The letters below are letters of encouragement to Transam, and letters from fellow MTs who need encouragement. Please place some of these dear people on your prayer list, asking that they be made aware of the Lord's loving nature and His comfort and healing.

David, one of our associates, has a wonderful sense of  humor and is a dynamic person puts "everything into" what ever he does and displays exceptional courage and calmness dealing with the diagnoses of cancer and severe asthma.

Dear Linda,

Just a quick note to let you know that David has been having severe asthma problems and had to be taken in to the hospital over the weekend for the right treatment. He will be in touch as soon as he is out. He wants you to know how very sorry he is for this set-back.

This is from his wife. Reisha.

Thank you.

Dear Reisha,

Thank you so much for writing. David is a very positive and dear soul. I don't know that we have ever met anyone we like better. Alan has very special feelings for David. I will add this incidence to my mother's prayer list (He does wonders) and our prayer list.

David need not be worried about anything with his relationship with us. We are behind you two all the way.

Reisha, please tell me a little about yourself and David. I think Alan knows more than I, but I was wondering about you and David. Do you plan to go into MT in the future as well? I know you two had a business together.

I don't know a lot more than that except for David has very difficult health problems. Could you tell me more, or am I intruding?

God bless and lots of love from our family,

Linda

Reisha,

I keep thinking about your letter. Would it be okay if we published it, along with a request that our MTs put in some Good Words with the Man Upstairs for him? We believe in the power and comfort of prayer. I know people will want to know about David.

Is David okay? Yes, I agree, he really is a "great guy."

God bless and love from both of us,

Linda and Alan Loehr

Dear Linda,

I just got home form the hospital, it is about 10.30 our time, and I am pleased to inform you that he is doing better. I'm almost afraid to say it, but he is.

Your letter really touched me and no you are not intruding, in fact, it is so nice of you to show so much interest. Thank you and your mother for adding David to your prayer list, I myself have been praying constantly. Also, thanks to your husband for being so supportive of David.

David is such a caring and loving person, it breaks my heart to see him go through this many problems with his health. He has such a good heart. I am from another country. I've been here for 5 years. I met David about 1year after I got here and we have been together ever since and he has done so much for me, it is all because of him that I am here making a life of my own.

I'm still with our business and will stay on with it until David is capable of doing his work on a steady basis. Once I think he can handle everything, I will turn the business over to the new owners and yes, I plan to get involved in MT. I would like to say so much but time is running out, gotta get up early in the morning for work, you know how that goes.

Again, thank you so much for you lovely letter, it really touched me.

Reisha.

Dear Michele,

I heard through the grapevine that you were in the hospital or had tests
done??

Are you okay?  Have they discovered anything of help so far?

God bless you, dear one,
Linda

Dear Linda,

I had been in the hospital 2 weeks ago. I went into ER not thinking they'd
keep me. But keep me they did. They ran every conceivable test for MS,
lupus, Myasthenia Gravis, chemical poisoning, heavy metal poisoning, etc. So
many of my symptoms are neurological in nature. They did find a small,
benign cyst on my brain but remain unconvinced that it the source of my
problems. A follow up MRI in 6 months will determine the status of that. My
differential has been upside down, showing a low white cell count and a way
too high red cell count.

After all that, I am left with no diagnosis as yet. I have been left with
hands that tremor when I am tired, a loss of hearing in my right ear, as well
as weight and hair loss.

This past week, my glucose levels came back under 60, so Tuesday I go for
another round of tests to see what is going on with that.
I am beginning to feel better, finally. I tire easily. I have been praying
to the Lord about being vain. It has been hard to see my hair fall out. It
does grow back and my husband has been so loving and supportive. Our church
has inundated us with food and offers of any kind of help we need. My mother
came here from Texas for 8 days to help me and get my home in order and
freezer stocked with goodies.

I still want so much to be an MT. God has given me a good left ear and
although my typing is slower, my handwriting is WORSE! LOL I feel so
strongly that I need to do SOMETHING while my kids are in school. I am a
fighter and a survivor and I am unable to accept just being sick and that's
it. I know, too, that the Lord will either reveal what is going on with me,
or lay His healing hands on me and rid me of whatever this is. I know you
have a business to run, but I'd be so honored if you could just be patient
with me a little while longer.

I hope all is well with you. Are you feeling any better from your bout with
the flu?

You are both in my thoughts and prayers.
Michele

If you have been following the Newsletters, Michele is one of our interns in Tennessee who started having mysteriously ill feelings and symptoms. She has been going through multiple testings with no answers.

Angel Linda,

As always, you can publish anything I write to you.

Thank you for that web site... http://www.restministries.org its WONDERFUL! I passed it along to a few of my friends as well.

I hope your Sunday is a wonderful one. I had hoped to make it to worship this morning, but alas, it was not meant to be. I do know that I can be here and pray and thank the Lord for all of my incredible blessings... you and your husband are counted among those.

"Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up." Psalm 71:20

God bless and love,
Michele in Bartlett, TN

Hi Michele,I don't know if you got on the restministries.org list yet. I just love these devotionals. Thought I would pass on Today's.

God bless you and give you comfort,

Linda

Thanks, Linda!

That was great! I subscribed to the site, so now I can surf it as well as get the daily devotionals.

I passed out 2 hours into the 3 hour glucose tolerance test. My blood sugar dropped down to 49........ SO at least we know one thing.. I am hypoglycemic.

I have to go Wednesday for another test to see how my liver and pancreas are functioning as well as a test to see just how much insulin this body of mine is making. As for the other stuff, looks like Guillain-Barré.. no cure, but most do recover in time. I am feeling better, just tired.

Hope your vacation is simply super. I wish you both Godspeed and safety
and much R & R. Much love and the Lord's peace..........

Michele

Hi Linda!

I e-mailed Alan earlier this week checking into the next step for me now that I've completed Level Three. I thought I would say hi and let you know a little about our week...

My husband, Peter, was in an accident while driving a concrete truck 3 1/2 years ago. Last May, after two plus years of mysterious pain, they finally discovered a fracture in his left shoulder, and began a 4 months process of pinning that back together. Finally, in September, he had the final pins out and was done, but the pain wasn't. So today, he had one more surgery to "decompress" the acromion and remove a bone spur (arthroscopic). He'll be in overnight, but hopefully home tomorrow and on the way to recovery. He's also had some unexplained (still) blackouts and facial tingling/numbness that are somehow related. No one can figure out what's up, but we know he has a brain (MRI) and that there are no tumors or lesions or evidence of strokes, etc, etc. Life is interesting..!

So this week has actually been a good one for me to have been done with Level Three and just waiting, because now I could be at the hospital today, and to the kids Open House at school tonight (good timing!) without feeling pulled to the computer!

As I've read some of the letters in the newsletters, I have been amazed at the depth of suffering you have accumulated in your staff! God is most certainly using you to give some hope to people like me who have so many other hard things, that they need to be able to succeed at this. Thank you so much for being willing and for truly caring (I didn't intend for this to become deep!) - anyway, hopefully we are on our way to health at our house.

Hope all is well with you! Tammy in Oregon!

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