E-mails from South America: #4, #5, #6

Here are more e-mails from Dustin (without the personal stuff). Thank you all so much for your prayers. Only six more days!!
Also, as I said before, Dustin is usually rushing to get off the computers he can use, so please excuse the grammatical errors.
Jennie

Tuesday Afternoon
i am right now in an internet store. Thank you for staying in touch with my parents. I miss you very much and need all of your prayers. i am teaching the lesson today on husbands at 3:30 so if you get this please pray for me then. it is so hard to communicate with certain people, some seem annoyed because we´re americans and can´t communicate very well. right now i am on this computer and have absolutely no idea how much it costs. apparently i must pay afterwards. i don´t know if i will be able to call you, but I will try if i can and am able to communicate with someone if possible. my spanish is improving but if you speak any they expect you to be nearly fluent rattling off 10,000 words per sentence. anyways, i love you and will write you tonight.

Tuesday Night
i have been having a conversation with guillermos family and it has been very challenging for my spanish. but let me tell you about today. we arrived at the church around 3 and met the same two groups today. i spoke first on the lesson on husbands. it went well however the women have no example or male role model that even compares to the man in ephesians 5 and col. so i was asked very hard questions such as how do we get these men back into church, what if they are unbelievers.. and so on. it was interesting and i hope that they were encouraged. apparently they have no male leadership besides tha pastor and a single man 22 by the name of david. after this the others led in the lessons as well. they did a great job. the second group had not gotten
this far but time shared with them the importance of a personal relationship with Christ and this was to the men- therefore exactly what they need to hear. they can´t step up if their relationship with the Lord is off. we ended the night and said our goodbyes and they gave tim a shirt and gave me a souvenir de ecuador. it went well and they basically begged us to come back next year to share with more churches and they are going to continue to implement the manual on their own! exactly what it was intended for. we are off to puyo tomorrow and the trip is 5-6 hours drive. i don´t believe we will be doing much tomorrow besides traveling. i hope that i can get in touch with you somehow, this is headed towards the jungle.

Wednesday Morning
last night as with the family we were speaking to guillermos nephew, giobanni. guillermo says that he is unsaved but he seemed to know all the right answers, but i am sure that guillermo knows more than we do on tte subject. anyways please pray for him that he comes to know Jesus as his Lord and Savior. today we a taking the viaje´ to puyo. with all the major changes that tim has seen since the last time he visited he is sure that the roads will be much better, especially since they are major so do not worry at all, nor should you anyways but you know that. the Lord is so faithful, i do not understand, even as we go astray and seek after other things, when we return it is as if He never left, and He hasn´t. praise the Lord for this trip and all that He is doing here and in tim´s heart and mine. these people are family, you have seen it in mexico. there is work in the americas to be done and we get to be apart of it. saddle up baby! if i can i will try to call you later, no promises, but the promise of Jesus Christ and the promise of my love for you.