We are having a BOY!!!

To all those who don’t know yet, we are having a boy. Abner Daniel Arevalo is expected to arrive some time around December 7th or the 9th, depending what doctor you ask. J We are getting excited to hold this little guy. Praise the Lord the pregnancy has been yet another blessed pregnancy. Susana gives lots of kisses to her baby brother Abner, we are praying that she will be just as loving once he’s out of the womb.

Susana Elizabeth…15 ½ months.

What a joy this little girl is! We are having so much watching Susana’s personality blossom. She is quite the silly little girl. At this stage some of her favorite things are her baby, playing in the water, which she says “agua”, watching her Praise Baby videos and Baby Signing time, and she loves watching daddy and mommy “getting the mosquitoes.” She is really doing well with the baby signs, she can sign milk, baby, doggy, eat, juice, mommy, banana, more, cracker, etc. She still loves us reading to her as well, but she has actually started now reading to us. She can jabber pretty well. Her favorite word to say are daddy, doggy, agua, ball, baby, mama, amen, and tries to repeat just about whatever you ask her too. She’s a blessing

TRUSTING MY HUSBAND.

Sometimes as a woman, the Lord calls us to trust our husband’s even when we don’t feel like it’s the right thing, and when we do, we glorify Him.

Without having the internet or the television, we had no idea that there was a hurricane predicted to be hit Honduras and was supposedly heading straight towards us. My mom was the first to call to notify us, then Abner’s brother, then my mom again. Their advice was to go further inland, but after hearing their advice, Abner sought the Lord and he felt that the Lord wanted us to stay in our house. Psalms16 became a confirmation for Abner that the Lord would keep us safe. As Abner was in prayer seeking the Lord about all of this, I had my mind set that we would go back to the old house, which we are still renting for the use of the church, and wait for the hurricane to pass. As we all came together for breakfast that morning, Abner told me that He felt we were to stay. My heart immediately lost it’s peace. I have never wrestled with trusting the Lord through Abner’s decisions before, but this time was hard. As I was questioning Abner about how he felt that the Lord had led him to his decision, the Lord brought to mind the example of Lot’s wife as they were leaving Sodom and Gomorrah. Instead of keeping her eyes forward, “to follow her husband” she looked back and turned into a pillar of salt. I knew at that moment that I needed to trust my husband. All day the enemy kept trying to steal my peace about staying, but returning to Psalm 16, the Lord would bring peace. The night that the hurricane was supposed to hit, Abner, Susana, and I all rested sooo peacefully. I didn’t wake up once. The next morning the hurricane hovered over Nicaragua and never entered Honduras as a hurricane. We praise the Lord for His protection, and I praise the Lord for a husband who seeks the Lord’s face and is willing to stay put when the Lord asks him too. Thanks to all who were praying for us during that time.

*May I continue to trust my husband, as our daughter does, as he leads our family according to the Lord´s will.

A TIME OF TRANSITION.

Well, it feels like it’s been a VERY long time since we have been in contact with people outside Honduras. We moved into our new house on

August 24th and haven’t had internet, nor cable, nor the house phone since. The Lord knows that being with internet is a test for me, but praise the Lord He has kept my attitude right before Him during this time. Our move went smoothly, we only lost mirror in the process. We have pretty much unpacked all that we can at this point, and Abner has become quite the handy-man around the house. He’s been drilling to hang the curtains up, the closet, and getting pictures on the wall. He was even outside with a machete cutting the little grass that we have. I love my husband! It’s a great joy living this life’s adventure with him.

Susana has done great with the move as well. When we were taking all the things out of the house, her and I had to go to the neighbors, because she became very anxious and clingy, but once she saw all her things coming off the truck again, she was happy. I think that she misses the dogs next door that we had at the old house, but they have been replaced by the “silly cows” that come and visit almost daily. These cows are one of the reasons we are praying fervently for a fence/wall to be built around our house ASAP. She will miss seeing the up close and personally, but I won’t. J

As for me, this move I know was from the Lord. He has provided us with our first house/home and we feel blessed. The first couple days I have to admit, I did shed some tears, but the Lord has been faithful. Our biggest transition being here has been the transportation issue. Taxis don’t pass as often, and there are only two buses that run this sector, so we grab which ever passes first. Abner and I started reading the “Purposes Driven Life” together and in the 5th lesson it talks about how sometimes the Lord “delays” the answer to prayer as a way of testing us as His children. We know that God has a vehicle for us, and in His timing we will see it. We walk by faith and not by sight.

He are a few pictures of the house.