Update

I spoke to Thandie on this past Thursday August 21st.

Prayer Requests:

Ida is sick with Malaria and is not responding well to the medication. She is refusing to eat and has sores in her mouth and throat. She has been having very high fevers.

Simion is ill with tonsillitis, but he is responding well to the medication. Praise the Lord!

Peace fainted at school this week and has complained of dizziness. She tested negative for Malaria but was placed on the anti-malaria medication due to her symptoms. Peace will turn 8 years old On Sunday August 24th.

The American visitors have all returned to The States. The Fullfords continue to serve as full time missionaries to Malawi. Please continue to pray for them and check their blog.

Brother Gentry returned to The States on July 24th and plans to return to Malawi in September.

This time last year, I was in Malawi. So hard on the heart to hear about the needs and be so far away. Please continue to pray for the needs at Good Samaritan.

Savannah-Hope is 15 months old today

Well I’m back. Hope there are some people around still checking the blog. I apologize for the long delay in updates. I had a medical issue to tend to, but I hope that I will be able to be more regular with the updates now.

So since it is the 5th of the month, here is the monthly update of our miracle peanut Savannah-Hope:

Savannah-Hope is officially a walker now. She walks independently everywhere all the time. She loves to sing, and can be heard continually singing “oh oh oh!!”. She is jabbering and babbling but not too many of the words are intelligible at this point. She does clearly say “no” and “hit”. She has two teeth!!

She is now climbing out of the bathtub and loves to growl like she is scaring you. She plays hide and seek and loves playing "I'm gonna gitcha!!!" She loves to scribble on paper with crayons. She goes to the doctor next week but I am going to guess she is right at 20lbs. Savannah-Hope graduated to the “walker” class at church and is a big fan of the all you can eat vanilla wafers.

She has recently taken to waking up in the night wanting to play. Her parents are hoping this is phase that passes quickly. Savannah-Hope has been sleeping with a Japanese silk scarf on her pillow and this has really helped with her bald spots. She has been rubbing her hair out on her pillow causing some balding, but they are just about gone now.

Crystal says that they love Savannah-Hope more everyday. She does not miss a beat keeping up with the rest of her siblings. They just love on her constantly and now that she is getting into all their stuff they tell her no then pick her up and kiss on her! They have been very kind to share their prized possessions with her as long as she wont choke on them. They have even given her her own video game controller so she wont slobber all over theirs. :) Savannah-Hope is truly a blessing to her entire family.

You can see her two bottom teeth in this picture! She also has her Japenese silk scarf on her head.

Savannah-Hope served with her family handing out food with the Angel Food Ministry. Savannah-Hope is pictured her with her sister Izabella.

After serving food, it was time to treat herself to a special treat....an ice cream cone!