Bolivia

Posted By Josh on June 1, 2010

Well another week another adventure. I can’t believe that the first trimester is over. We finished up our classes on Thursday and then turned in our grades. And the first trimester is over. On Friday the kids had a break from school and enjoyed themselves by playing games and just plain resting. We also got together in our families, we have special family worships on Sunday and Tuesday nights, and cooked a special meal for Sabbath lunch. Sadly I missed most of the fun time cooking because I was preparing my sermon for preaching that night for the evangelistic meeting.

The meeting went well, there wern’t as many people as we were hoping, but seeds were planted and some more in the small town of Yata. The meetings started on Monday of last week and ended on Friday. The speakers were Keila, Jerry, and me. Keila and Jerry spoke on Monday through Thursday, and I closed the meetings by speaking on the final night.

Friday evening Salim got sick and had a bad fever. When I left for the meetings his fever was at 103*F, When I got back I found out that it rose to 105*F. Our nurse Susie, was doing everything she could to lower his fever and finally succeeded at about 7:30 that night. Over the next day he was battling a fever and horrible stomach pains. By Sabbath night he was dehydrated and very week. We have been having a few cases of malaria going around the school this last week but Praise the Lord, we found out that Salim didn’t have malaria. By Sunday evening he was feeling better and that night he had a semi restful sleep. By Monday, except for being weak, he is almost back to normal.

Mothers day down here in Bolivia was last Thursday the 28th. We held a service on Sunday which was nice for all the students families who could make it. The program went nicely and the students did awesome, you could tell they worked very hard. I wanted to give a quick shout-out to all the mothers out there. Thanks so much for your care for us!! And a special thank you to my Mom for putting up with me 21 years. Happy Bolivian Mothers Day!!!!!

Thanks everyone for your prayers and support, I wish I could say everything goes smoothly here and nothing bad happens but as you have witnessed. People get sick, tired, and accidents happen. But the Lord is good and as He wrote in Romans 8:28, “All things work together for good to them who love God, to the called according to His purpose.” Although there may be rough times, God always prevails.

God bless!!!

Josh

Category: Bolivia, Misson
Tags: Evangelistic Campaign, medical, meeting, Mothers Day, trimester, Update, Yata