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| Narvido, Kengi and his girlfriend Evon, and Juanita; just part of a beautiful family. |
One morning
when I was out walking the streets of San Carlos, I met Rosa in her car at an
intersection; another Divine appointment. She asked me if I would like to go
with her to meet some friends who lived nearby, at six o’clock that Monday
evening. I said I would be happy to. When I arrived she introduced me to
Juanita, another best-friend of hers and a widow. Her husband die of heart
problems four years ago, he was 63, and now she manages the seven apartments that he and his sons built that are
connected to her house. Juanita's son wanted to learn to speak English
better and that was one of the reasons for Rosa’s invitation.
His name is
Narvido, he is 24 and has a wife and has an adorable eight month old baby girl. They live
in one of the apartments behind his mother’s house. Rosa also knows my love for
God and my desire to reach others for Him, thus the other reason for our meeting.
Narvido’s
mother had fixed a Chinese dinner that night and so Rose and I had some while we talked
and learned more about each other. She also told me that Juanita was a very
good, and she was right.
Narvido has twenty brothers and sisters, but not all by Juanita. Wow! He is also an electrician and a graduate from college.
Then Rosa left, but we were still able to communicate well enough. After we talked for
a while I was invited to come back again and continue to help him speak English better. They asked, if I
could come every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at six o’clock, and I said, “Okay. I also
told them that I had some good movies that could help him, and that some of them were
religious faith based. They said that was fine with them even though they were
not Christians. (But they will be.)
Then a
couple days later I went to see Omar, a little after 10am. When I got there he
had just started watching the movie Martin
Luther, with some friends; so I sat down and watched it with them. They put
the English subtitles on for me so I could understand what was being said. It
was something to see their excited reactions to Luther passion for Christ and
the Word of God, as he confronted the religious system of his day, the Roman
Catholic Church.
After the
movie I got to talk to Juan. He spoke English very well and was the actual
manager of the retreat and also has a very pretty young wife. I had met him
briefly the last time I was here, but this time we got to talk more. He also reassured
me that I was welcomed to stay. He said that there would be other
Americans coming in June to help in the churches in the cities where I have
been. Wow! It will be interested to see how this works out. There is diffidently
a need for help and hopefully a desire to know God in ways they may have never
known before in order to see the Kingdom of God established in Mexico.
Pilar left
last week, she was a real blessing, now that door has closed for now, but other
ones are opening. Her neighbor, Carlos, offered the use of the shower in his house, if I need too. I still get opportunities to minister to others on the beach
and touch the sick and the handicap, God's special children. Last week I got to pray for a young blind teenage girl who
was enjoying the ocean with her father as her mother watched from the shore.
The father spoke some English and said they were Christian. I told him that God
had sent me to Mexico to help the poor and to heal people, and I told him that
his daughter would see and that God love them.
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| They came two days later, for her to ride a horse as part of her regular therapy. |
The next Monday when I arrived at Juanita’s house I got to
meet Narvido’s wife, Maribel, and his younger brother Carlos, who spoke English
very well, and his cute girlfriend who was there also. We ate and talked and
also used his computer to translate some. Narvido told me that he was an
electrician and made 2,300 pesos a week, about $6.00 an hour. He also has a Masada sports car, and says it goes very fast. After we ate, we all enjoyed
watching the movie Bella, talked some
more and then looked forward to
getting together again in a couple days.
I enjoy doing things like this, but most of all I enjoy my
time alone with my Heavenly Father, plus reading a lot about him. There are times when we walk the shores and see the beauty
of his creation on display; the dolphin arcing by or the pelican diving into
the sea for their meal. The Lord often tells me that my being here is making a difference even
when I don’t see it. Just love them and he will do the rest. However the Lord has
been also talking to me about an “open door,” a special one, that lead to
another realm. Once we go through that one everything else will change. We won’t
have to hardly speak to see lives change, just because the Presence of God will be
so strong.
“I know your deeds. Behold, I have put before you an open door
which no one can shut, because you have little power, and have kept my word and
have not denied my name. (Revelation 3:8)
After these thing I looked, and behold a door standing open
in heaven, and the first voice…said,”Come up here…” (Revelation 4:1)
