Time to heal in Moscow!

Praise God! Our time here in Moscow has gone really well! We arrived in Moscow on Thursday morning and went directly to the European Medical Clinic. We arrived early so they worked things out for us to get in to see the doctor early. He was very calming in his analysis, and took some blood and cultures to be run and set us up to see an ENT specialist on Monday. He also prescribed a local antiseptic spray and nasal spray to help in the meantime. Well, God is at work because the infection in Jami’s mouth is looking much better as of today. She is still pretty worn out, and not sleeping great but she is getting rest and feeling better than she did a couple of days ago. After Monday we should know better what is going on and what our next step is. We have been so blessed by other people as well. We were given the phone number of a lady here who knows our fellow SEND workers, the Alexanders, and she made some phone calls and found a hotel for us to stay at for our first two nights. She was so kind, and as soon as we mentioned the Alexanders, it seemed like she was ready to do just about anything to help us out. We feel like this is such a witness of the goodness of this sister of ours, and a testimony of the witness that the Alexanders have been with her. In a similar way, we have now been taken in to the facility that our fellow Ulan-Ude workers, the Robertsons, used to work at in Moscow. The Robertsons wrote ahead and gave us contacts and we will likely be able to stay here for the rest of our time in Moscow. This is such a blessing because it is so much less expensive than a hotel here. It is again a testimony of the Robertsons witness that we are able to stay here. I should also mention that through all of this, Anneka has been such a wonderful baby! She is so well behaved and gives us such joy. It is fun to see how everyone loves her too. It seemed that she was particularly popular at the hotel where people from all over the world were staying. There was constantly someone or another smiling at her, waving at her, or coming over and tickling her feet and telling her how adorable she is. We took this picture with a member of a dance group that performs in a hall connected to the hotel.