Exhaustion Evangelism

Hi- A couple days ago we received a visit from John and Mary with their cute little twin boys who were born around the same time as Jackson at the same hospital he was.

What was initially an exhausting experience, God used to bring some beautiful friends into our lives whom we can hopefully keep discipling and sharing the love of Christ with. Even more, hopefully Jackson can grow up with a fun set of twins that he can laugh and play with, and get into all kinds of adventures with.

After the birth of our little boy, Jackson had really high red blood cells, and so we needed to stay with him at a special care unit in the hospital for 3 days until his sugar levels were normalized and he would wake up enough for Alejandra to feed him.

Being in that loud room of monitors and bright lights with about 40 other babies and their parents for like 72 hours was so tiring, and we just wanted to get back home and hold little Jackson without all those IV tubes. Neither Alejandra nor I were sleeping very well, and Alejandra was still in a delicate state of recovery, but then we would look around and notice that there were a bunch of other parents who were going through the same thing that we were, or even worse.

Alejandra and I would especially always say hi to John and Mary, whose children were born prematurely, and I would keep an eye out for the twins whenever their parents had to go back home and I would send them texts letting them know that the nurses and doctors were doing a great job of monitoring their boys. I also invited them out to eat a couple times, just so the 3 of us could get a breath of fresh air and nourish our weak bodies, after hours and hours of just sitting there in uncomfortable chairs in the hospital.

We stayed in touch, and one night I dropped by their house to say hello and pray with them.

I've also gone back a couple more times to drop off some baby stuff and see how they're doing, and now we also had the joy of receiving their visit in our home. Both the twins and their parents and some of their extended family have all told us that they want to go to church with us on January the 5th (well, the baby twins didn't actually say that since they don't even know how to speak yet, but you get the idea).

The other day Alejandra and I had to go back to the hospital since Ále was feeling a bit sick, and on the way out, we put little Jackson in the hospital's manger scene and took a picture of him leaning against a cow haha... On Christmas I sent the picture to John and 3 other dads who all had their babies around the same time and at that same hospital that we did, and they all laughed and thought it was pretty clever... Here's to hoping that those parents will join us for church on the 5th of January as well, and if so - we are definitely going to pack that nursery out man... hallelujah!

Happy New Year, Sam and Alejandra Missionary Profile: