Wiesbaden Church News etc

Last week Monday Uli Walker called from Arkansas and told me, that her husband James Jr. (who is deployed to Iraq) suddenly had major physical problems in his left arm and they brought him to a hospital where they couldn't help him (only to find out it was NOT a heart attack) and flew him to another hospital in Iraq where they again couldn't help him. Finally they flew him out to Landstuhl (Kaiserslautern Area) where he is since a couple of days. He has to undergo a lot of tests. He thinks now that they will fly him home to the U.S. because the options for diagnose are better over there.
Klaus, Sigi, Ricardo and I went yesterday to visit with him after church and had lunch together. We had a wonderful day, as it was Klaus' birthday yesterday, too.

We also had a new family in church, the have two boys and they were so super friendly. Klaus and Sigi had prepared a quick coffe brake - to "celebrate" Klaus' birthday - right after church with German chocolate-cream cake (yumm!) and they stayed for awhile. But I think they will look out for another church because of the boys - I don't know how old they are but the smaller one I would guess is about 5 years old and the older one looks like seven years. They would be the only kids there and I think they will try to find a chuch that has a kids programm... But we will see! We had some really good conversations and it seemed they felt comfortable.
We still meet together (English and German) for worship and lessons and it turns out to be quite professional with translating and stuff. Yesterday we had Brother Klinke over for the lesson, he translated himself. This is sometimes a bit confusing but as I know both languages I didn't miss the message.

We also heard the Harker baby is born, her name is Shelby Grace. Judy had prepared a neat card that we signed for the Harker family, because they moved back to the US this summer.

My arm is a little bit worse, I've got some more pain because all the muscles are gone and so everything is very weak around my shoulder... If you can not move a joint like the shoulder which is usually the part of the body that is the most mobile (it has the highest radius) it causes a lot of pain. But the six weeks that I was supposed to not move it are almost over and I will start my rehab programm next Wednesday and I am really excited about!