A journey through life. Sometimes everyday events become adventures!
Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV) "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight."
Mis papas ya tienen el privilegio de vivir en una comunidad encerrada. No, no se han mudado, sino que la comunidad encerrada esta dentro de su casa. :-)
My parents are now privileged to live in a gated community. No, they haven't moved. Rather, the gated community is within their own home! :-)
Mi papa hizo e instalo dos puertas grandes para ayudar que mi hermano (que tiene 15 anos y tiene autismo) aprendiera a quedarse en su cuarto de noche y todavia pudiera ir al bano. Muchas veces t entraba a la cocina o al cuarto de sus papas de noche. De verdad, t esta muy emocionada por las nuevas puertas y le gusta abrir y cerrarlas. (Mi papa las va a cerrar con llave de noche.) Aunque las puertas se parecen mucho a las puertas de un bano publico, mis papas estan muy contentos por su comunidad encerrada. :-)
My dad made and installed two large gates to help my brother (who is 15 and has autism) learn to stay in his room at night and still be able to use the bathroom. t would often go into my parents' room or into the kitchen at night. t is actually very excited about the gates and enjoys opening and shutting them. (My dad will lock them at night.) Even though the gates look a lot like doors to a public bathroom stall, my parents are very pleased with their new community. :-)
El sabado pasado tuvimos el privilegio de participar en un evento bien especial de la iglesia. Queriamos dejarnos conocer mejor a la comunidad y tambien poder presentarles el evangelio. Servimos un almuerzo de pollo a la barbacoa (preparado por un muchacho de una compania local famosa por su pollo y preparado en el mismo patio de la iglesia cerca de la calle para que la gente que pasaba viniera a comer).
Last Saturday we had the privilege of participating in a very special church event. We wanted to make ourselves known to the community and also be able to present the gospel. We served a lunch of barbecued chicken (prepared by a young man from a local company, which is famous for its chicken, and prepared in the very front lawn of the church near the the road so that passersby would come to eat).
Fue una bendicion ver la participacion de tantos miembros de la iglesia. No sabia que iba a ser tan grande! Unos primos mios que tienen un negocio de tiendas para fiestas erigieron una tienda enorme en el estacionamiento detras de la iglesia, algunas tiendas mas pequenas, y tambien tres "bounce houses" para los ninos. Varias damas, incluso a mi mama, sirvieron la comida a los que venian, y, antes que empezo el evento, mi mama colgo muchos "dryer sheets" para controlar las abejas. Otras personas limpiaban, sacaban basura, vendian las entradas, hacian las piraguas y los algodones dulces, se encargaron del sistema de sonido y de la musica, llenaban globos, y--estoy segura--hacian muchas mas cosas.
It was a blessing to see the participation of so many church members. I had no idea it was going to be so big! Some of my cousins, who own a party tent business, put up an enormous tent in the church's back parking lot as well as some smaller tents and three bounce houses for the kids. Several ladies, including my mom, served the food to those who came, and, before the event began, my mom hung a lot of dryer sheets to control the bees. Other people cleaned, took out the trash, sold tickets, made snowcones and cotton candy, handled the sound system and music, blew up balloons, and--I'm sure--did many other things.
Lo mejor de todo fue que pudimos presentar a Jesucristo por medio de este evento. Vinieron mas de cien personas que no eran de la iglesia. Algunas personas compraron la comida y se fueron y otras personas se quedaron a comer, pero cada persona, por lo menos, recibio un tratado e alguna informacion de la iglesia. Tambien, una vez cada hora por cinco minutos mi papa pudo presentarles a los que estaban sobre Jesucristo y como conocerlo como su Salvador. Otra cosa emocionante fue que la iglesia esta empezando un website evangelistico, Jesuscares4u.com, que estabamos tratando de promover en este evento. Pedimos globos con ese website escrito en ellos, y un hermano de la iglesia dibujo un letrero grande con esa inscripcion.
The best thing of all was that we could present Jesus Christ through this event. More than one hundred people came who were not from the church. Some people bought the food and left while others stayed to eat, but each person at least received a tract and some information about the church. Also, once an hour for about five minutes my dad presented a short message to those who were there about Jesus Christ and how they could know Him as their Savior. Another exciting thing was that the church is starting an evangelistic website, Jesuscares4u.com, which we were trying to promote through this event. The church ordered balloons with the website written on them, and one brother in Christ drew a big sign with the website on it.
Primero les voy a decir que estoy usando otra computadora y no voy a poner los acentos...
Para ponerles al dia, al final de julio tuvimos una linda visita de mi hermana A por un fin de semana largo. Jugamos cartas, nos metimos a la piscina, y nos reimos en cantidad. En esta foto, A esta para irse al aeropuerto, pero no pude dejarla salir sin sacar foto para poner en mi blog. El banco que mis papas hicieron este verano nos sirvio bien para nuestra rapida sesion fotografica. Gracias, Senor, por mi familia.
To put you all up to date, at the end of July we had a wonderful visit from my sister A for a long weekend. We played cards, swam in my aunt's pool, and laughed a lot. In this picture, A is ready to leave for the airport, but I couldn't let her go without taking a picture to put on my blog. The bench my parents made this summer lent itself well to a speedy photo shoot. Thank you, Lord, for my family.
Ahora, tal como dice el titulo, habia un murcielago en mi apartamento! He visto uno tres veces desde la segunda noche que A estuvo aqui. La primera vez, mi papa lo hizo subir al atico por una puerta en el techo y luego cerro bien la puerta con un martillo para que no bajara. Pero, me parece que es un murcielago inteligente porque bajo otra vez por el sistema calentadora. El dia siguiente, mi papa lo encontro durmiendo cabeza hacia abajo en la puerta de uno de los dormitorios. Lo cogio y lo saco. Entonces varios dias despues lo vimos de nuevo, pero no sabemos como entro ni si fue el mismo murcielago. Otra vez mi papa lo saco. Hace una semana ya que no vemos ningun murcielago, pero mi papa quiere subir al atico para ver si verdad tengo una cueva de murcielagos arriba. Entretanto, mi nuevo nombre es "Batwoman."
Now, as the title suggests, there was a bat in my apartment! I have seen one three times since the second night A was here. The first time, my dad made it go up through the attic door and hammered the door shut. But, it seems we had a smart bat because it came down again through the heating ducts. The next day, my dad found it sleeping head down in the doorframe of one of the bedrooms. He caught it and took it outside. Then, several days later we saw it again, but we don't know how it got in. Was it the same one? My dad took it outside again. It's been a week now, and we haven't seen any more bats, but my dad does want to go up to the attic to see if we really do have a bat cave up there. In the meantime, you can all call me "Batwoman."
