Saturday's reflexions on a Monday

I wrote this saturday morning and I thought I would share with you.


" While I am here, sitting outside in my in law's house, under the sun of a beautiful saturday, seeing my girls playing while I read my Bible, I am reminded once again of God's blessings.

I have so much to be thankful for; but it is so easy to gorget when things are not going the way you would like them to.

Sure, we are still waiting on God's direction for us and waiting for a job for Matthew, but God is taking care of us.

Sure, things have been crazy the last few months with the move and all the changes, but I see my girls happy, healthy, sweet as always, well behaved and soft to spiritual things.

God tells us that if we follow Him, He will never leave us, not forsake us. Sometimes God's will is not clear to us, especially if we are in that "waiting" time; but His promises to us are still true. He doesn't leave us, not forsake us, no matter the way it looks.


Php 4:11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content"


Now, if I can only remember this lesson learned every day! ;)

Thoughts of peace and not of evil

Jer 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Jer 29:12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
Jer 29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart

I can't wait to come back to blogging and be able to tell you all it has been and is going on, but right now I wouldn't even know where to start.

We are just waiting for God to open doors and lead. There is nothing harder than wait patiently in the Lord when you can't see what is coming ahead, but at the end it sure is worth the pain.

Everyone have a wonderful weekend.

Celebrity look alike

So, if you are in facebook, you know the theme right now is to put in your profile a photo of your celebrity look alike right?.

I found one that looks just like me right now.... are you ready?











Yep. this is me right about now........

.... although I think this guy looks better than me......... I feel so sick.. Where is my medicine!!

Does he qualifies as a celebrity? I found him in google.... HA!

One of those days!

Today is one of those days.

Last night I got a call from the director of the school where the girls go, asking if I could sub for the 1st and 2nd grade class since their teacher is sick. My husband is out of town (the one day he is schedule to go out of town) but I got my sister to take care of my youngest while I was going to be in school, so my answer was SURE! anything helps right now.

So at about 2:30 in the morning my youngest starts throwing up and has been since.

Noelia, my youngest one, was blessed enough to be gifted with one of those viruses going around and has thrown up about 15 times since 2:30 am last night..... poor baby.... What are the chances, she wasn't even sick....

My husband is out of town and I have been sick for the last week, so that makes the stay up all night even more fun! HA

Of course I didn't get to sub, praise God they were able to find someone to sub the sub at 6:30 am. HA!

So much for my getting back full force to blogging uh? Murphy's law anyone?

Little Update-- Wow, it has been so long!

Hello everyone,

Wow, it has been a while since I blogged last. This has been some crazy few months, lots of changes and lots of ajustments to even still be made, but here we are, still and always trusting in my Lord.

Needless to say, we are not back in the States, back at home in Madison Alabama. We have put our missionary work in Spain behind, but we are still praying that our future would still have much to do with missions, because it is our heart. Matthew has an open door helping the person at our church that handles the Mission Board out of our church (hopefully I made sense there). God is showing us reasons why it was time for us to come back. His timing is perfect!

Matthew is looking for a job, we are waiting in the Lord to answer that prayer. So we are house hunting, but really not in full force since we have to wait for the job first. Patience is a lesson we are learning. His timing is perfect!.

The girls are in school, christian school, and loving it (and so am I, what a difference!). Our home church has a great school and the girls couldn't be happier. To them it seems as they never left. They love the church, the kids' clubs, the sunday schools, Patch the Pirate club, the friends, the family.... but they do remember Spain for it is now a part of them too.

So, I am back to blogging, hopefully full time. It was a nice break though, but I was missing it.

Sorry I was away so long, did you miss me? Well.... I sure did miss you!

Update on little Esther

Hello everyone,

I am having a great time with my family and trying to get as much as possible out of this few days.
I have limited internet access so, I probably won´t be able to get on full blogger mode until after I arrive in the States on the 29th of December.

I did wanted to post this last update on little Esther Elliot. The doctors told them that because of the rare cancer and how extended it was, there was really not an option for a cure. They recommended 14 sessions of chemoteraphy, but still with that, they only gave her not longer than a year. The parents needed to take a decission over the weekend. This update is the latest we received today. Please pray for them. May God be glorified in all this.



Dear Friends,
We so much appreciate your prayers, thoughts, cards, concern… This past week has been very difficult for Lydia and I. On Monday, we met with the doctors and told them that we had decided not to do chemotherapy. It was a rough meeting with the doctors strongly pressing their case for chemotherapy. However, they have accepted our decision and Esther comes home today (12.23.09). We will do a small amount of traveling to visit relatives over the next month or so and then be in Springfield, MO until Esther goes home. The doctors have given 2 – 6 months, but no one really knows for sure. Once we are done with the traveling (we want to visit family in Mississippi, Kentucky, and Indiana), we will have pediatric hospice involved. Our doctor in Bolivar and hospice will oversea Esther’s care.
We appreciate your prayers as we go through this difficult time.
For Souls,
Daniel Elliott
Your Missionaries to Mongolia
www.danielelliottfamily.us

I did it!

I did it, I got my hair cut, and I actually did it shorty after I ask you ladies about it.

But with all the craziness around here I haven´t been able to post photos. I took photos of the layers, the back.... everything! but now those photos are in my desktop, inside a box, in a container, in a boat, in the ocean, on its way to the States ;).... so this is the best I could do. I needed to do it though, because many were asking about it.... so......

You can´t tell really good but I pick hair cut number 1 ;) Thanks everyone for your help, I am pretty happy with the results :)

I want to apologized for not being able to make it to visit with you all but things are pretty busy in here. We shipped our stuff and donated the rest. Today I am packing suitcases and trying to finish up around the house because tomorrow morning I will be turning the house back to the owner and heading to Madrid to spend the next week and half of our remaining time in Spain with my family. We have also been doing good bye parties for the girls in their school...... tomorrow we are leaving Granada, and there is still so much to do.......

Oh please, could it be a long time until I get to move again???? Pretty pleaseeeeee