tickets to return next year – so we’d need $800 for the four of us to come to the states in 2009 to keep our passports current and legal.
• We need to pay for luggage & pre-assigned seats to COME to the US or to RETURN to GUA on Spirit Air.

Eight bags is what we need round trip for a total is $190

They now charge for seat reservations *sigh* For the trips up and back, the total is $60

• We need to raise gas money for our tour. We have estimated $500 for gas total.
• Above all… just PRAYER… we cannot be here or there without it!!! In addition, please pray for our preparation, the print materials, the presentation, the limited packing and our home here while we’re gone, the ability to pay rent before we leave, pray for our travels (security with kids, carry ons and car seats), for use to bathe in GOD and give HIM the GLORY in it all!Again, Thank you!

   

  

Prayers needed

I did want to add more prayers right now for any prayer warriors out there. By posting these here, i want them off my shoulders and in the hands of prayer warriors!!! Thank you in advance for sharing this, our burden is light as we all help one another and stand in agreement in seeking Jesus for it all! We need to unite together in this all. It’s not easy to do alone and we’re not called to do it alone. We need the BODY to unite and know that in it all – Our God Reigns!!

• we are scheduled for a USA tour in October:

pray for the scheduling – the goal is church visit, but want to sneak in family time too

pray for the gas money we need to raise to do the tour

pray for our lodging to be set up

pray for our return the the field, we’ll need to buy a ticket back to be allowed to go back tot he field – yes it’s the law to have a ticket back and we don’t… rigth now.

pray for us to stay focused on presenting the calling God’s given us and help others submit to what God’s calling them to do in their lives. Their purpose for HIM. It’s challenging and rewarding.

We do say we trust and know God has all of this prepared for in advance. Pray we do what HE wants us to do in seeking HIS plan in it all.

Blessings to you. This was tough. I’m not used to publicizing these kinds of details but for the past 2 months or God has challenged me to reach out to the BODY for help! Then God will touch and move others to help. If I didn’t do this, then I would be in God’s way and He couldn’t use you for Him. (i hope that makes sense). We’re in this together. *HUGS*

Gained 2, much needed…

Today, we gained a much needed TWO HOURS! We went on our whirl wind tour in the states and flew back and gained two hours back. WHEW! I’ve been off and on dozing but have to stay up because my daughter is very awake and wanting to play. So I pray to get my sleep tonight!

Our trip was awesome! I hope to make time to write about it in the days to come. As soon as I sort photos too. But all-in-all we accomplished seeing family and getting some familiar items from the states. God surely was all over our trip and blessed us enormously! THANK YOU!

Love to all we got to see and those we just couldn’t squeeze in! It was a CRAZY trip – remind me to not keep doing this.