A rainy Sunday in B-D...

Todsy was pretty much just more of the same. We had hoped to go to the Baptist church here is B-D today, but we didn't get the right information about service times. There's always next week. Something tells me it wouldn't be much like home anyway. We sure are missing worship at Temple today. I can't wait to get back home and be able to worship with our church in our heart language. To make matters worse, our Internet connection is slow enough that we can't get the download of the podcast. Bummer!

Today was another good day with N. We went outside today. He ran around and played and had a great time. It was windy and rainy, and a little colder than we would have chosen for a day outside. Just the same, he had a great time running around playing with a squirt gun and making a bow and arrow from sticks and a piece of string. We think we understood that he saw a bow and arrow watching Tarzan and decided to make himself one. Pretty creative, and he did a pretty good job putting it together. We kicked a little ball around as well. He's a decent footballer (for Paul Koonce--that's a soccer player. I know you still won't acknowledge the sport as real, but judging from the amount of it on tv here...it's real!). I must confess that I am hoping we can transfer some of that energy to real football (or some other sport I understand).

The next few days will be a little more of a challenge. We will be without a translator until probably Thursday. That will make our visits a little more interesting. They will also be a little more real. I guess there's no time like the present to perfect the old point-and-grunt method of communication!

A big matter of prayer for the moment is our paperwork in Kyiv. It was submitted Friday, and it needs to get back here Wednesday night for us to keep our court date on Thursday. Please pray with us about that. We are anxious to keep moving forward toward getting home, and us getting that paperwork is a serious step in that direction.

We'll keep you posted...