This year we had one of the worst and longest dry seasons in many years. The hummidity in the air was down less than 20% some days, but 3 days ago we were blessed with a wonderful refreshing rain that came down during the night. It is amazing that in just three days the grass that seemed to be completely dead, is now sprouting all over and things are starting to look green again! Praise God!
This was the field just a couple weeks ago...
After just two rains later the green is already showing!
But the first rains do have some down falls here in Goiania...the morning after the first rain, we had millions of flying termites that here are called ironically ``Halleluia`` bugs. You can see them flying around the roof of our house in this picture:
After they come out of the ground flying they loose their wings and go back to the ground, leaving millions or billions of pairs of wings for us to pick up...it´s quite annoying!
and even with all the doors and windows closed, the wings somehow creep into the house and land on everything...
But luckily it only happens during the first days of rain...I managed to clean the house and everything is back to normal.
Along with the newness of rain, God has brought a renewal in our strength and joy through some recent events.
Among the most exciting was Talita´s baptism which took place last night at the girls home where she is living. Several other girls from the home and a couple boys from another home were also baptized. It was such a joy!
Talita and her baptism certificate!
After the baptism there was a wonderful meal with rice, beans, chicken and salad.
Here is a group foto of all the kids that were baptized...
This morning (Saturday) we also had a soccer championship here at the base with the kids from the Terceiro Espaço and two teams from a local school. We had two divisions with older boys and younger boys. Both of our divisions won!!! whohooo!!!
Our team is the one in blue...I was not able to get any pictures of the older boys because it was pouring down rain when they were playing!
Roney (the guy in yellow) is one of our staff for the Terceiro Espaço (he and Ceará organized the championship).
While some played soccer, others enjoyed a swim in our freezing cold pool just after the rain (kids...who understands them?!:)
Jonas (in the red shirt) also watched and cheered our teams on...
This is Jonathan (they call him ``Zoinho`` which means ``little eyes``). He is one of our oldest Terceiro Espaço members (he´s been with us from the very first day). His father passed away just a couple weeks ago. Pray for him!
As Lucas grows inside of me, I have been going into ``nesting`` mode and have been organizing Lucas´room. Here is the curtain I made for him...
I also got an idea from the internet to make baby felt shoes...here are a few I made for Lucas and all the babies that have been born to friends recently...
These are for Davi, Junio and Lorena´s little boy who will be born in January in South Africa.
These personalized ones are for my Lucas...
and these too...
These ones are for our neighbors daughter, Beatriz who is now 4 months old...
and for these ones are for Caleb, our other neighbors son (5 months old)
Next week I hope to paint Lucas´ room with Mario´s help. He promised to help me with this task before going off to Zimbabwei where he will spend 15+ days.
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