Hi Ya'll!

Wow! This year is going fast! November brings Thanksgiving time, and we certainly have much to be thankful for! God is so very good, even though we do not deserve His goodness.

Early October was the school anniversary, with many activities. We had the Thanksgiving service and it was glorifying to the Lord. My fifth grade sang "He´s got the whole world in His hands" with props and some dramatizing and it was good. Then with the choir we sang "Majesty" in English and Spanish. Bob had a good message for parents and teachers.

Also in October we had another wedding of some of our youth, also glorifying to the Lord we think. We are thankful for believers marrying believers, and we do pray for these young families. We had some baptisms too, one of the girls in my 7th grade class, who is also the daughter of dear believers here. So God is blessing here.

Bob has had some good trips, to the valley and to some of the mountain areas. He is going to the valley this week. Please help us pray for the new little group in Aplao. Sometimes the believers there are too "busy" to take time for meetings, and it can be a bit discouraging. The ex ambulance still serves Bob well, though we hope to sell it before going on our U.S. trip. Thanks for praying for this and that all would work out for this next Jan. - Feb. when we hope to see many of you up there in cold U.S.A.! Speaking of trips, I had another surprise trip, with not a nice "fall" - a couple weeks ago. Used to be I could fall and get up and be fine, but now with old age, seems like each "fall" breaks or cracks something. This time it is a rib, which still is sore and wrapped up. Old bones - some day gonna rise again! Oh well.

One thing we ask for prayer for is the leadership here in our main church. Bob has been preparing some of the men and is coming up with at least one - perhaps only one as yet, whom he would like to recognize as an elder in the assembly here before we go to the U.S. in January. This dear believer is Fortunato Morales. He and his wife Sandra have two precious little gals in our school, kindergarten and 3rd grade. Really good girls and parents are doing a good service here in the church in Arequipa, with the youth and all really. They have a hardware business. So please pray for this family and for God's leading in our leadership. Thanks so much!

Hi friends!

Wow! This month is going fast already!! We are really busy here with church, trips, visiting, school, etc. Some new believers were baptized, and now this month some of our youth will follow the Lord in this step. Some are children of believers, which is a real blessing. Some are in the Christian school too, in my classes. God is working in their lives, and we are very thankful to see them follow Christ this way. Please pray for them, and for us as we work them and others. Bob has continued to travel to the Majes project and valley towns with weekly Bible studies, plus preparing studies for the church here and the radios they are broadcast on. Thanks for praying for this ministry too.

Forgot to tell you our little cocker spaniel had 5 pretty little puppies again on Aug. 4. They are now 2 mos. old and most of them are sold. They are cute and fun but do eat!! Oh well.

School has really been busy these last weeks. We had bimester exams, which means over 140 exams for me to give, grade, and register. Also, we are celebrating the school's anniversary this week, with the Thanksgiving service this Friday evening. Bob will be speaking to the parents and teachers, and I have several numbers with the students. We pray it will really all be for the Lord's glory. Please help us pray the school will always be a light and a good testimony, with many truly coming to know the Lord. Discipline is difficult in the large classes of especially the teens this year. We see the results of broken homes and absent parents in so many cases. Youth today are searching, yet really lack Godly guidance. Thanks for helping us pray for our part in this. We are truly thankful for the opportunity to be able to reach into so many homes with God's Word.

Thanks for praying for my health too. I had a recent nasty case of laryngitis, not being able to make a sound above a whisper. This was treated with antibiotics and cortisone, but now it is in my tonsils, eyes, sinuses (with heavy nosebleeds), so I think it may not be getting over soon. No time for more doctors, but hopefully soon to recover. God has given us good health really, but these things come our way sometimes. Thanks for praying!

Though I have had 0 time to really help with the children's home we are concerned for, I still pray for the needs there, especially for some who really need good Christian homes. God's best for them.

