After last weekend in the coutnry, we were ready for the beach. We went to Playa Andres (the beach where I let both of my kids almost drown) which is only 30 minutes from us with Nick, Rosalynn, Owen & Isabelle. They are from Australia and Nick works with Scott at Barrick. It was a very overcast day, so the pictures don't look too pretty. The clouds broke about an hour before we left. Clouds didn't keep Mommy from getting red ;)
After church today, friends came over for lunch. Brad Nelson, a pastor from John Piper's church in Minnesota, preached both morning and night services. I can't effectively describe to you what it is like to hear a sermon in your native tongue after living in a foreign country. You really begin to thirst for hearing English in a church service. We have great translators at church, but getting to understand the words coming out of the pastor's mouth without a middleman is a special treat :).
During church tonight Adeline began participating in singing. She bellowed out the words she was hearing and praised God with raised hands. I was a very proud momma! Scotty was sacrificing and dealing with Darton in the entryway since he refuses to stop crying in nursery. We trade places every other Sunday with taking Darton upstairs during the preaching. Since we have wireless earphones for the translation, we can still hear the sermon upstairs.
A sidenote: During the Sunday School hour while I am here with Darton sleeping I have started listening to a series by Sinclair Ferguson on the Apostle's Creed from http://www.firstprescolumbia.org/. It has been a huge blessing!
Darton stood on his own tonight without holding on to anything and attempted to take a step!
1 comment:
looks like a fun day at the beach! Don't worry, Tys went through that stage of not staying in the nursery too... he screamed and screamed! He grew out of it once he started walking and became independant.
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