Our first BAPTISMS!!!!!!!!!!!!

After nearly 3 and a half years in Seville, we are finally seeing the fruit of the labor. God has called two new people into His family recently and Sean had the joy of baptizing them this past Sunday. Above is Oscar. He came to Spain from Peru to study for the priesthood. After several years of disillusionment with the church and running from it, Oscar gave his life to Christ and now walks with Him!
Below is Dora Luz. She is Oscar's mother. She recently gave her life to the Lord as well.
Praise God for these new additions to the family!!!

Paella

Our team was invited to a sweet couple's home for paella over the weekend. It is not very often that outsiders get invited into a Spaniard's home, so we were very excited!

This is Jose Luis making his very authentic Spanish paella. It was a process that took over two hours and was well worth the wait! This typical Spanish dish consists of meat, chicken, shrimp, mussels, rice, butter beans, peas, and whatever else you find in the fridge! The special ingredient that gives it it's unique flavor is saffron.
Above is the finished product. It was a work of art!
Below is David having a very large shrimp (king prawn) as a snack. Yes, those are the legs and the head you see there. I will never get used to my food staring at me. David didn't seem to mind.

Thanksgiving in Seville

Since Thanksgiving isn't a holiday in Spain, it was business as usual for us. We spent the day in the high schools teaching about this important American holiday. The teens want to know everything about American culture. I'm always amazed at the fact that they know more about us than we do about them. (Thanks to tv and movies, what they know is often very distorted!)
This is one of the groups proudly showing off their Thanksgiving turkey. We had them trace their hands and their feet to make this cute little guy and they had to write on the "feathers" what they were thankful for. They enjoyed it far more than a high school kid in American would have! I don't think they get to do crafts at school very often.

Serious Darby

Darby is at the end of her JourneyChick term and thinking about all of the "grown-up" things she'll have to do when she gets back to the US. She decided to wear her "grown-up" clothes out to dinner the other night. She even used HAIR SPRAY. It was a huge night. But after dinner, what did the Darbster want to do? She wanted to do into the arcade and play "Dance Dance Revolution". So much for Grown-up Darby.