Kilsi update

Hi,

Just another update for those who have been praying and asking about Kilsi.  After Kilsi ran away on Wednesday, she called Thursday night and said she was going to come back on Sunday with two teenage friends (also from the sex trade) to live in the house again.  We spent the weekend preparing the house for the 3 of them, and talked to Kilsi Sunday morning around 10 a.m. when she said she was leaving Santo Domingo (about 3 hours from our house) and said she would be there soon.  We waited all day until 9pm and checked every bus that came in and she was not on any othem.  We talked to her and she said she was in La Vega, a city about 45 minutes away from us.  Two of the guys from our team went down to get her and looked for around 2 hours for her.  When they called and told her they were in La Vega to pick her up, they heard loud music in the background (like she was maybe in a bar) and she hung up on them.  They tried calling back several times and she never answered (though the phone did ring, so the battery was not dead).  We waited up last night for a while longer for her and she never came home at all during the night.  It was a tough weekend, and we´re not sure what is going on with Kilsi and her friends - if she is messing with us or if there is something bigger going on.  A parent of one of my students said the other day (when I returned to school bawling after Kilsi first ran away) - this is why God gives us babies, so we start out easy and have over a decade to train them up - you´re starting at the hardest phase Mrs. DeYoung!  So I feel for all of you out there who are also trying to mother teenagers, especially teenage girls, it´s not an easy task at all.  Please keep Kilsi and her two friends in your prayers, as well as the other 3 girls, Jessie, Katerin, and Yaguira, who also ran away.  Dave and I and the rest of the Priceless team can use your prayers too. :)  Keep in touch, and thank you for all of your prayers and encouraging emails, sorry I don´t have time to respond to each one individually, but I do love you all and appreciate you.

Love and prayers,
Kristin