We finally have better internet, email only by day and internet after 5 pm, but it's more consistent. I still can't upload large files (or even medium ones). I was trying to put a video on from the village, but haven't been able to yet. Things are better as we get more adjusted, and actually I like it here quite a lot. Here the purple Jacaranda trees are blooming they are beautiful, it’s getting hotter everyday as we head into full summer. I've been out to some of the villages now a number of times, there are so many needs... and I need prayer to know where to focus my efforts.
I also feel that the spiritual battle here is more obvious. In the US we are sort of lulled to sleep in our comforts, so much so that we don't think we need God. Here there is no question of that. Yesterday I was in a village near the border of Mozambique, and we saw a boy with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis whose disease is so advanced that his many of his joints have become immobilized, His name is Zacharias, and he's 18, but he has not been able to feed himself lately so he's basically starving. His grandmother is elderly and can't lift him to bathe him so 2 other nurses and I bathed him. One of the nurses gave him her lunch and he wanted his picture taken with her. so we took a few, and we’ll bring him some prints when we go back.
It broke my heart, and I don't know what I can do to help him long term.
Anyway, Jerry and I are impatient to start working while I study language... Well God bless you. Thanks for your prayers and support, it means so much.
Love, Elizabeth
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Wow- it's sometimes discouraging to help someone without being able to have the impact in sight. But I admire the faith it takes to do it.
Heb 6:10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Heb 11:13 These all died by way of faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. And they were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
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