~Our Trip to Uruguay...part 2~

PLEASE PRAY!  Phillip talked to Bro. Jimmy in Colombia last night and they are having so much rain that there are FLOODS in Bogota...and the waters are only 3 blocks from Jimmy's house and 5 blocks from ours!!!!!!!!  Please pray that God will protect both of our houses, and help those who are suffering there!  THANK YOU!
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Thank you for your prayers for our trip to Uruguay, the Lord really helped us!!   There were several times that Jesus put us in contact with people and we tried to touch their lives for HIM!  Others are WATCHING each of our lives (your too! =)...may they see the DIFFERENCE that Jesus makes in us! =)
When we rode in taxis, we had to ride separately; the guys in one, and us girls in another.  In one of the taxis Phillip's taxi driver asked him what he did and Phillip told him that he was a pastor/missionary and the guy said, "That's what I thought you were!"
On our boat ride home a couple older ladies were watching our family and near the end of our ride one of them started talking to Kimberly in English.  She asked Kimberly if we like to travel a lot and Kimberly told her,  "Yes, my Daddy is a missionary"...to which she replied, "That's what my friend thought y'all were!" =)
Here's lots more pics of our trip.
~Phillip making a "castle" with the boys to try to help Elijah to not go out in the water and get his hurt ear wet. =)~

~Mary loved the sand and water!~

~Elijah getting a bath with his "plastic bag shower cap"...to keep his sore ear from getting wet. =)~

While walking around Montevideo we met a couple and the guy was wearing a shirt that said, "Cartegena, Colombia" so I told him that I liked his shirt...and our family stopped to talk to them.  Bless his heart, the guy was missing part of his face due to a cancer surgery he had had earlier in Miami.  We noticed he got very quiet when he found out that Phillip was a pastor.  Though we don't know his name, our family is trying to pray for him when he crosses our minds.
~Elijah, Sarah, and Noah eating our last meal in Uruguay...before we got on our 2 1/2 hour bus ride.~

~Kimberly, Heather, Mary, and Phillip eating lunch.~

~Our 3 "men" pulling our suitcases.  It was so CUTE to watch Elijah try to help this time.  HE WANTED TO DO IT BY HIMSELF!  Sometimes he would completely fall over while pulling his suitcase, but he'd get back up and try again.  (Always before he would ride in the stroller...but now he's getting big enough to want to help!  =)  He got a lot of smiles from passer-bys.~

~On our bus ride home Kimberly sat beside a nice lady named Nancy.   They chit-chatted at first then the Nancy started to rest...but when Kimberly pulled out her Bible to read it, that pricked her interest.  She started asking Kimberly questions and they chatted the rest of the time.  She was raised a Jehovah's Witness.  She was interested in hearing what we believed, and she didn't try to argue with Kimberly at all (Which we as parents really appreciated).  When she left she commended us on our sweet daughter.  We trust that God used Kimberly to be a blessing to Nancy!~

~Before we got on the boat to go back home we had purchased some candy to eat with our supper we had packed.  We got some M&M's and some Nerds.  While our 3 year old Elijah was trying to eat his sandwich, he kept getting distracted by the thoughts of the CANDY that was awaiting him!  =]
Finally, when he was done he told me that he wanted some of that...,that..."What do you call it?  'NERVOUS?'" (Nerds =)
[The name he called Nerds was more truth than poetry for our very ACTIVE Elijah!  For when he has sugar he gets even MORE active/"nervous".=)]
Then when we opened the M&M's he looked at one and asked me, "Is that a "M" on there?"  And I said, "Yes, it's a "M" for Mommy!"  To which he said, "No, it's a "M" for ME!"  We thought he was quite clever! =D~

~Noah eating "Nervous" too!~

~Mary, Kimberly, Elijah, and Mommy on the boat.  We met a couple from Colombia who now live here in Argentina and we surely had a nice time chatting with them and sharing the things that we all MISS about our beloved Colombia!  We exchanged email addresses!~

~The sun set taken from the deck of the boat.~

~Phillip and some of our kids up on the deck.~

~I took this picture of Elijah and Noah up on the deck...and if you look closely you can see Kimberly and Sarah through the window behind them down at our table inside the boat.~

~2 people who fell in love...and have gone MANY places together for Jesus!   Uruguay made country #10 for Kimberly, Sarah, and I, #15 for Phillip. =)~

~Kimberly snapped this neat picture of the Uruguay flag and the moon.~

~A fun picture that Phillip took from the deck of the Uruguay flag, the moon, and the water.~

~There was a duty-free (tax free) store on the boat, so the girls and I went down to look around.  I was DELIGHTED to find a BIG bag of Mini Reeses cups for only $22 Argentine pesos...being just a tad over $5.00!  YEA!!!  I was SO excited!
I quickly ran back up stairs and asked Phillip if we could buy them to save for a Christmas treat.  He agreed and came down to buy them...but when he went to pay for them he found out that that price was the US dollar price...$22.00!!!! for that bag of Reese's!  UGH!  ={  We left it there!
A fun picture that Phillip snapped of a pretty boat at the dock back in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  We arrived back at our home at 11:00 PM!~

~God brought us home safely by taxi, bus, and boat...and how we PRAISE HIM!  Now our Argentine visas are good through March, when we leave to go back to Colombia for some classes in our church there, and to work on some important papers.
The next day...we all were TIRED and felt like what Mary looks like in this picture. =)~