Goldfuss update (December 29)

Dear Praying Friends,

Thank you for praying. As with all of your holidays, there has been much to do here and many opportunities. Of these we will give you three main requests:

1. Citlali is a friend that Faith has known for 4 years. In September, without any warning, her husband just left her. This has been extremely difficult for Citlali. We have been praying for her. Two weeks ago, she finally opened up to Faith about her situation. Through it all, she surprisingly and gladly received a study Bible from Faith as a Christmas gift. Please pray for more open doors and for comfort for her two young girls who are very sad and bitter.
2. The Lord has brought a good number of visitors along with Lourdes' family. One such visitor is Lourdes' nephew, Victor, from Spain, who is visiting Mexico and staying with his relatives while he attempts to get a job here. He is a 22 year old man who has been extremely apathetic to the things of the Lord. The last three weeks he has been coming to church, asking questions, attending Jon and Andrea's Bible study at the Olivares home, and doing his Sunday School lesson. It is obvious that the Lord is doing a work in Victor. Pray that the Holy Spirit would bring that work to bear the fruit of a truly converted man.
3. Eric is Morgan's younger brother. His family has been faithful for the past 8 years, although Eric hasn't attended church during the past 3 years. Eric, and his live in girlfriend, Delilah, have been attending church for about a month now. Eric appears to want to please the Lord with his life. Delilah has said before that she would never attend church. The fact that she is coming even though she is receiving ridicule from her parents is only the Lord moving in her heart. Pray for the many issues there and for great wisdom from the Lord in dealing with them.

On a more humorous note, while Bekah was still here, Mike ran down the stairs amidst wild screams in the kitchen. Several of the girls said that they had seen about a 2 foot rat walking outside our kitchen window on the ledge. While Cristi, Carissa, and Bekah were quite frantic, Cherith sat at the island calmly chomping on a peanut butter sandwich--very relaxed. Faith asked Cheri if she had seen the rat and she quietly responded, "Yes, Mommy, he had a pink nose." Perplexed about the pink nose, we decided to try to wait and see it again. It turns out that our "rat" was an opossum. He now no longer exists as daddy took care of him.

We will be starting school, second semester, next week again. We still haven't found a school teacher to help for second semester. If you know anyone who would love to serve (or maybe not even love to do it, but could), :-), we'd love to hear from them.

Adventures surround us and opportunities abound. Please pray that we will use every opportunity for the Lord's glory.

In Christ,
Mike, Faith, Mikey, Cristiana, Carissa, Matthew, Cherith, and Caralyn Goldfuss