Getting back on track...again

ok here I go again, my third attempt at blogging in the last two days. I began writing the other day and then my laptop shut off..which it does quite often due to it not having a battery(don`t ask!). I thought I had lost everything that I had written but it turns out that it was saved in my drafts...unfortunately, I am not the type of person who can just pick up where I left off, because I am now writing two days later and have other things to say, so therefore, I errased the whole thing and am starting once again. I attempted again to come on and blog last night and (of course) as soon as I opened the internet the computer decided once again that it had had enough for the day, and off it went. Needless to say, I pulled at my hair with a sharp inward scream and then decided to just call it a night and go to bed myself..haha not much I can do about this computer right now. It is frustrating as we have not been able to be online much at all lately, but I must be thankful for the communication that we have at least, so I will try to keep my complaints limited.

So where do I start?? Oh mygoodness, there are so many things going on here that I honestly don`t know where to start. HHmmmm. My ladies group in the church...that is where I will start. We have had some really good times with the ladies these past couple of weeks. We have changed our meetings to Wednesday afternoons at 3pm and for the first few weeks it was difficult as no one was showing up. Granted, it is summer time here too, so that plays a big role in the whole thing. A lot of ladies have family visiting or they go and visit family for a few weeks etc. >For the past few weeks there have only been about 3 or 4 of us who actually attend the meetings, due to this, I decided to suspend the actual "classes" that we usually have and make the time more of a special "summer visiting" time. I decided that for the next few weeks, until school starts again and everything gets back to "normal" we will continue to meet on Wednesday evenings, but instead of having an actual Bible study with a lesson and whatnot, we will take the oppertunities to go and visit sisters in the church, and then have a special tea time together. The idea is to have the ladies feel comfortable and when we were meeting in the church and there were only 3 or 4 of us, I could tell that the ladies were not that comfortable. For the first few classes I brought the ladies to my house for tea..and we had some really good discussions of what God had been doing in our lives lately etc. This past wednesday we had a bigger turnout, about 8 ladies came and we all went to visit a young girl that I had met during an evangelism that we did last weekend. She has a little baby who has had to be operated on 3 times and he is only 8 months old..poor baby. Anyways, we went and visited her, prayed with her and then all came to our house for some Sopaipilla(its like deep fried dough...sooo good!) and tea. Jorge was also here with Josiah and we all had a great visit and it was really cool to see how the ladies were so relaxed open with us. For the ladies here the whole idea of having tea at the Pastors house is a big thing...as their former pastors never really ever let people into their house, but Jorge and I have told them that for us, we enjoy sharing with people and we really do love having people over! Anyways, we are also planning an outing for all of the women in the church for this saturday. we will be going to the river and spending the whole day there, to just get away and relax, so I am really excited about that.

These past few weeks have been good for us, and for the church I think. There is still a lot of hurt and pain that has been caused in the people and we have come to the realization that no matter how eager we all are to "keep moving forward", we also see that we are still in "the desert", still going through this hard time, still in the middle of everything that took place almost 4 months ago and what we need now, more than anything is to seek God and His Presence, because He is the only one who will get us through this. Jorge and I were talking these past few days and we have noticed that if there is one thing that the church is strong in, it is relationships...they are a tight family who love each other, but they are still greiving the loss of their other "family members" who left the church and it will take time for these wounds to heal. I am so proud of Jorge and the work that he is doing here. God is really using him and speaking through him and I can see how the LORD is at work in his life daily. He has been spending so much time in prayer and seeking God, and yesterday the LORD gave him a very powerful word from Zachariah to share in the church...everyone was broken and crying...and I could just feel the LORD saying "these are my people, and I will not let them go...but they MUST desire nothing but ME!" And this is the desire that the LORD is putting in the hearts of my brothers and sisters here...they are desiring GOD, nothing else. We have had so many tell us that all they want is to meet with GOD, to know Him more, to see Him. If you think of our church family, please pray for us...in this area.

In all that has been going on around us me and baby are doing well. I have been feeling a lot better physically this past week and emotionally also. Honestly about two weeks ago I was struggling so much, up and down with my emotions (or maybe my hormones!), crying and then laughing, laughing too hard and then I would start to bawl..lol I was a mess. I would have certain days when I would wake up and want to be anywhere but here...and then others where I would wake up and be so excited to be here with my family. But no matter what I feel...I know that we are where the LORD has called us to be and that gives me peace. I havent been having as much cramping or pain as I was last week either and I am very thankful for that! My baby has been moving around constantly so I have no doubt at all in my mind that he is happy and well. LOL. My tummy, on the other hand, is HUGE and seems to be growing more and more everyday. I am at 30 weeks now and am starting to get REALLY nervous about the birth, but at this point there is not much I can do but face the music, haha so I am just trying not to think too much about it and take life as it comes.

Josiah has been keeping me VERY busy lately and honestly, the thought of having two of him scares the bujeebers out of me, LOL! But it is also so fun to watch him grow and see him do new things and say new words everyday. Last week he started going "pee pee" in the toilet, everytime I would change him I would hold him over the toilet and he would go...but this week the novelty kind of wore off and now he says "no pee pee!" uh oh...that worries me a little bit. Especially as I was getting all ready to potty train him in the upcoming weeks! (yes, I bought big boy underwear, a plastic diaper cover and everything LOL. But we will see what that brings about. He has also started saying funny things like "uuummmmmm" when you ask him what he would like and "huh?" if he doesnt understand you or if you call him. Today I said "what are you doing son?" and he looks at me and goes "huh?!" and when I said the same thing but in spanish he then began jabbering on, finishing his sentence with ".....and with the puppies!" LOL I think he was talking about how he wanted to play with the puppies but they were sleeping, but it was funny that he didnt seem to want to respond to the question when it was in english.lol. He is a funny little dude.

But I think this post has gotten long enough and although there is so much more to write about I will have to continute to do so in the next few days. I know I have been lazy with my writing, but I will try to keep it up more often...and hopefully in a few weeks we will have a more reliable computer also, which should make my writing experiences a whole lot less complicated:)

Will write again soon...bye for now!