~ Serving in Loreto, Zacatecas ~
BALL BEARINGS
Mike and Faith Ball
We’ve been down here in Mexico just over a month. The trip down here went well although we had to pay a lot of duty at the border for the lawn mowers we brought down for Feilynn. She had a busy summer mowing lawns since it was a heavy rainy season. We were thankful to be able to bring a riding mower and a couple of push mowers to her.
Things got busy for us as soon as we got here. On Tuesdays we have a study in the home of a lady (Cintia) we met at the studies in the drug rehab center last year. A young man, Cesar, had started that study before we came down; so we joined in that. On Wednesdays we have a study with about twenty internees at the drug rehab center. Either Mike shares a study, or one of three young men of the ten of us who are involved with that study. On Fridays a half dozen of us from Loreto go out to the town of Valle de Delicias, about an hour away, for a study which was started last January. It started with a group of several ladies from one family and has developed in to a study with one young couple, Francisco and Nancy, who are planning to get baptized on Sunday. Cintia is considering getting baptized as well. On Saturdays there is a study in our home which Cesar had started before we got down here. A handful of people come to that.
Cesar and another young man from Loreto, Leonardo, plan to go to a three-month, intense Bible training program in January which is focused on preparing them to serve in their home church. We became aware of this program through some of the brothers in the churches in Jalisco that the Montgomerys have been working with through the years. We are excited about the young men taking this step. Cesar is young in the Lord but has been eager to know the Word, to know the Lord and to serve Him. Leo is Manolo’s grandson, whose family moved to Chicago about eight years ago. He also has a burden to serve the Lord and hasn’t been led astray by the attractions of life in the States. He has been living in Chicago with his family but has a desire to serve the Lord in the Loreto area.
We recently met a young couple who moved back from the States where theywere exposed to the teaching of the word. We hope to begin home Bible studies with them (Rigoberto and Charo) soon.
On the 8th of December we plan to go to Zapotitlan, Puebla to visit the brethren there. There will be 11 or 12 of us going, a few young people and two married couples. This will be the first time down there for some of them. We will be staying with a family who recently lost their husband/father, and we hope to be an encouragement to them. We plan to stay a week.
Thank you for your continued prayers. May the Lord bless you.
Mike and Faith