Personal Update

At the end of the year, we were able to see three new converts baptized. This was our first baptism in Paraguay, so it was special for us. We held the morning service outside at facility the church uses for picnics and such and also has a small pool to use as a baptistery. My husband preached and Missionary John Lennon baptized the new believers. The attendance was 120.


After the service, my son in law and a deacon began grilling A LOT of hamburgers for the lunch, which was followed by a soccer match, of course. Paraguayans have to have an 'asado' (grill) and they have to play soccer to celebrate anything! It was a fun time for all the people, young and old.



My husband has been doing a lot of marital counseling and teaching. I am starting to teach a Sunday School class on Sunday mornings. Jayde continues to sing with the choir and has done a few specials as well as sing the song she wrote herself for Christmas. Jewel works in the nursery a lot and is discipling another teenage girl.

My husband started language school and is studying Guarani. The only other student in his class is Japanese.

Youth camp starts tonight. Schools are out on their summer vacation and children's camp just finished. My two girls are excited as this is their first camp in Paraguay. Lots of packing today. So difficult to know just which outfits to take you know!!!

As for me, I have had a bad week with a my back and sciatica. No real medication so I have felt it all and have been hindered in my mobility. I am starting to feel better...I think. I also started a new diet and am happy with the results so far having lost 4 kilos in less than a month including the holidays.

Having had to spend quite a bit of time in bed with this pain, I started watching the series Star Gate on dvd. Oh dear! I love Sci-fi and I never saw these so... I am also doing a lot of reading but have not been able to use the computer too much. It is difficult for me to sit when I have sciatica. Some of you may have seen that I have not been around to visit your blogs lately, this is why. I'll catch up later.

In spite of not leaving the house much this week, I have, managed to learn a few interesting things about Paraguay.
Frogs have curative values!(Keepin' Sane with Littles)

It hailed in Paraguay this week!(Hagermans on a MISSION!)

Chocolate chips were discovered to be in a store in Asunción!!!(but they are not to be used for cookies! The clerk says they are only for sweet bread!)

Guarani grammar is a lot like Ye'kwana but sounds like Sanema.

Oliver Stone came to town and met with President Lugo.


We need rain in the Chaco and the headlines say the Iguassu falls are lacking water.

Lots of boys are text messaging my daughters trying to get them to go to the banquet with them at camp! I am tired of text messages.

Ex-pat Paraguayan Blogger Bash!

I also was given this award by a new friend. I was able to meet Betty last month when a group of ex-pat bloggers got together at Brenda's house. We had so much fun. It was like we already knew one another from our blogs. She is a Canadian living in the Chaco.

Thanks Betty!

Pray for a good time for the kids at camp,pray for my husband as he studies. I hope to be able to study after the school year. I have to Home School and do not think I can do them both at the same time. Pray for my health and the ministries here.

And pray for Israel!