Dear Praying friends,
This has been a grueling and exhausting week. On Monday, I went to visit Erasmo and Matilde who hadn't been to church on Wednesday nor last Sunday. Erasmo (the man who had several of his fingers cut off this past year) had to go to the hospital on Sat. night at 11 PM with serious stomach pain. It turned out to be gastritis and he wasn't able to get out until Sunday afternoon.
Their family is going through a very serious problem right now that will affect our church here. Please pray for them.
They were able to come up on Thursday this week for lunch and stayed til 10 PM. While we were trying to talk to them, Carlos, a friend from long ago called, Pedro, an old friend showed up for lunch also, unexpected, and we received several other phone calls during our time of trying to help them. Please pray that each family member will do what the Lord wants them and requires of them and also that God's name will be glorified in all of this situation.
Ruben and Heidi arrived on Thursday night from Panama. They were down there helping another GFA missionary family, the Mavars, who have been on furlough. It was such a blessing to have them back in the Padierna Bible Church today. The church people were thrilled to see them. I taught our SS class and Ruben led the worship service and preached. We followed up the services today with a "Welcome back" meal for Ruben and Heidi. Please pray for Heidi. As many of you know, Heidi has suffered in the past here from altitude sickness. She's only been here for three days now and is not doing well again. Their plan was for her to leave this coming Thursday but she may have to leave as early as Tuesday. Ruben is planning on staying until October 4. Please pray for both Ruben and Heidi and their future plans. The people here are really really going to miss them a lot.
Today's services were very well attended again. We had nine visitors and no extra chairs. America and Jose have a little school supply store and have been giving out tracts. Today, Cesar, and two of his children came because of receiving a tract there. His wife left him with the two children and took the littlest one with her. He said he enjoyed it and would really like to come back. Juana invited two other ladies and they also attended. A young lady from our church, Mildred, also attended today with her mother who came for the first time. One of the greatest blessings was that Angel, Myra and Myra's brother Manuel all came today. Angel and Myra are the couple who had the baby die last week. We picked them up for church this morning. They worked at their taco stand last night until 3:30 AM so it was no easy task to get up for church this morning, especially for coming for the first time. All the visitors stayed for the meal that we had after church. Please pray for the Lord to work in the hearts of each of these nine people so that they would think about what they heard from God's Word today. Please pray for them to be saved.
We'll end tonight with an incredible blessing for our family. Cristi had a full week of therapy this week. She is READING. She is also SPELLING. It was like a switch flipped on for her. We aren't done and have a few more days of the therapy. Also, they are really just giving Faith tools to use to keep on teaching Cristi. It will still be about a two year process for Faith in dealing with her.
We thank you for all that you do for us in praying for and supporting us. We appreciate your prayers greatly. Please pray for us a lot in this coming week. There is an upcoming ladies' meeting this Saturday.
Mike for all the Goldfi
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