Archive for May, 2008
14 weeks.Praise our Father!
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Your pregnancy: 14 weeks
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How your baby’s growing:
This week’s big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, [...]
Field Director’s visit
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The McLanahans arrive!Some of the local scenery on the return trip from the airport.The day after they arrived I got to give the gospel to several hundred people at a funeral.We are also trying to get a work started in Huayllabamba, a nearby community of around 1000 souls. Loren gave free medical exams, we showed [...]
13 Weeks
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How your baby’s growing:
Fingerprints have formed on your baby’s tiny fingertips, her veins and organs are clearly visible through her still-thin skin, and her body is starting to catch up with her head — which makes up just a third of her body size now. If you’re having a [...]
looking for land
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Here’s for an aerial view of the approach to the city. Looks rather uncivilized, right?!This is one of the primary means of transportation in the city of Puerto Maldonado.Here’s a typical road in the city, and this just happens to be the neighborhood where the Bible study is conducted.We were DEFINITELY not going as fast [...]
Time with the Fitzgerald Family & The girls 3 day party.
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Becka & I felt inspired by the billboard. We ate lots of good food. Ok, I was the only one that enjoyed “Chicken Feet”.Mom taught my bible study, I translated of course. It was lots of fun.While the boys were gone we did a little sewing…We cooked Chinese food…like fried rice, [...]
Time with the Fitzgerald Family
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Becka & I felt inspired by the billboard. We ate lots of good food. Ok, I was the only one that enjoyed “Chicken Feet”.Mom taught my bible study, I translated of course. It was lots of fun.While the boys were gone we did a little sewing…We cooked Chinese food…like fried rice, [...]
Mother’s Day
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We (when I say we I really mean me.) got a package from our Sunday School class in Greenville. I am wearing my Mother’s Day dress from Mom Fitzgerald, which I absolutely love!The “men” cooked for us on Mother’s Day, really they had the teens cook and forked up the [...]
Para Mami
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11 Week Sonogram
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In this video you should be able to see the baby’s brain, face, & little body. I especially enjoy seeing the baby kicking. The doctor says that the baby is doing great. No deformities and a strong uterus. Praise the lord! He took me off bed rest and said that walking is good for me [...]
Rather Busy
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Here in Peru they husk the corn, then put it out to dry. Here we are harvesting the church’s field of corn.
I know that it just looks like a stream, but it’s actually a highly disguised road.
We had a wonderful fellowship with the Seminaries married students, whom we have been put in charge of.This Cuy [...]