Earlier this week we were able to purchase our airline tickets to come visit you all in Jan., D.V. We leave Perú Jan. 10, and will spend the rest of Jan. on the eastern side of the U.S. and hope to get all the way out to the west coast in Feb. Please pray for the right vehicle for us to use there in the U.S. Bob's sister and brother in law are helping in this and we trust the best solution will be found. Well, we are looking forward to seeing some of you anyway! We have an incredibly short time to visit most of you, even our children! This time it has to be whirlwind! School starts again the second week of March, so we plan to be back here then.

Dear friends,

Finally it is getting warmer here, September brings our spring. But it also brings dust storms and winds to our desert. Arequipa here is sure full of cars and smog, like never before. With growth comes many problems! God is so good to us and we thank Him for life, health, and the opportunity to spread His Word.

In August, we participated in a couple more weddings of children of believers in our different churches here. Also we were blessed with more baptisms. Some of our youth are winning their friends to the Lord and some of the believers' children are following the Lord this way. God is giving us growth. Please help us pray for Spiritual growth in these new believers' lives. Thanks!

A dear missionary couple from Bolivia came over to give a seminar in Quechua for leaders from several of our mountain churches. We pray for lasting results in the lives of the ones who attended and received the very helpful materials they brought. These help to really understand and study God's Word, to be able to share Him with others. Bob has had some other fruitful trips in the ex ambulance. He also travels by bus when he is only going for a short time a few hours away. The van is necessary to take Bibles and other materials, but bus travel is more economic as the price of our fuel here is very high. Also, the U.S. dollar has really dropped - lower than ever before. Guess the depression in the U.S. will last for a while, but it does affect us here too, as well as in other countries, I am sure. We do thank the Lord for His provision in spite of all this.

The school year is going fast! We thank the Lord for the opportunity to teach God's Word and pray this really will bear fruit in lives. Truly the school has helped us with the children of several of the believers here, and some of them are following the Lord. We thank Him for families! So many families are falling apart these days. We have several students from broken homes. They really need the Lord, so do their parents. Please help us pray for salvation here, and godly values in their lives. The father of two of our high school girls just died a couple weeks ago. This is sad as we don't think he was a believer, though his widow is, and the girls at least are hearing God's Word. We do pray for them and their situation, difficult now.

Please help us pray for the radio ministry, in Chuquibamba especially. There probably will have to be some changes there, and we pray God's provision and wisdom for the right decisions and management there. We do thank the Lord for the opportunity to broadcast His Word to many listeners this way. Thank you for praying.

Truly, thank you so much for praying with us and sharing with us for the Lord's work here. We want to glorify Him with all He gives us. We trust, God willing, to be able to visit many of you this coming Jan. and Feb. 2012, in our short trip to the U.S. Thanks for helping us pray about this too.

Hi dear friends!

July sure went fast! Now, August is here and we are thankful for every full day of work and blessing! We are very thankful to you who pray for us and share with us! Thanks so very much! Wish we could write each one of you individually but the time just flies and it doesn't get done. We do pray for you and thank the Lord for you.

Bob has traveled more this past month, to Espinar, the ranching communities in Puno, and to the Majes Valley, and even down into the valley town of Chichas, where the best avocados in the world grow. The brothers there generously share these avocados with us, especially when Bob goes in person. There are problems in some of these towns, but God is still working in lives and Bob's trips have been fruitful. I went with him over our Peruvian Independence day holidays to the plains town of Pedregal and to Aplao in the Majes Valley. We dealt with some problems, but also had good meetings with most of the believers present.

Over Father's Day in June we went to a wedding in the Colca canyon, a typical colorful ceremony. The town band accompanies the couple from the house to the municipal office where the mayor performs the official wedding, then the band accompanies the whole procession back to the house where the all day celebration and meal take place. Bob preached and we sang, etc., and it was a good testimony to family members and others.

At this wedding a believer who attended but lives near Pedregal said he listened to Bob's Bible study programs from the radio in Chuquibamba which gets down into the farms near Pedregal. There have been some problems with the radio but we are encouraged that it is still going and Christian programs are still being broadcasted. We are very encouraged that one of our youth here has found openings in another Christian radio for Bob's programs here in Arequipa. We have heard from some who listen and are blessed and challenged. Please pray for the radio ministry, for Bob as he continues to prepare programs, and for our dear Pepe who does the editing of Bob's messages for radio.

