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After 2 months of paperwork and documents, my husband finally received his Peru identification. We are indeed very happy for that. Tim said that everything that we had to do and the different things that we had to make was a test of our patience, and it really bettered our patience and trust in God.

Good, I wish to share with you a song called ¨Hosanna in the Highest¨ by Hillsong. I am posting both the video and lyrics.

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I see the king of glory
Coming on the clouds with fire
The whole earth shakes
The whole earth shakes

Yeeeah

I see his love and mercy
Washing over all our sin
The people sing
The people sing

[Chorus]
Hosanna
Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest x2

I see a generation
Rising up to take their place
With selfless faith
With selfless faith

I see a near revival
Stirring as we pray and seek
We're on our knees
We're on our knees

[Chorus]

Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like you have loved me

Break my heart from what breaks yours
Everything I am for your kingdoms cause
As I walk from nothing to Eternity

[Chorus] x2

Hosanna in the highest

A testimony from Paul Washer

I was wanting to listen to a sermon on youtube.com so I wrote the word ¨sermon¨ and did a search and the first one that came up was one from Paul Washer. I sounds like a lot of poeple don´t like his sermons, and I think one message in particular upset a lot of people. But I listened to a few of his sermons, and I really liked them. I think he is a man that knows God, and will speak Gods word, even if it costs him everything. Here is a testimony from him, and he is speaking about his own life. He is very thankful for what Jesus did for him.

A fun day

Today we and a bunch of the younger people in the family went to a recreation place. It was nice to get away, because I miss the open country that I am used to in the United States. Here in Lima about everything is concrete, and that is all I see. But this recreation place had lots of grass, and open space, and it was really nice. First thing we did was go swimming. I should have put sunscreen on before I did that, because I got burned. After that we all found a shaded spot in the grass, and had a picnic (we had brought food). After that a lot of us split up, and Eliana and I went with David (he was the youngest). Before long we came across a dirt track, and there was small ATV´s for kids. So I was glad to see that, and I wanted David to get on one, and he was very happy to do it. And that is what is in the photo, David on his ATV. A lot of people went slow, but he went fast. I saw him going pretty fast, and he took one of his hands off the handlebars, and was reaching for something in his pocket or something, and he swerved, and about hit the fence. And then when his ride was over, he came in a little fast, and almost went head on into the fence, but luckily someone was there to get him stopped in time. And I think it was just a little wood fence without any tires in that spot, so it wouldn´t take much to go through it. After that, we went to see some animals, because they had a small zoo. Then we went to a playground for a little bit, and then played some volleyball. And then we were ready to leave, because we were all hot. But it was a good day, and I think Eliana and I will be resting for the rest of the day.

An anniversary celebration in the church

In a past post, Eliana wrote that they were practicing a song for the celebration tonight at the church, and here is the video of them singing. Eliana is about in the middle, and behind everyone.

P.S., the photo above is of them after the lights were turned off, and they were blowing out the candles on the cake.

Un Día

Today was a difficult day. In the morning, my husband and I went to see about some documents that are getting approved in Peru. Tim has his resident visa, but now we are going through the process of getting him his Peru identification. We have not completed everything, and I do not know when it will end. In the morning, we were in that place and a person in charge told me we had to make another payment and then complete other documents for the file, and after that we had to wait a few days and then we needed to return to that place.

After being in that place, I felt annoyed and disappointed, but my husband told me that all this was a test of patience and I think it was and I know I did not score well on the test. But I know that through that I will learn to be more patient with those people, but I need a lot of help from God to have a good experience there, and not to leave disappointed every time I am there.

After we were there, we went to a place to have lunch and it was good to be away from that place, and in a restaurant, although the food was not very good, but we managed to rest a little and then we were ready to move forward on the things we had to do. We then went to a place to buy some pens that some people in the church were wanting for the anniversary of the department of youth and adolescents in the church. The church sent us with some money to buy the pens, and then to have some words printed onto the pens. We bought 100 pens and they will have written IEPP – Valle Alto – EE.CC. These are abbreviations for the name of the church and the department of youth and adolescents. Thank God our time there was calm.

Then we returned home and rested a little. Then my husband went to teach an english class in the church. He and Virginia are teachers. And while my husband is in the english class, I am going to cook dinner... spaghetti with red sauce.

Today

Hello, I hope that your day was good and calm.
Today, thank God, my husband and I had a good day, but during the morning it was difficult when I was thinking about all the things I needed to do. That made my mood begin to change because I thought my day would be difficult. But then something happened and that was in response to the help that I asked of God. I knew that the only thing I could do is to pray to God and ask for help for a few minutes. Then everything started to change. My husband was having difficulty with his back this morning, but then he started to feel better. I had joy to cook a meal called "LOMO SALTADO" I did not think that it would be very good, but my husband told me that it was very delicious:). We then went to clean the church and that is a big job, but thank God our time there was good and we finished cleaning the church and then returned home to get ready to return to the church again, because there was a youth meeting.

My father spoke in the church and preached about what God did for us, and that He freed us from our sins with the precious blood of Christ and that made us kings and priests to serve God the Father, and that is in 1 Peter 1:18-19 and Revelation 1:6

Good, after the youth meeting we stayed for more than 1 hour to rehearse a song for the day Saturday, February 16, because that´s the anniversary of the youth department in the church and we were rehearsing a song called "Open Your Eyes and Look, the Harvest is Ready."

That song is very beautiful and the lyrics have a special meaning. My husband learned some of the words and was singing a bit with the youth. That was only the first rehearsal of the song and everything went very beautifully and tomorrow night after the service, we will do a second rehearsal of the song and then everything will be ready for Saturday. I asked my husband if he would be able to take some pictures and record a video of them singing the song, because I want to put it on our blog.

A photo of us at the border of Chile.

Hello, My husband and I wanted to post a photo of us. I hope that you like it. It was taken between Tacna, Peru, and Arica, Chile.

Our trip to Chile

My husband and I left Lima on Monday, January 28 at 2:00 p.m., and we knew that the bus ride to Tacna, Peru would last 18 hours, and we would arrive on the 29th at 9:00 p.m., but I did not imagine that the trip would be so hard and tiring. But when we were on the bus, we played a bingo game. The winner of the game got a prize or a free ticket to return to Lima. A woman who works on the bus gave us all bingo cards, and we started to play the game, and really I did not know how to play the game because I had never played it before, but I quickly caught on. During the game, Tims card was soon missing only a few numbers, and then his card had all the numbers, and that was a great surprise, because Tims card was the winner, and we got a prize.... a free return ticket to Lima. It was very surprising and we were both very happy about what happened.

Well, I was nervous arriving at Tacna because I had never been there, and we had no idea what would happen when we got off the bus. When we got off the bus, I heard a man saying ¨Arica, Chile¨, and so I asked him if he was going there, and he said yes, and helped us to get our luggage. He was a taxi driver. When we arrived at the border between Peru and Chile, we did not have any problems, and were able to enter Chile.
Arica is a very quiet and beautiful city. The ocean is near, and so we wanted to go to the beach for a little bit, but we did not have time after going through the procedures to collect Tims resident visa. When we finished, we had to go back to a place in Arica to get a taxi to take us to Tacna. And then we saw the same man that helped us earlier that day, and so he took us back to Tacna. We were glad to have everything done, and be ready to return to Lima, and so we went and had to buy just one ticket to return to Lima.

Although the return trip was much more exhausting, thanks to God that we were able to return to Lima well, and also thank you for your prayers.