The chicken didn't have a chance

Softball practice started today (I know hardly anything about it, but the teams are coed, so they wanted a female assistant coach) and it went pretty well. Home plate is a good 6-8 feet below street level behind us, so we see things from a different perspective. I turned around after hearing something, and I saw the poor chicken running from a cat, who was running from 2 medium sized dogs, who were running from a large dog. In all that, I don't think the poor chicken had a chance. Practice was interesting, but good. We only had one fat lip, and had some decent hitters. I think I may learn as much as the kids who haven't played before.
Since I last posted, we've had our Christmas program, I've gone home for Christmas (which didn't really feel normal since my brother went into the hospital with a ruptured appendix on Christmas Eve), come back to PR, and just recently finished a missions conference, among other things. The missions conference was a great blessing-all the speakers were graduates of the Bible college here who are now back in their own countries. We had speakers from Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, Dominican Republic, and Bolivia. A couple of them are still around, and a couple more are coming back through next week.
Visitation went well this week-the mom said she would try to come to church this Sunday. We'll see how that goes. We were able to share the plan of salvation with her on Monday night. She said that she understood and had made the decision to trust Christ before, but I don't quite think we were on the same page. Lord willing she'll come to church and maybe Pastor Ramirez can follow up with her.