Prayer needed

          This is Marissa Rae Comfort and she is also in the hospital recovering from pneumonia. Marissa picks up colds and then does not get rid on them easily.  She is coming home tomorrow, but she will continue to battle.....she, like most of our others is an AIDS baby.....and she is as sweet as she looks!

PRAYER NEEDED

......for those of you who know Santiague, he has been admitted to a malnutrition ward at Hospital Albert Scweitzer in Desarmes, Haiti.  We picked up Santi from a hospital where he's been living for a year near the DR border over two months ago.  We have struggled to get him to eat in a consistent manner to put weight on this ever so tiny body.  He is 18 months old and wears 3-6 month old clothes.  Momma told me yesterday, that he is eating via tubes and is sleeping a lot.  Please lift him up in prayer.

MAY NEWSLETTER.

Momma singing with Babo, Marissa Rae and Mason.

Prayer does work.....

                     ...... and we need a bunch right now.  We're both pretty tired and
I had come to the states for some important banking business.  Momma has her hands full.    

Santi and I discussing the Yankees season up to now.

        First and foremost is Santiague.  He is not keeping food down and he's eating precious little of it.  He started off well after a month with us.  Now he has good days and bad.  He's happier and a little bit stronger, but is still has not gained much weight.

         We need you to ask for God's benevolent grace.  It is a behavioral thing as we have noticed that he vomits when he wants to.  He may need to go to a hospital soon and get on an IV, but this is hard as Momma would have to stay with him and that's really tough when you have 12 others.  It's alarming, but not critical and Momma handling him and the other 12 with precious little help.  It just doesn't need to become worse.  God will bring us through.  He always does.

        If that isn't enough, the washer bit the dust, but we have a new one people gave us a year ago.    However, it take dad to get it going......construction is at a standstill and lastly the VCR/DVD player is out of action!  I've been gone for two weeks, but we both know how important rest from the grind is important.  Trisha is in bad need of a rest and I'll go solo in a few weeks and we will both be better for it.

This is a personal story, 

                                  ......but interesting none the less.  I knew all along through life that I was adopted, but that was the extent of my knowledge.  Two years ago, I found out that there were five kids (I'm the youngest) and at the onset of my birth and near about then, we were separated 4 different ways.  Well, three days ago, I met the first of that family, Michael (Sonny) and we've had a wonderful time getting to know each other.  All five of us had the same mother and father and the question is: Do we look like brothers?  It's an interesting chapter in my life and I hope to meet the other three.  Sonny is 1 yr/5days older than me, is blessed with a very sweet wife and lives near Ocala. FL.

Life is a little difficult......

Isaiah 41:10

'Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.'

We can persevere through the worst that life can bring if only we keep our eyes on the prize.
 Thank you Jesus for caring for me.

All that is Elda!

Elda was so very precious as a baby and just a whole bunch of fun.  She was born in prison to a mother with AIDS and escaped without contracting the disease, most likely due to not being breast fed.  When we got her, she was three months old and HIV+ due to the mother having AIDS and the bodies natural response to protect itself.  In subsequent tests at 18 months, she was found to never getting the virus. 

As many folks will testify, Elda took the "terrible two's" to pretty extensive heights!  Never have we had such a difficult time with such obstinate behavior!  A lot has changed since we moved to our new home a year ago.  She is coming around and getting enough attention for the good that she does, as well as being a great worker around the house with chores asked of her and chores that are not.  She can be very good about keeping her footlocker clean/orderly and bed made, without much prompting.  She can be a big help with the three yr olds and often helps us in the kitchen.

                   As we get deeper into school, she's becoming more serious, especially when Dado doesn't buy "ditsy"!  Only Roodline has been with us longer and Christian came the same day.  She's a beautiful, loving and sensitive child (and still mischievous)