5 saved on Sat­ur­day evan­ge­lism. Luis Enrique’s birth­day party. María Luisa’s mother is open.

We praise God that our small church con­tin­ues to grow. Sat­ur­day the women had the women’s prayer break­fast with about 20 women present, and the men went out wit­ness­ing. We had 5 peo­ple saved Sat­ur­day. I myself led a teenager to the Lord. We con­tinue to get deci­sions in our sweep of dif­fer­ent neigh­bor­hoods around the church, but most of these peo­ple are very dif­fi­cult to get into the church. What they do on the street is one thing, but actu­ally get­ting them into a ser­vice is another.

Please pray for Maria Luisa. She is again hav­ing prob­lems with her hus­band, and she has requested prayer for their mar­riage. One of her chil­dren, Luis Enrique (from a pre­vi­ous mar­riage), turned 20 this past week, so she invited us for the “party”. She asked him to leave sev­eral years back because he has turned rebel­lious towards her, and now drinks and smokes. He lives with his grand­par­ents. We went because María Luisa invited us. I have talked with Luis Enrique about his soul, and at one point he said he accepted the Lord, but I wasn’t too con­vinced about his deci­sion. After a while of drift­ing away from God, now he claims he is Catholic, but he doesn’t even under­stand Catholic doc­trine nor does he fol­low that. He lis­tens to Heavy Metal music and runs with bad friends, so he con­tin­ues the down­hill spirul.

They gave us seafood Ceviche, a kind of seafood mix with cat­sup, lime juice, tomato, and seafood (squid, octo­pus, shrimp, etc). It was kind of good, but has a lot of coles­terol because of the seafood. While there I met for the first time Maria Luis’ mother. Her father comes some­times to the church. He is usu­ally very atten­tive in the ser­vices lis­ten­ing to the ser­mon. But her mother is a Jehova’s Wit­ness, and won’t talk to Maria Luisa and oth­ers about it. We started talk­ing about dia­betes, and from there I started telling her about the things we don’t accept from the JWs. She was very eager to lis­ten it seems. She wasn’t closed or worse, argu­men­ta­tive like most JWs we talk with. We had to leave for the evening ser­vice, so I had to cut it off, but in the she was open. We will try to pass by her house and visit with her this week.

Please pray for our church. I gave our men their assign­ments for preach­ing from August through Novem­ber, so we will see how they do. I decided that we as a church should study through the Gospel of John, and so I des­ig­nated each ser­vice (Sun­day School, and evening ser­vices) with a pas­sage from John. The men seemed to like this a lot. Each one basi­cally will preach about 4 — 5 times. I will have to help a few with their ser­mons because they are very new at this, butin gen­eral, it seemed like all liked it. I will try to record with the video cam­era ser­mons for the 15 main Sun­day AM wor­ship ser­vices that I will miss, the Lord will­ing. Sup­pos­edly I was going to record one or two of those ser­vices yes­ter­day between the AM and PM ser­vices, but as such, we got invited to eat, and I didn’t get any of that done. But that is okay, we were able to see an open door to this lady’s heart, which we want to fol­low up.