Thank you as always for your continued and faithful prayers.
We had an excellent week with the mission team that came from Trinity Bible Church in Greenville, SC with Dr. and Mrs. Greg Mazak. Greg was a great encouragement to Mike, Nancy was a great encouragement to Faith, and the team pitched in with many things, gave out many tracts, saw some different sights, and had tremendous attitudes. Stephanie Capoccia had come before on another team and was a great help to Faith in the kitchen---Faith said she was overwhelmed that the Lord would burden Stephanie to desire to come as He knew just what Faith needed. Praise the Lord.
During the week of busyness with the team, we had a few extra issues. On New Year's night Silvia's son-in-law, Luis, passed away. Silvia called and Greg and I went to the hospital. The hearse took the body back to Silvia's house where there was to be an all night vigil. The casket is placed in the living room for family and friends to come by and see. They sit and drink coffee all night while several men watch over the body to supposedly guard it from evil spirits. I had the opportunity to preach for about a half an hour to the family and friends who were there around midnight. We made it home around 2 AM, if I remember correctly. The next day was the burial and Morgan was able to accompany Silvia and Teresa to the burial. Silvia also has a granddaughter that had to have an emergency appendectomy the next day. Please keep Silvia in your prayers.Martha, who was in the hospital over Christmas week, is now home. The doctors have put her on steroids and that has helped her but they don't know the cause of her low platelets. We heard from Silvia at church yesterday that Martha has been discouraged and angry about her very difficult situation at home.
Erasmo and Matilde have opened a little restaurant that sells tacos. We took the whole team there for lunch one day last week and everyone loved it. Please pray for the Lord's blessing as they have said that they will close early on Wed.'s so that they can be in church and will not open on Sundays. They had two very bad days of sales on Friday and Saturday so they are being tested.
Nico and Liliana are having some problems. She is becoming more openly defiant of Nico and his leadership in the family, even telling him last week that she wasn't going to church. Please pray for her salvation. She was hitting her daughter Adriana last week because Adriana was singing some SS songs in the house. I had an excellent talk with Nico telling him that he's not alone in all this. There are many ladies in our church in his situation with an unsaved spouse. However, they have to submit to their husbands. At least he's in the position of leadership. He said that he was very encouraged with our talk and, Praise the Lord, his whole family was in church yesterday.
Yesterday we were missing our two older ladies, Sra. Maria and Sra. Gloria. They have been through some hard sicknesses lately. Pray for their health. January 6 is the Day of the Three Kings in Mexico when all the children receive their presents--no Santa Claus, just the three kings, I suppose because of the wise men bringing gifts. Anyway, many people sell in local markets all night long on the 5th. Gabriel and Jose were two who did that and were not in church yesterday, although they have been very faithful recently.
Today starts back up with homeschooling. Please pray for Faith to have the strength that she needs. We just heard on Sat. night from a young lady who may be interested in coming next fall to begin the next school year, and perhaps another one this summer to help us finish up this year. I know we may be greedy, but we'd love to have someone for right now. :-) With Cristi's extra needs and therapies, help even right now would be a huge blessing. Any volunteers? Even for one or two months?
We do appreciate all of your prayers.
In Christ,
Mike for all the Goldfi
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