Volume 4 Issue 1 – “Special Blessings”
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Special Blessings
I want to share with you some powerful miracles God has done in our lives.
I have to be honest with you. I was at one of my “lowest times” just before Easter. We were out of money, and I couldn’t give our girls a special Easter dinner. We couldn’t even afford the basics! We had also found out that by a clerical mistake in our budget, we didn’t raise the funds for Bella’s schooling, only for Lexi! Not only was the school was pressuring us to pay the school bill, but it had also been raised 20% due to a government mandated salary increase for teachers (to off-set the current economic crisis in Argentina).
Then God provided a special blessing! Someone sent us $100 “for Easter”. Since we still had a couple of weeks before we got our monthly disbursement, we were cautious on how we spent every dollar.
I made a list for Jon, and he decided to walk for exercise. He couldn’t believe it when he got to the store. That day at the store they had a special promotion: if you paid with a debit card, you got everything at a discount of 20 percent off. He was able to buy more for the money! He ended up with more than he could walk home with.
When he went to check out, the cashier asked him how he was getting home with his groceries (kind of an odd question). He said he was going to walk. Then the cashier said, “Well, since you spent over 150 pesos we provide transportation home with your purchases.”
When Jon went out to the bench to wait for the transportation, no one was sitting there, but there on the bench was a bag of freshly baked bread. He thought it was odd but he brought it home. All I could think of was the verse, “Give us this Day our Daily Bread.”
God had provided in such a special way. The bread was the exclamation point!
Yesterday, something unexpected happened. We have a favorite deli restaurant that we enjoy going to just a couple of blocks from our house. A great Christian family owns it from our church, but we have stopped lately trying to save money. A couple Sundays ago I saw the owner at church and he asked where we had been. I told him we were waiting to get paid and were kind of strapped for cash.
Jon ordered everything he wanted, and even ordered empanadas (meat pastries) to take home to the girls for dinner. Jon didn’t hear him say this, but he told me. “Well, we won’t charge you today. It’s all on us!” When we were checking out, I asked him why he was getting so much when the owner said it was free. Jon was so embarrassed. He would never have ordered as much if he had heard him.
And before we left, the owner offered to help me buy produce at bulk discount prices. He goes once a week to buy food for the deli.
In the afternoon, I had to go to the store to buy cleaning supplies. I always hate to buy them because they are so expensive. But I made my list and headed to the store. I couldn’t believe it. That day only, all cleaning supplies were on sale! If you bought one at the regular price, the second one was at a discount of 70 percent off. I came home with bags of cleaning supplies. Jon asked me why I had so much. He couldn’t believe at what I was able to get. It has never happened before!
Today, I’m sitting out in my backyard, amazed at God’s provisions. It is starting to get cold in Argentina. Our seasons are opposite to the USA. But I need to take a picture of the lovely purple and pink flowers growing all over my wall. I’m smiling, remembering something Bella said the other day.
When we were raising our funds in the USA we would often pray with the kids for our future life in Argentina. One day as Bella prayed for our house in Argentina, she asked God to give us a house with pink and purple flowers. I told her I would plant flowers at our new house, but I had forgot all about it.
Just the other day as we were outside in our backyard, Bella said to me, “I’m so happy God gave us the house that we prayed for, a house with pink and purple flowers.”
I looked at the wall around our yard. It is full of pink and purple flowers. God answered Bella’s prayer!
We are all amazed at the special blessings God has been sending our way. We still need a miracle for Bella’s education. But somehow, I believe God has the answer on the way!
Thanks for your prayers and support.
Your missionary to Argentina,
Michelle Wellborn
The Wellborns
Jonathan, Michelle, Alexis & Isabella
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