Thank you so much for your prayers during this past week. Things were very busy and very interesting to say the least.
Last Monday while Morgan was here studying in the cabin, Matthew and Cherith went up in the loft to play for a while. There is a hanging light bulb that we have hooked up on nail in the rafter so that it doesn't touch anything. Matthew and Cheri unhooked it and let it hang. The problem is that it was hanging right on a big roll of carpet foam underlayment. They all came over to the house for lunch. Before Morgan was going to take Mike and Mikey down for Mikey's basketball, he went went into the cabin to get his book and saw smoke everywhere. He called me and it was very very thick smoke. It took me 4 tries to get up the ladder to get the big roll down so that we could throw it out of the cabin. The smoke was very toxic. Finally we got it out. We praise the Lord that no one was hurt and that the cabin was not burned to the ground--or burned in anyway for that matter. It still smells somewhat burnt inside, but we are thankful for the Lord's watchcare and protection. (We had put some fans in there during the afternoon to try to blow a lot of the smoke out and in the evening, the fans were yellow from the toxic foam that had been burning.)
Mikey was studying "writing a newspaper article" in English on Monday,and he chose the exciting cabin incident. It went something like this:
Two tikes playing in the loft of a cabin on Maninal St. almost left the cabin in ashes. Thankfully the man who studies in the cabin, Morgan Bernal, returned for a commentary before leaving. "I didn't know the lightbulb would burn the foamy", stated 5 year old Matthew Goldfuss. "I don't know? It was him!" declared three year old Cheri Golfuss as she pointed at her big brother. The entire family is thankful to the Lord for sparing the cabin as they use it for the ministry.Monday night I tried to visit the Lopez family and the new family (Jesus and Analilia.) I was only able to make connections with the second family and asked them if they needed any help. Jesus stated that he had to go the the doctor's on Tuesday and that it was a long trip with his arthritis to drive a stick shift. He asked if I could drive him there. So we left on Tuesday morning at 7:30 AM and arrived at the doctor's at 10:00. 2 1/2 hours to go about 20 miles. :-) It's mind-boggling to think that people do that every day. Many people take two hours to get to work in the morning and two hours to get home at night. 1/6 of your day is spent in travel to and from work. Anyway, for all the time that we were together, it was a blessing to really go over the gospel with Jesus and answer some of his questions. Continue to pray for the salvation of each one in that family.
The hospital didn't seem very clean where we went and some of the people didn't seem very competent medically. I was very concerned that they were just recommending two hip and two knee replacements before the needed time. On Thursday we were able to get him a doctor's visit with the head of pediatric orthopedics in all of Mexico. We felt more at peace with it all when our doctor looked at the x-rays and said that it was very obvious that he needed the two hip replacements. She also knows his doctor and the hospital where the first one is going to be done and said that there should be no problems. Jesus was admitted on Friday to the hospital. His wife Analilia called us on Saturday to let us know that his doctor is going on vacation (holy week here in Mexico.) Jesus has to be in the hospital all week and the surgery will not be until next week. (Go figure.) Anyway, Analilia asked if we could pick her up for church yesterday. We did and she was paying very good attention in SS. As soon as we started our worship service and as we were reading a Psalm, Analilia got up and appeared to be headed to the bathroom. She stopped in the back of the room by the bathroom, by the chair of one of our ladies, and then another lady yelled out, "Grab her, she's going to fall." Several jumped to help and laid her down as she had a grand mal epileptic seizure right there. Faith and three others were able to really help her. She had bitten her tongue, but not severly. By the end of the service, she was doing well, except for a bad headache. So, please really keep this family and their trials in your prayers. I was able to speak with Jesus in the hospital this morning and Lili had just gotten there to be with him. The church people are taking turns watching their children.
Marta was not able to be there yesterday. She was very sick all week and called to let us know. Sra. Gloria has not been able to be there for the last several weeks either due to a virus. Our family has been ravaged the last 4 days with some serious bronchial infections. Mikey, Cristi, and especially Faith and Caralyn have been really hit. Please pray for the Lord's grace in these days of sickness. We haven't been able to sleep very well for the past few nights.
We had a very good men's meeting on Saturday. We are studying a book on Biblical eldership and Saturday we had 8 present. Please pray for the men to see the need of a plurality of elders and the need to be men who meet the qualifications. Men who were present were: Morgan, Memo, Uriel, Humberto, Nico, Fernando, Marcos and myself.
This week is shaping up to be another full week.
- Young people's meeting on Saturday--- bike trip.
- Sunday morning at 7 AM we are going to be having our first ever sunrise service up the mountain at our house in addition to our regular services at 11 and 1. Please pray that our church will be blessed as we remember again the resurrection of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ. We seek to often remember the resurrection throughout the year but by God's grace we will have our recollection of it sharpened this coming Lord's day.
Sincerely in Christ,
Mike for all the Goldfii
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