Life...

Let’s see now... Crash down the side of a mountain in my truck? Check. Lose my new laptop? Check. Have the house come under some crazy spiritual attack? Check. Lose my wallet with all my Bolivian and Canadian ID, the money for the house for the next week and a half and my bank card? Check. Alrighty then...seems like we’re good to go. Yes...that’s right. On top of everything else, I managed to lose my wallet the other morning. I blame Roberto. He and I were wrestling the other day (the guys need to know who’s boss here) and he managed...

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A glimmer of hope?

The young guy who's been struggling was packing his clothes up today to leave tomorrow.  I was pretty sure that was it.  It was a sad day for sure.  I explained to a couple of guys what was happening and they took it hard too.  We're really become a family here in the past year or so, and it's tough to see one of our own leave when it's obviously not time yet. I called Maribel in the afternoon to let her know what was happening (she's on vacation this week).  She had planned to come over tomorrow to see him, but then...

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Please continue to pray...

So I know I'm good at the asking for prayer and not always as good at the what happened afterwards part. =) The skinny is, we've got a young guy here who's been struggling in his faith. It's been going on for awhile now. He's not totally sure if he's ever believed in God or not. Recently however, he's been very close to making a decision. He's been doing really good over the past month or so. It's been great. He's one of the nicest guys here and a huge help to us. Then all of a sudden he took a major stumble this week (Saturday night). I'm not...

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