Lea

Any day now, Lea Bonzano will be having her baby girl. She has been in many of my updates this year. Early in her pregnancy she started having complications and had been on bed rest. Things began to improve and she was slowly able to do more things, but mostly in her home, and finally able to do more things out and about. She and her husband Jorge have been coming to our new church plant in Salamanca and are attending the membership classes too. I am still visiting her weekly as possible, and it has been a huge blessing that Laura Salvatierra is here too, she is going with me as well to visit. She knows a lot more about maternity nursing than I do, so has been a great encouragement and knowledge base for Lea.

Earlier this month we held a baby shower for Lea and Jorge. It was a lot of fun and well attended! It was the first time I've ever hosted a baby shower (and came to find that they can be a lot of work!) but it was so worth it. It was a good time of fellowship, we got to meet more of Jorge and Lea's family, we got to encourage them, and they were able to get a little basic start of supplies for a baby.

I got off the phone with Lea a bit ago, and her contractions have increased to every 2 hours... so there is still some time, but if you happen to read this, if you could pray for her, that just as the Lord brought her this far, He'll bring her even further to give birth without complications to this precious baby girl, and that both mother and daughter will be healthy.