Jesus loves me...

this I know...for the Bible tells me so! We were all singing in the truck on the way home from the tienda this evening. It was so sweet! and off key, but I pray it was sweet music to our Father's ears.

We also gave each of the children new Bibles today. Big, grown up bibles (no pics except the maps in the back!) with their names engraved on them. Andrew and Tatiana were really proud of them and wanted to take them to church instead of their old picture book Bibles. Diego, however, wanted his picture Bible! Tonight, though, each of them had their own Bibles (Big Bibles) and followed along as Papi read scripture. They were really good and sat still. Andrew sat in Papi's lap, and Tatiana and Diego were beside me. I tried to use my finger to show Tatiana and Diego how to follow along. They moved their fingers as Ben talked; I'm not sure how much they understood; I know they can't read the scripture, but we want to instill the principle of sitting still and reverencing God's word, and family time reading the word and praying. After we read, we prayed together. It was nice.

Tomorrow, we will add worship and lighting the menora. I will try to add pics of the children with their new Bibles! I am saving the first Bibles as it is most likely their first Bibles! Andrew was the only one who was baptized Catholic, and not much else is known of their religious if any background. We want to start early and ground them in the word. We slacked on scripture memorization, but will begin that again this week!

Well, thanks for following along...more next time!