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This post is to encourage godly women in their every day duties in the home, seeing another godly woman doing hers. Read Titus 2:3-5 and Proverbs 31:10-31 to be edified. 
 We went back into a territory that has a lot of Mexicans and on one of our witness walks we went into one of their stores. The gospel went out (a Spanish one) and we walked out with a little treat (pumpkin empanada).  As we were walking up to the store I saw this sign and was able to figure out that they were asking that people use the other door. I knew 'por favor' is please and the word 'puerta' had to be door and the only reason I know that is because I took years of French class in high school and the word for door in French is 'porte' and if you know some of one language, you can often discern some of another. I was also taught sign language when I was about 12 or 13 but don't remember much, nor much of the French as I've never had to use either. I hope the Lord blesses me with help to learn a small amount of Spanish to get along in the proclamation of the gospel in the years ahead but let's see if we get those days.  On the last Titus2 Proverbs 31 encouragement post, I shared about these soups and mentioned that if I found them at the dollar store I'd stock up....and I was blessed to do so. (click the pic to go to that post.) I'll get 8 meals from them for $5. I'm thankful for such blessings the Lord provides.  After I found those, we traveled and I stopped in another one of those stores and found 2 more soup and a handful of the spicy beef crumble packages. You can see another post about those HERE. They are a great price and really easy to whip up a quick, filling meal in minutes, like these tostada's:
 I made mine into a salad.  We were on a witness walk through a store when brother Tupos found an awesome deal on chicken burgers so we bought a package and he cooked them up for the next many meals. (.87 cents / burger) (Clothes drying in the background after washing clothes across the street for $2:-)
There's a LOT of cotton fields around here and a LOT of wind so it's not uncommon to see a bunch of cotton stuck in the flowers, weeds and anywhere that it blows. It makes me think of clothing (much of it being made of cotton in years past) and how hard it must have been for women to keep their households clothed when they had to weave or buy the material and hand sew it. Apparently many years ago the flour, rice, seed and seed sacks used to be made of cotton materials which women used to make clothing. Today we have much ease in that area being able to buy clothing already made or sewing machines to do it quickly. Good things to keep in mind as we go about our duties, extra thankfulness for it all.  I'm so thankful for this glass cleaner. For years I've used the cheapest cleaners and they were so troublesome to work with because I think they're mostly water but I never paid attention to anything different until just recently. We've been in an area that has a LOT of dust flying around a LOT of the time and I saw a woman in a parking lot cleaning her windows as she waited for her husband in the store. She was using a spray can like that in the picture and I wondered what that was and if it worked. I found some in the store and I'm so thankful as it works better than any I've ever tried, one spray, a few wipes and it's clean as opposed to many sprays, many wipes and many paper towels used. The cleaner costs more than the cheap stuff but cleans with less application and less paper towels so it's equal to cost but yet saves a bunch of time. Simple things to rejoice in!  The dollar store that I like to shop in has these pink Himalayan salts so I stocked up on them. Keeping a biblical perspective on things keeps scriptures in mind so I thought I'd share this: Matthew 5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. Genesis 19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. Be the right kind of salt and glorify God in all our days!  We were parked at a free city campground (they welcome travelers) and these young boys came over and asked for some water so brother Tupos hooked up our house and let them fill their water bottles. Later they came over again with more youth and asked for more, which we glady gave them. They were reading the signs on the van as they walked away. (They were very young so we didn't witness and engage in much conversation but they could easily look up the website for more truth.) I was thinking what a blessing water is, one of the barest of necessities and it was a blessing to be able to give them some. Brother Tupos and I know very well how it can be finding water out here, even refill stations in the stores so we greatly appreciate it more than we ever had before (even when living off grid for years). John 4:6-7 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. [7] There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. They had to work hard for their water but today, most people take it for granted because it's so readily available in homes by the turning on of a faucet. Even more rare is the water of life, that's readily available to anyone who loses their lives in repentance, surrenders all to Christ and is born again then follows after Him. Most people just want the living water without any of the rest and it doesn't work that way. Test yourself to the biblical gospel HERE.  We were out flying gospel signs on a busy corner and I told brother Tupos there was something in the road and did it look like it would damage a tire. He waiting until a time he could get out there and pick it up...yep that would have done a lot of damage! Love your neighbor in small ways also. Here are a few more glances into our lives out here as godly saints serving the Lord. Go about your days in thanksgiving, being content and rejoicing in all the Lord has done!
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