On all these trips the van (ex ambulance) has worked wonderfully well. Bob can take passengers from one community to another in the mountains, just not on the highways. So he is planning on keeping the ambulance till December when we hope to be able to sell it before we go to the U.S., D.V. in early January. We will trust the Lord to provide a good vehicle for Bob when we return in late February or early March, D.V. Thanks for praying with us for that!

God has blessed the main church here in Arequipa with a dear sister who really has the gift of evangelism. She was an alcoholic, but the Lord truly saved her and she is a very bold and faithful witness to her family and neighbors. She had one son out of wedlock and now has a good husband (who is not a believer yet) and two sweet little boys by him. Her name is Gladys. She has won at least 5 of her neighbors to the Lord (these 5 have been baptized here) and she's working on others! Please pray for Gladys and the new believers around her. They live in a poor area kind of far from the center of town and we are praying about starting a meeting in their neighborhood.

Hi again dear ones!

July is here and today it is sure cold! Our sun decided to go on strike. We have heavy clouds since yesterday aft. This a.m. the mountains around us came out with snow real far down, but then they went back under all those clouds. I imagine it is snowing again up there. When it is cloudy, temperatures don't go down as far at nights, but the sun, which warms us and the water up in the day is absent, so it is cold all the way around! Oh well, we are thankful for it all!

Elections were last month, and the nationalist guy won. He is saying he will be moderate, so please help us pray - and for the continued freedom to spread God's precious Word. We are real thankful for this privilege, and want to take advantage of it all we can!

Finally I can say that the adoption we were helping in is complete! The family, with their 13 year old daughter, should be back home now in No.Va. It sure was a long haul for them, and not real easy, but this precious soul and life are worth it. Please help us pray for adjustments and language learning, and most of all that this dear young teen gal will truly come to know our Saviour. A challenge, but thankfully God is on their side!

Mentioning children and their needs, there are two more precious children, a sister and brother, 12 and 9 years old, in a good Christian children's home, who really do need adopting. We all thought a Christian family from California was going to adopt them and now it appears they are not going to and the children were also thinking they would finally get a real mom and dad (they are orphans), so we are praying for a real Christian family for them, here or abroad. These are really precious children, orphans, but do have a good spirit and want to follow the Lord. Thanks for praying with us! This home has needs, but is really doing a wonderful job with these needy children.

The ex ambulance did not sell. Bob is using it and wondering if he should just keep it till the end of the year. We trust we will be able to take a trip to the U.S. early Jan. and we know God can and will supply the right vehicle for us when we get back, so please help us pray about all that too. Thanks!

About trips, I did have one on June 11. Like, I had a big trip, will see you next fall. (Ha.) I took a nose dive, literally. Managed to break my poor old nose, and deviated the septum more than it already was deviated. So for a good 3 weeks I looked like I had come out of a combat zone, or as I told my 7th graders, was training to beat Kina. (Perú has the women's international boxing champ.) Well, I never would beat her, nor do I intend to try. The nose is getting slowly better. Decided not to have the op. the dr. offered, as he even said if the deviated septum is also from earlier falls, it wouldn't be easy at all to straighten it. He might be able to reduce the fracture some, but it is expensive and difficult. So it is slowly healing, the bruised cheeks, knee and arm are also slowly healing. I do have more nose bleeds and stuffiness nights, so please help me pray for grace to look like Rudolf the red nosed reindeer for the rest of my life. Thanks!

School is going well, but busy. Thanks for helping us pray for the lives we touch each day, that the students, teachers and parents will come to know the Lord. This is difficult in these days of so much world, all around us, and penetrating in the church too. A real privilege and challenge to be teaching so many in the ways of the Lord.

Our own precious children, now in their 40's, except Joe, who is 28, are doing well, and serving the Lord. How I long to be able to see our 9 precious grandchildren! Hope it really does work for early next year. Thanks for helping us pray!

Please also help us pray for our national workers too. Some of them have problems, family, ethical, and problems in the work. Thanks for praying!

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