The Lord Jesus revealed to us that our house would be close to the second ring of the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra and it was right next to the ring of Santa Cruz de la Sierra that we rented our first house. But on this subject I speak further on. My wife Mina and I continued to pray for money to go to Bolivia. I spoke with several pastors, missions secretariat leaders, missions agencies, pastors of churches involved in missions, but they all said no to financial aid. One day I went to a farm with a group of brothers to pray. I cried out to the Lord Jesus that day about our situation. We had the responsibility to go, we had the order to go, but we had no money. In prayer I said to the Lord Jesus, "God, where is the money to go to the mission field?" That day the Lord gave us the answer. He told us, "What about that car you have? What about your bed, fridge and stove? Sell everything you have and go where I sent you." Don't think it cost me nothing, because it cost me nothing. I got up from that prayer and nothing else had value before me. Everything I had at home we sold and with the money we paid the bills we had and the rest we went to Bolivia. The money was just enough for us to get to the border region and, possibly, get the documents. But at that time Mina started to feel sick and when we did some tests the result was that she was pregnant. We didn't have enough money for two to go to the mission field, the situation got worse when a third person was about to arrive on the mission. My parents were very worried and my mother-in-law was also very worried about us, but even so we left Paraguay and went to the border region with Bolivia. THE FIRST DAYS IN THE BORDER REGION When I arrived in Bolivia, I noticed that many things were different from what I had seen in Brazil and Paraguay. Culture shock is practically inevitable when you arrive in a place with different ethnicities, different people's faces, food, customs and everything that surrounds us. Even the flag flying on the poles bothered me, as I was very used to seeing the Brazilian or Paraguayan flag. We had the first contacts with roadblocks because of politics and people closed the border very easily. Many times we were on the Brazilian side and when we wanted to go to Bolivia the bridge in the border region was closed. In other situations, we were in Bolivia and were unable to return to Brazil. I thought that this problem of paralysis due to politics was only during the election period, but soon the local brothers told me to get used to it, as it was something common in Bolivia But we started the process of looking for a house. We found houses unfit to live in and others in better condition. Rent was very expensive. Then, one day we were walking through the streets not knowing where else to look for a house in that border region and I remembered that we didn't stop for a moment to pray for the house. I told Mina that we should pray and ask the Lord not just for a house, but to put some features of the house that we needed. We stopped under a tree and started to pray. We prayed for a house that didn't face the sun because that region is very hot, that had trees, that had a good room and other details. After praying to the Lord, we went back to look for the house, but this time we had presented our need to the Lord Jesus and details of the house we needed. It didn't take long and soon we found a house with all the characteristics we had presented to the Lord Jesus. I tell these details of God supplying our need and it seems something so simple, but God was showing our lives that HE was with us and that our victory would be and still is in prayer. Well, today I will stop here. Tomorrow I'll write a little more. God bless you Peniel Nogueira Dourado | 
