nd Mary tells us that he came into the world screaming! Nathaniel was delivered by C-Section on Tuesday morning, May 18 at 8:21. He weighed in at a respectable 8 pounds 12 ounces. His chart states that he is 20 inches tall already. Mary told us today that he has a healthy appetite and will probably need to have a good sized steak before he leaves the hospital. He has a LOT of RED hair. Both Mary and Jimmy are doing great. Jimmy gets to stay in Mary's room at the hospital since there are not a lot of other baby's being born at the moment. The proud daddy got to be in the delivery room when his son was born. Emily and Joshua got to be on the ward when Nathaniel arrived and are the best big sister and big brother a newborn could have. Nathaniel was only about a half an hour old when they posed for a family picture together. Praise God with us for ALL of the events leading up to Nathaniel's arrival and the wonderful answers to your prayers!! Another answered prayer is the manner in which our son in law is recovering from his knee reconstruction. It is difficult to believe that has only been a month ago that he came home from the hospital. Over the course of the last four weeks, he has made remarkable progress in his recovery. The physical therapist is amazed that he is able to walk as well as he does. He attained over 90 percent flexation in just over two weeks of therapy and will be completely off of crutches and driving again in about a week. Praise God for the answers to your prayers for Jimmy. Our time here in Korea has not been spent standing still. We have already made over 35 trips from Uijeongbu to Seoul, specifically the Army Community Hospital. It is only 27 kilometers, door to door, but it often takes over an hour and a half to get there. The other day we were in bumper to bumper traffic for nearly 22.5 kilometers!! Korean drivers often consider traffic laws to be guidelines. Although they do not necessarily want to hit you; they most certainly will take full advantage of your duty to yield to THEIR need to be where you are driving! It is not uncommon for a car, truck (from tiny Bongo truck to 24,500 Kilogram dump-truck) or bus to change one or more lanes without benefit of turn signal or waiting for you to get out of the way. Thank you for your prayers, lifting us up to keep us safe while we are driving here. The medical care at the Brian Allgood Army Community Hospital has been nothing short of amazing. I have never been the type to complain about military medicine to begin with, having been associated with it for most of my life. These folks set a high standard of care and live up to it. We have been pleasantly surprised almost every time we have dealt with them. We are thankful to God that our company required physical have gone so well. We have a few more of the requirements to check off and we will be able to package our forms up and send them off to be approved for our clearance to return to the field.
Please join us in prayer:
F Our other Son in Law serving in Afghanistan, he should home about the end of June;
F For the results of our Company physicals so we can be cleared, and return to the field quickly;
F Our new place of service in Germany, for the lost who are already there and for boldness on our part to share the Good News with them.
