Thursday

Hello everyone...

It is Thursday morning and to be honest, I am not sure what the date is. We have had two long and busy days. We traveled both days to smaller towns, less fortunate but had a great time. We have not been getting back to our dorms until around 10 pm. We all usually hurry and take a shower and then it is our group devotion time. In our dorms, there is supposed to be silence after 11 pm. There is a conference room on the bottom floor near the kitchen that we use for our devotions.

Tuesday night I did devotion. I really felt the Lord was leading me to talk about "authentic men", which will lead to "authentic husbands" which will lead to "authentic dads" which will lead to a better community. I also spoke on "Love" as it is defined in 1 Corinthians. I am not sure why the Lord placed this message on my heart, because I fail at these subjects almost daily. The devotion went great and once again, not many dry eyes. I hope we as men can make a difference.

Last night, Mike and Scott combined to do devotion. Mike talked about tithing and about faith. Mike brought up that in the book of Malachi that the Lord tells you to trust in Him and tithe with a cheerful heart and He will bless you. The Lord goes on to test him on this. This is the only place in the Bible where the Lord tells you to test Him. Scott followed up on compromise and how easy it is to compromise when things aren't going our way. In the Bible there are stories in 1 Kings 21 where it talks about the Temple being destroyed. Our bodies and minds are like a temple. Then the story goes on to tell about the need to rebuild the temple. Scott told of his personal struggles and how he was trying to rebuild himself. Scott made mention of the love and support of his wife and kids. Robbie spoke up and stated he was glad he was on this trip and he needed good men to help him as well.

The devotions are just what we need. They are real and powerful. God is moving in this group.

I am sorry about not being able to add any pictures but they are coming. There has been no time during the last two days. Today we have the day off until this evening. We are getting ready to go to a flee market type place to shop and sight see. I will hopefully be able to add many pictures this evening.

We love and miss you guys a lot. Please continue to pray for each of us and the Chilean people. We have been accepted with smiles each place we have gone thus far. Each one of us has stated we really miss our families. We prayed that the Lord would give us the strength to continue this mission and to remain focused.

We love you and we pray the Lord is protecting and taking care of each of you in our absence.

Andrew

PS....Please forgive me if there are any spelling errors.