Monday, July 15, 2013

Luke found Raphael, Elsie seems much better!

This is Steve.  Just read Faye’s LONG post.  So glad she could do that when it was all still so fresh!
Heard from Luke last night.  He got there.  Said the car ride was amazing and beautiful.  Saw a whole nother part of Nicaragua.  Faye and I were having anxiety attacks about meeting a stranger in the Managua Airport and driving off with him into the jungle.  But God blessed.
Luke said the place, Casa Mateo?, is really nice.  A couple from Maryland God plopped into Jinotepe to do this ministry.  A big mission group arrived from …  Frederick and Boonesboro!  They are really nice and have adopted Luke.
Luke noticed out the window all this wild stuff going on in the streets and so grabbed his camera.  People started manhandling him and trying to grab his camera.  The Casa people said, “Don’t go out there! They’ll hurt you!”  It’s some kind of Saint Festival (think Mardi Gras or one of the god's birthday's in Taiwan).  The two main activities seem to be drinking beer and riding around on horses.  The streets are full of drunks and horses.  Luke said he had a long, interesting conversation with a very drunk man holding his brother, who had passed out.
Luke told us that Raphael had been there, and was coming back later that night.
He texted us this morning and said that he and Raphael are studying the book of Ephesians today.  Hooray!!!
Pray that God will really bless that time!  Today and tomorrow.  We all fly home Thursday.  
Also, Elsie’s fever mostly stayed down, and she is up and about, though still taking it very easy. WE are very thankful!!!
Pray that God will bless these last two days.  We want to be faithful to the end, though we are so eager to be home.  But pray also that we’ll be able to make it home if this is God’s will.  Depends on a thousand things, but God is faithful.
Luke and Liesl always wondered what this place was like after they all left.  Now Liesl kinda knows.  It really does leave a big whole in the hearts and lives of these kids.
Thank you for your prayers!!!

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