Today my heart is full

My heart is so full as I sit and type about our day today. In the picture above you can see us and our teammates Butch and Jeff, and in the green shirt is our friend, and brother in Christ Vicente Castillo. Recently after hitting the ground here in Cochabamba Gary received an email from Vicente. He had been following our team through the website that Gary designed and our family blog. He contacted Gary in hopes of worshipping with us... and the rest is history, and a sweet one at that. Since that day we have gotten to know and cherish Vicente as a friend and brother. Vicente was (and is) a baptized believer and after much study between he and Gary we all agreed that he was baptized just as we were, for the forgiveness of sins. We have gotten to know his family (his precious mother Nelcy, who by the way loves Nathan, his older brother and his wife, and his younger brother and his girlfriend). In fact we were there just yesterday for lunch for which Nelcy cooked a traditional Bolivian meal from her home area of Potosi. It is always such a treat for us to get to spend time with them. So as if having their friendship wasn't blessing enough, today we were blessed to watch Vicente state publicly in the worship service that he wants to be a member of the body of Christ with us here in Cochabamba. As I watched my husband recount their getting to know each other, study together, and grow together, and then was able to watch Josh and Butch come up front as well to pray over our brother, my heart was so full. And as tears ran down my face as I wrestled Nathan because he wanted to be with Gary and Vicente up front as well :) I sat and marveled at the goodness of our God. Butch spoke of how we are here in this city to make disciples, but how also we have been so blessed to find believers already here, already following the beautiful words and teachings of our God. We are so blessed as a family to have the friendship of the Castillo family, and blessed to call Vicente our brother in Christ. Praise God for calling His children to Him. He has a way of showing himself to us! Thank God for days like today, He continues to amaze me!