December Update - English

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I´m almost ashamed to write a new blogpost, last time I wrote was on Efraims Birthday and that was almost 6 months ago, how bad is that!!?? Ofcourse I´m not going to bore you with a huge post about what we´ve been doing the past 6 months, you can read that in our newsletter which you can download here: october newsletter at 4shared, if you haven´t read it yet.

THANKSGIVING

I´ll only tell a little bit of the past few weeks. On this picture for example you can see the delicious food we had on the base when we had a thanksgiving love meal, we had all the typical American thanksgiving food and we even had turkey with cranberry sauce!!! We were with about 70 people, including the students of the "English For Missions School" which is running at the base currently. 3 boys of the farm where Jander works are also doing this school, they will be learning the basics of English conversation in 6 weeks!

PICKNICK ON THE BEACH

Since a couple of weeks we have been coming together with all the women of the base, sometimes for serious things like biblestudy and prayer, but we´ve also had a chocolate fondue and a picknick on the beach, we had lots of fun and it was delicious!!

SINTERKLAAS

Well, I´m not going to bore you to explain what sinterklaas is, let´s just say it´s the Dutch version of Santaclaus but diferent, we celebrate it on the 5th of December and we came together with 6 Dutchies and 2 Brazilians (the hubbies...). We moved our livingroom furniture outside where we had a great time!!! Now we´re wondering if Santaclaus will come by as well....

EFRAIM IS POTTY TRAINED!!!

In the newsletter you can read more about the daily adventures of Efraim. Inspite of him already being 2,5 years old, he´s still not speaking a lot, even though he can let us know very well what he wants, and he really DOES know what he wants! But well, he is learning new words every day, he likes to repeat everything, and he loves to sing. But the most important latest news on Efraims is that he is now potty trained during the day, that saves us a lot of money on diapers, (but now we have many trips going to the bathroom). Here are some of the latest pictures, these sunglasses he got at Sundayschool when they learned about he blind man who Jesus cured!

Right now the temperatures are very hot here, and nothing´s better than a home made fruit popsicles!!!

JAIME KEMP CONFERENCE

At the end of last month we were happy to go to a conference with Jaime Kemp, an international known christian writer of books about marriage and children. We were really happy to be able to go to the conference and we have learned a lot. Also it was good to be able to do something just the 2 of us. Efraim spend the night at the YWAM base and had a great time as well! Well, that was our quick update, I´ll try to post another one around christmas with some nice pics of us with Santaclaus while it´s really hot out here, just to make you jealous!! (ah and don´t forget us when you send your christmascards,!!!!!!
For more about Melanie ´s ministry: http://vidanovafortaleza.blogspot.com/
For more about Jander´s ministry: http://casademeupai.blogspot.com/