PRAY FOR CRISTINA

You may remember that Cristina is a substitute teacher at one of the schools which we teach at. She is only there some days but we had made plans to study the Bible and english with her at least one if not 2 days a week while we are here. Things have not gone very well...at least from the human perspective. We studied with her once the first day she asked. Then she either wasn´t there or couldn´t until this past sunday. Sunday morning when we went there she was exhausted and had a headache (to say the least) because her family had a big party the night before that went until 6am that morning. So we DID study with her...thankfully God lead us to teach the Bible before English this week because she abruptly had to leave just as we finished the Bible Study. Then today we went and she never came to the gate so we walked back to her house and her little sister said she was not there but had gone to meet up with some friends in another town (Ibarra). So we left, without a plan of when to study next. During our picnic lunch, just before we went to her house and found out we weren´t going to study, I was reading in Life as a Vapor how everything in life whether pleasure or pain is an act of God´s mercy. Everything in my life and in this mission "depends not on human will or exertion but on God, who has mercy." Romans 9:16
Please keep Cristina in your prayers. I do not know the plans which God has or what will come out of this but we will continue in obedience and keep praying for her.

Also, we had a really good study today at Carmen´s house. It was not just the little girl, Denise. Carmen and her son-in-law, Denise, and 2 other children from the school studied Luke 15- the prodical son with us today! We´ll be going back there next week. Pray that Carmen and the other adults in the family will come to and participate in the Bible Studies at their house.