Email update (December 3)

Dear Praying Friends,

We will send you a couple of pictures from our past week's activities.

Last Thursday, we celebrated Thanksgiving. We don't have any American friends in the city at the present due to furloughs and other things, so we invited a good number of our Mexican friends. Juana, Reme, Sarai, Elias, Ruth, Ximena, Gabriel, Liliana, Yoltic, Yolat and Yolotzin all joined us. We had a nice time telling them what Thanksgiving is about and they enjoyed thanking the Lord for His many blessings. We also all enjoyed a great turkey dinner. Matthew had been wanting to be an Indian for a while now so Mike gave him a mohawk. What do you think? :-)

Saturday evening was the piano recital with all of Melissa's students from the past 3 months. They had a very rough run-through beforehand, but the recital itself went wonderfully. There were a number of unsaved people present so Mike preached about 15 minutes on what it means to play and sing for God's Glory, why we would do that. The gospel was very clearly given. Pray for the salvation of those who heard. We are also including a couple of pictures of the recital.
Sunday's attendance was very down. We've had good visits and phone calls though with a good number of the missing.

• Please pray for Sras. Maria and Gloria. Gloria, the daughter is really struggling with her diabetes and shingles and has been very discouraged. Please pray for the Lord to give her some relief and for them to be able to be present in the services.
• Nico and family were not there on Sunday. He was struggling with gaining forgiveness of sin. We had an excellent talk and time of prayer on Monday morning though.
• Tere and Silvia--two sisters with unsaved husbands, were both unable to attend. Pray for salvation for their husbands and strength for them day by day.
• Jesus and Analilia--said last week that they were going to not be missing anymore. They were not there this past Sunday. I went to talk to them last night and ended up being able to proclaim the gospel to them and their children for about 1 1/2 hours. Their 11 year old daughter Luz, asked a few questions and that got the whole ball rolling. It was an EXCELLENT and encouraging opportunity. Please pray for their salvation.
  

This Friday, we are going to regretfully say goodbye to Melissa. She has been an incredible help and encouragement this past semester with her schoolteaching, piano playing in church and piano lesson giving. Please pray for the Lord's direction for Melissa in the future.

Please pray for the Lord will still open the door for us to have a ministry in the State of Michoacan in a place about 2 hours from here.

Thank you so much for your prayers,
in Christ,
mike for all the goldfii