GONZALEZ UPDATE

Our happenings, thoughts and other fun stuff

March 19, 2009

Hey someone showed me this and I felt it was worth passing on.
Lets Worship and serve the right Jesus.

March 11, 2009

Ok, here's an update! 3/11/09

The baby's almost here! We are so excited to meet him soon! :)

For now, we have stopped the children's ministry. It was getting to be a lot with how tired I am and with finals for school! We had a fabulous fiesta (party) with a pinata and lots of candy to celebrate the end. We're planning on starting up again in May or so.

Jeremy is working with the guys both out there at the camp and here at the church. He and the pastor are talking about starting a sports ministry with the youth, which is very exciting! They'll probably start after the baby is born.

I have finished with school for this semester, (YAY!) and now I'm just trying to clean house! A lot has been neglected while we were so busy. Lots of fun there.

Well, that's what's going on here! We're praying for more people to partner with us financially. Things are definitely tight. The economy is affecting here, too. The exchange rate is up to 15 something pesos to one dollar, as opposed to the usual 10. Prices are going up like crazy to keep up.

Anyway, hopefully the next time you read this, our family will be a little bigger! :) 9 days until the due date and counting.

The Milk Story...

Ok, so if you've already gotten our prayer letter and come looking for the milk story, sorry it hasn't been posted until now!

So. It was the week of Thanksgiving. Things were tight, but I thought we could make it through the month. My family was coming for Thanksgiving, so we had set aside a little extra in to our food budget. But it was a few days before Thanksgiving, and we had somehow run out of milk. And money. It was one of those weeks where you ask God, "Ok, what now?". All I kept hearing from Him is that lovely verse about the sparrows not wanting for food.

I tried not to worry too much. Later that day, a friend of a friend came in to where we were working and said he was running to Costco, do we need anything? Without thinking I say "MILK!" Five seconds later I'm metally kicking myself, because how it the world are we going to pay him back? Ok, maybe we can scrape together enough change between our American and peso collections.

He comes back a few hours later with two gallons of milk and says "Here you guys go, don't worry about it." I think I almost cried. God always provides for all our needs, even the silly little ones.