Panama Trip March 2012

Shalom brothers and sisters in Messiah! Hope you have a blessed Pesach.

So sorry I have not been blogging, our computer broke

and then we went to Panama where there isn't wireless internet.

 Now we are Filadelfia celebrating Pesach with some of the brothers in Costa Rica.

Here is some pics and a video from Panama.

Decided to make it into one video so that there weren't 5 parts. :)

This is the 1st time I have done this so let me know how it looks

 so that I can know if I should do it like this again.

Anyway, on to the video!

From Filadelfia, Costa Rica...

Have a blessed Pesach/Shabbat!

Shalom!

The Montanez Family

Servants and Emissaries of Yahshua, Children of YHVH

HalleluYAH!!

Panama Trip Part 2- Blessed Family

Psalms 133
See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity –
2  Like the precious oil on the head, Running down on the beard,
The beard of Aharon, Running down on the collar of his robes –
3  Like the dew of Ḥermon, That comes down on the mountains of Tsiyon.
For there YHVH commanded the blessing, Life forever!

We had a blessed time while we were in Panama. We stayed with the Jimenez family.
More about them later. But for now, on to the pictures!

Getting ready for a trip in the back of a pickup.

In the front of the pickup??

THIS GROUP!!

We stayed with a very special family named the Jimenez. We met them at Sukkot this year. 

They are new to following Torah but are learning VERY rapidly. We were able to answer a lot of questions that they had. They were as blessed by what they learned from us as we were blessed by them letting us stay at their home.

Left to right: Kevin, Mr.Rafael, James, Kimberly, and Mrs. Betsy.

My blessed parents, brother, and I in a nice family picture.

My dad grabbed this small tree. Very nice balance if I must say so myself!

That's a beard!

Spending Shabbat together. The lady in the back is named Yadira. Will talk more about her in another blogpost.

My mom "teaching" some of the women to dance. It isn't as easy as what we think.

Kevin "blowing" the Shofar. That isn't easy either.

My beautiful Mommy!

GROUP PICTURE!! The mountain is so beautiful in the background.

Big smile!

Double smile!

James and Kimberly washing their socks! Imagine that! Washing socks by HAND! That's what you are going to see if you don't live in the states.

Ahhh! So cute. My mom holding Gabriella, a baby who we are going to talk about in another blog post. She is so adorable! Speaking of which, she will be our next blogpost. 


Until then....

Shalom!
The Montanez Family
Servants and Emmisaries of Yahshua, Children of YHVH
HalleluYAH!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Panama Trip Part 1- The Beauty of Panama

We had to go on a border run 2 weeks ago to Panama. We had to take a bus from a nearby town named Penthurst to the border named Sixaola and from the border to 1 town named Changuinola and another bus to another town named David and THEN another bus to the town where we were going to named Boquete. 

Total time it SHOULD take: 9hrs. 30 mins.

Of COURSE if something happens that a taximan tricks us at the border, then drops us off in a place where we weren't supposed to be, then we get stuck for 3 1/2 hrs waiting for 4 buses to pass with no seats, THEN finally getting a bus where we had to STAND for an hr and a half(I wasn't feeling good!), WELL.... then it takes:

 13 HOURS!!

BUT we had a good time, and Panama is VERY beautiful. 

Here are some beautiful pics from Panama:

 

Psalms 72:3

Let the mountains bring peace to the people, 

And the hills, by righteousness.

This is a VERY cool mountain. It's name is get this: Mount BARUCH! It is 1/2 an hr. away from get this: DAVID!! Cool!

Psalms 1:3 

For he shall be as a tree 

Planted by the rivers of water, 

That yields its fruit in its season, 

And whose leaf does not wither, 

And whatever he does prospers.

My beautiful Mom!

What a.... hmmm... can someone please give me the word for this...??? Comments anyone??

Songs of Solomon 2:12

“The flowers have appeared in the earth; 

The time of singing has come, 

And the voice of the turtledove has been heard in our land.

Psalms 148:7,9

Praise YHVH from the earth, 

You great sea creatures and all the depths, 

  9 The mountains and all hills, 

Fruit tree and all cedars,

This is a COOL pineapple!

These Oranges are as small as a quarter!

Psalms 98:8

Let the rivers clap their hands, 

Let the mountains sing together for joy before YHVH...

The town by the river.

 Psalms 127:3

LOOK, children are an inheritance from YHVH, 

The fruit of the womb is the reward.

Genesis 1:28a

 And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, 

“Bear fruit and increase, and fill the earth and subdue it,

My mom thought these dresses were so amazing, and when we learned more about this lady, we were even more impressed! The lady in the middle is the mother of 9 GIRLS and 23 GRANDKIDS! She definitely has the "Be fruitful and multiply" down! Very happy family as you can see.

Talking more with them about the dresses. In Panama there are a LOT of local Indigenous tribes . Most of the women wear these dresses, and guess what? They handmade them themselves!

2 of the lady's daughters and one of her grandsons.

More VERY modestly dressed Panamanian Indians.

We were very blessed to be there. The next post will be about the family we stayed with and some more pictures. Until then...

SHALOM!!
The Montanez Family
Servants and Emmisaries of Yahshua, Children of YHVH
HalleluYAH!!