This morning I has the privilege to speak at a christian school in MN, I was a "little" nervious about my language skill with children but GOD was with me and it was great!

Still in Minnesota and having a great time visiting friends and getting to know their families and even their pets! These are Tom and Linda Siegart and their lovely dog! we had a great time tonight!

Greetings from the not cold Minnesota!
I am having a great time visiting with my friends Deb and Tom Mortimer,
it is good to see old friends and meet new people everyday!

Just to give you an up-date of my trip, I had a GREAT time in Massachussets, where IT WAS cold and snowy! but the warm surrounded me by all my brothers and sisters in there! it was good to see and visit the same brothers and sisters that came to Guatemala last year and talk about the next trip, everybody was really nice to me, and God used them to answer our prayers about my monthly support! the church Heritage Bible Chapel is now my supporting church! and not only that but some members of the church got me this great gift: " a new digital camera" ! Praise the Lord!!! Gloria a Dios!

Now in MN I am having a great time and opportunities to share about the ministry and share my needs with others! The picture above is at Solomon's Porch, a church that has been sending teams to Guatemala for a number of years and now I got to be at with them, I had a great time!!!

Thank you for your prayers! we are still praying for $270.00 monthly support, $750 for my computer and $800.00 for a projector!

love,
Betty

ayayayyy


How difficult can be coming to USA?

Well it got a little tricky!

I got in USA air territory thursday morning, I was suppost to land at 11:30 and my connection flight was at 2:55 pm... enough time right? well... a big storm was hitting Miami, my airplane could not land we were on the air for a long time, then we had to re fuel in another airport, try to get back to Miami, we finally landed at 3:00 pm. My flight was gone and about 500 people were in the same problem I had... no connection flight, no place to stay, no food and lots of bags with us! but I am not alone! God is with me!!! my sister called a hotel and I stayed there, the next day I arrived safe and good to Boston, and my friends were right there waiting for me!!!

Heritage Bible Chapel has been a blessing to me, I spoke at church last sunday and I have been visiting with people during the week, I am flying to MN tomorrow and God willing I hope to make it on time!!!

Thank you so much for your love, care and prayers,

Little William is out of the hospital and on it’s way to his home,

My family and myself are so thankful to GOD for His protections and healing,

We know that it wasn’t the act of the doctors, it was the will of GOD that healed my little nephew.

William is such a grown up name for such a small baby so I decided I will call him Will,

Now William in Spanish is: “Guillermo” so I will call him “Guille” that is my short name for my nephew,

When he grows up I can call him William but he is my healed and loved “Guille”

Thanks again!

Betty

Hello my friends!

May Him bless you greatly today!

3 days ago a very exciting event took place in my family, my sister Cynthia (the one in my blog)

Gave birth to a healthy 7 ½ pound baby, half Guatemalan and half American! So he is white with dark hair.

We were all very happy and I am so proud of my “little sister”, I rejoiced with her and even though I haven’t seen even a picture of my new nephew William I love him dearly and we all do in the family!

Now is a time of worries and tears, he is not doing well, high fever and he is hospitalized, many things plugged into his little body and I cry with my sister too!

Please pray with me that GOD will heal this baby, and use this event to be glorified by this!

I have been good! (for all those who are asking "how is Betty doing?) Thank God I am healthy, I didn't feel quite good so I went to the doctor, and he run some tests and Praise Him it was nothing serious and I am feeling great now!
A team from Minnesota is coming tomorrow, I am taking them to the lake area where they will be building homes, doing medical clinics, playing soccer with the children of the village and a "movie night" we will show Narnia! Pray for me, as I have to go with them saturday and make sure everything runs well and drive back to the city monday afternoon as we have an important meeting in the city Tuesday morning, and drive back to be with them for the rest of the week. Pray for energy and protection. Thank you!
Praise God with me for the joy I have in my life and the up coming trip to USA to visit supporters, friends, family and meet my new niece or nephew!!! (my sister can go in labor any time now! pray for her!)
Thank you for your love for me, my country and my family!

Mis queridos amigos:

I just came back from a trip to the Lake Atitlan, I was ministering with a Brigde Builders in that area. I have to say that the Lake Atitlan is a beatiful place to go, God was really inspired when He created it. (not as much as He was when He was making me! :-)
I helped the children ministry and it was challenging but God was with us every single day of thejorney. I will be the rest of this week in the city. I am really excited to go to a woman's reatreat this weekend.

