Long time, no write....

Hello Everybody,

I hope you are all good and well now that all the holidays are done with. I pray God's blessings were prevailant during this past holiday season, in your life and the lives of others around you. So I have some news to share with everyone, that is sad for me to express. My plans in VZ changed and I came home New Year's Eve to the States. My time there in the country was good and God taught me many things, well maybe the more appropriate word would be numerous things. Many unexpected blessings came about while there, such as getting to also travel to Turkey for two weeks in between my time in VZ. So I do not regret anything. God had it all planned out. From now on, I will be residing in Fl permanantley to be close to my fiance Homer Rojas. We will be planning a wedding for August 2nd of 2008. So we have a lot of planning to get going on. It is in God's hands as to why my time was cut in VZ, but I still urge ALL OF YOU to keep VZ in your prayers. It is a country that is in some spiritual warfare and political turmoil. Do not take lightly our duty as the christian brothers and sisters of the people in VZ. We need to hold them up by being down on our knees asking God for Venezuela's favor and protection. And with this I close my last and final blog of this site regarding my time in Venezuela. I LOVE YOU VENEZUELA AND MY SPIRIT IS WITH YOU....

Sincerely,
Sarita L Morris

Last Week

Greetings my Fellow Family and Friends!

Last week I had the great opportunity and pleasure of teaching a soon to be missionary family English. They are a pastoral family here in VZ, that are preping to leave to Austrailla in July of this next coming summer. It was a great and stretching experience for me and for them! :) I decided in the end all the flashcards I bought and brought to VZ with me and some extra span./eng. dictionaries I would leave with the family. They took great joy in this and accepted them with much thankfulness. I am happy of this time I got to pour into this family so they can btter their communication skills for the mission field God has in store for them. PRAISE THE LORD, FOR HE IS GOOD! :) I hope everyone is doing well and I wish you a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Blessings...

Luz de mi Vida

This one is in Spanish, the other one below was a special I sang so it was in English.

Pics and Video

I´m Still Alive

Hola y Dios Te Bendiga, (typical way all Christians here always greet each other)

Well, I have been in Merida going on 3 weeks here soon. I have attended Langauge School for a week on Level 1 then took a week off. While Fer and I had a Missions Convention to attend that gives the annual reports of anything pertaining to A/G with Missions. I had the pleasure of leading the group in worship on Sunday morning, and following Fer preached and then I was asked to come up again and lead some more songs for everyone. It was great!! I´m very happy the Lord is willing to use me, even in my imperfections. I have some video clips I will try to upload on here very soon. Thank GOD He provided me a guitar to use while I am here. It makes such a big difference in the effectiveness of everything I do here. I was asked to also led in some christmas songs in Spanish and English with Fer´s family during (Navidad). Which we are celebrating this Thursday (29th of November).

Her family owns many stores around the area and they are all very busy during the actual Christmas day, before and following, so we are celebrating early. Though we will still have some festivities on Christmas just not with the whole complete fam. This week I have also had the opportunity to attend Language School again and I skipped a Level. I am now on Level 3 and will start Level 4 next week. I am learning alot...sometimes too much..my brain only handels soo much! ha... There are 6 Levels toal so I am doing pretty good. It will take me a while to get the fluency but at least I am obtaining the concepts and then I just need to continue practicing.

When Fer and I go back to Barquisimeto for the months of Jan.-March I will be teaching English in our Office to the workers from 8am-9am every morning Mon.-Fri. Then I will also be taching English to a Pastoral family who is preparing to go on the mission field to Austraila soon in July of 2008. Along with that, I will be working with some youth from a local church in Barq. teaching them English also. So in general, I am going to be keeping myself busy and brushing up on my English skills BIG TIME. My most difficult subject is grammer, but I pray the Lord be with me!! :)

God Bless You All, and I hope your Thanksgivings were great!
Serving South America

A Sucessive Report

This report is starting from 3 weeks back-how time flies!!

Saturday evening my ministry companion (fernanda) and I prepared for a Sunday morning service we had at a local church in Barq. A praise report from this weekend is that I was finally able to get a guitar to use for our ministry services planned. As sunday morning came around and I was practicing the songs I was going to be singing at the church, what do ya know?? A string on my guitar snapped! That was very fustrating because it took over a month to finally get a guitar to use, and then this happens. "Lord, what are you trying to tell me??" :) Before that I was forced to do everything acappella when we went somewhere. Was it going to be back to that or not??

Before we got to church the Pastor called Fernanda, so we took the chance to tell him about what happened. When we got thereI found out he had a boy from the church bring his new guitar for me to use. I was excited about this, then found out it was a Classical. Still not quite what I am used to or comfortable playing. But well- I did anyways! Everyonw was expecting me to sing. It was funny though, I went into a back room to practice on the Classical and about 5-7 youth all followed me. I had no idea why?? haha.. They were so enthused by me being American. They all gathered around me real close wanting to chit chat and watch every move I made. It was akward and all very funny at the same time! ha...Then continuing to stay in the akward momentI had to sit on a stool to play the guitar, but with a skirt on. It wouldn´t be so bad with pants or a long skirt, but with a knee length skirt you have to be really cautious about keeping your legs shut! ha... Plus they has mics all around me to amplify the guitar.

I didn´t feel so good or comfortable about things, but according to them the Lord still used me even in my own insecurities and discomfort. They loved it! So that´s great! GOD IS GOOD!! :) Fernanda had to hold my music also. The people were blessed by both Fernanda and I´s ministry. No matter how great or insignificant we are, God always finds a way to use you and allow you to be worthy even if only for a moment. And most importantly He finds a way to be GLORIFIED!

After church the Pastor took us to a nice restuarant and paid for our meal. He also dropped us by to purchase new strings for my guitar. Leaving to drop us off the car was very pact full of people so Fernanda had to sit on my lap! That´s the 2nd time now...the 1st was in Turkey! That same evening Fernanda had to conduct the School of Missions service for the opening week. By then I fixed my guitar and was FINALLY ablle to play some music semi-comfortably (according to me). Again, the Lord blessed the folks. PRAISE GOD! All week long Fernanda and I have been working on doing some translation work for a big week of teachings in the week ahead. On monday night was the opening service of the Bible School. Me and one of the School of Missions students planned and prepared the music for that nite. We both sang and I mostly accompanied her on the guitar. It was funny because the girl with me was introducing me and talking about what a sweet, gentle, and beautiful girl I am and I had no clue! Of coarse because I do not know Spanish completely yet! I was fideling around with my guitar the whole time. ha....(how embarassing!!!) :)

More Pics of Turkey

The old theater in Pergamum...still doing somewhat well for how old it is!



Praying for a Turkish Pastor, for prtection over his life and his family. He had a POWERFUL testimony!



Marcos Barrientos- a known praise and worship leader in the Christian Latino music realm, who made himself a part of the conference and touring, along with leading us in some songs a few times.



Me and the VZ crew...this was taken sometime in the middle of the night on our travels through bus and boat, from Instanbul to Kusadasi.




more to come soon....