God's Blessings

So many things have transpired this week that have shown God's care over us and His blessings to us!

Simple things like trying to buy potatoes at market and they were all $1 per pound. So Chris went around asking all the farmers hoping to find something cheaper. I usually try to get 7-10 pounds of potatoes depending on prices. Some farmers will only sell bulk and you have to buy at least 40 pounds or more.....so I was wondering how to stretch money and still end up with enough produce.

A little, older gentleman approached us and said are you still looking for potatoes? We said yes about 10 pounds. He said follow me and I will sell you 10 pounds for .50 cents a pound. What a blessing to be able to get a good price. They also sold plantains which are always 3 for a $1 but his wife sold me 6 for a $1. Then I left without getting my change which is unlike me. The lady came and found us and gave back my change. Its hard to find honest people here. Come to find out he was a minister out in Benque....don't know which church. He was telling us about some missionaries coming from Tennessee to preache in Benque. I know that this seems so small but to us it was huge and we were able to save quite a bit at market this week and every little bit counts, especially when you don't have much to start with.

We met the missionary group last evening from Pleasant Hill, CA. A group of high school students from the SDA academy there and it just happened that they all are in choir too. So they sang live over the radio and I recorded them while they did it for later play back. They were so excited to be on the radio and once they started singing they forgot about the mission building tour.

Larissa, the leader of the group, she emailed us last week and offered to bring a few things. What a God send! She brought us a few things we asked for in much larger quantities than we expected and also tucked in some goodies for us like cookies, apple fruit leather, & chapstick.

We are so touched by a virtual strangers kindness and generosity! We will keep in touch now, what good, kind people. She told me they wanted to bring more for us but ran out of time and I was so overwhelmed with the stuff they did bring that I told her that she was already over generous with us. She found us some really nice shorts at a used clothing store, they look almost new!!

Praise the Lord for providing our needs in ways that we could not possibly imagine!

Mat finally got his pair of tennis shoes!