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Dear friends and family, Thank you so much for your prayers. We really appreciate them. We arrived safely on the 4th of January in San Pedro Sula. Since you already recieved a newsletter on our arrival we will skip to what we have been doing since. Our truck was in pretty bad condition when we arrived home. It was almost unsafe to drive. Toby has spent 3 days trying to get the truck repaired and still has about two days left on it. It is now safe to drive so we are down in the city getting many other errands done. Toby also went to the capital for two days for a minister's meeting. It was a great time of getting ready for our churches convention this year and preparing for the CIY conference that some of the kids in Honduras are going to in Nicargua. Toby enjoyed getting to visit with the various ministers from all over Honduras. We have spent the first two days buying supplies to clean the house, groceries, supplies for the clinic, and Sunday school material. We also have been working on getting our one phone connected and trying to get another one connected. Yesterday we took everything out of our office and painted it. Now we are trying to get everything back in the office as well as make room for the several hundred books that are coming down to help with the ministry. Our computer has not been working so we brought it down to the city today to hopefully be fixed. We are picking up more supplies for the ministry as well as hopefully our stove. We have been thrilled with how well the ministry has gone without us. We feel that Penitas does not need our help as much on Sundays. Toby thinks the encouragement and discipleship will be his main responsibilities with the Penitas church. This will allow him to work with the churches further away from us. Emilio has grown tremendously and is starting to do an excellent job preaching. The people in the church have taken the church building as their own. They put in electricity, electrical outlets, and are building a room to keep the musical instruments in. The men in the church are becoming leaders more and more. There are more men that are participating in church as well as just more men being at church period. This is all very exciting. My workers are very excited to have me back which is a big praise. Yami did an excellent job with the book work at the clinic. The clinic has been kept clean and well organized while I have been away. Not only that but they came and cleaned our house for us- which was absolutely awful. They did a wonderful job cleaning the house. We are working now on praying with every patient and have had a good response to that. Once we get more settled in I will start devotions with my workers. Yami is excited about the possibility of running a clinic in the very rural areas which are outside of La Union. We will be working on finding a helper for her over the next couple of months. I felt the earth quake but Toby did not. We have not been affected by it at all. Thanks for those of you who were concerned and asking about how we were doing. This is just a brief summary of what has occured throughout the last week and a half. Please keep praying for Juan that he will be able to come. I called my lawyer and she said they are still waiting for the VISA hopefully it will come in soon. God bless, Toby and Amy Hill |