January 2013

Dear friends,

As I shared with you in our last prayer letter, we had the opportunity to visit Liz’s family in the U.S. for Christmas.  We spent a very special time visiting the family and for many of them it was the first time they were meeting Leah.  Everyone was very excited to meet her.

Even though it was very cold we were able to go out and enjoy the snow and play with Leah for a little while.

For Leah these last couple of weeks has been a bit difficult.  She caught a cold that hit her pretty hard, and then got a secondary ear infection and we ended up going to the doctor several times.  In addition to a very long day of traveling back to Puebla we ended up taking her to the ER due to lots of vomiting which we found out was caused by her stomach being irritated by the medicine she was taking for her ear infection.  Thankfully she is doing much better and is finally playing and getting her appetite back.  We still need to be extra careful what we allow her to eat since she could start vomiting again if the food is too heavy for her tummy.  Thank you for your prayers for her health and our discernment on what she can eat.

We are definitely very excited to be back in Mexico and encouraged for what God is going to do in the lives of the college students.  This week we are starting our weekly meetings and discipleship on campus.  One of our goals for the semester is that each student who is involved would share their faith with 7 of their friends and encourage them to make a decision to follow Christ and begin to go through the follow-up material with them.  Please join us in prayer for this goal and that God would give them boldness to share the message of the Gospel with their friends.

We also have some very exciting new to share with you.  In August of this year the Pomares family will grow to 4!!!  Liz is finishing up her first trimester of the pregnancy and we are incredibly grateful for this blessing from God.  “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.”  Psalm 127:3

Thank you for your prayers and financial support.  It is a privilege for us to work shoulder to shoulder in taking the message of the gospel to the lost.  May this year that God has given us begin with the grace to see lives transformed for Him!

Prayer requests:

That God would give us many opportunities to share Christ on campus and in our neighborhood.

For Liz’s health during the pregnancy, that everything would go well and that there wouldn’t be any complications and for the baby to be born strong and healthy.

             Luis, Elizabeth and Leah Pomares