My dogs and cat are really happy to have me "back" home! now they don't have to worry about protecting the house and can take as many naps as they want...

Hi there!
I just came back from a trip to Lanquin, Lanquin is a mayan comunity, I was lucky enough to go with a team of missionaries from Colorado, the team was divided in three ministries: medical, dental and children. It was challenging just to get there! but once there we had a great time, we were able to visit 2 comunities for the first time ever! I got the privilege to share God's plan of salvation and saw many persons giving their lifes to God. The comuties we went are so rural that my camara didn't work... (just kidding) the truth is that I forgot my camara at home... sorry no pictures of this trip.

Thank you for your prayers!
I will be in the city for the next 10 days.

This is my car! I really like it though!
Thank you so much for your prayers!

I have been blessed, God has provided me a new car! I haven't ride on it a lot because I have been out of the city and I drove a rental car, I will use my car starting tomorrow!
With my church we are going to go to visit an orphanage for HIV + children and my car will serve for transportation for the ones that don't have a car to go there!
I am really happy to be able to help like this.
It is a Subaru Impreza 1997, I like it a lot, please pray with me that God will bless that car and that it would work well for many years!
I sold my old Toyota to a Pastor in a town called San Lucas Toliman.
I will post a picture tomorrow!

What do we do for Christmas in Guatemala?

Well if you have ever been to Guatemala you might have noticed the firecrackers "pum,pum,pum" early in the morning. Well we do that when someone in the family is celebrating his or her birthday the earliest the better. So what do celebrate in Christmas? Jesus birthday!!! so we stay up the night of the 24th, we eat our traditional tamales, and at midnight... pum,pum,pum, everybody lights firecrackers!!! it is so loud, and colorful, I love the smell and the colors, we are out in the streets, and hug neighbors and wish them merry Christmas, we exchanges tamales or cookies, and then you go inside your home to open the gifts!!!
No one goes to bed until 1 or 2 in the morning! (In decent houses!)
May God bless you this Christmas and give you the best new year's ever!

My father did a great job cooking for us!
He made bake potatoes, Roast Turkey, Roast Pig leg, a good salad and many snacks!

Eveone loved his cooking!

In Guatemala right before Christmas we have lots of "convivios" that is like a Christmas party, this year I got the opportunity to set it up this year, we as Sepal were celebrating the coming back of two sepal families that were in furlough and the rest of us were there. We did it in a park, I hired my father as the "chef" and he did a great job! Luis (another missionary) was in change of the games and let me tell you we did have a good celebration!

I have been running like crazy, I know you are thinking: "crazy is normal in Betty" but lately it has been even crazier!

I taught a seminar monday through wednesday, at the sepal office, 11 teachers came, they are from a ministry for children in a very poor area in Guatemala city. Thank you God for them!!!

The Bible Vacation Week ended with a group of 50 kids and many teachers!
My class ended with the movie of Jim Elliot, when the kids saw what happened to Jim, many cried, many prayed after the movie with me as I have never seem them prayed before, thank God it was a great blessing for them and for me! Thank you for your prayers over them and over me!

After making sandwiches, putting clothes to give in bags, and pray a lot ... we went to miniter to the street children, it was great experiece but we need to do so much more! I am happy to tell you that about 25 people from my church went to this activity!

We fed the children, hug them but more important we prayed with and for each of them.

Thursday was a very intereting day at the Church, the Jim Elliot story is getting to the end, the kids have no idea how does it end, they really think Jim is in USA now...

I am teaching 50 kids, ages from 3 to 13.

After the teaching at the Church I started getting ready for onether activity... our first ministry night with the street children!!!

The kids really enjoyed the iguana walking in my shoulder!

The Jim Elliot Story is powerful and they really embraced it. Thank God!

Betty M�rida

This week is the Bible Vacation Week at my church,
I am teaching the missionary story. I decided to teach about Jim Elliot
yesterday and today I taught about his life in USA, tomorrow he is going to start his life in Ecuador.
I got some trees branches and some plants to try to make a jungle in my church, I even got a real iguana that I would have in me while I teach!
I can't wait to see my student's faces!

I will post pictures tomorrow.