Asking for forgivness

Here is a little caption of what I am asking for forgiveness for writing.
The catholic church should be on their knees begin for forgivness for making this statue. 50 of the popes have came and gave worship and give honor to this discusting idol. The reason she was excepted was because it was a way for them to "convert" people to their church. Well it has worked! They have officaly helped many souls go to hell to burn for all eternity instead of telling them the truth like they "so called preach." The story is that this virgin appeared to this poor indiginous man on top of a hill next to Mexico City. She told him to build her a temple in honor of her. Then she showed a miracle too one of the bishops by having this man gather wild roses in the middle of their winter. Then she had a image of herself put on the priest robe. Wow this really should have put up red flags everywhere. There is now a building in Mexico where she wanted the temple to be built so people could come and worship her "the so called mother of God." The funny thing that the catholic church has forgotten to add in this building is a representation of Jesus any where. O'ya because they don't want truth in a den where demon manifest and lies are told. The problem with the church is that they either keep Jesus on the cross or keep Him as a baby. They forget to tell the people that Jesus grew up and He got off that cross and that He was resurrected and is now at the right hand of God the Father. One question I would like to ask priests or catholics is "how many times have you been asked to read your bible other than the little scriptures given to you in church? Do they encourage you to have a relationship with Jesus. That He loves you and wants to be your best friend. That you are to go tell other people and tell them about His goodness. Also that the veil was torn right before Jesus died on the cross so we no longer have to tell our sins to a priest. That we can talk one on one with God ourselfs.

God Himself has taught me where I was wrong in writing this. I lumped a group of people together in something that they don't even understand. God has also taught me again that He came to die even for the people that hurt Him. The churches in general have done a lot of this wrong in the eyes of the Lord. A individual person can do so much harm to so many people around them, when they are not listening to the Lord. But that same person can also change the world by being obeying and listening to the Lord. All that a person needs is a repenting heart because God is the one who can see into the depts of our very soul. Please except my apology for the things I said. I have first asked the Lord to forgive me and now I am asking for the people that read this to also forgive me. I have learned again that I am to pray for the people that misrepresent the Lord even if they don't understand that they might be and also for the people who havn't come to know Jesus in a deep personal relationship like He DEMANDS us to do. We all need to come together to fight the battle that we are all having to face. The only way to do this is to show love before all things. Before ourselves, before our comforts , before our pride and anything that you feel the Lord is telling you right know. We need to remember the greatest commandments that God gave us. It is in mathew 22:37-38(Love the Lord your God with all your soul, with all your stregth and with all your might. And the second is like this, you need to love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments all the other commandments follow). Jesus also taught me that even if we were to spend all our days serving Christ and in the end we die and go to hell it was still worth it. Because we serve Him not for us but because He is deserving and worthy of our lives. Here is a song and video that really touched my heart and spoke to me as I sat done and watched it. I pray that I will do the same thing for you. Thanks for your time! Amanda

family with us this week

We had the wonderful opertunity this week to have some friends and family with us this last week. Zoe had her 4th birthday party, and Ross's parents were able to be here. We had a wonderful week of playing tourist guide, and hosting everyone at our house. We had 11 people staying in my little 3 bedroom apartment for a few nights. It was incredably fun having everyone here, and people from back home blessed us with wonderful supplies that we cannot buy here. We are so thankful for all the things that we were blessed with and we wanted to say a special "Thank You" to everyone that contributed to that. We have a student that is going to be here any minute so I have to go for now but I will tell you all more about it later. Ross




Here is a photo of all of us in the Metro in down town Mexico City. For this and around 300 other photos and video's follow the Flickr link, or click on the slide show, on the right hand side of this page. --------------------------->

Thank you all again and God Bless.

moving again

I bet you wonder what this is all about. Well, we found out why people do not have carpet in Mexico. We started waking up each morning with little red bumps all over our bodies. We found out that we had a little bug called a chi,chi. This is possably a bed bug or something similar. We were telling people about the problem and a man offered to fumigate our place for free. This was a huge answer to prayer and it killed off the little guys for a while. The last few day it started all over again. At the same time another apartment opened up in the same building. We took advantage of this and went to the church again telling them about our problem (along with the stove that leaks gas fumes and the boiler that wouldn't shut off). After a few days of talking back and forth they decided that we could move upstairs. We went there today and asked about it and they gave us the keys. They told us that the only thing is, they need the keys to our place by tomorrow. We had to move all out stuff out of there, and into the new place in one day. Tomorrow morning we have to get in there and clean, but we are thanking Jesus for His provision. This place is exactly the same except for the fact that we have all tile and NO carpet. They are ripping out the carpet and putting tile in our old place so that it will be ready for the next people moving here from Cancun.
We have a couple from Guadalahara that have moved here that are a huge answer to our prayers. We have hit it off so well the last week. We have been sitting up all night long talking about everything under the sun, and just encouraging each other in the Lord. They have 2 kids the same age as ours and they are also our age, and married around the same time. They are so amazing and also in love with God. They are here preparing also to go overseas but they have to study while first. They have the same heart as us as well. We stand here in awe of God as we see Him preparing the direction of our lives, and how He is providing a team of people around us to help this get accomplished. We are working every day on our language and we are seeing the hand of God moving mightly in our lives. We are excited to tell you more but that is all for now. P.S. Please pray for our family as we continue seeking the face of God in our lives. We are only willing to go in the direction that He moves us as we are starting understand the next steps. Thank you again and talk later. Ross