Matt and Rachel Clayton Just another weblog 
“All done with the doctor!” was the phrase that our son Zachary was happy to hear last Friday afternoon. We were happy to say it to him too. It was over a year ago that Rachel and I took him to the Emergency Room at the Coalinga Regional Medical Center. Now we are pleased to report that the final surgery to correct his inguinal hernia went well and he seems to be recovering fast. We are so thankful for the medical technology the Lord has blessed us with in this country. The doctors confidant and nonchalant “oh yeah, we are just going to cut him open here and here and fix this and do that … then he’ll be just fine” was a stark contrast to fear and panic we felt when we first took him to the ER. For me it was another reminder of how much we have and take for granted here compared to the intense unmet needs around the world.
Chloe’s passport finally arrived and so the official application for our work visas has begun. The lady at the post office laughed when we submitted a passport application with the height filled in as 1 foot 10 inches. I have to admit it did seem kind of funny. Just what do you put as the occupation of a 2 month old baby girl? Full Time Diaper-Filler maybe? Although I do not use the term flippantly, I dare say the identification page of her passport is “cute”. Please continue to pray that this paperwork process will continue to go smooth and expediently. We have been advised by our field leadership not to purchase our plane ticks until the visas have been processed, just because the likelihood of delays is good.
We can’t believe how fast the days and weeks have been flying by. It seems like just a few days ago that I sat down and wrote our February update. Now all of a sudden it is April. For those of you in Coalinga we are excited about seeing many of you again soon. In May we will be going west to California for two weeks. This may very well be the last time we are able to see some of our friends and family there for a couple of years.
Thanks again for praying for us and for sharing in our vision to see the peoples of Papua New Guinea reached with the gospel of Christ. We will write again in a month we when are back in Michigan.
