New People

The day before yesterday, Miriam met a Lady named Emma in the plaza who said she had a sick kid. She asked us to come and pray for her child Hans. Yesterday we went to her house and met her son who is 10, has epilepsy, cannot talk, and cannot walk. We prayed for him, and asked Emma if we could help her out in any way.

We will be helping her out with whatever she needs about 2 days a week. That might include cleaning up her yard (moving rocks), looking after Hans while she is doing things in the city, and tomorrow I will be going with her to the fields on horse to pick corn and whatever other vegetables she has. Her husband is working somewhere else and they are now separated, so she can use all the help she can get. Miriam suggested that we try to have a Bible study with her during the times that we help her out which is a great idea that we are going to pursue.

Virginia is still having the Bible study with us every night at 6 now. She is overwhelmed with 5 kids and her husband working far away. We will be taking her kids to school twice a week to give her some more time to do the things she needs to do. Also every Bible study, she talks about how she is worried about her son Reynaldo who is 13, but looks 16 or 17 and hangs out with older kids who she thinks are being a bad influence on him. He has only been living in Vilcas Huaman just under a year and was previously living with his aunt in Lima. He is a Christian, but please pray for him to have a strong grounding in the Bible and not take after bad things. Pray for me that I will be able to talk with him more. I try to seek him out every day, but usually he just say much when I try to talk to him.

About 45 minutes ago, I met a man named Alfred (has two kids) who works in the Municipal Government building of Vilcas Huaman. He has two kids and CAN SPEAK ENGLISH fairly well. He was excited to find me as he wants to practice his english. While I was reading Genesis in the Plaza, he asked me if I was teaching the Bible and if I spoke Castellano (Spanish) decently. Yes, and sort of. I walked with him to Virginia´s house to show him where the Bible study was and he said he will be coming (I´m about 75 to 80 percent sure which is good for people here). I am excited to see how God will work through Alfred.

I talked in the past about Gloria who is a chef that runs the restaurant Las Delicias (which is delicious) and her son Jefferson. Gloria has been looking for 2 helpers in the kitchen and yesterday Gerica went and talked with her for an hour or so, and will be helping her in the kitchen. As Gloria is not a Christian, this will be a great opportunity to grow closer to Gloria, and share with her the love of Christ.

Please continue to pray for all of the "old contacts", and for the new ones that we have made that we may strengthen these relationships that they may be able to hear the gospel from someone that they trust.

May we keep studying the apostles teaching, having fellowship, breaking bread, and praying together as a body of Christ.



On an unrelated note:

Cool thing yesterday was two australians came into town on Bicycles. The lady was 55 and the guy was about the same. They were doing a year long bike ride from Columbia down through the Andes. That just amazing.