A trip out of the city!

Josiah is on winter break right now from kindergarten. We are enjoying are time with him at home, and trying to soak in every moment together while it is still just the four of us. We decided to go visit some friends that we went to language school with in Salta, Argentina, about an eight hour car ride west. We really enjoyed our time with them of sharing our hearts with them about ministry and encouraging one another. They are also working with church planting in the Andes mountains, so Steve was able to go with Joe out to one of the little villages where he is thinking of starting a bible study to do some research. We really felt sharpened and ready to come back to ministry here after our time with them. The boys really enjoyed playing with there three year old son. We hardly saw the boys all day they just kept to themselves in the play room or out side making "soup".
This week Steve is right back into the swing of ministry here, I am trying to relax a little more to keep my contractions down to a minimum. Steve has been getting the food for the family this week so I don't have to do any walking, which really seems to be helping with the contractions. I have been trying to do a little more preschool work with Elliott at home, he loves doing it! He loves to follow instructions, and loves learning.
Please continue to uphold the ministry here in your prayers, for the growth of the believers in the church. And for seeds to planted in the hearts of others in and around the city, that they may come to an understanding and true relationship with Christ. Pray for Steve as he continues faithfully the different ministries here. Pray that the Lord would provide someone that he can disciple and bring along to the different ministries that he is envolved in.
Steve is hoping to go to Mercedes which is a small town about three hours from here to spend some time encouraging, praying, and teaching a group of people out there that have started a Bible study together. They have such a desire to study The Word and follow His will. He will just go out there for the day, and come back that night. It is a small group of believers, but very vibrent, and growing. Very encouraging to be around.
Three weeks left till the due date of our fifth team memeber joining us. We are very excited to see how the Lord will work out all the many details. Pray for safety of the baby, and me while in labour in a different country. Praise the Lord He is in control, in the States, or in South America. Thank you for taking the time to check out our blog! Serving Him in Argentina, The Diem Family

Fishing for Men & Eating Fish...

We have been enjoying having Joel Willoughby work along side Steve for the past month. He is an intern working with our mission, and he will be here for 3 months total. It has been an encouragment to have his enthusiasam for the Gods Word, and different out look on the ministry here. It has been nice for Steve to have someone be able to work along side of him.
Josiah is doing well in his school. He loves it when he has days off, and so do I. We enjoy having him around the whole day, even though it's only three hours, we miss his presence while at school. Although, Elliott does tend to take a little longer nap while he is away. He is adjusting well with the language, the teacher was surprised how fast he picked it up. We had our first parent teacher confrence last week, good practice with spanish for an hour. End result, he's doing well.
Looking foward to another Doctors apointment this week, hoping to see our baby again, I think the boys will love it. They do an ultrasound every apointment here, which I love. I can feel the baby moving all of the time now. I'm due August 17! Continue to pray for the health and delivary of the baby. I have been feeling well, natious and tired...but I don't think I could call it a pregnancy with out those symptoms.
Elliott turned three March 16, we were able to celebrate with our co-workers and Joel and pastor Henry Johnson who was visiting from the states. We had a nice little celabration. Josiah is excited, because now his birthday is next!

Steve learned the art of the Argentine grill we had some friends over that brought dinner with them, best kind of company to have! We enjoyed grilled fish with a wonderful homemade salsa, and cheese on top. They have the costom of eating the head as well, I'm not quite ready for that yet.
Steve will be co-teaching now at the church while Bob is gone on furlough. Steve, Pépe and Joel are really excited about working on a vision statement with the church here. Steve will be teaching Wednesday evenings through Nehemiah, with the underlying theme being vision/values. And on Sundays they will be taking turns preaching through the book of Acts, to learn from the model of the early church. Saturdays while Joel is here, he is teaching through the book of Éxodos.
Thank you for checking in with us!!!

Big News!

Steve and I are excited to finally share with you all the news that we are expecting our third child in August! We were excited last month to be able to see the Baby in an ultrasound, I think I was even more emotional this time around, knowing the treasure that life is after having our two energy filled boys. We are praising the Lord, please pray for a healthy baby. We will not be finding out the gender, so it will be a surprise.

We were so grateful this week to receive our monthly income statement from our mission. We were excited to see the love gift that had been added to our car fund. What an encouragement that was to us. We are continuing waiting on the Lord for the rest of the funds to come in for us to be able to put down at least half of the cost, which is what they require at all the car dealerships here.

Josiah Started school Monday of last week. He is excited about it, yet a little shy still. He is really doing well with the language for just being in school for a couple of days. We had the first parent teacher meeting and we are praying for opportunities to meet parents and share our purpose of being here. Time went to fast with Josiah, I can't believe he is already in school.

Thank you for checking in our blog! Sorry for the delay in the update! Continue to pray for our family as we are serving the Lord here in Argentina.

Settling In & Reaching Out

Well we are finally getting settled in our own home after being here for about two months! We have been here for two weeks now. Unlike the home we rented in Costa Rica, this house was absolutely empty inside. We had to purchase light fixtures, furniture, refrigerator, stove, etc...

We are praising God for the different opportunities we have had meeting our neighbors. There is a family that lives on the same street as we do that has a little boy that Josiah and Elliott have been enjoying playing with. We try to on a walk at least once a day as a family.

The culture here is very different from the states in respect to food shopping. The women go out every day and by the meat they vegtables, fruit and whatever else they might need for the day, so I have been trying to do the same thing with the boys,and it has been a good way to meet our other neighbors aswell.

Steve has been enjoying the the different ministries that he is involved in. And also enjoying the freedom to walk around and make new contacts and also had been talking with the different guys that have been coming to work on our house as well. There is one guy (Walter) that said he would like to start a bible study with Steve, he did the cement work on our house for a couple of weeks. There is also a couple other guys that he met yesterday (Hector & Caesar) that would like to study the Bible as well. We know it is God that brings the fruit, and so we pray that we would just be the instrument in His hand, willing to be used whenever and however.

There is also a young lady at the grocery store that Steve gave a tract to about a month ago, we went back there last week as a family, and she asked Steve for another one for her friend, (we actually didn't have one!) but asked her if she had a Bible, she said she didn't, but she would like one. We are planning on going back there this week to bring her the Bible, and we are going to ask her if she and her co-worker would like to study it together. Pray that she would be open to that, her name is Noelia.

Please be in prayer for these various contacts, that they would be sensitive to the things of the Lord and they would come to the saving truth of gospel.

In Christ,
Becky for the Diems




Enjoy some photos of our new home!!
Our Address:
Steve & Becky Diem
San Roque 393
3500 Resistencia
Chaco, Argentina