Saturday, July 12, 2008

Saturday, July 12

A fun day today!! The Goodwood trip had a fun morning with the kids. They held their festival at the school with all sorts of game stations, activities and a pinata. They had a great crowd. In fact, this morning so we would have sugar for coffee and a few other necessities, I headed down to the pulperia close to the school around 7:15 and kids were already gathered at the school. The Goodwood team didn't arrive til 9ish. The kids did not want to miss the fun, so they arrived early!!
Then after lunch a few headed to the beach and a bunch of us went on a hike to a really awesome waterfall and a 'swimming hole' it was a really neat place up on the Rio Negro river. Just beautiful!! Those daring enough even jumped off the large rocks into the hole...don't panic parents. A fellow missionary here has recently taken an air tank down to ensure its depth. It was a really neat experience for sure.

Last night I busied myself sewing fabric tubes to fill with sand to help the little boy with CP be positioned. Otto, Bobby, and Thad worked together to build a 'stander' that would help hold him up. Thad mentioned just now at dinner how amazing it was to see him in it as he held his head up for the first time some when put in it the first time...before that his life had largely been spent laying in a hammock or just being laid around other places. Gives him a new perspective. Thad said he smiled and smiled. John Mark went with them today and enjoyed his time with Rabin as well!

We are heading back up the mountain after a dinner on the beach with our little houe unit plus a few extra.....better go before my ride gets here!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Prayers, Love & Thanks to all our Trueheeyo folks! We love praying specfically based on your blog comments Rachel! WE MISS THE BARTLETT FAMILY at West Metro and look forward to your return soon! We know that you are touching so, so many hearts there just as you do here at home! My favorite portion of the blog so far is the vivid description of looking out the office window! Now, when I'm at work instead of seeing just trees, cars and a parking lot... my mind drifts away to Trueheeyo and I visualize the kids laughing, praying and playing just like you described - a wonderful feeling....and I whisper a thank you prayer to God! Keep up the great works and we'll keep the prayers going up!
WE LOVE YOU,
BEV & JIM

Pablo y Raquel said...

Thanks Bev and Jim!!
And Jim...sorry we haven't decided to pack up and come home yet as you'd hoped....ha ha!! In fact the time is passing WAY too quickly!
We look forward to being reunited with our family at West Metro too though.