Big Week! ... by Heather

Hey everyone!
Sorry the blogging has been so sparse lately. Things have been busy and sickness has prevented as many trips to the internet cabina.

Health updates:
I am feeling much better. Still some occasional ill feelings, but overall much better. Overall the team has been doing much better, with just occasional digestive problems. Last night, however, Emily threw up and then again this morning. So, please pray that Emily gets better and everyone else feels well this week. The youth team comes in tomorrow and we really do not want to get them sick. They are only here for one week and we don´t want their week to be spoiled by sickness.

This Week:
This is a big week for our team. We have a youth team of 5 people from FBS Willow Park coming in tomorrow morning. So you can be praying for them, their names are Jonathan, Dave, Cory, Elizabeth and Molly. Fortunately, Dave is Alison´s dad and Elizabeth is Emily´s sister, so they will both get to see family this week! We are really excited they are coming so we can introduce them to Conima, and so we can be encouraged by their presence and help.

Our plans for the week are to have VBS in the afternoons and community storying at night, along with our normal weekly activities.

We have arranged with one of the schools here for us to do VBS in the school building from 2-4pm Wednesday through Friday. The kids are ages 6-12. Alison and I made four big posters that the team put up in the school to advertise. The director really liked our posters and said we could expect about 6 teachers to help us. So, that will be great. We will be having Bible stories, games, music, crafts and snacks. Please pray that the kids come and that we are able to impact them and show them love.

At night, starting tonight, we are doing community storying. Today we are going around inviting the adults in the town to come each night this week to hear stories. At 7pm each night we will meet in the government building and start going through the stories. Tonight will be the Creation Story. By doing this we will get through 5 of the 8 stories. Please pray people come, are interested in the stories, and that they let it change their lives. If it goes well, we might even continue next week to finish the stories. Alison´s dad has been memorizing one of the stories to share in Spanish. Pray for all of us as we continue to memorize stories so we can be prepared to continue through all the stories.

In addition to these new events, we will continue our English lessons with Armondo (Mon, Wed, Fri) and continue storying with Sophia and her husband (tonight and hopefully again). Tonight we have an English lesson, storying with Sophia, and the beginning of community storying, so please pray for all of those things!

We need to go invite people to our community storying, so I have to go, but I will update you on the past week sometime soon!