From Jose:
I’ve not sweat in years the way I sweat yesterday. All began 7 years ago when I gladly accepted
the Lord Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior, when He call me to Himself, when
He call me to serve Him.
I was asked about two years ago if I would consider go
into missionary life in Honduras, my answer to that question was yes only after
wrestling with God about it.
Well; today is the 26 of April and we are living in an
village called Los Naranjos (The Oranges) Honduras. We made it here safely the 22nd of
April thanks to our God, only after a very challenging day with 10 luggage bags
and two children, but the mighty hand of the Lord was and is with us. When we arrived to the Douglas airport in
Charlotte that morning I had in mind to check 5 bags only, but at the moment
when I stood in front of the airline worker that was helping us, I thought
about checking the 6th bag, so I did. We finished there and a lady with a wheel
chair came by to help, even though we did not need a wheel chair she was pushing
one. We started our journey towards the
security point, we made through smoothly, the lady whom name was Angel was
waiting for us already with a cart, she took us down the hall arriving at gate
A10, when we arrived there they were already calling our name, we boarded that
plane and in a matter of minutes we were in the air looked one last at the city
of Charlotte at a near distance and set our minds in things coming ahead for
us. My little Ruth sat beside me, she
was very excited about been in an airplane for first time in her life, she
asked when this airplane is going to go? I said: we are already flying in the
air. It was hard for her to believe, she
looked through the window and said: Papi, I see the snow out there, I said no
dear, what you see is the clouds, so finally she understood that we were in the
air. After a while a dear lady reach
unto Ruth and gave her a pack of cookies, in return Ruth gave her our family
picture, later the lady gave us exactly $40, which is the amount that we paid
for the 6th bag. Our God is
Awesome! We arrive in Houston and
successfully were guided by the hand of the Lord putting the right people in
our path to help us. Just one hour later
we were sitting in the second big bird bound for the Land of the good Coffee. After two hours in the air before our eyes
was the beautiful colorful coast of Honduras.
In a matter of minutes we were walking in Honduras ground marching
towards the immigration window, after few questions our passports were stamped
granting to the three foreigners traveling with me (wife and two children) the
permission to stay in the country for 90 days.
After picking up our luggage we had our very warm welcome by San Pedro
Sula, Honduras weather then met us Brother Tim and his son Josh at the entrance
of the airport. The men from the airport
loaded our bags and we were ready to go.
Inside the car we gave thanks to the Lord, praised His name and claimed
Honduras for His honor and His Glory. We made our way into the city of San
Pedro Sula and after a while we began our two hour drive to Los Naranjos. We made it safely praised be the Lord.
After three full days of been here we are learning our
ways. I make the runs to town in a two
stroke motorcycle, have met and talked to many people and every one of them
have their own stories. I am very
excited of being here as an ambassador from the kingdom of heaven, wherever I
go I encounter people and the majority of them are willing to listen Gods
Word. I am looking forward my future
with great expectations in my God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel. The Lord will do mighty things in this
land.
So, let me finish where I began my letter. Yesterday I sweat like I have not sweat in
many years, the reason being is because we started our own garden with my
family, pulling weeds, cleaning the piece of land with great expectation we
prayed unto God to prosper the work of our hands and to heal the land. If the power of the Lord God can raise
people from the dead, he can also make some seeds grow and produce. For the cause of the Gospel I can plant
gardens, become a farmer and even more, but only for the cause of Christ. It is my desire that in all we do the Name of
the Lord Jesus be exalted.
To every one of you thank you for your
support and prayers, may the Lord be with you.
From Noelia:
Greetings to you in the name above all
names, Jesus. Thank you for all who pray for safe travels, the Lord heard your
prayers. The children did great more than what I could ask for! We are happily
adjusting to the hot, hot weather and mosquitoes, ants and any other bug or
insect the Lord created to live in this part of the world. We enjoy the food
sooooo much!!! And by God’s grace we are all healthy!!!
We have the blessing of having the
Brechbill family as neighbors, but more than that truly friends and willing
servants. Dear Brechbil’s thank you for all you do for us. We have also met the
families from church and they even had a welcoming coffee and bread for us on
Wednesday night. They prayed for us as well and showed so much happiness to
have us with them.
Ruth is loving it here she is making new
friends and new things like helping her father with the garden. She enjoys
rocking in the hammock that is in porch of the house. Our second bundle of joy
Isaac is growing healthy thank you Lord!! Since it is so hot he no longer wears
socks so he has found a carry on toy: his feet.
I am grateful for how the Lord is always
putting people on Jose’s path every day. He comes home and we all sit together
to hear his day. It is our prayers that
we can be useful instruments for His Glory. I am thankful for God’s grace that is abundant
for us all.
