October 28, 2007
Wow! What a Sunday! First of all, it is so good to have Rick home! I missed him so much and am thrilled that he is back to explore Singapore with me!
I also talked with Chelsea this morning (Saturday night there). You may or may not know that this week she was diagnosed with mono and strep throat. She is one sick little girl. You can only imagine how hard it is to be WAY OVER HERE knowing she is so sick. The doctor gave her an antibiotic for the strep but said the only thing to do for mono was REST. If you know Chelsea, you know how active she is and always in the middle of everything. SO this is going to be very hard for her. He told her that if she rested and took care of herself she could be pretty much over mono in four to six weeks! If she didn’t, she could rupture her spleen! She IS trying to rest a lot. She talked to the dean at her college and her professors and they all seem to be sympathetic to her. Pray that they will be patient with late work and missed classes. Chelsea did go to spend the weekend at my sister’s house. She lives about thirty minutes away. I think the change of venue did her a world of good. By the way, today is her 19th birthday! If you’d like her address, email me and I will give it to you.
Back to our day here. We went to a new church this morning. The name of it was Community of Praise Baptist Church. They have a webpage at www.cpbc.org.sg. It was a great service and an incredible sermon. I hope to tell you more about that tomorrow. The Lord really spoke to me through His word.
After church Rick and walked a couple of blocks to the Great World City mall. We found a nice restaurant to eat at (a little more upscale than the food courts we have been eating in). Rick ordered a “set meal”. That is like a soup, an entrée, rice (of course), and a dessert. His set meal also included JELLYFISH – I tasted it and it was kind of like the kraut salad my mom used to make! I ordered a chicken dish cooked and served in a little clay pot! It was absolutely delicious. They brought Rick’s dessert at the end of the meal – mock bean soup. Yes, it was some kind of beans mashed up with a sort of dumpling (more raw than cooked) in the middle of it. I wanted so much for it to taste like what it looked like – sort of a raspberry pudding. It didn’t. Oh, well, so much for exploring!
After lunch, Rick and I walked around this FOUR story mall and were absolutely amazed. It was so much fun. We didn’t buy anything but, hey, looking is half the fun.
Tonight we are home catching up some email and just resting.
