The dorm kids all got off safe and sound this morning. We got up to send them off at 4:15 a.m. and they all seemed excited. What a great experience! Later when the clinic opened, I took Sophie in. She has had a fever since Saturday of around 103. I found out that she has a bulging eardrum, red throat with white patches, swollen glands along with the fever. She started Amoxicillin on Dec 30th for strep but apparently it didn’t do the job. So she is on another antibiotic and hopefully this will take care of it. She was already showing signs of improvement. She ate some dinner and played Uno with us. We hear that the first year at a new place is the hardest physically. That is takes awhile to build up new immunities. I guess we are trying to get a little bit of everything to get as many immunities as we can. It seems like Wyatt, Sophie and I have been sick a lot, while Cale, Emma and Garth are dodging the germs. Sophie is such a sweetie-being sick doesn’t make her crabby, or difficult. Today, Emma hurt her foot and Sophie, even though she was sick, went and got Emma her blankie and some water to help her feel better. Later, Garth was putting Sophie to bed and she said, “Dad, isn’t wowzer just a fun word? Just say wowzer, it makes you smile.” She makes us smile. Emma is adjusting to a new teacher. Her previous teacher moved to Bali to have her baby. This new teacher, Jenn, just got to Indonesia on Saturday. Pray for her and her adjustments. Also, one of the mechanics we have here with our mission just turned 21 on Saturday. So on Sunday he and his family went to the Black Sands Beach in Jayapura to have a picnic and celebrate. Well, he got caught in an undertow, so his cousin jumped in to save him and they both drowned. They found the mechanics body, Chris, but they can’t find the cousins’. What a tragedy. Please pray for those families. And again, for Dottie, Garth’s Mom, as her husband, Paul died suddenly Saturday afternoon. It is so hard when it is sudden like this. We know that God has a reason for everything, but when it is recent, when it just happened, we are often too close to the picture to understand. Like when you hold a picture right up to your nose, you have a hard time focusing. But in time, often, we will be farther away from the picture and we can focus and it makes more sense. Not always, but sometimes, God allows us to understand why things happened the way they did. Other times, it never makes sense and we won’t know until Heaven.
Wyatt is getting so good at ping pong. He is actually returning many of Garth’s slams. He and Garth have a nightly ritual of playing before bed. Cale is in love with Garth’s motorcycle. Sometime after lunch every day, he will go up to Garth and ask for a ride. They have their “spots” that they go to and everyone there knows them. Cale is a great connector between us and the Indonesians. He is very well loved and people stop us to ask about him, and that starts good conversations. Most of the time, the first question they ask me is if he is a girl. O.k. I need to go. My cute husband here wants to play me in ping pong. I need to go whip him-ha ha. I am getting better…
Love you-Rachel
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