Hola amigos and prayer warriors!! Update from the SOBA 2011 group! Right now i (Sarah) am sitting in the town of Palora, which is a 20 minute bus ride from the town of San Jose de Palora (the village we are in). please excuse the typing and grammatical errors. i am trying to type fast to catch our bus back. so we got to the town of San Jose last thursday. we were greated by an amazing and very welcoming group from the community. right away we realized that this it the ´missionary´experience you read about. our home is a wooden shack with a slab of cement as the floor. we are grateful to have our mosquito nets!!! but it has become home and each day we are learning more and more with how to survive and enjoy living in the jungle.
teaching started on friday with zach. he did an amazing job with the IBS overview. there were probably 30 students whose ages ranged from teenagers to adults in their 50´s. it was very awesome to see that they were HUNGRY to know how to study God´s Word from the first day!!!! Thanks to Bennie´s church we were able to give them all Bibles, some for the very first time and some who needed new ones because of the years of use. I video taped the passing of the Bibles out and will post when we get back to Boise.
The next day Bethany taught Obervation through the book of Philemon. we took a break on sunday. we attened the church service there and hung out with the people in the community. they took us on a ´two´hour hike through the amazon, which ended up taking 4 hours because we stopped at a friend´s mother´s house along the way. then tuesday michelle taught interpretation. then, haley taught on tuesday with application...and God showed up. God used us and the fellow church members´/students to pray over one student though her personal prayer ministy. it was really awesome to see God´s Holy Spirit move all over that room.
**so i have to skip to other things** please keep praying for healing. we have 4 team members who are very sick right now. Eric, Melissa Haley and Zach. All of them missed class today and have been sleeping most of the day. PLEASE pray for healing. God has healed me, today i feel better....and today is the first day Eric has been really sick. I was sick for three days. Bethany has been sick on and off for the past three day. PLEASE pray for continued protection for Michelle!! She has not gotten sick. That´s all i can do for now. i will update in few days. sorry!!
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