They've Named Their Kids After Us... or Just Kidding

In the midst of so much running around, moving, looking for houses, going to church and street evangelism, we had the fun of witnessing the joy of life.  The Reyes family little farm has four goats and one of them gave birth last week!

The kids, Tinker and Bell, were really cute.

Unfortunately, this was the first birthing for the mama goat and mama just didn’t want anything to do with the kids!

Arturo and I actually held the mother down at one point and we put the kids on her to nurse, but we did this as a last resort, and in the end both babies died the day after they were born.

Then two days later another female goat gave birth to two more kids!

These two the family decided to name “Mateo” and “Elena” after US!

This mother was much more attentive to her babies.

Allowed them to milk and even ate corn off the cob from my hand while nursing.

The funny thing is that in another place where another ministry is taking place with another Zell, children really do get named after the missionaries: http://midwifey.blogspot.com/