Wednesday Night

Well, it is wednesday evening and another day is finishing. It was Valentines day today and I got Misty some roses for her present. We also bought some chocolate bars from a lady that works at Joey and Emily's school. Misty made some labels and put them on the bars and we shared them with other DTS students in the morning. We are halfway through with the lecture phase. I don't even know how to start saying how good this has been for us to go through together. We have learned about the Father heart of God together, had amazing interactions with the other students and the guest speakers and I am so glad we were there together. It has been a good group to be in there are only 12 students in the class, so we are able to get to know each other better than if we were in a larger group. I speak from experience; the first DTS I did 11 years ago had like 30 people in it and there are some people I didn't really get to know at all, I never really had the chance. This week we have a guy from YWAM Denver talking to us about missions and giving us information about where unreached people are, and leading discussions about various questions. For example What is the gospel? What is the kingdom of God? What is salvation? Our Speakers name is Chris Failla and he reminds me and Misty of Quentin Steen a lot. Chris manages to communicate without dropping ocasional F Bombs though.

Today the power was out on the Base for all of the morning and half the afternoon while the Power was being repaired out in front of the street. It was a very interesting experience preparing lunch today. I worked Imelda our new cook and she is so good! It reminds me of a scene from the movie BIG starring Tom Hanks. Tom has wished himself to be Big so he is a little kid inside the body of an adult, he gets a job doing data entry at a toy factory and is just working away typing in data andthe guy next to him says: "hey, slow down you are going to make us look bad" I am having a good time working with Imelda. I am so blessed by here being here.

Joey and Emily had a good day at school, today they were celebrating Valentines day Joey had to bring some candy to share and Emily needed popcorn so she could have some for her movie they watched. Joey has just started the 3rd level of Kindergarten and Next fall Emily will start the 1st level, at which point we will have to decide if we take them both up the street to a different school so they can be together or have Emily at the present school-Piccolo Ninos and Joey at Colegio Americana.

Misty is really enjoying the class time, and also when she gets together with some of the other girls in the small group time. She is also enjoying watching Joey as he blossoms as a child; he is getting more verbal and talks all the time and tells stories that go on forever, he is getting taller. Misty is also so proud of Emily and how she is a nurturer, we saw this when we went to the orphanage, and when she plays with her baby dolls. It is also great to see her hair growing back.