McClain Family Blog

Hi! Let me first say that I really did spell check the last post, however, as goes the saying I've been using lately "My brain is so soggy from school, it sometimes just doesn't work outside those classrooms!" Anyway, all of you who are spelling checkers- just ignore the mistakes please!!!

So, the pictures are from outside our apartment. The one of the kids is on the first day of school! And yes- they just keep getting cuter! Moving hasn't changed that!!! :) The one with just Isabelle is the full view of our apartment and Mark and Meg's. Since we have the outside gate, the kids can play in the courtyard. They play soccer alot. We don't really have a yard, as you can see. But we also can open up the garage door and they can hang out in there and use bubbles or sidewalk chalk. It isn't perfect, but they don't seem to mind too much! The last picture is from a park nearby. It is very beautiful as you can see and pretty well kept up. There are several parks around us but this is the only one we've checked out so far. This weekend we found one with basketball goals and a soccer field that is nicer than the one at this park so we'll be checking it out soon. (No, we don't have a basketball- NO WAY could I have fit that into any of the suitcases, but the thought is nice!)

So, we've narrowed the names for "gatita" down. We've been calling her "Finca" influenced by La Finca in Los Guido- the land we are praying fervantly for that God has given us to use for the ministry. The name seems to work, although Audrey's choice of "Cereal" kind of fits her, too. So, we'll see :) Some of the other top choices from Audrey were (in no particular order): "Audrey" and "Dora". Yes, quite the creative one we have here...trying to name the cat after herself! I'm thinking she's thinking that would have been the perfect out every time she gets in trouble...but we vetoed that choice! Isabelle rang in there with "Belle" and "Princess" as you might guess from her...Melinda had lovingly been calling her "Norbit", which Ethan, Matt and I liked, but we were afraid we'd give her a complex...

So, for now she answers to Finca! And it will be a miracle if she survives Audrey. Her and Isabelle already have been "dancing" with her and I am waiting to see her carried around in one of their purses!

It was good timing for her to arrive in our family and she keeps us laughing, which is pretty important these days. We're thankful for her!

Back to school tomorrow!

Blessings,
Brooke :)

Please continue to pray for the ministry here as well as the ministry team. Near the end of the month, Alex Fine will be joining the team and will begin an intensive month long course (pray for him for that in itself- I'd hate to see what an "intensive course" is...) in October. God continues to bring workers into these ripe fields! The Price Family also will join us here mid December- pray for them as they continue to share what God is doing in CR and build partnerships in the States. But pray specifically that as a team, whether here in CR or back in the States, that we may keep our eyes on Jesus Christ, the author and perfector of our faith. The One who created us and made us who we are. The One who knows everything about us and yet still chose each one of us to call HIS.

It is because of Him that we are who we are today and that we do what we do!

Dios te Bendiga!