"But he who endures to the end shall be saved" (Matthew 24:13) Well, we continue to wait for our girls to be brought back after six weeks of being gone. Things really move quite slow around here. We have continued to knock on doors, plead, beg, but nothing seems to happen. We know we are called to endure till the end, so we continue to wait and hope in the Lord. I started this report a while back but never had a chance to finish it. So many things have happed since then, I don't even know how to go about telling you everything, but I will try... We had a 15th birthday party for our niece Rachel, we have two ladies from NY visiting, we had our annual women's retreat on April 10th (thank you for your prayers), we had Sunrise Service #13 in Cerro Prieto early this morning, then Sunday Service later on here in the ranch, we have our friends Steve & Shawna visiting from California with their three younger children...    Rachel looked absolutely stunning, yet so sweet!             Suzie & Christy from NY As you know, 15th birthday parties are not our favorite thing to do, but this is the third one my husband has done anyway. The one before was Dulce's. And as we did with hers, we started praying everyday for the Lord to be glorified in the event, or not let it happen if He wasn't going to be lifted up...Oh, His faithfulness! He answered our prayers again! The event was very sweet and His name was lifted up.   Nora We broke our record with the assistance this year. We had over 90 ladies come! We have to find a bigger place for next year, Lord willing. My sister Edy, as usual, was going to be the special guest speaker. She had been preparing for months for the event, but it turns out she was not able to make it in the end. I found out the day before the retreat, that although she had made every effort to be here, she wouldn't be able to come. I was speechless when I found out. But my sister Nora was here, she is a very gifted speaker too and very willing. I asked her to help me, but it turns out she didn't think she could stay (she had come for the  birthday party April 8th and she needed to leave). It was 8PM the day before the retreat (April 9th) and I find myself numb, I was not prepared to be the speaker, I felt like I was running completely on empty, I was so overwhelmed I didn't even have the strength to reason, so I just told the Lord He was going to have to do something. Well, Nora, my sister, ended up staying and she was such a blessing to have. We were all amazingly blessed. The Lord was present, oh, His faithfulness! And I had the greatest gift a mother can receive, Roshon  shared her testimony. Those of you that know Roshon, know that speaking in public is not something she would choose to do. She only did it because she totally felt the Lord wanted her to. There were many tears shared as she spoke her heart. Oh how sweet her words sounded to my ears! THE LORD IS GOOD!!!   Lolis modeling the retreat shirt. 'He will be with us till the end.' Cerro Prieto this morning was quite cold. Unlike other years, only a hand full of people went this morning, I didn't even go, although I wanted to, I was too tired and not feeling so well.   Then we had our Sunday Service at the ranch later on at 10AM. We had all the people from the different communities come. In the end we all shared our food and had a sweet time of fellowship . Do you recognize the place where we held it, Paul & Ruth?...Yes, it is where they had their RV. It worked out perfectly.     Please continue to pray for us as we continue to be in limbo concerning the situation with the girls and all...    Daniel's perspective: Ana is going to be getting a much needed, much deserved vacation starting on Wednesday. She will be heading to see Rochelle, Brian and the twins! I want to thank everyone who has been praying for me to be able to sleep as for the last week I have been able to do so with no problems. That was due in part to the government being shut down for Easter week. They are going to be open for business starting tomorrow so I will once again need lots of prayer coverage to be able to get things done with getting the girls back home and being able to turn off things and sleep at night. I am also running with the needle near the empty mark, but knowing that God has one of those tankers that He can fill us up on the run with. He is SO good and we are so ready to see Him and to be with Him and to be able to drink from the rivers of living water that flow from the throne. Meanwhile, as we wait, we are aware that in the last days the love of many will grow cold because of wickedness and that Jesus questioned if there would be true faith on the earth when He returned. We are determined that through Him, our love will not grow cold and our faith in Him will never cease. So, if there isn't going to be faith on the earth when He returns, (IF) it's because He is going to take His church off this planet before that happens. ANY DAY NOW! Be ready, be waiting, be busy about our Father's business. The way I understand things, He is coming back for those who are watching and waiting. This morning, only 8 of us went up the hill to pray and praise the Lord. We had decided not to do it this year because it is quite a lot of work to get over 100 people up there and I just didn't have the heart to do it with the girls not being able to be there for the first time. Rochelle wrote to me saying how much she would be missing being there, but that she would be going to the sunrise service in TN, thanks to her in-laws, who would be watching the twins. I decided last night that some of us needed to go to continue the "tradition" and to just be able to praise the Lord and pray and watch the sunrise on a new day. It was good. God is not far off in times of trouble, He is right there with us through every step of the way. The sun rose and the day was good. The tomb is empty and Jesus is risen! Remember that the disciples weren't waiting on the 3rd day for Jesus to rise from the dead. They didn't even believe it when they were told that He had. They soon found out that they should have paid closer attention and not doubted His words to them. Now it's our turn to not doubt and to be waiting for Him to come in the clouds. Revelation 1:7 God bless you all as you continue to seek Him and hopefully, prayerfully soon, we will be seeing that promise fulfilled. Daniel & Ana