"I just want to thank you for coming to Manta!"

Little Dominica was playing around an exercise machine at her house, and somehow got a metal rod stuck in her foot.   She yelled for her Mom and said, "Mommy pray for me, that I would have faith that Jesus would save me from this!  I don't want to have a little faith like Peter!" (Dominica had been to our VBS a week ago, where we studied Peter) Dominica's Daddy is not a believer.  He was very worried and scared about what to do for his daughter.  He told his wife, if I cut the rod, it is going to hurt her foot and she'll move it.  But Dominica responded to her Daddy, to just cut the rod, Jesus was going to save her and he would give her the strength to not move her foot.  So he did, but it took him over an hour to cut through the metal rod.  The whole time, he kept saying to his wife, pray for me, to have strength to do this!  

Once they had cut the rod and got her foot loose, they took her to the hospital.  Her mother said, they were sure there was damage to the tendons and nerves.   At the hospital, the doctor said, you'll have to hold her down, I'll have to give her a shot and then sew it up.  But little Dominica replied, you can do whatever you have to do doctor, because Jesus is with me and he will give me the strength I need!   The doctor looked at her mother and said, you are Christians.  

This morning as Alexander was telling me this, tears were rolling down her face.  She said, "Thank you, so much for coming to Manta, and for starting this church!  Thank you so much for teaching the Word of God to my daughter in the Sunday School!  God is using her to strengthen my faith, and God is using her to soften the heart of my husband.   She said, "this week, my husband said, I need to start going to church!"   He also told Alexander that they would get legally married, so that she could get baptized!   They have an appointment to do that on Tuesday!

While she was talking to me, little Dominica ran up.  She was wearing some cute little sandals and she had a small bandage in the middle of her foot.   We are praising the Lord that there was no serious damage done to her foot!   Please pray for John that he would come to know Christ as his personal Savior!