This week, as Peter and I sat down to record the HRGS Update, we wondered what we would talk about. We felt like last week was such an uneventful week that we would not have much in the way of news for our listeners. Having been slowed down with some kind of bug that showed me a lot more mercy than it did Mildred, I was a little behind on just about everything last week. Then, of course there was the trip to Utila, which put me even further behind.
But, as you will hear, we just started in recording and soon discovered that there was plenty to talk about concerning HRGS, especially our exciting new programs. At the end, we mentioned that Emily Mitten was about to be induced so that she could deliver the remains of their baby. That happened yesterday and the baby’s remains as well as the placenta came out quicker than expected and with no serious incidents, praise the Lord. She is feeling much better, but the whole Mitten family needs our continued prayers for comfort and guidance.
Mildred is feeling considerably better this week. She was sick in bed most of the time last week with that respiratory bug that’s so popular around here right now. But we are both still coughing a lot, so it’s not all gone yet. It’s a good thing she’s feeling better now because it’s time for her to prepare the monthly financial reports that have to go to the home office. This is a time of the month when she puts in lots of extra hours at the station.
Last on my list is our resident visa application. We are still waiting for that mystery document that no one seems to be able to get for us. I’m hopeful that we will have it soon. In the meantime, I’m going to Tegucigalpa tomorrow morning to meet our new lawyer. You might remember that our previous lawyer left the firm to begin her own private practice. I have to take some papers to him and pay some fees. He and I will go together to immigration to renew our tourist visas. This time they will only be good for 60 days. Then, the next time, they will only be good for 30 days at a time. So this is going to get highly inconvenient if we don’t get our resident visas soon. Round trip plane tickets to Tegucigalpa are $215, so we can’t afford to take the passports there every month. Besides that, I can’t afford that much time away from work. That leaves one other option – sending our passports via a regional airline to our lawyer so he can deal with them and send them back to us. And that provides lots of opportunities for our passports to get lost. So please pray that the Lord would light a fire under whoever is holding things up. 
With all this sickness and the mess with immigration you might think we’d be down, but the Lord is sustaining us and giving us reasons to rejoice every day. Sandi told us that a listener came to the station the other day and said she is listening to us in both English and Spanish at the same time. She said her kids told her to make up her mind and listen to one or the other. Her response was, “You will never know what this station means to me!” Yes, I think I can get out of bed tomorrow and face another day. Thank you Jesus for letting us participate in Your work in the hearts of these precious people that You love so dearly!!
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