Nathan Lloyd-Jones and Rebecca Monterroso Lloyd-Jones Missionary to Honduras

Hola to all our friends and family,

We are doing wonderful and God, as always, is awesome! I ask you this: who can separate us from the love of God? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or finances, or danger, or war? Like the Bible says, “For your sake we are killed all day long; we are seen as sheep for the slaughter. Yet, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loves us.” Romans 8:35

God’s love in us helps us make it through any and every problem. I know I say it all the time, but I can not thank you enough for all your prayers. Satan has tried everything (and is still trying) to take our joy away, but he will not win and we thank you for supporting us.

I’ll give you a brief update on how things have been going. We headed out of the U.S. on the 16^th of January and that morning I woke up with the flu, which didn’t make for very good traveling conditions. We arrived late that night to the big city an hour away from our home. I can’t remember all the problems we had that night but the final one was the computer I thought had been fixed. I tried a few different things to get it working but nothing was working. I quietly laid my head on the table with tears in my eyes and I began to say to God, “God, I don’t want to go through all this again. I am not ready for another year.” And then I heard that still, small voice inside me say, “That’s what I wanted to hear. Now I can help you.” With all I could, I mustered up a small prayer, “Lord, I’m sorry. Please help me.” It doesn’t always come this easy, but right then a new idea came to my mind about my computer. I got up, switched cords and the power came on. It was that easy. I heard God say to me, “If you will trust me with all you have, I will always come through for you.”

The next day presented us with much greater challenges but I remembered the words to one of my most favorite songs: “When the darkness closes in Lord, still I will say: blessed be the name of the Lord”. Fighting tears, stress and worry, I said these words and He handled all our problems.

We arrived home and started to work. When you leave a house for more than a day in Palacios the jungle invades, so we had our work cut out for us. The second day Rebecca woke up and thought, “I didn’t see the computer while I was cleaning!” Later, she asked me if I knew where it was and that moment we realized what had happened. The man we left taking care of the house mentioned that one night while he was at a church service he only locked the door to the wrap-around porch at our house but not the inside doors going into the house (thinking it would be safe). When he got back, he found that it had been broken in to. Being unsure of what we had in the house, he really couldn’t tell if anything had been taken even though he could tell that someone had gone through the kitchen cupboards and into some of the rooms.

Earlier in 2007, a girl that Rebecca had grown up with and was friends with had come to us for help. Rebecca and I took her in and let her stay with us as well as trying to minister to her and lead her onto a better path. After we left, we let her stay in one of the dorm rooms of the clinic until she got on her feet.

She knew how to get into the house because she had stayed with us and she knew exactly where to find anything of value. She took just about every electronically item we had in working order. The total cost of every thing she took came to over $3,500. These items weren’t all ours; some were for the Youth center, School, and mission tools.

Feeling very overwhelmed we sat down on our bed in silence. Rebecca felt terrible because people had come to her on all sides as soon as she took in the girl telling her she couldn’t help her; that she was just trouble and she would never change. Knowing that the girl could change if she wanted to, Rebecca was determined to help her, no matter what others said. And now that we had lost so much, she felt like it was her fault. I told her to stop blaming herself, we have prayed hard about every decision we made regarding this girl and if the devil thinks he’s done anything to slow us down, he’s wrong. We also have hope that this will give us an opportunity to minister to the girl in a way we were never able to before by showing her the power of God’s love and forgiveness.

When something bad has happened, it’s hard not to let it consume your thoughts, but with God’s strength we have already had many opportunities to share and witness to many people. It’s a wonderful thing to be able to say our joy isn’t in things or people but in the One who never leaves us, God.

Next week, we start school and the new teacher for the kindergarten, Jenny, is wonderful. Jenny is such an encouragement to us and it is awesome to have a helper so sold out to God.

In all this, we know that God has big plans for this year and we look forward to sharing them with you, thank you!

Greetings faithful prayer warriors and supporters!

Nathan, Rebecca and Aiden Lloyd-Jones have arrived in Honduras . Already we are lining up groups to join with them in Honduras for short term mission trips throughout the year! It should be an exciting year for the ministry in Palacios, so I ask for your continued prayers for this family!

Once the school year has been started, Nathan and Rebecca will update us. In the meantime, I have a newsletter Nathan wrote in December. Enjoy!

Hello to all our loved ones,

We would like to start off by saying thank you again for your prayers and your support; you can't even imagine what a blessing you have all been to us.

This year has been, by far, the most challenging and best year of our lives. God has stretched us in so many ways and taught us so many things.

We went to Honduras planning to work with the youth and expecting that to be our main ministry. However, God put us through fire and tested our faith, obedience, and love. He placed us in charge of an A.C.E. English school that had eleven students and no roof.

At first, we decided that we would only run the school until "God sent another". After many trials and hardships, we realized that God knew exactly what He was doing when He sent us to Palacios. God wanted to bring us to a new level with Him. He wanted us to obey and be willing to set aside the vision He Himself had put in our lives and hearts. He knew that our hearts were for working with the youth and He knew that one day we would work with the youth, but that day had not come. He wanted us to set aside our very strongest passions and look only unto Him. He knew what would serve Him best and He knew what would break us and make us, oh, so desperate for Him. And that is what He did for us this year. He changed us and molded us and He used fire to do it. And we are so very thankful that He did. If we had not been through what we had this year, we would not have experienced these blessings or, more importantly, this closeness to God.

God gave us the chance to experience His faithfulness in completely new ways and we hope and pray that by reading this you also are able to experience in some small portion what we have. We thank you again for being a part of this ministry. God bless and keep you.