Our Family Happenings

Merrilea and Nafisa are away this week in Delhi for a meeting leaving us at home alone. Maria and Joseph and Danielle are busy with school work and playing around in the evenings. From 1-5 Monday – Friday a tutor comes over to help them with their schoolwork and to correct their assignments. She even reads books to our kids which is great!

Maria is to get her cast off on Friday! She will be relieved. She’s been sleeping in our guest room downstairs as climbing stairs is a bit much.

We have a team visiting us from Maryland next week and then in October we have another joining us from South Carolina. We should be pretty busy for the next month!

Today, one of my closer friends here had heart by-pass surgery in our city. He had 5 blockages! He’s out of the surgery and in ICU now. The next 2 days should tell us more. Two other friends and I went to the hospital to donate blood last Monday for the doctor to use for this surgery. We’d appreciate your prayers on his behalf. It is great to know that the country’s #2 hospital for cardiology patients is here in our town.

Things here in India are gearing up for festivities. The Muslim month of Ramadan begins next week and many Hindu festivals will have been going on and several more will occur in October and November. Just like we have holiday sales in stores every fall around Thanksgiving, they do it here around these festivals/holidays.

The daily temperature is running back up into the 80’s and will remain that way till mid November where it ought to dip back down to the 60’s at night for 2 months. Rainy season continues here and we’ve had literally double the normal amount of rainfall. It is amazing how much water accumulates in a short amount of time. Streets turn into rivers for several hours.

More Next Week
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