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August 12, 2009 Hope you are all well, we are doing good. Anna's hand is 100% better! We have received word that our VISA is approved! Now we can file the paperwork to have our crate delivered! The girls will be so excited to see their things again. In January, we boxed everything up. They keep asking if their Barbies are in the crate, if their beads are in the crate, and it will be a huge party when they see all of their things again. If you have been keeping up with our blog/website you know that we have made our first trip to "our" mountains in the Mokhotlong region. God has answered our prayers and shown us clearly where we should live and begin our ministry. When visiting the village we asked about already established churches in the area. The people told us there was one church in the village. Two of the first three ladies that we met did not attend. We asked for the name of the church and did not recognize it. We have asked several people and they too had no idea what this church was all about. Today we received an email from a missionary that we met in JoBurg. He is not an IMB missionary, but was staying in the Baptist Mission Housing in JoBurg when we were there. He told us in his note today that he was able to find out that the church in our village is a Zionist church. The Zionist church in Africa is a mixture of the Catholic church syncronized with African Traditional Religion (worship of ancestors). There is NO evangelical presence anywhere near our village. We had asked God to send us to a place where He has not been named. He again has answered our prayers. Please begin to pray now that God will open the eyes of our people to the truth of Christ. Language lessons are
going well...some days better than others...You keep praying and we'll
keep walking....together...Teresa and Jim
Hi to everyone, August 6, 2009 Just a quick note to give an update on Anna and the continued saga of her hand. NO CHANGE. She has now had 6 doses of her antibiotic. If there is no change by Friday we will call the medical dept at the IMB and probably have to head to JoBurg. She really doesn't feel bad, just has some discomfort in her hand anytime she moves it.
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were able to get down the mountain today and were able to keep our plans
to visit Mokhotlong for the first time. Our languge tutor had to
be off this week, so this was the best time for us to make our first
survey trip. It is all that we imagined and more. The actual town of
Mokhotlong is a booming place. There are at least 2 China grocery
stores, hardware stores, a chemist, and tons of small shops. There is a
"clinic" that I will NEVER take anyone that I love to. It was good to
know that there were some resources there. We will be able to get some
groceries, fuel, horse feed, and hardware without having to go into S.
Africa. Tomorrow we are going to meet a chief in a village about 2 hours
from here. He is the one that has promised us land if we would move
there and being our ministry with his people in his village. Please pray
that God gives us insight into exactly where we should plant our
family. Well, gotta go take a bath with absolutely NO hot water in this
"hotel". We have one very small heater and right now my nose is
freezing. I have attached a couple of pictures or our new home..Love
you all, Teresa