Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Shoebox Gifts Bring Lots of Smiles


Greetings in the glorious name of Jesus Christ!

Saturday started a little earlier than usual for me. I set my alarm for 6:30, and when I got up, I prayed God would have His way and that He would be glorified in all we did that day and every day.

Greg Goza and his wife, Robin from Anson were coming to Mexico with some of our good friends from Aspermont. Matt and Tamera Freeman, Rosie Calamaco and Eva Greer all made the trip down to bring 160 shoebox gifts for the children of Tepeyac.   

We gave out gifts to every man, woman and child who came to meet us in the ejido. It was a sweet time of hugging kids, greeting mothers and grandmothers and bringing love to the families here in our area. We drove to two neighboring pueblos to bring gifts to children we have been working with and families we knew there.

Then we came to our house, and Maria and Socorro made a wonderful meal for us of fried chicken, French fries, fresh pico de gallo salsa, rice and homemade flour tortillas. We ate in the kitchen, and some sat on the van seats that double as sofas in our new house. Everyone had a great time visiting, talking and the kids played and ran around like kids do. Manuel, who is 5, enjoyed pushing a cinderblock around on the hand-truck Greg and Matt used to move my washing machine and washer from the church to the house. They replaced an old outlet on the outside of the trailer and leveled the trailer up for us after setting the washer up for me.

Since we moved to the property in August, I have been washing clothes on a washboard at the neighbor’s house, so it is a wonderful blessing to have a washer again. Our water comes directly from the windmill on the property so when the wind blows, we have water.

What a blessing it was to spend time with these sweet friends.  God blessed us when Swenson Baptist and Aspermont Community Church came together to make this year’s Christmas a special one for the children and their parents. Thank you, Lord, for the love and generosity of Your saints.

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