Update from Elizabeth
Howdy Everyone!
I pray that all of you are well! I am greatly looking forward to being back in you (my family's) midst! I have made friendship here that I hope to keep for a lifetime, but still I long to be home. Which, I will be in two short weeks! These past few days have been relatively calm! Surprise, Surprise! Mondays are normally quite, because it is the Acosta family's BIG school day. Believe me, I am NOT missing school! :-) For the past couple weeks I have had this nasty cold/cough sickness. So, Amy said Monday was my day off, because I really didn't feel well. It was very nice! I got to read my Bible, pray, catch up on journaling, and spend quality time with Becky and Gracie doing their read aloud! They are listening to The Master Puppeteer, it is a very good book! Today I woke up to a very chilly morning, which as you know when you aren't feeling well isn't fun. I decided to take a nice hot shower. Well... Lets just say it wasn't even close to hot! The wind had blown out the flame on the hot water heater! I think I have had more cold showers while I have been here than everyone else put together, it must be my job while I am here to be the water tester... Anyway that is besides the point, all of these different factors did not make for a good start of the day. Anyway, I spent sometime this morning with the girls and talking to Kelly (The wife/mother of the mew family.) Then we had lunch. You can by these REALLY good cooked chickens with potatoes and salsa and tortillas for cheaper than you can make the chicken. So, that is what we had for lunch! It was yummy! Then after lunch, my day started its upward rise.... Chuy had been to the little town of Cocula and stopped by the post office. I got a letter from the youth group! It was so nice and I loved the picture! Thank you all so much! I was able to show everyone the picture and the all got to put faces to my friends back home! Now, it is hanging in my room on the mirror! It was so nice, and it totally changed my day for the better! I was literally dancing around the house! And, it made the usually daunting task of watching the kids for Bible study, not seem so daunting! Yoa and Bianca helped me. They are both really sweet in their own unique ways. They both want to go home with me. Bianca seriously wants to go to college. She is seventeen and loves school. Top in her class, but they are very poor. She hopes she can get a scholarship so she can go. Actually, what she really wants is to get a students visa and study in the states. Of all the youth here, she is one of maybe two or three who I think might truly be christians, but she is confused also.
I suppose you are wanting to hear about Laura. I am sorry to say that I don't have much to tell. Her mother makes her lie and say she doesn't want to be here and wants to go home. She has been heard threatening Laura, saying that if she does not tell us this, they will beat her. It makes you ask yourself why she would lie and want to go home to that. Two things: I don't think she wants to go home and she has her mother's love that she so greatly desires! She thinks that if she is good enough and does exactly what her mom say, that she will love her. But, she can't win her mother's love. Every time we see the children, the look like they are in worse condition than the last. Please pray that God would work in those parent's hearts and that he would keep the children safe!
Well, I had better go to sleep. It is late and in the morning I need to finish my lesson for youth group. Please pray that the words I speak would be not my own, and that in my last few weeks I would be a light in my every action for Christ! I look forward to seeing you all soon! And again, everyone who is in youth group form the very sweet letter!
Love,Elizabeth
posted by Psalm 19:13_14 @ 10:16 AM
