Prayer request from Hope Rodrigues in the Amazon

Novo Demini, July 28th, 2011

Dear Friends,

This is Hope, hope you are all fine! Just wanted to send you all a quick update and ask you to be praying for João.

He left this morning around 9:30 our time. He is headed down river in a boat with 4 Yanomami Indians from Novo Demini. They are going to a small town called Barcelos. The purpose of this trip is to help the Yanomami people from Novo Demini resgister the school here. He took all the documents we think are necessary but pray they don't ask for something he doesn't have.  One of the four going with him is a teacher and another is a leader of our community.

They left today Thursday the 28th and he hopes to get to Barcelos on
Sunday the 31st. He will be spending three days in Barcelos and head
back on the 4th. He hopes to make it back on the 9th or 10th if all goes as planned.

Pray for His safety and for the safety of the 4 Yanomami that went with him. Pray for the boat to run perfectly and that we will continue to get lots of rain for the river to continue high. It makes for a lot smoother sailing.

Pray for the boys and I as we await his return. We have one other
missionary couple here with us, who also has 2 children, so we are not
alone. Pray nothing will happen out of the ordinary while he is gone.
Pray for our safety also!! Pray no weird critters like snakes, bats,
rats, or tarantulas will appear while he is gone. I'm still a whimp and
João is always our hero when it comes to killing the above.

Praise the Lord so far all is well with my pregnancy. We have a flight
set for the 20th of September to go to town for the baby to be born. The baby is due on the 4th of October.

I hope to send a more complete update out in the next few weeks, but just wanted you all to be praying for our family in these next few days!!

Please pray for our e-mail system as twice we have had problems with it since we have been in the tribe this time. Last time was even more serious and so pray it works until we go to town for our baby to be born.

Because of Jesus, Hope4us5

 

(A Second Request and Update)

Hello again, this one will be real quick.

Just wanted to let you know I got an e-mail from Joao saying he is safe in Barcelos,

Pray for the school situation as he didn't give details but he sounded
like it might not work out or be hard don't know any details. Pray God
will be giving him wisdom as he speaks with the secretaria lady today.

Hope

PS pray as I left a trantula un-killed last night. He was up high in the
office last night so when I tried to get him down to burn him he escaped up above the plastic. I'm hoping he will come down again and I can kill him. so far I had slept like a baby but I think because of that last night I kept waking up afraid he was going to go in the boys room. We are all fine though. Ryan is crabby and needing a nap so will try and get an early dinner so he can take a nap and still sleep at night. I need to do laundry and then try and get started on thanking my vouchers and still get a newsletter ready to go for the 10th before Joao gets back.