At the cornfield and the lake

On Saturday I went with Emma to the cornfield about 45 minutes away to help her and her dad pick corn. We started walking there around 8:30 and we got back around 3:30. First Emma´s dad cut down the corn stalks, put them in a piles, and Emma and I picked the corn and shucked it. It was really fun because you don´t really know what color you are going to get until you open it up. And the kernels of corn are huge.

Yesterday was Gerica´s Birthday. Miriam and I got her this really cool cake with fruit on top that she says is "ballin". She also got a cake from the Gloria, the chef at Las Delicias. We also took a combi ride to Vischongo (1 hour) and climbed up to Lake Int-something and took photos of the Incan Ruins there.

I also called home to wish my Dad a Happy Father´s Day.

We´ve invited Hector to come over to our hotel at night and wake us up if he wants to study the Bible. He hasn´t come over yet and he works usually at least until 10 pm. Pray that we will be able to study the Bible with him.

I haven´t seen Albert yet, so pray that I will be able to meet him sometime soon, practice english and share the Gospel with him.

Also be in prayer for Reynaldo (Virginia´s son). I´m not sure about all the facts, but his mom took him to the hospital because he tried to overdose on his sister´s medicine. Miriam said he tried to or did cut himself, but I am not sure of this. Since then he seems to have high spirits, and has been coming to the Bible Study.

Pray that we will have an opportunity to study the Bible with Emma during the time that we help her out.

Also (Cesaer) one of the doctor´s that had Gerica quarantined said that he wanted to practice english with us. We pray that we will pursue this and it will be fruitful.

We will be traveling to Nazca this thursday for the summer retreat with all of the other summer missionaries. Pray that we will be encouraged, refreshed, and ready to go back to the field and work for the father.

Additionally, we will be encouraging Virginia this week to begin leading the Bible study so that while we are gone for 4-5 days, she will not get out of the habit of studying the Bible. We also want her to be able to lead the Bible study after we are gone for the summer.

The Bible study is pretty simple: prayer, review of the previous lesson, review of all the memory verses learned (romans 3:23, 6:23, john 3:16, Acts 2:42, and 2 Timothy 3:16-17)

Challenge for yall to hide these verses in your heart before the end of the summer. I´ll be adding more....

Read the Bible story or verses, read them again for clarity, and then ask the 5 questions:

What did you like?
What did you not like?
What questions do you have?
What does this teach us about the character of God?
What can we do specifically to apply this scripture to our lives. (I.E. How can we obey)

We then follow up by having everyone praying around in a circle (sometimes difficult because they are shy to pray). Afterwards we sing praises to God (this is the part where her younger kids actually pay attention and each have their favorite song).

Pray that we will do everything we can during this last partial week for the kingdom.

May the nations praise Jesus for salvation.