Haiti preperations

Now that Jonathan has his passport, we are making defendant plans for his trip into Haiti to do medical work, with either Hope International Missions or God's Missionary Church. Both groups are waiting on details for when their next teams are going in. It take a lot of planning and coordinating to work these things out!
One thing we did last night was start getting some food together! At this link, I printed 2 coupons for $1.00 off Starkist tuna pouches. They are $.92 at Walmart right now...so, that means they are FREE! If you can not help financially with this trip, but still want to do something, here's what you can do! Print these from your computer, and mail them to me at my mailing address on the right. You should be able to print 2 per computer.

Next up - granola bars! I have a coupon that makes these boxes $1.00! There are 8 bars in each box. That makes them about .12 each! Jonathan got a great idea ~ he's going try to take a back pack full of granola bars to give out to young patients! For obvious reasons, he can't take a lot, but we're going to try at least to get about 25 boxes. This will be about 200 bars. If you are interested in helping with this, email me at texmexspringers@aol.com

We are very excited about this opportunity to do a small part in helping people! That's what being a missionary is all about...not our personal gain, but to help someone else in need and share God's love with them!

It's here!

Praising God!

Jonathan's passport is on its way to us! It is supposed to be delivered tomorrow! Finally, after almost 4 months of working to get one. Its almost hard to believe it'll really be here!! He's working on plans to get into Haiti. He's been contacting organizations and will be ready to go when one of them has a team going in. If you are interested in helping us with this trip, please email us at texmexspringers@aol.com.

Trip to Houston, Texas

Last week when Jonathan was talking with someone from the Passport Agency, they told him if he went to the Houston office they would finish processing his passport and he would probably have it within 24 hours. So, Sunday after dinner we left to go up there and spent the night with friends that Jonathan hadn't seen in about 15 years from Mexico! We had a wonderful time with them and felt right at home! Early Monday morning he was at the office, and was told that they could do nothing for him! What a disappointment!! But we enjoyed the rest of the day with our friends! We took a picnic to the park for the kids to play, and then they took us to San Jacinto and the USS Texas battleship. After a great supper Monday evening, we came the 6 1/2 hours home. Tuesday, I got all the information together and took it to Fed-Ex and overnighted it to the Passport Office in New Hampshire. While we don't understand all these delays, God knows all about it and we're learning to depend more on Him and not ourselves!

Our family in front of the USS Texas

Elsa with her two girls! =) They are just a few months apart and both wanted 'grandma's' attention! =) Neither would get down, not even to go to their moms!

Pilgrimage in Mexcio

When Jonathan was in Mexico in December he got to witness this scene. These people are on a pilgrimage for the Virgin Guadalupe. They feel they are honoring her when they do this and it will help them get to Heaven! What an awesome responsibility we have (also a great joy!) to share with them that there IS a better way to get to Heaven, though Jesus Christ!

Our Eat from the Pantry Menu

Just so you don't think we'll be starving the next two weeks while we 'eat from our pantry'...here's our menu:

We have tons of cereal stocked up - so that is breakfast every day!

Weds Jan 20 ~ Lunch: PB&J sandwiches
Supper: chicken noodle soup & wheat dinner rolls
Thurs Jan 21 ~ Lunch: homemade pizza
Supper: Beans, Mexican Rice topped with cheese and sour cream
Fri Jan 22 ~ Lunch: leftovers
Supper: Egg & potato tacos with cheese
Sat Jan 23 ~ Lunch: pancakes
Supper: hot dogs/hamburgers
Sun Jan 24 ~ Lunch: meatballs, rice, veggies & dinner rolls
Supper: egg salad sandwiches
Mon Jan 25 ~ Lunch: grilled cheese sandwiches
Supper: chicken fajitas, homemade corn tortillas, Mexican rice
Tues Jan 26 ~ Lunch: PB&J sandwiches
Supper: chicken, mashed potatoes, veggies, & cheesy biscuits
Weds Jan 27 ~ Lunch: homemade soft pretzels
Supper: Homemade Macaroni & Cheese, tomato slices
Thurs Jan 28 ~ Lunch: egg salad sandwiches
Supper: bean & rice tacos
Fri Jan 29 ~ Lunch: pancakes
Supper: pizza
Sat Jan 30 ~ Lunch: grilled cheese sandwiches
Supper: Jonathan's birthday ~ we'll probably go out
Sun Jan 31 ~ Lunch: Chicken Fajitas, rice, beans, corn tortillas
Supper: leftovers

While this might seem kind of boring, we are enjoying doing our part as a family to help us save some money to help Jonathan go to Haiti! We are so rich compared to those people there.

Helping Haiti

Crystal over at Money Saving Mom had a feature a few days ago about what her family is doing to help the dear people in Haiti.



This is what our family is doing:



1.We'll be sharing our husband and daddy! Jonathan is in the process of raising money and getting ready to go over to help with the Medical needs. We don't know the exact dates yet. I'll keep the blog updated on this project. God is putting the pieces together for him to get his passport soon, maybe as early as this week! He is working with Hope International Mission who is working with Heart to Heart International on sending medical teams in the future.

2.We are going to be selling some things on ebay.

3. Eat from the Pantry challenge the rest of January.

4. Have a yard sale.

5. Use the rewards we get from mypoints and swagbucks to buy things we need, like diapers! Thanks to stocking up last year that's about the only thing we buy anymore.

6. Most of all - pray that God gives comfort to those hurting people and gives strength to the workers that are working so hard. And that though this terrible situation, people can come to Jesus and be saved!

Jonathan's trip to Mexico

In December Jonathan was able to go with Michael Mason to Tapachula, Chiapas to help him move some of their belongings and to help him find a house. God worked some miracles with paper work so that he could go! We were very amazed at God's goodness! He still didn't (and doesn't) have a passport and to get there and back without it was God's goodness! Mexico is now requiring that you have a passport book to get a visa! He walked out with a 6 month VISA and the truck permit in his name!!! And was able to get back into the United States without any major problems.

I'll post some pictures in a few days but for now if you want to see some, visit the Mason's blog. Crystal just did a real good post of pictures and also some details about the trip!

We also just found out from the Congressman's office that they were unsuccessful in their atemps to work with the passport agency. So, we are gathering up what information that we have to send to them, hopefully in a few weeks this trial will be behind us! We are looking forward to spending some time in Mexico soon as God works out the details!