We have rain!

Almost exactly a week after I blogged the last time it finally rained!  And it was a very big storm with lots of lightening and thunder.  I had thought it looked like it might rain, but took the kids to school and we barely made it into the gym when it started pouring!  It hasn't rained every day, and the plague of flying termites hasn't appeared yet, so I'm not sure if we're in the rainy season or not...but its enough that the smoke is gone from El Hatillo.

Also, after I posted the last time our church had a baptism and church picnic at a nearby lake some private property that belongs to the father of someone in our church.  Thirteen people ended up getting baptized...a huge number considering how small our church is.  Other than the flies that swarmed during lunch it was a great day.  Nice to get out of the city for a few hours.  Kyle was not able to go since he was gone for the volleyball tournament, but me and the kids had a lot of fun.  Here's a few pictures from that day.

Speaking of Kyle, he is currently working on his final week of classes for the semester!  He will then have the summer off and begin the last year of classes in August.  He has huge amounts of reading to do this week, then a 2 or 3 hour test to do over the reading.  He hasn't done well on the other big tests, so pray that this one will be better.

I have been very busy lately working on things for the Honduran Fellowship.  Last week we changed some of our job titles, and rearranged some of our tasks.  This week our "homework" was to write out procedures for how to do each of our duties.  I finished my 10 or so pages this afternoon while the kids napped.  This morning I also had to go and renew my driver's license.  Licenses here are only given for the amount of time that you have residency.  Since my residency is renewed on a yearly basis, I am also required to renew my driver's license every year around the same time.  Before you are able to renew the license you have to go into a little shack outside and pay for a medical and eye exam...which consists of reading 3 lines of letters and getting your blood pressure checked.  This year they also added a psychological exam...which you must also pay for :)  I walked into this little tiny room crammed with desks and was handed a packet with 50-60 questions in it all in Spanish.  The first 40 questions or so were basically an IQ test.  The next section was questions about how you would feel if you arrived late to an event, or how you would feel if someone arrived at a party badly dressed.  And the final section asked if you knew the day, date, year, season, what floor of the building you were on, etc...  Someone had told us yesterday that the test wouldn't be a problem.    But once I opened the packet and realized how long it was (and how bad the copies were---some questions were impossible to see the entire thing) I was a little worried I might fail the psych exam :)  Apparently I worried Kyle because I was in there so long...I had put my phone on vibrate and I could feel it vibrating in my purse over and over and over.  When I walked out of the test I had 5 missed calls and 2 texts from him asking where I was and if I was ok.  But most of the other people taking the test were in there for longer than I was, so I think it is normal to take awhile on it.

The kids are their normal crazy selves.  Levi likes to go outside and talk to the birds, and wants to be wherever his big sister is, doing whatever she is doing.  Juliana has been saying and doing some pretty funny things lately.  At dinner she told us, "I wish mommies could just take care of kids and let them do whatever they want to". After she dinner she asked "why do I call you mommy?"  And yesterday she asked for a pair of scissors so she could cut out a parable.  Apparently in Sunday School she learned that a parable is a "rectangle with a little topper".  I think they've been learning about Jesus' parables, but I'm not sure how that fit with the story of the Good Shepherd :)