Last week went by so fast I almost feel like I missed it. I don't like that. But at least it is getting closer to time for Luke to come home and that can only be good! We all miss him terribly and are looking forward to his R&R time.
Do you remember when this happened last January?
Well this is one thing I was dealing with last week that kept me busy.
On Monday at school E fell on the playground and hurt his arm right around his elbow. It was pretty much the same exact thing that K did before. When he came home from school he still could not move his arm much so we took a trip to the ER Monday night. We got an x-ray that said maybe broken, maybe not. Wear the splint and sling and follow up later in the week.
I have to say E is not as good a patient as K was. Maybe it is because he is a boy! So he stayed home from school Tuesday because he was still swollen and trying to get use to the sling.
But fortunately when we went to the pediatrician on Thursday, he said it was not broken and E could take off the splint and start using his arm again. Immediately he wanted to play football with his friends. He was fine. It took a couple more days for him to be able to move it completely without any pain at all and now he is fine.
E usually does not participate in praise and worship at church, he just stands there. Yesterday I looked over to find him singing "Look What the Lord Has Done". I grinned at him and whispered that now he could really say "he healed my body". He liked that a lot. He prayed every night not only for God to heal his arm, but to let him learn to deal with the sling with a good attitude!
I can't tell you how happy to made me to look over and see him singing in church! And at service last night K had to stay out with us until after praise and worship. She usually goes to class as soon as we go into the church but her teacher wasn't there. She must have been happy during praise and worship too, because she was raising her hand. I don't think she knew the words to sing but she was trying to praise anyway. It was really sweet. She wasn't exactly sure why she was doing it until I explained to her it was one way of praising God and then what praise means. She liked the explanation and kept doing it!
Yesterday was also our collection day at church for Operation Christmas Child. We still have some stragglers coming in Wednesday and then I will be delivering the boxes to our local drop off point. You probably know how I feel about Operation Christmas Child. If not, please read last year's post here. I will report later this week how many boxes we collect here. I would love to hear how many you collect back home. I know we don't do as good here as we did back home, but I am not disappointed. Each box is one child who will get a gift and the chance to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ. One little life that may be changed and one more soul that may be added to the kingdom of God. If you haven't packed a box, please do! If you don't know what to do, ask me I promise I will find you someone local to help!!!
I don't know where the rest of last week went. Hopefully I will post more this week.
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