Is Anything TOO Hard for the Lord?

We no sooner got back from South Africa than we received word the brick machine was broken down. Now the boys had just cleaned and adjusting this machine. The crew had run it low on oil and they drained it and put new oil in. They are suppose to change the oil every week because of the huge amount of hours they run it but though they say yes we do it the record shows no oil purchases. David has Dad making plans to build 3 of these machines. Before leaving the Howling Moon tent needed to be mounted on the cruiser planning on leaving Sunday. We looked forward to Sabbath but decided not to go to church just rest and study. We had Drew over for breakfast and the plan was made to go to a pretty spot on the beach out of Maputo, so I packed a lunch and he went to pick up Edward and Jenny(a couple who are team directors at Beira for Maranatha) at the airport. On our way through Maputo we picked up Crisney and Angelica principals of the Mahito and Libertad schools to take with us. These girls are 29 and 30 and both from Brazil. We had a good time us with no Portuguese and they with no English. Brundee is sending pictures of the ferry ride and the beach. A bunch of kids who were watching us enjoying our food so Bruce and I started passing around peanut butter and jam sandwiches and even ended off sharing one with the 2 moms who came and sounded like they were trying to make the kids go and leave us alone. It was great fun. One mother had a little baby tied on and she really got into the jam soo cute! The ocean was as pretty as I've seen around Maputo.
Sunday came all too soon! First we helped load the van and help get Edward and Jenny off. They had to turn in their petty cash reports so we started. I got the receipts in date order and glued them in a book. David called and had Bruce a list for Monday so Brundee and I started entering the petty cash reports. Meticais for Dec and Jan then Rand for Dec and Jan and US dollars all in a separate reports. We finally caught on. Got it done except the US$. Bruce and Brundee drove to the shop and gave the Cruiser a once over dad saw some grease that he didn't like the looks of and crawled under the rig and found that the steering column had only 1 loose bolt holding it together instead of 4 tight ones. He was so thankful! Over Breakfast he had prayed for wisdom and that he wouldn't miss anything important in his work. God is so good!!! We planned to leave early but last minute had to go to the shop and load barrels of dishes scaffolding cords and tools a huge list for the two new crews on the one day teams. Sammy (shop foreman) had a motorcycle accident and hurt his foot I put oils on and had him bandage it and left him with more telling him to soak it in hot salt water and not to forget to ask God to help him. Finally left about noon Tuesday for the grueling trip to Beira. Because of recent rains there was a lot of water on the way out of town. This Cruiser is so much nicer of a ride than the Nissan. It was a beautiful trip but we had a little trouble. The guard said sorry the reception closed 45 min ago (in Portuguese of course) I was praying. He repeated himself again and then said wait here and disappeared into the night . This is not hard for a black man to do. After a long time he returned and said someone would take us to a casa. So another man climbed on the side and away we went to the same casita we stayed the first time. There is no place in Mozambique you can go where it is so quiet and so far it is the prettiest cleanest beach we have seen. Okay so there was a giant cockroach that fell on Dad and Brundee and Dad woke up in the night with piss ants in there hair other than that I slept like a baby. We woke to rain. Brundee found some nice shells we showered took some pictures and paid to depart. Dad thanked God that before we call he answers we asked God to order the events of the day that we would have opportunities to share him and no matter what happened we would be happy. We went a long way and stopped at a place we stopped before for ice cold juice and water we didn't need fuel this time dual tanks in the Cruiser. Dad came back out and started the rig it turned and died. So they unloaded stuff got to the tools and checked things out then checked the battery it was totally dead. While this was going on the crowd was growing of 3ragged dirty boys too poor to be in school one asking for money. I made them peanut butter and jam sandwiches which they enjoyed and Brundee was impressed to give a taller quieter boy a Portuguese Bible. Dads first thought was it was a waste he can't read anyway. The man at the gas station said no battery go back 1 kilometer and ask at the village there. Everything had to go back in the truck and lock down and Dad had to go with no one else (good thing he loves the heat) back 1k.Its funny but because of our prayers in the morning and how God has been taking care of us I thought God will help him find a battery and I will see him again. The boy12 that got the Bible carried it hanging out with us went home and changed his shirt and came back with that Bible. The men at the station called him over and looked at it and then one came and asked me what kind of book it was. Portuguese Bible. What kind of church. Seventh-Day Adventist and from then we passed out 8 more Bibles. One of the men at the station said he went to the one day church 12k back and could he have one for his mother too. It was so neat right where we broke down. While we waited for Dad (long time) Brundee got out our guitars and played and sang about Jesus and people stopped with their wheel barrows along the road people coming in and out of the gas station stopped to hear and when the men weren't pumping fuel they came and sat by us(a man moved a bench over in the shade by the truck)and listened to the music. Then joy of all joys we saw Dad coming and behind him a man with a bike and on the bike a battery. The men at the station seemed surprised but I told them God answers prayers. Brand new and just like the one that died. Only 3366.mt Dad said he hiked1k and no one would help him but he went to a cell phone hut and the guy new a little English he even head a battery but it was no good. So he went with Dad by shopa (transportation van) 14k to another village where they had 30 batteries. And they had the one we needed. The guy brought it by bike to our truck at the station. He payed him 100mt and 20 for the shopa. So we said goodbye and traveled on by now late and it would be dark soon. At one point we got behind a truck with guys on top who were wandering all over the road mostly on the right which is the wrong side here with on coming trucks and buses. It was scary. Dad had a hard time with the bright lights and the chuck holes but did a fine job and we got here close to midnight or so. It was sure good to be here safe and sound. We got up early and the guys worked early to late getting the Scania+Trailer off and fixing the Samil20. I even got to help grease the Scania with Brundee and inventory the church materials with Drew. It has been good to see David again as well as our USA friends at the seminary (Sheryl Haberly’s Mom and Dad and their two boys. There was a last minute addition to their crew a guy named Brett from Colorado. He is a really nice kid and a mason. He is enjoying his 3 month venture here in Africa. Plenty to tell his Methodist church back home. We are glad he’s here. I have a mission story a lady from the states just shared with me. She has a friend and used to be coworker who was at an airport to get a flight home. On the way past a gift shop he saw a butterfly and since his wife collected them he thought she might like to have it and stepped in to inquire about the price. While he was there a man collapsed at the door of a heart attack and being an ICU nurse he resuscitated the man and got his heart going saving his life. He caught his plane and went on home. Later a box came in the mail from the man who he helped. The letter was full of thanks from the family for the part he played in saving their Dads life. Remember that he had said the only reason he was there at the right moment was because of the butterfly in the window of the shop they wanted to purchase it as a gift for him for his wife. But on calling the shop they were told they didn't have a butterfly in their window and never had. Amazing. Is anything too hard for the Lord? Genesis 18:14 For the Lord nothing is too hard. The rain we had just before coming from Maputo caused some unsanitary conditions I saw on the news. Glad we are here. Keep praying for us. It’s working! Never stop we need it.As they say in Afrikaans Lovies from Africa