Words form Alexis and some about Sarah.

Our friend Pyung Noom and her mother.

Hi, this is Alexis.  This experience has been very fun so far for me. I love the people. They are so nice and understanding. The food is great!  There are pineapples, mangoes, coconuts in the palm trees, and little baby banana trees. I love the curry and rice. We eat it every day. We like to go and visit patients in the hospital and see and hold the new-born babies. They are adorable. I have one friend in the hospital whose name is Pyung Noom. She was in a bad accident. She broke her neck and is paralyzed from the shoulders down. She is doing much better with her arms and can feed herself but she will probably never walk again. She likes ice cream and mango juice. She is 15 years old. She gets very bored in the hospital so we try to visit her and bring her snacks. I miss going to church at home because here I can't understand what they're saying but our family is taking Bangla class. In Bangla class we're learning language, cultural and other things. We eat with our hand here. We eat with our right hand only. They believe that the left hand is dirty.  Will you please pray for me today that I will learn Bangla?

From time to time, you will hear from Sarah and/or Alexis in our blog. Ruth and I are so proud of our young ladies and how they are growing in the Lord. It is a blessing to hear them pray each day for the people of this country and also for many of you who read this blog.  Recently I reviewed the list of people who we send our blog to and the one constant was that everyone who gets our email blog updates have invested in some way in the lives of our family. Our family thanks you for what you have meant to us.

I need to ask you all to invest in my daughter, Sarah.  Sarah has not been feeling well for the last week.  We took her to see one of the Doctors at the hospital yesterday and after reading the blood work that he ordered, it was determined that Sarah has Typhoid Fever. Sarah had some pain in the area of her liver, so the Doctor ordered some more blood work where he was able to confirm that thankfully she does not have Hepatitis.  God is so good, friends!  We are in a place where the doctors are used to seeing and treating Typhoid. The medical staff put Sarah on the appropriate antibiotic and will monitor her while she recovers. They tell us that full recovery will take about a month and Sarah will need to take it easy in that time. Today, Sarah woke up feeling great and we would not even know she was sick today had we not seen the results of the blood work. We all realize that she will have some rough days while she recovers, so please pray for her. We are in great and capable hands here. The staff at Memorial Christian Hospital is taking great care of our family.  Moreover, we are resting in the arms of the one true God whose love is beyond measure