Goldfuss update (August 12)

Dear Prayer warriors,

Thank you again for praying!

Answers!

Everyone is feeling better---except for daddy--throat and ear infection and sinus headache.

The Lord seems to be working in a number of the men for whom you have been praying. Please continue to bathe them in prayer.

• MORGAN---just loves studying the two days per week that he and Mike have together. This is becoming evident in his preaching.
• GABRIEL---came to the house with his family on Thursday night. Lilliana, his wife, says that he now wants to take the children's home school Bible class. This is an great answer to prayer. Since they walk together for their health, he has suggested that they pray together during the time. Pray for us as we guide him. He is wondering if the Lord has some kind of service for him.
• MARCOS---(the groom who just got married) has been talking about witnessing and wants to lead his family in family devotions.
• ERASMO---has been inviting Umberto and Ortencia over to the house to help them become more faithful to church. He has been doing a good job of answering their questions.
• NICOLAS---recognizes that the Lord is the only answer in helping his twelve-year-old rebellious son and desires spiritual help for him and to guide his family.
• JOSE---is happy attending church with his "new" family. (They were married in the civil ceremony about one month ago after living together for eight years. They are planning a formal wedding in two months.)
• HUMBERTO---(mentioned above) is beginning to see the falsehood of the church they attended previously. This church does not believe that Jesus is God. Pray for he and his wife's salvation. He has been coming on Wednesdays, but has been working on Sundays.
• HUMBERTO---(21 year old son of NICOLAS) really seems to desire to want to give his whole life to the Lord.
• FRANCISCO---is a joy as he loves to learn about the Lord and always wants help in his witnessing.
  

Please pray for wisdom in dealing with each one's specific needs that the Lord be glorified.

UNCLE JOHN, AUNT JENNIFER AND JONATHAN were such a blessing. They have wonderful spirits that encouraged us to be encouraged even through some difficult sicknesses and trials that we had. Uncle John finished painting the outside of the house, and varnished the cabin as well as helped Mike with the septic tank. Unfortunately, the septic tank job helped John become extremely ill. I guess he became more ill than he has ever been in his life. We were sad for that. But during all of this, we were encouraged because three of our families who knew John from previous visits had all of us over to their house. Our people are really learning to be giving.

We found a therapist for Cristi only 40 minutes from our house!!!!!!!!!!! This is such an answer to prayer. The others were over 2 1/2 hours away only up to the center of the city.

Requests:
ALEJANDRO and OCTAVIO'S salvation.

Upcoming events:

• August 25---Ladies Bible Study
• September 1st--Fall festival---at our house. The whole church is coming and we are having them invite unsaved friends that they have been witnessing too. We are combining this with Carissa's big special birthday party. (We only have one big party per child and that's at 8 years old). Since it needs to be on a Saturday it just happens to be falling on Cherith's birthday.
• Janet and Vanessa our two sisters didn't come today. Neither did Memo and Karina and their two boys and baby girl.
  

One special answer to prayer. We had a torrential downpour on Thursday. It was raining harder and harder with hailstones. Since our property is below the road up above, much of the roads runoff was running down OUR DRIVEWAY toward our house. We all went to the garage to watch the river flow down toward us. Thankfully Mike had seen a rain like that before the house was built and had a large drain put in right in front of our garage. The drain was handling the water exceptionally well.

About 10 minutes later, Mike went back out to see the river and the drain was almost full and was about 30 seconds from running over into our garage. The bad news is that our cistern is below our garage floor and the metal door to the top of the cistern is right in the garage. Any overflow into the garage would ruin all the water in the cistern and cause us to have to do a major cleaning of it. Mike prayed quickly and grabbed a broom stick and stuck it as far down as possible to try to get the water to go down. Praise the Lord it worked just at the last second when the water almost got to the garage floor level. The Lord is so good to us in little (BIG) ways like that. Below are a couple of pictures of the storm and it's aftermath. The pictures were taken when everything was abating.

We thank you for your continued prayers,
in Christ,

Faith for the Family