Arrival and Update February 2009

Dear Friends and Family,

I must say it is really nice to eat a mango and feel the warm breeze through my window! I spent all day Friday cleaning, killing brown recluse spiders, and organizing my room. As you can imagine, in a house by the road in the desert it is VERY dusty!

Today I was reunited with my brothers and sisters at El Manantial. It was so good to see them! Joana (and myself I might add) is excited about getting back to where we left off in our discipleship. I helped Mrs. Carlton with Sunday School today, and she taught about making the right choices in order to have the right kind of life before the Lord. The lesson was about Sampson. Pastor Jim told me that they may not have me teach right now in the Sunday School class because Joana wants to go to seminary, and she may work in the class to fulfull requirements to enroll. However, opportunities may open up after April to teach in other classes or in Bible clubs. The Lord has perfect timing!

I will go to school tomorrow to begin our planning and preparation for this year. Please pray for us. We have many, many details to iron out and still have a great need for teachers. I found out that I will probably be the homeroom teacher for one of my science classes, which will give me many more opportunities with parents and will take more time. I am very excited to see what the Lord does! I praise the Lord for what He has done financially for me. I have all of my needed support for this year and a little more than 40% of my needed support for 2010. Please pray that the Lord will bring in the remaining 60% in His time. He is so good, always.

Emily