A little relief, and a lot of fun...

The heat continues to pound away at us, but at last we received some rain today and it's taken some of the humidity away, at least for the moment.

This afternoon we had some great fun...one of our Board members sent us $150 to buy some bibles and this afternoon we purchased 4 and had a blast delivering them to some special friends we've made here.

One of them is the cook at a restaurant where I had been blessed to help one of the waitresses find her way to the Lord. Recently we were eating there and we found out she didn't have a bible...it was a special blessing to give one to her! On our next trip there she told us that the cook had asked her if he could get a bible like she now had...it is a study bible. We had noticed him sitting outside reading his bible every time he had a break. He saw her bible wanted to know if he could have a study bible because there some things he was having trouble understanding. So, this afternoon we took a bible to him...he wasn't there yet so we gave it to another waitress who we had helped to reach out Jesus and as we were leaving she asked if one day she could have one like that. She's a good woman who helped to mentor the second waitress!So, I sent Mauricio and Cesar to the car to get one for her. She was ecstatic when the boys handed her a new bible and her smile lit the room. And finally, the last one was given to our part time cook. One year ago I had spoken with her and she prayed to receive Jesus into her heart. Today I asked her about the church she was attending and she told me it was Catholic....down here that's pretty bad in most cases. Lots of corruption in the church hierarchy. After some discussion about who she can pray to (and not pray to), about who intercedes for her (and who does not) I asked her if she could read and if she had a bible. She said she could read and had a bible, but it was very small and difficult to see. I asked her if she wanted a new one and she beamed! Now she has a new one!!!

It is such a blessing to have the luxury of affecting people's lives in this manner...thanks to all of you!

Smokin'....

It's 104 with humidity out the gazoo! The haze in the city is so thick you can barely see the mountains right behind our house. Boiling water, frying an egg on the sidewalk, etc....they're all too tame for this heat!

Breathing brings the sweat rolling down your face and I can't hold my breath very long anymore!

McGyver's in town...

Our garage door opener stopped working, but luckily for us McGyver was in town! Saturday Will & I came back from somewhere, hit the door opener and it opened, parked the car, hit the door closer, but it didn't close. The motor started but the door never moved.

This morning Will & I took it apart and I discovered that one of the plastic gears was not engaging. A friend had suggested perhaps one of them had broken off, but that wasn't the case. Upon closer examination I discovered two pins had fallen out which allowed the gear to spin freely around a shaft instead of engaging to turn it, which in turn, turned the chain to open and close the door. Will found one of the pins on the ground and I put it back in, but it wasn't enough; we needed the other pin. We couldn't find it or anything that would work.....then a McGyver idea came to us!

We used four toothpicks to fill the hole of the pin and now the gear is locked onto the shaft and when it engages with the other gears it turns the shaft, the chain, and opens and closes the door! McGyver is alive and well in Honduras!!!

A Wildly Unexpected Blessing...

When Rosa broke her leg on Friday Fabi & I loaded her into the car and headed off to the emergency room leaving Will & Joyce with the other kids. They were in a bit of a shock at seeing their sister carried away bleeding and in obvious pain. It was then that the blessing occurred...

Antonio, perhaps our most difficult child because of handicaps, came up to Will and said, "We need to go pray for Rosa"! Will said, "okay", but Antonio said, "No, we need to walk away and pray now." So he, Will, & Pedro walked to the front of the house to be alone and prayed for Rosa. You need to understand that Antonio is the one diagnosed as "not having a conscience" by the child psychiatrist. She said, "He will never get any better, he will only get worse." We didn't accept that because we chose to believe that his Maker would piece him back together. Certainly that unsolicited prayer is evidence of the Holy Spirit bringing healing to Antonio in ways that we can't see!

On this Easter day we believe that God is continuing to offer up proof that our faith will bring forth sure rewards! Thank you, God; thank you, Jesus; thank you, Holy Spirit!!!

Narrow escape...

We took the kids out for an ice cream cone tonight to a shoppe with a playground. Joyce, Will, Rosa, & were sitting inside when Mauricio came in carrying a screaming Pedro. He told us he fell off the top of the sliding board to the concrete below and couldn't walk or stand.

You know I immediately thought, "Oh no, not another cast." But after checking him out it turns out nothing other than his pride was seriously hurt....thank you, Jesus!

Rosa's new appendage...

Another Emergency Room Visit...

Today all the kids were playing when Rosa fell against the edge of a ceramic step severely gashing her leg requiring six stitches. After sewing her back together the Dr. said he was taking to x-ray as a precaution....she also has a broken leg! She broke it just below the knee. The break is not clear through but looks like someone took a large knife a cut a big pie-shaped piece out of her leg.

She is in a cast from ankle to hip for the next three weeks, but we expect that everything will heal as it should. Youth has some distinct advantages. Please lift Rosa in your prayers.

We had to use our charge card to cover the costs of the hospital, doctors, x-ray, etc. and although it is ridiculously low compared to the U.S. it still sets us back quite a bit. If anyone desires to help defray the costs please send a check to Wellspring of Life, P.O. Box 3027, Plant City, FL. 33563