Oct
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Written by:
David Strickland
10/1/2007 1:08 AM
The last couple weeks have gone well. Mercy got her orphanage newsletter sent out. (If you didn’t receive a copy please drop us an email with your mailing address so we can get you added. ) We still haven’t gotten our stuff picked up from customs. Seems one delay after another however looks like weds. I’ll be able to go over and get it all cleared and it should arrive Thurs. or Friday.
The pregnancy is proceeding well. Mercy is in her 7th month now. Our little bundle should arrive Dec. 5th. Just in time for our anniversary.
We are still trying to get our paperwork processed so we can start accepting orphans. Looks like it will take more time. Our son Ashish was asking this morning if we could get some corn for supper tonight. I said we could but it wouldn’t at all be like what he had in Iowa. I told him here it is a lot drier and harder. He said he wouldn’t be interested then.
Spent some time in area near our home some friends were asking for some pictures of what life is like for children here in India. One of the children we saw was performing on a rope about ten feet off the ground. She had 5 pots stacked on her head and preceded to roll across the rope using an empty bicycle tire. It was incredible to me that a child so young could do all this until later on when a friend explained that she is was most likely sold by her parents into servitude and can likely neither read nor write. She is probably older then she looks but malnutrition has kept her small. She will continue to perform every day until she is eventually pushed to far and gets injured at which point she will be left behind while the rest of the group travels on.
