Our four month adventure...

Matt and I have always talked about moving down to Honduras, either temporarily or permanently, for years. We have toyed with the idea many, many times but never really felt like the timing was right. Well...not until recently.

I think it all started when Matt returned from Colombia this past year. The Lord put it in his heart to pursue language school. Matt knows a lot of Spanish already, but is not completely fluent. It has always been a dream of his (ever since I met him) to be completely fluent in Spanish. He started doing research for language schools in all of Central and South America.

Some things needed to be in place before we could go. One of those things was for us to be debt free. The Lord helped us work hard for four years to get rid of our debt and so we have been debt free(except our mortgage) for about a year and were able to save a lot more because of that. We were also waiting for God's perfect timing for this whole ordeal to take place.

Things are actually rolling right now and it is pretty exciting. We feel lots of peace and we are just waiting on some details to iron out.

This is what we have so far:
-a school for Matt in La Ceiba, Honduras
-the dates that we are thinking about leaving and coming back (June 7th-September 28th)
-Matt sent out a Leave of absence proposal to his boss and it has been approved
-a budget for our trip
-willing hearts to be used of God in any way that He desires while we are in Honduras those 4 months :)

Things that we are waiting for:
-How our house situation will work out. Since Matt will not receive income for three of those four months that we will be in Honduras and since we have not paid off our house yet, this is our biggest "obstacle." We know that the Lord will work this out. We are waiting on Him to see how :) It really is exciting stuff! Our God is good and powerful and our hope is in Him. I will keep you posted.
-We will also need to get the baby a passport since we are planning to leave only about 6 weeks after baby is born. Our due date is April 24th...so it is close.

It is exciting and crazy at the same time :) Keep us in your prayers as we wait on the Lord to work all this out and as we head down to Honduras as well. It will be quite the adjustment especially with two kiddos but we are looking forward to spending time with family and friends. We are also looking forward to the opportunities we will have to share Christ with them and be able to hopefully reflect Christ through our lives. Our Lord be glorified!

Psalm 119:105

Psalm 119:105
Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.

This is Rebekah's memory verse right now. We ask her, "can you say your verse?" and most of the times she will go ahead and say it. The other day she said it without us even asking her and she got a treat for that :)

This is the first verse we have worked on so far, but it shows us how much she can actually grasp at such a young age and what better thing than for her to have His Word written/hidden in her heart.

One thing that Rebekah also loves to do is sing. I have sung hymns to her ever since she was in the belly and she loves to sing. She will ask me, "mama, sing" and we will just sing with a joyful hearts. She loves the hymn Trust and Obey although she only knows the chorus. It is so amazing how fast she learns them. She also knows all the words to a song that is really special to us called, "Special to me." It is so cute!

Two in one :)

We received two little blessings in one day. My sister called me early on March 1st to tell me that she thought she was in labor. About an hour later, Matt's brother-in-law, Gary, called to tell us that they were heading to the hospital to induce Liz, Matt's sister.

Both our sisters had babies the same day and only about 2 hours apart from each other :) What a blessing! Rebekah and I were able to go to Longview for a week and help my sister out with meals and house stuff and that was a treat. We have not met Juliette yet, but soon and very soon we hope to. Enjoy the pictures!














Patrick Shane Walters
Gary, Liz and Juliette Renee

The Belly

Hey there everyone, since I have not posted any belly pictures I thought I might do that for you all. Here are some pictures of baby in belly :)

I am 36 weeks right now. Everything is going well with the pregnancy. I am feeling really well...just starting to get a little tired toward the end of the day. Matty has been rubbing me before bed as we practice our relaxation (Bradley stuff) and that always feels great!

Enjoy!