Paraguay Update #3

Greetings in the Name of our Lord!I am pleased to write telling you how things are going so well on our trip. We arrived on Tuesday and had a pretty relaxed day as we waited for our luggage to arrive. We checked out the town center of Asuncion and went through a museum. We saw from a distance the really poor section of Asuncion that some what resembles the slums of Africa, and we will be visiting them next Wednesday.Tuesday evening we returned to find that our luggage was here except Steve Keiper´s. What a trooper, he still isn´t complaining and is working very hard. We are all trying to share our luggage with him as much as we can. Please pray that it finds its way to us soon. We have had two days of work so far and we have accomplished a lot. Its fun to see how the Paraguians work and to make friends with them even though we don´t speak the same language. We are tileing two rooms and they are almost done. I am surprised at how fast things are moving, but am so thankful because we missed two days trapped in the airport. Some of our team even repainted the soccer field, which is about the same size of a basketball court and is concrete. Tonight there is sports night and about 70 teenagers will be showing up. They asked me to give a devotional that will last around 10 min. Please pray for this time as there are many neighborhood kids that do not know the Lord. The typical message is God wants you to be good and is supposed to be motivational. I am feeling led to share the Gospel tonight, but have to speak through and interpreter, which is very hard to do. Thanks for your prayers.Today Jason read to our team 1 Cor 13 and reminded us that everything we do needs to be centered first out of love for God and then for each other. As I read Acts 10 yesterday i was encouraged by Peter´s words as he recognized that God is not a respecter of persons, he doesn´t show favorites but calls all men to Himself. I am thrilled to be with brothers and sisters in Christ who live here. Even though we don´t speake the same language, we love the same Lord and that brings us closer than any language could. We are able to comunicate with them and are picking up a little Spanish along the way.Well my sesta is almost over. I hope this email finds you all doing well.

God bless, Brad Horner