What an exhausting week and yet not really much happened that is worth updating y'all about. How do those weeks happen? Friday night rolls around, your house is a mess, you're exhausted, and yet when you look back at what you did that week there's really not much that you remember? Thankfully, after a week like that comes Saturday. For the most part Saturday wasn't a very memorable day, either, but it ended on a good note. We went to a friend's house for dinner. Altogether there were five couples there. Technically, the host wasn't physically present - we found out upon arrival that he was taken to the hospital on Friday for pneumonia - but he urged his wife to continue with the gathering in his absence. We had a marvelous time. It was sort of potluck style - we brought dessert and deviled eggs (ohh, my mouth waters just thinking about them!!). An Indian couple brought a tasty rice and chicken curry (Joanna - her mother tongue is Telugu - we thought of you!). Other dishes included steak (it's been so long since we've had beef and it was very delicious), chicken (marinated in some sort of yummy-awesome-sauce), peanut noodles (unexpectedly delicious as Susan generally doesn't like peanut-flavored dishes), salad, as well as a completely fabulous and somewhat spicy eggplant and vegetable curry. It was great to hang out, relax, and talk with people of such different backgrounds but united through Christ. Two of the couples will be in our Bible Study resuming next month and it was nice to gather socially outside of the study. We were so blessed by the hostess' hospitality and can't believe we haven't imposed on them more :) Today after church we visited the would-be host in the hospital. It turns out that he doesn't have pneumonia after all (although the doctors don't know what caused his coughing fit that took him to the hospital in the first place). We told him all about the gathering yesterday and he reminisced about how he and his wife used to do things like that more often. We'll just have to encourage that type of activity more in the future - with us invited, of course! He ended up coming home from the hospital around 5pm and alls well that ends well. Now for another week...

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