Sunday

Hola Everyone!
Today (Sunday) has been an interesting day. Carmensa took the day off, and our new escort was a college student named Camilla. She was very nice, and very good at speaking English. She brought us to the only non-catholic church we could find; a Baptist church. Mom took the kids to Sunday school, and dad and I stayed in the service. The singing was neat, though hard to understand. ;oP A man named Fernando that had lived in the US for 34 years but was born in Colombia sat next to Dad and interpreted for him. It was a very kind thing to do, but unfortunately he was not one of the privileged few that was born with the gift of whispering, and so he wasn’t exactly inconspicuous. All I could gather (I couldn’t hear the interpretation enough to understand it) was that without Jesus there is death, but with Him there is life. ;o) My great word for the week.
About halfway through the service, I felt really sick, so I left and sat outside. We left as soon as it was finished, and when we got home I skipped lunch and went to sleep. Dad, Mom, and the kids took off for the pool, and they were back when I woke up. We mostly just hung out after that. The only noteworthy events for the rest of the evening were my first empanadas, which I am now officially in love with, and the eating of chocolate ice cream, which is extremely hard to obtain in Colombia, since it usually melts by the time it gets home. Not to mention it was nine dollars for like…two pints. Just makes me appreciate it all the more.

Please pray for our integration meeting tomorrow at ICBF which is the official adoption authority in Colombia. We are meeting with social workers and lawyers to see if both we and the kids are wanting the adoption process to continue. If so, the paperwork will be filed with the court system and we will begin our wait for our case to work it's way through.