The weather was not really good this week. It was raining for the first couple of days and cold for the rest of the week. So Emily stayed at home all week except Sunday. Friday Joey and his girlfriend from Taiwan came to visit. We had nice lunch together. Rusi (a SMU student from China) came to visit on Saturday morning. David picked her up early in the morning and then took her back to school at noon. She told us that her classmate April was going to be baptized! We knew both Rusi and April last year when we picked them up at the airport. Later we brought them some used household stuff to start their new life in Dallas. I still remember the day when David and I sat in April’s hot apartment talking about Religion. She was very articulated and deep-thinking. We were so happy that she found the new life and decided to become a Christian half year later. I called April and told her that David was at SMU campus. She asked whether David could take her to see Emily. Saturday afternoon we hosted a baby shower for David’s FriendSpeak reader Ray and his wife Olivia. So April joined us for the shower. She told David on the way that she had always searched for spiritual things. She had a monk friend in China. But she was never touched by Buddhism. Recently she was moved by the message that a Chinese preacher from Arlington (Arlington Chinese First Baptist) delivered at SMU. She wanted to be changed by God and then use her own testimony (of change) to reach out to her parents! She invited Rusi (her classmate) to her baptism. Rusi asked me what the baptism was when David was putting Emily down for a nap. I explained it to her. She said, “I didn’t know there’s such rich meaning in it. No wonder April invited us to see her baptism.” On the way back, it happened that David talked to her about baptism too. So Rusi had a double message on baptism!
The baby shower had a great turnout: with all the active Friendspeak workers. We were so thankful that George, Bob, Louella, Pam, Gayla, Dawn, and others came to the shower and reached out to Ray and Olivia despite of their busy schedules. It was such an encouragement for Ray and Olivia. They said they learned so much from everybody. Ray hasn’t attended Friendspeak regularly ever since Bill Kidd passed away a year ago (Bill and David used to work with Ray). At the end of the shower, Ray told everybody:”I’ll see you tomorrow at Friendspeak!” Unfortunately David was sick. We didn’t go to Friendspeak Sunday afternoon. But hopefully we will see him next week.
Emily is still a super baby: easy and contented. Her appetite really started to grow this week. She is eating 4-8 oz for each feeding. She stayed awake for half of the party on Saturday and went to sleep in Gayla’s arms. Sunday she put up with us at Gayla’s house without a nap (Gayla prepared a delicious lunch). Sunday night Emily slept through the night for the first time – from 9:00pm to 6:15am! Yeah!! Here are a few pictures this week:
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