Alexis is 10!

Last week we celebrated Alexis' 10th birthday.  We invited a few friends over and had a good time celebrating.  She chose brownies instead of cake, since she doesn't like frosting.  So that was easy for me to make. 


I can't believe she is 10 already!



Happy Birthday!



We have been really busy with classes these past few weeks, and I have enjoyed the teaching.  We have talked about attributes of God, our emotions and truth, and spiritual gifts (based on the test, my gifts are Service, Giving and Teaching).  One thought I enjoyed that I'll share with you has to do with how great our God is.  The teacher pointed out that we have a choice.  We can either have a big God, or we can have big problems.  Think of the spies that checked out the promised land.  Ten of them saw the problems as really big, impossible even.  They didn't think that there was any way that the Israelites could enter the Promised Land.  But 2 of the spies had a big God.  They knew that God would be able to give them the land because that is what he had promised to do.  So I thought that was a good way of looking at life.  We can focus on God, and know that he is able, or we can focus on our problems and be discouraged by them. 

 

In other news, we still don't know what we are doing for our outreach time.  We haven't been assigned to any of the groups yet, because the leaders weren't sure if the churches would be able to accomodate our family.  We may just stay here in Pichilemu and do the outreach here.  The leaders are going to let us know hopefully on Monday what they recommend.  So we will keep you updated.  We only have 2 more weeks of classes.  I can't believe that it is almost over, and we will hopefully know soon what we'll be doing for the next 3 months.