Yesterday, we had a 3D ultrasound done. It was awesome. You can see the video here. Make sure you’ve got Windows Media player.
By the way…we have a baby registry at Amazon.com. If you’d like to see what’s on it, just click this link.
I’m spending a good part of today reading Jonathan Edwards’s “On the Freedom of the Will.” Janell is at a women’s retreat, so I am alone. Please pray for me to get a lot of this reading done today and tomorrow. It’s difficult reading, but I NEED to finish it!
We have just finished writing our March 2005 newsletter. If you follow the website, you probably already know most of what’s in there. You can read it by clicking here or on the “May 2005” newsletter on the newsletters page. If you are on our mailing list, you’ll be receiving this newsletter in the mail soon, too. We really appreciate the people at our home church for printing and mailing out the newsletters for us. Please be sure to check out the prayer requests that we have on the back page of the newsletter so you can be informed in praying for us and the ministry here.
We went to First Baptist Church Puebla this past weekend. It was a good time. The pastor of this church is on the board of directors of the seminary. It was youth week, so they invited me to speak at their youth group on Saturday night and also during the worship service on Sunday morning. The topic was the 5 attitudes towards David in 1 Samuel 17. He was too fragil, evil, useless, inexperienced, and despised. But David’s attitude was the attitude that made a difference in the story. We had a good time at the church, and we are going to try to go back to Puebla again in March.
Today was our day off, so to speak. We had a long weekend in Puebla (more about that later), so we took today off from any “real work.” We went to the airport this morning to pick up our friend Rob. He had been in Central America this weekend working, and we went with his wife Tina to help her learn how to get to the airport.
Later, we had coffee with our friends Tim and Annette Gulick, who are working in the city of Toluca, training youth workers and working on an awesome resource website. It was a great time, as usual, talking with them about their adventures and our shared interest in global youth ministry.
We then went to a check up on Janell and the pregnancy. The doctor said everything is good with the baby. We heard the heartbeat again, and he is sending us to get a 3-D ultrasound. We told him today about wanting to go to the States to have the baby and be with family, and he was totally understanding. We have been blessed to have this doctor. He is great. He told us we had to call him when the baby was born to let him know. He’s a great doctor and has been great with us.
The good news about our doctor’s office is that it is right next to the Krispy Kreme. So we bought 3 dozen donuts (2 for our friends and 1 for us) and took them to the Torbert’s house to eat them. We even dressed up in our Krispy Kreme hats.
