Thanks for praying

 

Hello Everyone,

We have been running back and forth to camp getting started with everything we left behind.  There have been several camps as well since we arrived.   The last was a youth leadership convention with close to 300 leaders.  Eric is working on wiring and windows.  (It snowed up in the mountains close to camp!  Those mountain breezes are COLD!) 

There has been some continued political stress at camp with the village leaders.  The leaders of the mission plus Eric and Jose Luis have shown up to two meetings called by the local leaders but the village leaders have not shown up.  Then the local leaders took upon themselves to enter camp and do some “remodeling” on the water tank.  Please lift us up in prayer for peace.  The current President has given them the power to do anything they see fit including breaking the law, taking what they want etc. There has been a third meeting called for the 14th of August.    

We have been without water lately at our house.  We are unsure what happened but it seems that someone  broke a pipe doing construction.  We are among the lucky ones.  We have a tank that fills with water from a canal near our house.  It isn’t clean water but it works!  I used up all our disinfectant and it wasn’t enough for my peace of mind.  I boiled the rest and made some warm bath water.  The next few days went by the same.  Julia came down sick.  We thought she had ingested some of the dirty water.  When we took her samples in, they came out clear.  She seems to be doing better so it may have just been a passing virus, only time will tell.

The kids began school again. We were caught up in all subjects except English.  Isn’t that funny!  Well, thanks for all your prayers.  Emily and Eric.
Eric and Emily Lizarazu
Benji ,Lydia, Ellie, and Julia

We’re Home after our U.S. stay!

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:51 PM,
We made it home.  All 6 of us.  Winter has been cold here.  They have closed schools and extended the vacation to keep the swine flu limited. 
 
All of our bags made it.  The chocolate chips made it too — unmelted because of a rain storm in Florida.  Customs hardly looked at our bags and we made it home after 31 hours of flight.  We found our house and work with miminal ¨problems´ to fix up and return to normal.   What a Blessing.  Thanks for praying for us all. 
The Lizarazu Family

 

Eric and Emily Lizarazu

Benji ,Lydia, Ellie, and Julia

April-June in the States

We will be in the States April, May & June.  Alabama, North Carolina, Alaska etc.

New Car – Thank you!!

Many thanks to all who have helped us and prayed for us to get a new car.  We have been driving the car now for 1 month and I put the first scratch from nose to tail on it.  *Eric kept his cool very well….  Then when he was away on a 10 day camp up in the mountains I set the car alarm off and we were stranded in a parking lot until I could go and get help.  I left the kids in the car with their Bolivan Grandmother and came back with the folks who sold us the car and an electrician who cranked the car up with one turn of the key.  We are enjoying it very much.  We have yougurt spills on the seats and candy wrappers in the floor.  It almost feels like ours now!  With love. Eric and Emily Lizarazu

 
Eric and Emily Lizarazu
Benji ,Lydia, Ellie, and Julia