Fun Filled Weekend

Saturday Iris participated in the Cowboy Christmas Gymkhana, this is what Gymkhana means " timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending. All of these events are designed to display precise, controlled actions and tight teamwork between horse and rider at speed, although most clubs offer a variety of classes, allowing riders to compete at the speed level they are most capable of, and comfortable with.

So this event went on at the Rodeo Grounds in Apache Junction AZ, this was Iris's & Pumpkins first time, there was at least 35 participant men, women, and young people, Pumpkin, Iris's horse was very restless at first but later on she calmed down, Iris was too but I kept reassuring her to just go out there and have fun, well, she did!!!!! and she loved it!!!!! then came the time of giving out the awards, they all lined up and the announcer started and after mentioning a few names he called Iris and gave her a $60 certificate to a saddle shop, she was shocked and we were too and rejoiced for her and we figured she must done some thing right, she barely had any experience or practice with gymkhana, I did put 4 sticks in the ground for her and 2 flags and she practised in our half acre back yard, but it was very exciting to see her there, later that day David and I decided to take her out to dinner to one of our favorite family meals "Pho" Vietnamese rice soup and we had found a restaurant so we tried it the soup tasted great and it was not busy at all in fact when we finished eating there was no one in the small restaurant so we started chatting with the 26 year old Vietnamese waitress we got to have the chance to share salvation with her and tell her how much Jesus loves her and died on the cross for her so she can have a way to get to heaven, well to our surprise she was willing to pray and call on the LORD as soon as we asked her to pray with us and call on the LORD to save her, we all walked out of there rejoicing after I left her our phone #, well that was an extra blessing from GOD to let us share His name and Salvation with that dear lady, if you are a Christian and reading this post please pray for her to grow in the knowledge and love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

My Husband Is a Great Soul Winner

It was Christmas Eve around 7 pm when I took our dog Baby Bear out the front door to do his business, as I was waiting for him I saw a shadow of a man walking towards our house carrying a box, Baby Bear started barking at him, as I was trying to stop him from barking at the stranger I heard the man's voice saying "excuse me, excuse me, can I please use your phone?" so I walked inside told my husband, so he took the phone to him, by then he was at our door step, we were standing there hearing hear him talking to some of his friends asking if he can spend the night at their house and that he just got out of jail and all he wanted to do was to spend Christmas with his mother that lived up the street but when he was dropped off there by a guard from prison and drove off, the stranger found out that his mother was NOT home, his dad was but his dad is a dope head as he prescribed him to us and all he did was offer him a cigarette and told him off, so as he was talking on the phone we gathered what was going on and at that moment as we were standing there David thought "why would God bring this man to our door for any other reason other than for me to tell him the good news of the GOSPEL "
so we invited him in and sat with him around the dinning table, David grabbed his KING JAMES BIBLE and started by asking him the question "If you were to die today, are you 100% sure you would go to heaven" the man said "no I am not, I was just thinking about that earlier today" then David opened the precious book and showed him that JESUS paid it all and if he was to BELIEVE on the LORD JESUS CHRIST, HE WOULD BE SAVED, well the man bowed his head as soon as David asked him and prayed on his own without David leading him in a prayer, it was the most simple and honest prayer I have ever witnessed from a sinner asking for salvation, the tears swelled in our eyes as David and I looked at each other as he was praying so earnestly and asking the LORD JESUS to save him, it was one of the most precious gifts I had this past Christmas, to see a soul saved in our home on Christmas Eve.
He is 21 years old, he told us after he got saved that it was Not a coincident that he ended up at our house after the disappointment with his mother and father on Christmas Eve.
I will be writing the rest of the story in the coming days..

God did good again, another soul saved, another name added in the book of life...

It was an easy going day for the girls and me today, prayed and did my stretching while I was listening to the Bible reading, had to go to the store to get some stuff.

We have been praying for our next door neighbors to get saved and that God will open the door for us to witness to them and share the precious Gospel of our Lord Jesus, well after Iris finished school , Justin came over( a neighbor from across the street, we witnessed to him about a month ago and both him and his mother got saved) so Iris and him went to the next door neighbors and asked if their daughter Sara would want to come and hang out at our house, so she did come, all three of them were running around chasing each other until Iris twisted her ankle so they had to sit and chat, David and I were in the house, I asked David to please go out there and make sure they are having a good conversation, so he did and all of sudden he comes in and get his Bible and goes out, so I went out to see what they were talking about, here was Iris talking to Sara about Salvation and Justin whispers to Iris to please help her get saved, so then David started showing her all kind of verses and answering her question, after about half an hour we asked her if she wanted to get saved she said yes and she prayed with us and got saved, she was so ready to get saved we can all tell that the Holy Spirit has been working on her and I could see the tears in her eyes as we were talking to her, God is sooooo good, ready to forgive and save, all we have to do is open our mouth with the good news and watch the power of the Glorious Gospel work on the poor helpless souls. Iris ridding the Mule and Justin ridding the quad, they both belong to Justin but he brings them over to ride with the girls.