Hosanna

This was a great day.  We worked hard all afternoon (Lee shoveled gravel, Kendall painted, and I pulled wiring) and then we had a pool party for some of the kids from the children's home.  We made hamburgesas and nachos.  The kids were so excited to get to swim.  We were concerned that the rain wouldn't hold off but it did.  At times the black rain clouds were so thick and threatening that we could not see the mountain.  Kendall has a picture in her pillowcase (I don't think she knows that I know she has it) that a little boy at Del Norte colored for her.  I catch her pulling it out and looking at it and then folding it up and putting it back.  She was having a hard time yesterday but I talked to her about how God can't use her for His glory if she keeps all her feelings built up and doesn't talk to Him about them.  After that she had a completely different attitude.  It's so beautiful here.  Tonight at worship they said that if you were tired you could stay seated during worship.  But there were these teenage girls who went and stood on the grass barefoot.  Kendall and I watched them standing there a minute and we went and joined them.  It was a beautiful view of the mountains, black clouds rolling by, cool grass on our toes, and I just felt so much peace.  Then Lee came and joined us, too. 

We are safe from the storms but the people in the squatters villages and the people in Cadereyta and places like it will need prayers.  

~H

"Break my heart for what breaks yours.  Everything I am for your kingdom's cause.  As I walk from earth to eternity."