{"id":24,"date":"2008-12-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-20T09:32:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T13:32:48","slug":"the-repentance-of-a-wayward-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tracy-recalde\/2008\/12\/29\/the-repentance-of-a-wayward-son\/","title":{"rendered":"THE REPENTANCE OF A WAYWARD SON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/samuel-recalde\/files\/2008\/12\/1178_50372.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/samuel-recalde\/files\/2008\/12\/1178_50372.jpg\" alt=\"EMILIO&lt;br \/&gt;Please click on any of the pictures for a larger version.\" width=\"262\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>Some of you may remember back a few years ago when we would often mention Emilio in our Prayer letters.<br \/>\nEmilio\\&#8217;s wife, Kita came to know The Lord as her personal Savior long before he did and would often ask for Prayer<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-80\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/samuel-recalde\/files\/2008\/12\/0111-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Kita\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> for her drunken and abusive husband.\u00a0During the time when the men were building the church building at the Indian Colony, Emilio suddenly began coming around asking if he could help. During breaks when they were resting, Samuel and our then co-worker, Jerry Holmes would talk with Emilio about his need of a Savior and one day Emilio made a decision to accept Christ and was saved.<br \/>\nSamuel spent many hours discipling Emilio and teaching<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-81\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/samuel-recalde\/files\/2008\/12\/imagen-0101-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Samuel and Emilio\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> and encouraging him in gardening.<br \/>\nThen last year Emilio began drinking and beating his wife again. He stopped coming to church and was never home when we would try to visit him.<br \/>\nYesterday, 12\/28\/08 everyone was surprised to see Emilio come to church and then even more so when he went forward<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-82\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/samuel-recalde\/files\/2008\/12\/pc28161321-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Emilio\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tracy-recalde\/files\/2008\/12\/pc28161321-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tracy-recalde\/files\/2008\/12\/pc28161321-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> and began to speak saying &#8220;I have sinned and I have done many bad things, but I am sorry and I want to come back!&#8221; Then to everyone\\&#8217;s amazement, Emilio began to cry tears of repentance before God<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-83\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/samuel-recalde\/files\/2008\/12\/emilio2-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"emilio2\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" \/> and The Church! Pai Tavyter\u00e3 People hardly ever show emotion, especially the men.<br \/>\nThank you for Praying!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THANK YOU FOR PRAYING!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tracy-recalde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tracy-recalde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tracy-recalde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tracy-recalde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tracy-recalde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tracy-recalde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tracy-recalde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tracy-recalde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tracy-recalde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}