"Mommy, we forgot!"

The first afternoon we were in Buenos Aires, we stepped out onto the balcony of our 9th floor (noveno piso - is what the computerized voice would say when we would arrive at our floor) and I pointed out to Megan all the apartment buildings which surrounded our building. I told her that there were many people there who did not yet know Jesus. She looked at me in horror and said:

Megan: Mommy! We FORGOT to tell all those people that Jesus loves them!
Mommy: Honey, we've been here only 6 hours ... and we haven't met a lot of them yet. That will come later.
Megan: Oh, ok.

The rest of our time in Argentina, she would ask almost everyone we met and spent time with: "Do you love Jesus?" If they said yes, she'd point to the people around us and say, "Do THEY love Jesus?"

On a bus ride one Sunday night, Megan turned to the lady sitting next to us and opened her mouth to say something, then she got shy and hid her head in my shoulder. I asked her what she was going to say to the lady and she told me she was going to tell her about Jesus' love, but she got shy. We prayed for her to have courage and my heart was overflowing to see how the Spirit of our living God is moving in her heart to tell people about Him when she becomes aware that someone doesn't know what we do. We pray that as she grows older, this innocent desire to tell everyone will not lessen with peer pressure, nor a lack of boldness, but will only increase as her love for the Lord increases, by His grace!

To give a complete picture ... she has had her moments of missing home and melting down because we weren't in Colorado and also having a tough time sharing her things with Jaden, but overall, Jordan and I have had many moments and opportunities to pray with her and instruct her about her heart as she has wrestled with her usual 4 year old struggles ... we are grateful to God for this chance to parent her together every day, instead of me being alone between the hours of 9 and 6, then being too tired to deal with it all when Jordan walks in the door. It has been a blessing to be together as a family all this time … the TV has been off (with the exception of a couple of ½ shows in Spanish) and the phone has not been an interruption … we’ve really been able to focus on some things as a family – it has been wonderful – praise God!