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!