Church updates....

This past Thursday night we were so privileged to be present as our new sister Talia took on the Lord in baptism! Jeff, Katie, and Gary have been studying with Talia and recently she made the most precious decision to be baptized. So Jeff found a local hotel that would allow us to use their pool and off we went! Her family and many who have been attending the church here with us were able to be there along with the team and what a beautiful time it was! It is always something so touching to me to watch someone enter the family of Christ and begin a new walk with the Lord and this time was no exception!

Katie & Talia (doing what we Church of Christers do best... celebrating with yummies!)

Celebrating Talia's baptism at the Sandoval's

As if that wasn't blessing enough last week, we were so blessed to have the new Sucre, Bolivia mission team here this weekend to visit and do some shopping (as they're all getting settle into their new homes in Sucre). They are a team of two families, two single guys and a single gal. We are SO excited (did I mention we're excited?) to have them here working for the Lord and with us in Bolivia! One of the family units on the Sucre team is Josh's youngest sister, her husband and son and so Josh's parents were also in this weekend visiting. We had potluck after church today and with the Sucre team we knew it would be a full house, and a happy one! But then we were so blessed to have 5 or more first time visitors... many of whom were family members of Cochabambinos who have been attending church with us here. So overall it was an amazing Sunday here for the church in Cochabamba.

The Sucre team was able to share some of their faith stories and their vision for the work in Sucre. As I sat listening to my brothers in Christ share stories of how God had transformed their lives', their families' and their life visions' tears of joy streamed down my face! It always moves me to listen to how God has pursued relationship with those I meet, and it humbled me today to know that I am able to call such amazing brothers and sisters not only family, but partners in the work here. Please continue to pray for the work here... for Talia and her new walk with the Lord... for the church here as it continues to amaze us with who God is bringing to himself through our being here... and for the team in Sucre as they get settled in their new homes and new work here in Bolivia! God is so good and today I was blessed to be witness to just a glimpse of how good!

Well....

So last Saturday Nathan decided to grace us with his precious presence at 6:00 pm. I chose not to wake him up and in the long run I think it was the way to go for little man. He was only up until about 10:00 which is not totally out of the norm for him anyway, so it appears that Nathan's become the champ of long Saturday afternoon naps. We had a repeat four hour nap again yesterday. I did finally have to wake him up yesterday evening at 6:30 because we had to make a grocery store run before it got too dark. I guess we'll just have to stay tuned to see where the road of nap time will lead us this week :)

And what would you do?

It's officially 5:35 pm... you started off your morning listening to Disney Playhouse and feeding your little guy yogurt (which by the way he's not so crazy about, but is good for antibiotics!) and then it was off to downtown to say by to Jamie and Hannah (who are on their way back to the states for a visit) and then on to the market (which only took an hour today, man I'm getting good) and then back to the house, when Daddy says hey let's go for a ride out to some lumber yards, at which time you unpack the things that need to go into the refrigerator, realizing one of your bags of milk has busted in transit (you're loving Bolivia for it's "all good things must come in plastic bag" system at this point :) and pack up your two guys and head off for a ride.

After bargaining at the lumber yard, chasing Nathan around, learning that Nathan has quite an arm when it comes to rock throwing (we're definitely going to have to work on that one... as in NOT beaning everyone in the head with rocks) you head back home and Nathan passess out in route. Upon arrival (1'ish) you unpack Nathan from his car seat... change his clothes for naptime since in transition he awoke, give him his milk and blankie, and he eventually falls back asleep... BUT we're going on 5 hours later folks and that kiddo is still passed out upstairs.

Now tell me listening... ahem... reading audience, what do you do? Do you dare risk waking a sleeping child? The usual rule in the Bull house is a definite NO, maintain the sleep at all cost! But, it's nearing dinner time, and I'm wondering, how late is this crazy thing going to be up tonight because of his marathon nap? Do I approach the sleeping beast, or let him lie? That is the question...

I miss....

Texas in the spring! All you wonderful Texans out there, enjoy the wildflowers for us!

(Thank you Vickie for the picture... you're so good to send us great pictures from home and we so appreciate our glimpses of Brownwood from afar!)

Boys will be Boys...

Well, just in case anyone in the world was wondering what the raised impression of the floor tiles at the church building looks like... Nathan's got you covered :) After a tumble this morning during church, this is what was left on my sweet boy's forehead.





After a few minutes of crying, he realized it was time for Sunday school and was fine :) But I just couldn't help sharing the very unique goose egg that Nathan's sporting right now :)