May Tidbits

We've got a few odds and ends to share with you on this fine May day. First, one of the girls who attends our weekly meeting was baptized this last week. Her name is Hui Ming and she's been a member of our favorite Chinese Christian student group for quite a while. She went with some people from that group to a house church in Hangzhou to be baptized. We freely admit that we were johnny come lately to her life and we had a very small part in her decision to be baptized, but we still rejoice! In the photo below, Hui Ming is the girl on the very right who's coloring eggs.

In other news, Dale is in the middle of a lengthy Chinese medicine treatment for a foot problem. Dale got the problem when he was out door knocking in a Nicaraguan monsoon 10 years ago and it's never gone away, despite two bouts of Western medicine over the years. So a couple of weeks ago, we went to a local Chinese medicine store and saw the doctor. The doctor looked at Dale's foot, asked a couple of questions, and then wrote out a prescription with 10 or 12 different things. Finally, we received a paper sack that was tied up tightly. The doctor kept screaming at us as we left the pharmacy, "Don't eat the medicine! Just let it soak in rice vinegar for a week and then soak your foot in it every day. Don't eat the medicine!" When we got home, we finally got to check out the medicine. There were a bunch of snake skins, 2 giant dried centipedes, sliced nuts, various kinds of bark, and other stuff that I couldn't identify. The week long soaking period is done and now Dale's sticking his foot into his magic medicine vinegar for 20 minutes every night. Seth and Lisa think it smells awful. Caleb says it smells great. We'll let you know if it works!

Last up is our kids' new found love of yoga. Seth followed Lisa while she did yoga a while back and then recently they both asked if they could do some yoga by themselves. I guess it's all the dancing and group activities they do at kindergarten, but they're both amazingly good at following the yoga DVD that they watched. I'm no expert, but I think the move shown below is the "Downward Facing Dog".