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Can you believe it’s already April?<\/p>\n
March was a very difficult month for me.\u00a0 There were four people I knew that died last month, my grandpa, and three people from my church here in Mexico.\u00a0 One of the ladies from our church, Anita, died from health problems, and she left behind an 18 year old daughter, 15 year old\u00a0 & 4 year old sons.\u00a0 But the testimony that she had with sharing the gospel & how she discipled her friends was incredible.\u00a0 Because of her testimony with others there are so many people here that are Christians!\u00a0 It was so encouraging to see how God worked in her life!<\/p>\n
My grandpa died about two weeks after Anita did.\u00a0 He was 91 years old.\u00a0 I was not able to attend the funeral because I had turned in my visa and wasn’t able to leave or reenter Mexico.\u00a0 My family was able to attend including my brother from San Diego, I’m anxiously awaiting the DVD of the funeral.<\/p>\n
And then two weeks ago, a lady, Brenda, & her daughter, Sofia, were intentionally targeted & died because of the drug violence here in Mexico.\u00a0 Brenda was the same age as me & had a job as an investigator with the state attorney general’s office.\u00a0 Her and her husband, Sergio, had study chronologically through the Bible with a couple from our church, and had become Christians!\u00a0 We praise God for their testimony.\u00a0 They no longer lived in fear of dying because they knew where they were going when they died!\u00a0 Praise God for their testimony to their friends & family, and please pray Sergio as he lives life without his wife & daughter.<\/p>\n
Through all this time God continually reminded me that He still had everything in control.\u00a0 I know that might not be a shocker to y’all, but to me it was a great reminder, that before the creation of time, He knew that I would be here going through these difficult times, and He even knew that I wouldn’t be able to travel home for the funeral.\u00a0 But He gives us so many promises in His word so that we remember that “I will never fail you. I will never abandon you (Heb. 13.5)”!\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 I believe that God takes us through these trials, to remind us of his love and care for us.\u00a0 And those were some of the things that I needed to learn & be reminded of in March.<\/p>\n
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Remember Juan and Dorothy?\u00a0 The missionary couple we helped move down to Nyarit last summer so they could start working with the Cora people?\u00a0 They came back to Chihuahua in February & on March 11 they had a baby!\u00a0 Levi Yuhan Miranda Xiong was born here in Chihuahua.\u00a0 Amy & I even got to meet him & hold him, and of course he’s super cute!<\/p>\n
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Upcoming Trip:\u00a0After last month,\u00a0I’m so excited & ready to take a trip next week! \u00a0I’m going with my friend Jocabed to the state of Mexico! \u00a0Jocabed is a student at the Missionary Training Center, and she lives near Mexico City. \u00a0I get two whole weeks of Spanish with Joca! \u00a0Her parents already have a lot of stuff planned for us while we are down there!<\/p>\n
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Prayer Requests<\/strong> Praises<\/strong><\/p>\n :: the Casa Hogar ministry is going great! Can you believe it’s already April? March was a very difficult month for me.\u00a0 There were four people I knew that died last month, my grandpa, and three people from my church here in Mexico.\u00a0 One of the ladies from our church, Anita, died from health problems, and she left behind an 18 year old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":383,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3810,143],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"category-news-article","8":"category-prayer-request","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/crystal-pierce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/crystal-pierce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/crystal-pierce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/crystal-pierce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/383"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/crystal-pierce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/crystal-pierce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/crystal-pierce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/crystal-pierce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/crystal-pierce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n:: a safe & fun trip to Mexico City with Jocabed
\n:: continued faithfulness in Spanish!
\n:: for the ladies in the English class, that they would be able to make it to the new class day on Wednesday
\n:: one of the ladies from our English class, Rosa, she just found out she has breast cancer
\n:: friends & family that lost a love one last month
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\n:: my laptop is back! \u00a0It was 7 long weeks without it!
\n:: great language & culture sessions with my friends Ana & Rouss
\n:: the amount of Spanish I’ve learned in this last year! \u00a0There are a lot things that now make sense to me in Spanish!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"