Friday, January 31, 2014

3 months


 Some have asked us how we are doing without our partners here.  Yes,  we are doing well.  We’ve survived 3 months!    The first 8 weeks were very hard with a lot of spiritual attack..  I do appreciate your prayers as though there was attack I felt that I was able to keep truth in my thought life.  The feelings took a while to catch up – but during that time I felt the prayers and the truth of God’s word- despite struggling with the anger and depression of knowing we were being left without partners.  
 
  But I’m happy to tell you I’m doing so much better now.   The Indians are very private, stoic people who don’t talk about feelings.  But even so I look to them more for friendship than I did before.   I look forward to talking to them – even about the weather – since I have no other outlet!    I’ve also been so blessed to see our girls depend on each other for friendship more than they have before. I’ve seen them grow closer and build bonds they may never have built otherwise.   So I’m seeing God’s hand in it!  I can actually say that God has taken care of us and blessed us in the midst of what I  thought  was an impossible situation.  God be glorified!   We really appreciate all your prayers! 

 

Friday, January 24, 2014

Dental Clinic

Thanks for praying! It was the best dental clinic we ever had!  God gave me the idea of signing up people ahead of time for appointments.  I was unsure if it work since in the past anyone who wants to just shows up.  Well Praise God it worked!  We signed up 20 people a day and squeezed a few extra in.  So we saw 25 people a day.  75 total people with a total of 119 extractions!      
I got to be the assistant (Dennis was glad to let me - since he doesn't enjoy watching what the Dentist does in a person's mouth.)  I could gross you out and tell you that most of the folks had black rotted teeth.  But I won't go into that.
Doesn't this gal looked thrilled to be a the dentist? She'll thank us later when the pain is over with. 


The first day of the dental clinic we also took a break at 11 am for church. 

I just love these kids from Children's church.  Not the best picture of me though!


Friday, January 10, 2014

Dental Clinic

This Sunday (Jan 11) through Tuesday we invited some missionaries to pull teeth here in Chiltepin. 

This is the most dental care the Guarijio get around here.  Fillings - cleanings?  No,  just yank it out!   It's a relief to them just to get rid of the pain.

Please pray for those three days.  Some 100 Indians will be milling around our houses waiting for their dental appointment or just hanging out for the fun of it.   We want to help the ones who need it the most. But we can only have 60 appointments.  Please pray God will be glorified by all of it.    Pray for our kids to have patience as they won't be getting much attention during those days.    Pray for Dennis as he traveled to go pick up the dental team.   We need your prayers! Thank you so much!