Exciting Week

This has been an amazing week here. Yesterday, Steve got to the end of the evangelism story set with one of the groups, and it seems that several truly understood for the first time what Christ has done for them. There were about 20 in attendance, we will wait to see how many of them continue to come. This is the point when we normally will lose several people as they realize that what we believe is different from their age-old Catholic beliefs, and they chose their old way rather than the truth of the Word. However, there were several who really seemed to get it, and the chieftain's husband (pic below) was one of them - he was actually in tears by the end of the study, as were several of the ladies. Interestingly, for those of you who have one of our Agta prayer calendars, his picture is the one featured this month! So cool how God works. One of the old ladies said, "I have tried to follow God my whole life, but I have never understood this before. I finally understand now and have hope. Thank you for coming to explain this and for being patient with our confusion."

Also, this morning, Jose's parents were baptized! Unfortunately, the camera malfunctioned so we don't have any pics of it, but here is an old one of the two of them - some of you may remember them from previous posts or from visiting here with us.
All three kids have had nasty asthmatic bronchitis coughs all week. They have been taking turns doing nebulizer treatments a couple times a day. Well, Ben has also been "phasing out" his nap time, so I wasn't too surprised tonight when I saw that he had fallen asleep while doing his treatment! :)