Busy, Busy, Busy

Camp Out at Kikoten, signing contract, moving (at all that jazz that goes with it), going to the north to look at the bodega for furniture, finding and buying material to get curtains made, grades are due, etc. These are some crazy, busy days!! God is faithful!

Uncle Mike, Happy Birthday!!!

October 25
Tio Mike, Feliz Cumpleanos!! Te amo mucho! (I love you much!)

So, are you 29 again? I guess that means I'll have caught up with you in about 4 years! :)

Good ole Mr. Chambers...

October 13th.

INDIVIDUAL DISCOURAGEMENT AND PERSONAL ENLARGEMENT
Oswald Chambers

"Moses went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens." Exodus 2:11

Moses saw the oppression of his people and felt certain that he was the one to deliver them, and in the righteous indignation of his own spirit he started to right their wrongs. After the first strike for God and for the right, God allowed Moses to be driven into blank discouragement, He sent him into the desert to feed sheep for forty years. At the end of that time, God appeared and told Moses to go and bring forth His people, and Moses said - "Who am I, that I should go?" In the beginning Moses realized that he was the man to deliver the people, but he had to be trained and disciplined by God first. He was right in the individual aspect, but he was not the man for the work until he had learned communion with God.

We may have the vision of God and a very clear understanding of what God wants, and we start to do the thing, then comes something equivalent to the forty years in the wilderness, as if God had ignored the whole thing, and when we are thoroughly discouraged God comes back and revives the call, and we get the quaver in and say - "Oh, who am I?" We have to learn the first great stride of God - "I AM THAT I AM hath sent thee." We have to learn that our individual effort for God is an impertinence; our individuality is to be rendered incandescent by a personal relationship to God (see Matthew 3:17). We fix on the individual aspect of things; we have the vision - "This is what God wants me to do;" but we have not got into God's stride. If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a big personal enlargement ahead.

"Don't judge a book by it's cover"

or should I say, "Don't judge an apartment by it's building"

God is good! It looks like we may have a new place that we actually like even better! However, the building it's in is soooooooo ugly. It's painted an odd shade of pink and white (fyi- here in Mexico buildings and houses are painted in any and every color). The paint is chipping off and super dirty but the apartment is so nice, the rent is less, it's not as high up, the roof is just about 10 steps away, and the kitchen is a decent size (aka we won't have to pots in the oven! here in Mexico, kitchens tend to be very small, even in large houses)! All we have to do now is go through all the paper work stuff...so, pray that everything comes together. This place really seems to be a blessing. The lady who showed us the apartment was so friendly and she lives a floor or 2 below. Pray that everything comes together!

"Moving on up to the eastside to a deluxe apartment in the sky"

Please pray for my roomate, Kristy, and I as we now have about 3 weeks to find a new apartment. We knew that there was a potential that we would have to move, however, yesterday when we went to pay the rent, the land-lady said that we had until the first week of Novemeber. Of course, they haven't given us an exact answer until yesterday. Please pray that we would find a place with a good location to a main road, with good neighbors, fairly close to the school, and within a short amount of time.

Thanks!