Wow! Two weeks have flown by faster than i can believe. So yesterday we celebrated the 4th of July with my family and we also celebrated two weeks of our sweet little girls life. With many bumps in the rode i feel or should i say I hope we are moving towards some smooth sailing. Soriah ended up staying in the hospital one extra night which felt like torture to mom, but we survived and Soriah was able to come home a little healthier. We had her jaundice checked the following day and found that her scores went back up, so they put her on a formula diet for 12 hours and if it didn’t go down she would have to go back to the hospital. With lots of you praying along side of us, our little girl was able to stay home and her scores are continually going down. The Lord really has blessed us with a great addition to our family.
During all this craziness Micaiah was also able to have his surgery done for his hernia. The doctors all said he did a great job. We have found that telling Micaiah that he has done a “good job” is vital and goes a long way. But we praise the Lord his hernia is gone and that he never had to experince any pain from it.
As for an update on Nepal, things are still growing more and more difficult for believers over there. We have heard from other workers in Nepal that the Nepali believers are becoming fearful for their safety and lives. The threat is still out against believers by a hindu extremist group, though we have not heard of any more attacks lately. Please continue to pray for the country as a whole and also for the believers there to stand strong in the Lord. Also while we were in Nepal we were doing some mu*slim mapping but since we had to leave so quickly we hired some men from our church and a few campus crusaders to complete this project. This has been going great but we ask you to pray for them. For their safety but also that there work will be done diligently and accurately. Though the research was for our visa our ultimate goal is to benefit ours and others’ ministry among mu*slims. Prayer, Prayer, Prayer! Thank you all for your faithful prayers!
Well, as i have said many times, we have been waiting patiently to get to go see Matt’s family and that time has finally come. We are leaving tomorrow after Micaiah and I have our follow-up appointments. Some of you may not know but we have decided to extend our trip in the states until the end of November because of the short amount of time we have had with our family in Ohio and our friends in North Carolina. So we are sad to leave our family in New Jersey and look forward to seeing them again in a few months, but are very excited for us and our kids to enjoy the other half of our family. Plus we know Mamaw and Papaw cannot wait to get their hands on all three of their grandbabies! We also have Matt’ s brother’s wedding this month which both Micaiah and Matt are in. Don’t worry i will be posting many pictures of Cai in his tux…it is so cute! But for now i will leave you with just a few pictures from the last two weeks.
