Dear Prayer Team,
I always laugh when I start a letter like that because I remember talking with Asher Sargent about a catchy title for my letters. We were brain storming and one that came up was, The P. Team, that gave us a good laugh. And for my prayer team I want to thank you! I could not do this with out your constant prayers, they are so powerful. The Lord says to us, "Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulations, be constant in prayer." (Rom. 12:12)
Well, it has been almost two months since my last update and if you remember I had asked a few prayer requests.
The first was for my housing, I have now been living with a Peruvian family for almost a month now and it has been wonderful to wake up and go to bed speaking Spanish. I am also much closer to El Arca, the orphanage I am working at. My location is out in the suburbs where there is hardly any traffic, the polution is less and the nights are quiet. The only down fall is it takes me about fourty five minuets to get into town and I don't have any internet acess, but I don't have too many occations that have I make a trip in to town and I am figuring out how to communicate more with you.
I also asked that you pray for my schedule and I am slowly getting it solidified. Sundays I give the day to the Lord and I go to two Peruvian services in the morning and an english speaking on at night. Then I start my week off at El Arca and I am there three times a week. My Tuesdays are set aside for a personal day off and Thursdays I am working at a cafe, called The Meeting Place. Then I have time set aside for being involved in my churches, I have two prayer nights during the week and Saterdays I help out in Kids Club at one of the Peruvian churches I go to.
When I am at El Arca, I help out with what ever needs to be done but usually in the mornings I help bath children and braid hair for the girls. Then in the afternoons I have the responsibility of helping the kids, from the school Promesa, with their studies. There are about forty children who live in El Arca and they all need some love.
It was my pleasure to take the youth from my church back up to El Arca this past Saterday. I put together an activity with the kids and we took lots of beads and made braclets with flowers for the girls and braclets with lizards for the boys. It was a bit hecktic but in the end everyone got to make something and then I had the privledge to share a short message and my testamony with the kids. It was a crazy, great afternoon and my prayer is that some seeds were planted.
I am also working at a cafe, called The Meeting Place, where all of the workers are volunteers and a hundred percent of the profits go to orphanages that they support. It is such anengouraging atmosphere to work in! We are all believers and there is not a customer that comes in and does not feel the presence of Christ. Just the other day a man came in and I got the oppertunity to talk to him about why I am here, how I am being supported, and being guided by the Lord. Then at the end of the conversation he told me that he was a Mormon of sorts, but he did not really want to affiliate himself with a name because of some of his past exeriences. I can only hope God is working on his heart because he is searching.
If you could be praying for:
-Those that God puts in my path, that I would be bold in my faith.
-The last Saterday of every month, I am planning on taking the youth from my church and doing an activity with the kids in El Arca.
-This Saterday, I will be starting to help with a new ministry in the afternoons. After Kids Club at Rey de Reyes I will head over to another Kids Club, at The Meeting Place. They just started two weeks ago and there are already twenty five kids coming, so I am excited to lend a hand!
-This Sunday, the children of the Strongs, the field director and volunteer coordinator for WGM, will be coming and their son will be narrating some stories from the bible in a few different services. That God would give him the words.
Thank you again for your invaluable prayers and God bless!
In Christ,
Esther
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